Robbo
Tom Huddlestone
He had his limitations, albeit wasn’t as poor as many make him out to be, but most importantly he cared and he fought more than most of our current lot.
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Igor the Interim
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100% this, all teams that turn things around in a relegation battle go back to basics and stop with the fancy tactics and formation. Keep it simple and play players in their correct positions, get some width and pace in the side where available and it's amazing what it can do.
yiddo37
Tim Sherwood
Another reason why I found Tudor's appointment odd. Has played 3-4-1-2/3-4-3/3-4-2-1 for almost the entirety of his managerial career, formations none of our players are familiar with. Madness.
Lemonade Money
Colin Calderwood
Get Levy back too while we're at it.
johnola
Dean Richards
they got rid of Levy.
Bedfordspurs
Paul Gascoigne
And look how they worked out
Gave them no buffer which means the attention is on them
No one know who really pulled the strings before but now there can be no real argument
And people like Vinai and Lange backed Frank way way too long because firing him made them look so stupid
Doing that again .. well
Bedfordspurs
Paul Gascoigne
Your assuming our club thought about that
Looks to me like Tudor got the job because Paratici wanted him months ago
thfcsteff
Sonny Walters
Indeed! The ship is going in one direction and if you go overboard Igor doesn't want to save you!
thfcsteff
Sonny Walters
They have a mental block and we should be addressing the widespread injuries between the eyebrows and hairline. Sports psych, some former legends players trust, we need to break them free of their own psyches....of course, if the manager would simply f ucking set-up round pegs for round holes and let them play football, that'd be something!!!!
DeanoAustin
Ian Walker
Yeah I really don't buy that they don't give a fudge. They are super competitive animals. They care. Credit where it's due, I thought they put in an admirable shift second half last night. It's barely a crumb of comfort given the result but the second half was pretty even when I feared we could capitulate and ship 5 or 6.
It's like there is some invisible force that's pushing us towards the Championship at the moment. Everything is going against us and we can't break the cycle and I can't see how or when we'll break the cycle. And the more we try, the worse it gets. If these players can get one win quickly, we'll get out of trouble. It'll break the cycle, it'll lift the crowd, it'll give them belief.
The only consolation is that we have time. At least this is not a case that we thought we were safe with 7 or 8 games to go, went on a bad run, our rivals go on a good run and before we could realise it or do anything about it, we're in the relegation zone with no games left. We have 9 games. We know where we are. We know what we have to do. We just need to break the cycle quickly but that's going to take an incredibly strong mentality and some massive balls.
FolkestoneSpur
Terry Fenwick
That was the bit that stood out for me, lovely bit of writing.
thfcsteff
Sonny Walters
Absolutely.
IF it was me, I'd actually take them somewhere for a few days team bonding (including injured players), prep the next 9 games as the start of a new 'mini-season', start showing them highlights of matches where we've fought to win against the odds over the last couple of seasons, and remind them of how good they can be. Set them up as round pegs in round holes, play 5-10 yards higher up the pitch, squeeze the lines/win those second balls, and fight.
Right now we are stuck in the wrong atmosphere, sit in this awkward semi-state mid-block of nothing, and appear to be playing square pegs in round holes too often.
You need to drink more to just blackout and avoid dreams like that
Rorschach
Mel Hopkins
Dream may not be the right word for this
Lemonade Money
Colin Calderwood
Redbull has you covered.You need to drink more to just blackout and avoid dreams like that
Robspur12
Steffen Iversen
Agreed but everything tells me the current interim won't do that.
Muttley
Dean Austin
It's a great conversation, and commentary from @thfcsteff.
I think the most poignant conversation of the week was Tudor's comments about who is on the ship. If you read between the fuzzy lines, he is implying that he is about to be ruthless with the ones who aren't up for the fight we find ourselves in. It was a subtle message to some of the players in my opinion. It was certainly a strong implication that he is having problems with a few of them and trying to get breakthroughs in their commitment levels.
So how does that play out? I'm not sure, but I'm expecting new patterns to appear shortly. It will be interesting to see the line-ups and whether early substitutions form part of that pattern. I was also wondering just "how injured" a couple of our players like Spence and Dragu are. Does he feel they're not willing to find that pain barrier for their team mates and fans?
Robbo
Tom Huddlestone
It took me more than a few seconds to realise it wasn't for real after I woke up.
DeanoAustin
Ian Walker
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Let’s see Tuesday if anything meaningful comes out of those comments. To me it sounded like, in his mind, he laid down the law but the reality could be everyone said they wanted to be in the boat so we carry on as before.