| Interesting comments from an ex player 12:44 - Mar 5 with 5964 views | BlueyandCrazy |
Steve McCall posted on FB;
Despite the wage reduction under both Hurst and now Lambert we have a squad of players who should perform and get results in order to win promotion this season. The Championship is another matter.
We have invested heavily in strikers through either wages or transfer fees so Lambert can’t complain. Every team in league one would love to have Sears, Jackson and Norwood.
The fact that we are struggling is clearly down to the manager whose job it is to organise, give them a shape and pattern of play to bring out the best in them all. Mostly though, as we saw against Fleetwood, it is about motivation and Lambert clearly can’t motivate this squad of players to give us any chance of promotion and a fading hope of even the play offs. |  |
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| Interesting comments from an ex player on 16:07 - Mar 5 with 757 views | PJH |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 13:21 - Mar 5 by sotd78 |
This is dis-ingenous at best and plain factually wrong at worst.
We have never had those three strikers available at the same time; we currently don 't have Norwood and arguably haven't since his first injury.
If we want to make a case to get shot of Lambert it isn't based not using his strikers properly. |
Apart from at Wimbledon when Norwood and Jackson started and Sears was on bench or at home to Burton when Jackson started and Norwood and Sears on bench.
But apart from those two occasions it looks like your "factually wrong" statement might be factually right. |  | | |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 17:52 - Mar 5 with 707 views | manchego |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 13:18 - Mar 5 by itfcjoe |
Important to note that McCall isn't just an ex-player, he was our Chief Scout for a decade or so, so is clearly switched on |
Who played just behind Muhren and Thijssen for a while. |  | | |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 17:52 - Mar 5 with 708 views | ArnieM |
As Mills said post match Fleetwood, Lambert has failed to MANAGE the team.
I would say PL has managed the squad , but totally wrong .
Examples
1) Rotation - monumental f cuk up .
2) Game postponements - monumental f cuk up.
3) Playing Norris - monumental f cuk up.
4) inability to gauge WHEN to substitute- monumental f cuk up.
5) failure to reduce large squad size inherited from Hurst. This would prevent further players coming in in Jan window as wage threshold for season no doubt maxed out - monumental f cuk up.
All avoidable decisions by Lambert , which therefore indicates his poor “ Managerial” expertise. |  |
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| Interesting comments from an ex player on 18:05 - Mar 5 with 696 views | jaykay |
he is right of course. i can see a pattern here thou 1. a few on here with deffo info is followed by others who want to be seen as in the know ,with more deffo info. 2. everyone at the club gets the blame from evans to bluey. 3. ex players coming out criticising the club.
all this happened with hurst,so maybe the axe is about to drop on lambert |  |
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| Interesting comments from an ex player on 18:26 - Mar 5 with 677 views | Eireannach_gorm |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 13:05 - Mar 5 by itfcjoe |
He obviously was a good manager as well and think the Culverhouse stuff is overstated, I just don't think he is a good man manager any more.
Like you say the stories you hear from Norwich are very different to what I hear about him now - he's lost his mojo
You don't need to be a tactician to put on decent performances in this league with this squad, the players don't seem motivated or at it too often |
I agree with you on most things but I don't believe that Paul was ever a good tactical manager. The trouble with just being a man manager is that if your men lose faith in you, you are screwed. I also disagree that tactics are not important in ' this league '. Correct tactics are very important at any level and in any sport. Mick proved that, with a very average group of players can go far with a good plan that everyone buys into. |  | | |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 18:28 - Mar 5 with 673 views | Radlett_blue |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 18:26 - Mar 5 by Eireannach_gorm |
I agree with you on most things but I don't believe that Paul was ever a good tactical manager. The trouble with just being a man manager is that if your men lose faith in you, you are screwed. I also disagree that tactics are not important in ' this league '. Correct tactics are very important at any level and in any sport. Mick proved that, with a very average group of players can go far with a good plan that everyone buys into. |
We've faced plenty of limited but well organised sides who look like a team and play to their strengths. Lambert seems to do none of these things. |  |
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| Interesting comments from an ex player on 18:34 - Mar 5 with 663 views | itfcjoe |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 18:26 - Mar 5 by Eireannach_gorm |
I agree with you on most things but I don't believe that Paul was ever a good tactical manager. The trouble with just being a man manager is that if your men lose faith in you, you are screwed. I also disagree that tactics are not important in ' this league '. Correct tactics are very important at any level and in any sport. Mick proved that, with a very average group of players can go far with a good plan that everyone buys into. |
I didn’t say he was a good tactical manager, just that he was clearly more than just a motivator to have the sustained success he did have
And I didn’t mean tactics are unimportant, more that when you have a squad which is much better than most you come up against - very simple 442 or similar would have done enough to get into the top 6. Working in partnerships and patterns throughout the season - we didn’t need to try and reinvent the wheel |  |
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| Interesting comments from an ex player on 18:54 - Mar 5 with 638 views | Plums |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 12:58 - Mar 5 by itfcjoe |
He's absolutely right
Lambert is all about motivation and not tactics and he has lost the ability to motivate |
I suspect any positive motivation he has done is immediately nullified when the team is announced. At least that’s what Tuesday looked like to me - not that he’s lost the dressing room, they just don’t believe they can win |  |
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| Interesting comments from an ex player on 19:18 - Mar 5 with 614 views | Meadowlark |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 17:52 - Mar 5 by ArnieM |
As Mills said post match Fleetwood, Lambert has failed to MANAGE the team.
I would say PL has managed the squad , but totally wrong .
Examples
1) Rotation - monumental f cuk up .
2) Game postponements - monumental f cuk up.
3) Playing Norris - monumental f cuk up.
4) inability to gauge WHEN to substitute- monumental f cuk up.
5) failure to reduce large squad size inherited from Hurst. This would prevent further players coming in in Jan window as wage threshold for season no doubt maxed out - monumental f cuk up.
All avoidable decisions by Lambert , which therefore indicates his poor “ Managerial” expertise. |
I would add: continuing to pick players irrespective of bad form (Judge, Chambers, Norris), and not picking player(s) who should be nailed on every week (Dozzell). |  | | |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 19:19 - Mar 5 with 613 views | PJH |
| Interesting comments from an ex player on 18:54 - Mar 5 by Plums |
I suspect any positive motivation he has done is immediately nullified when the team is announced. At least that’s what Tuesday looked like to me - not that he’s lost the dressing room, they just don’t believe they can win |
But on Tuesday I did not believe that that starting line up could win whereas at Blackpool,although they did not win, I thought the team picked was one that could win that game and others.
I know that PL had lost three of his starting midfield from the Blackpool game for Tuesday but I think he should have started Bishop and Sears.
It might have been a struggle for both of them to start two games on the bounce in a shortish time but them being in the starting line up would have given me more hope of beating Fleetwood.
***even writing "hope of beating Fleetwood" hurts*** | | | |
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