Sadly I think you’re clutching at straws, Alex Ferguson couldn’t turn this sinking vessel around.
I'd have disagreed a few months back, not now. The players are ruined. They have been asked to play football by numbers, berated from the touchline every week and likely delivered little by way of quality coaching. Confidence has completely sapped. Anyone coming in would cry after their first training sessions I imagine. We are done for. A large thank you to Sheridan for helping me get over Flitcroft - there really are Managers who I can despise more.
Bar a brief moment of 2019-2020 football, that was god fucking awful again. A few chances as Gillingham popped their feet up on the desk, They showed us how to play in that weather if you only want to go long. Keep it tight when playing against the wind, have two lumps up top and a few players able to break forward around them when playing into the wind. Not having a single centre forward who is not that mobile nor a target man.
Garrick was his usual self. J Grant non existent - why would he be, not a player made for that type of football. Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett Pitman, Brett Pitman, Brett Brett, Brett, Brett, Brett Pitman, Brett Pitman doing what he does - likely to score if given a chance, likely to be a peripheral figure other than that. Lyden and Grant looked useful when we played football, not going to add much when bypassed. Defenders looked panicked - which is what happens when you just keep giving the ball away and having to defend, especially when the other team have presence around them. Fullbacks pointless, just clogging it, not using either of their abilities. Twine is like a Special Teams player in NFL, no chance of being able to influence the game other than set pieces because he isn't going to get the ball in space, on the front foot, with good possession.
Shambolic really. Night and Day from the way we played last season, night and day from the structure we showed last season. Any of us could put a team out this way.
