| Start of the season retrospective 07:00 - Apr 27 with 513 views | PioneerBlue |
Appreciate there are still games to play and points to win or positive things to take from this humbling experience. However I’d like to get the ball rolling on thoughts for the season gone.
Four questions, your responses will be interesting, loads of time to debate answers over the summer.
1-What’s gone well?
2-What could we have done better?
3-What might we do differently next time?
4-What puzzles us about the season gone by?
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*What’s gone well*
-PR is majestic, the modernisation work has hit the mark
-Delap’s development story has been great to see
*What could we have done better?*
-Defending and Attacking set pieces
*What might we do differently next time?*
-I’m not a fan of promoted clubs buying players who’ve been most recently relegated.
It’s counterproductive to the winning culture or a team on the up. Muric, Ogbene, although perhaps we’d say DOS worked but he’s still been part of a defensive that’s not been able to effective stop goals. They are also likely leaving their club for the wrong reasons £. If you are a more established club taking one because it’s an opportunity that’s probably a different matter.
*What puzzles us about the season gone by?*
Why has football self-harmed by introducing technology before it is ready and before the people are fully able to use it?
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| Start of the season retrospective on 07:45 - Apr 27 with 409 views | FrankfurtBlue |
On your very last point, I don't believe that there is anything wrong with the technology of VAR. It is clearly the users of the technology that make it painful in English football.
I think that it is the interpretation of the rules around VARs use, and the standard of refereeing decisions together with the time typically taken over those decisions that make it really unpalatable, not the technology itself.
I would advocate that PGMOL overhaul the way they use VAR. Make it simple. Abolish the need to interpret whether the ref clearly made an obvious error of judgement. Simply use the technology to inform the ref what they can see (that he maybe missed), and overrule him if needed. Abolish the pitch side screen. Oh, and if VAR refs are unable in ca. 30 seconds to reach a decision, the on-pitch decision stands. |  | | |
| Start of the season retrospective on 08:11 - Apr 27 with 348 views | MVBlue |
1-What’s gone well?
* We've scored goals and many of us were saying, including pundits up until the January that we were in matches and competing well, just not getting the results. We are better than Leicester and Southampton because we've scored more goals and competed better. Delap, Woolfy, Palmer, Tzunzebe, Burgess, Omari have all stood out as star players. Away fans have been vocal and excellent.
2-What could we have done better?
Midfield has not worked, we need to shore up better there.
Home form has been dismal, Portman Road not a fortress at all, not intimidating.
Goalkeeping, you need a really good keeper in the Premiership.
Clever tactics, we need more nous to close out games and sneak more wins.
Corners and set pieces on the attack.
Defending in certain aspects, getting it clear when needed.
3-What might we do differently next time?
Tactics to close out the wins. Solidify midfield. Solidify defence including Left Back. Palmer not Muric.
4-What puzzles us about the season gone by?
Home form. Why can't we win at home? The amount of noob tourist fans in the mix at the Premiership. [Post edited 27 Apr 8:27]
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| Start of the season retrospective? on 08:15 - Apr 27 with 346 views | Churchman |
What has gone well?
The club itself has continued to invest in the ground, training ground, facilities and its ambition appears undiminished. It’s growing.
The club handled itself pretty well, as shown by praise from visiting clubs to PR.
Everyone at the club will have learned. On that you get far more knowledge of people and things in adversity than you do when everything is going your way.
The players didn’t give up. Those who think they did should have seen us under McGiven, Jewell and the down tools shambles post-Lambert.
The people who attend games have been remarkably patient and supportive, unlike a percentage on here. I’ve not been away but from what I’ve heard, seen on the box and read the same applies.
What could we have done better?
The moving of ST holders wasn’t handled too well, though how else they could have done it I’ve no idea. Entry in the ground with those dopey scanners was a bit shambolic, though it improved.
Recruitment - I see what they tried to do but it for me lacked a bit of balance and also signed one or two too many players which killed the cohesion of the team.
Defensively we never had a settled line up and in midfield, recruitment just didn’t work out. We controlled 70 mins of the Leicester game. That was it for the whole season. You won’t win much playing like an away team with mostly inferior players.
What might we do differently next time?
Mainly around players, training, set up and acquisition.
We will have much better knowledge of the PL, its requirements and be far better placed. I hope by next time we have a better scouting network home and abroad and a decent yoof system enabling recruitment to be better targeted.
What puzzles about the season gone by?
VAR, the ridiculous finances which have created an impossible gap. Refs are just as inept. Away supporters - mostly poor (down right weird in the case of Spurs and Chelsea) with the exception of Newcastle and one or two others.
Also puzzling was injuries. Was our pre season too intensive? Have we got too many injury prone players? Is in-season training right? Was the PL just too hard physically for some? Are our fitness team good enough. Questions, no answers because I’ve no idea.
Overall the OP is excellent because the questions it asks are balanced. I am sure the club will conduct a thorough, detailed, honest review of what happened, the good and the bad. If it does that, it’ll be fine and will be all the stronger from this experience.
Have I enjoyed the season? Not really. It’s been enlightening and at times interesting, but pretty dismal being so uncompetitive. The Premier League circus? Grotesque. All aspects from silly song and fireworks to VAR, cheating and money. I still want us in it though because it’s the top of the game. Why shouldn’t we strive to be there and be competitive? |  | | |
| Start of the season retrospective on 08:20 - Apr 27 with 336 views | Basuco |
VAR is great technology, it allows referee's to watch an incident in slow motion, the premier league do not like making consistent decisions it appears. In fact PL referees seem incapable of consistently applying the rules of the game, is it bias? Corruption? Incompetence? You decide, but VAR in English football is being used to back up the referee on the day, no matter how poor that decision is, even games watched as a neutral football fan. |  | | |
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