10-02-2023, 14:41
You do sometimes overthink Matt, and that does sometimes mean you discard the actual solution, but you do always think things through (and past through too).
I don't think Cookie has to be a bad manager to deserve the sack. He just has to be one who isn't doing his job and that was to get us to the EFL and we are nowhere near it, even though we could beat most of EFL2. The Play-Offs aren't a lottery. The side best able at that point comes through. It just looks like a lottery if they originally finished seventh in the league programme. You specifically need to be in form, confident, and well able to spot and play on the weaknesses of your rivals. We currently are out of form, totally lacking in confidence and spirit and the opposition seems almost always to take us by surprise. All of that is the manager's responsibility in my book.
Yes your side looks better than Cookie's and you are right he solved a problem he didn't have with Ash Palmer. That said Palmer is at least as good as the other two. The irony to me is that Cookie seems to want to play out from the back and never considers his best defensive passer of the ball Maguire. My own thought is Quigley would be best suited by three up front which would involve Jez and Colclough either side of him. Alone up front he needs more support than the three behind him offer. One thing I would do is move Dobra inside much more. As I never tire of telling everyone - inside is where the goal is. It don't move.
I can appreciate what you say Matt just as I can Dancing's view, but I find it difficult to envisage any finish above fifth place and defeat once more early in the play-offs. A change of manager might not give much scope for a better performance this season, but it would offer him chance to build a platform for next, because we do have some good players. That's some.
I don't think Cookie has to be a bad manager to deserve the sack. He just has to be one who isn't doing his job and that was to get us to the EFL and we are nowhere near it, even though we could beat most of EFL2. The Play-Offs aren't a lottery. The side best able at that point comes through. It just looks like a lottery if they originally finished seventh in the league programme. You specifically need to be in form, confident, and well able to spot and play on the weaknesses of your rivals. We currently are out of form, totally lacking in confidence and spirit and the opposition seems almost always to take us by surprise. All of that is the manager's responsibility in my book.
Yes your side looks better than Cookie's and you are right he solved a problem he didn't have with Ash Palmer. That said Palmer is at least as good as the other two. The irony to me is that Cookie seems to want to play out from the back and never considers his best defensive passer of the ball Maguire. My own thought is Quigley would be best suited by three up front which would involve Jez and Colclough either side of him. Alone up front he needs more support than the three behind him offer. One thing I would do is move Dobra inside much more. As I never tire of telling everyone - inside is where the goal is. It don't move.
I can appreciate what you say Matt just as I can Dancing's view, but I find it difficult to envisage any finish above fifth place and defeat once more early in the play-offs. A change of manager might not give much scope for a better performance this season, but it would offer him chance to build a platform for next, because we do have some good players. That's some.