Thomas Frank - Head Coach

[MartyFunkhouser]

Richy was the replacement, we just bought Solanke because Richy very obviously wasn't the answer.

That's even worse then and plays back to horrendous planning

 

[Mcfee]

No i agree and it’s extremely tough to replace them, but we have never been good at it. Waiting a year for Kanes replacement and it to be Solanke a year later, its not good, we knew he wouldn't be here forever and he wasn't an arseh0le so planning shouldn't have been an issue, also same with Son who we actively helped place at LA haha.

We were close to signing Diaz which looked like good planning for Son’s replacement but that failed for whatever reason.

 

[thfcsteff]

Does it? Do you not think we were instructed last season to not take on long range shots? It was very noticeable to me, especially with Son

This is the way football is going - high percentage chances = good, low percentage = bad and it isn't something new this season.

So you think Frank has instructed the players not to take long range shots? It did strike me as one more thing to throw at Frank rather than having any particular kernals of truth, but I honestly don't know.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

We were close to signing Diaz which looked like good planning for Son’s replacement but that failed for whatever reason.

Yeh and that's commendable, but our plan B was to sign Odebert then panic on Tel

 

[billyiddo]

So you think Frank has instructed the players not to take long range shots? It did strike me as one more thing to throw at Frank rather than having any particular kernals of truth, but I honestly don't know.

I don't know, I haven't particularly noticed many instances that shots were on that were not taken but given what I said re playing for the percentage chances I wouldn't be surprised if there's a focus on looking for the pass before the shot.

I do think it was a part of our instruction in the two seasons previous - evidenced by our low number of long range goals and the regular occurrence of Son not taking his bread & butter long range shots whenever they arose.

I don't see it as an issue for either manager fwiw

 

[thfcsteff]

I don't know, I haven't particularly noticed many instances that shots were on that were not taken but given what I said re playing for the percentage chances I wouldn't be surprised if there's a focus on looking for the pass before the shot.

I do think it was a part of our instruction in the two seasons previous - evidenced by our low number of long range goals and the regular occurrence of Son not taking his bread & butter long range shots whenever they arose.

I don't see it as an issue for either manager fwiw

What you're saying does bear out when I think about...trying to remember the last rocker (Porro maybe?)...I've seen Xavi try to 'shoot' his way into confidence and matches without much success it has to be said. I would hope it is, at best, a general ethos that better chances come from not taking too many long range efforts.

 

[Bullet]

Richie scored from half way against the goons.
Sarr used to have quite a few shots from 20 yards.
I agree variety is the spice of life; we've conceded soooooo many shots from 20 yards+, we must fancy trying it ourselves.