| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in 18:59 - May 18 with 3120 views | Nutkins_Return |
Obviously for what he has done for this club but even on today he's set up a team which did more than enough to win the game and the players haven't taken the chances. We win that game way more often then not on the balance of the game. Rotten result to stomach but not a rotten performance and wouldn't be putting that on the manager today. |  |
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| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:06 - May 18 with 388 views | TheBoyBlue |
I can almost understand the ones who wonder whether he is up to it, although I disagree vehemently.
The ones I really don't get are the ones who are almost saying "ha! We told you so!" As if we've been hoodwinked by some charlatan and seem absolutely desperate for him to fail next season so they can really proved right.
Rather than someone who has taken us from midtable League 1 to the Premier League in just two years. | |
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| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:07 - May 18 with 381 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 20:59 - May 18 by Nutkins_Return |
Not sure that's a real group of people. Of course you can question things but we've got people calling for his head etc. the context going into this season is it would take everything to go for us (injuries' few decisions etc) to stay up. Out squad is short to compete and the injuries have not helped/killed us off. There is only so much McKenna can do with the cards he has. He's still the same exceptional manager that went back to back. Reality is doing it back to back made the task even more difficult.
Fully behind that man - he still knows exactly what we need... ;) |
It most definitely is. You’re not allowed any middle ground anymore. |  | | |
| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:09 - May 18 with 362 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:04 - May 18 by Chrisd |
It’s fair to question him, we’ve been poor for months. Yes, he’s done brilliantly the last two seasons but he is not exempt from criticism because of that. He’s paid extremely well to do his job and that comes with a certain level of scrutiny. |
Scrutiny is good, and I’m sure there will be plenty.
Calling for his sacking is not - this is defiantly a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. | | | |
| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:33 - May 18 with 320 views | TheBlueGnu |
I'll be upset if any anti-Knox stuff starts occuring | |
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| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:46 - May 18 with 292 views | ClareBlue |
Premiership managers worked out how to beat us by October, that's why they are Premiership managers. Premiership managers also know when other managers have worked it out and implement change quickly to stop loding first. That didn't happen. We didn't get harder to beat as the season progressed
All those say he will have learned alot from a season in the Premiership are missing the point that there is no evidence that he has learned anything tactically. Maybe a better understanding of what is required in the recruitment side.
There are loads of managers who have taken clubs into the Premiership with less resources and support who have got their team to perform better than we have this year. That's the fact of the situation. We had two seasons of great football and success but accepted some players wouldn't be up to Premiership standard but for some reason that success means a manager doesn't get judged the same when he didn't perform at a Premiership level. And anyone who said he did perform is delusional. | | | |
| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:57 - May 18 with 254 views | Blue_Heath |
| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:46 - May 18 by ClareBlue |
Premiership managers worked out how to beat us by October, that's why they are Premiership managers. Premiership managers also know when other managers have worked it out and implement change quickly to stop loding first. That didn't happen. We didn't get harder to beat as the season progressed
All those say he will have learned alot from a season in the Premiership are missing the point that there is no evidence that he has learned anything tactically. Maybe a better understanding of what is required in the recruitment side.
There are loads of managers who have taken clubs into the Premiership with less resources and support who have got their team to perform better than we have this year. That's the fact of the situation. We had two seasons of great football and success but accepted some players wouldn't be up to Premiership standard but for some reason that success means a manager doesn't get judged the same when he didn't perform at a Premiership level. And anyone who said he did perform is delusional. |
Our inability to defend the wings and stop crosses in is our weak point, not sure you need to be a prem manager to work that out! | | | |
| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:58 - May 18 with 252 views | TheBoyBlue |
| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 21:46 - May 18 by ClareBlue |
Premiership managers worked out how to beat us by October, that's why they are Premiership managers. Premiership managers also know when other managers have worked it out and implement change quickly to stop loding first. That didn't happen. We didn't get harder to beat as the season progressed
All those say he will have learned alot from a season in the Premiership are missing the point that there is no evidence that he has learned anything tactically. Maybe a better understanding of what is required in the recruitment side.
There are loads of managers who have taken clubs into the Premiership with less resources and support who have got their team to perform better than we have this year. That's the fact of the situation. We had two seasons of great football and success but accepted some players wouldn't be up to Premiership standard but for some reason that success means a manager doesn't get judged the same when he didn't perform at a Premiership level. And anyone who said he did perform is delusional. |
Firstly to say managers worked out how to beat us by October is harsh. We outthought on the odd occasion, but generally up until the New Year we were hard to beat and picking up points, even more of those should've been wins.
Secondly, this is but a step along a long-term project. He won't change the way we play because the mantra is that we get better at playing that way, not abandon it when the going gets tough.
He'll have learnt from it and what he needs to do to get us to a stage when we can compete playing that way.
The club will have learnt/had reinforced what they need to do to help him in that,such as building up the overseas scouting and improving the academy.
We are generally going in the right direction, but as McKenna himself says, progress isn't always linear. | |
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| Baffling the anti McKenna stuff creeping in on 02:50 - May 19 with 92 views | Minneapolis_ITFC |
There's clear hostility towards the manager now prevalent, more so as the adverse results have continued back at top level and nothing seems to change. You can understand the frustrations.
Maybe some were expecting more from the season. I mean 1 win at Portman Road all season long and not many other away from it, that's poor from us, in fact you could go so far to say it's unacceptable or embarrassing. Wasn't expecting overly great things on the return back, there was unlikely to be no repeat of 2001 with Burley, but didn't imagine it would be quite as poor as it turned out to be.
McKenna's the club coach here. Picks the team, organizes training methods, deploys formations, substitute choices and does at the interval what needs to be said whenever a game needs to be turned around. Some would argue he's failed certain obligations or hasn't simply met demands of a higher league.
I don't want him expeled or forced out as there's really no-one better who could do a job for us back at lower league. Think just one of many that's been dismayed by such a poor disappointing season particularly after a 22 year wait to have made it back. You can sense the anger or questionability that a minority seem to possess on the issue. |  | | |
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