Re: Tim Sherwood - Head Coach
Disagree, and just because you don't have the same opinion as me does not mean you are the objective and reasoned one
- Southampton had better shape, the pass was always on for their players, they absolutely looked the better side
In the first half yes. In the second half absolutely not.
- So two awful FBs playing, you have a CB option that would allow one of the poor players to be replaced, you do nothing, but that's good coaching?
Southampton had one header on target in the second half. So I assume you mean awful in an attacking sense? What makes you think Kaboul would be any better than Naughton (who done alright going forward) going forward. Vertonghen may have done a better job than Rose, but as I said him and Kaboul were doing a pretty good job on Lambert, so why change?
The fact that Southampton only had one header on target in the 2nd half is enough to tell me that leaving things as they were and sorting the pressing out in midfield was a decent decision.
- Townsend hasn't worked recently, offers less than Lennon, but I guess in your words, might as well try something, again good coaching
Who would you have brought on?
- Dembele is a ball playing midfielder? dear Christ, no wonder we are disagreeing
In fairness, Dembele is a **** ball playing midfielder due to the fact he holds on to the ball far to long and doesn't know when to release it (I don't rate him). What would you describe Dembele as?
He's played Bentaleb in the ball playing role along with Eriksen in the past. I would, like you, probably like to see another good ball player in there more often, but I can see that it was a good substitution, validated by the fact that he scored the winning goal. If we'd started with Siggy there'd be across the board criticism due to his form recently (and that would have come from me too), but the facts are, it was a good substitution.
- Misjudging the flight of the ball maybe, not even understanding the defensive line and who you have played onside/offside is ****ing coaching mate
He didn't misunderstand the defensive line though (which is why defensively he looked solid enough in the 2nd half and Southampton only had one header on target), he clearly misjudged the flight of the ball. His second error, he fluffed a clearance. Other than that, as I said, his performance was probably what you could expect from a player who should be playing for a mid table team rather than a top 6 team.
- He will be shown the door, maybe not Monday, but in 7 or so weeks
He probably will be, as long as we bring someone in who we are going to give at least 3 seasons to I'm OK with that.
W, D, L, L, L is a decent job? (our last 5 games)
We're sitting 5th in the league and still in a shout of matching last season's point total. 5 games doesn't make a season, I'd prefer to rate him over all the games under him so far.
I'm going to just call him Teflon Tim from now on, for certain people it seems he can do nothing wrong and we should get rid of a dozen players because its obviously their fault, nothing to do with TS.
I'm not one of those people.
I still don't like how he seems to tinker with the team every game, I'm bemused why he seemingly dropped our best player for a period of time, he needs to learn to control himself on the touchline and his pre-post match interviews are pretty bad. But when you look at the cold hard facts, were pretty much where we should be in terms of our turn-over and the ability of our squad at the moment.
If there is a monumental collapse from now until the end of the season and we end up 8th I'll criticism him for the decisions he made contributing to that. If by some kind of miracle we win every single game, Arsenal fall away and we end up 4th, I'll give him credit for the decisions he made contributing to that. If we end up finishing 5th, I'll still give him credit for the decisions that contributed to that, but I'll also criticise him where I feel we could have done better.
