06 Dec 2016 21:32:10
Final straw with Warburton, everyone is wrong and he is right about plan B.
Even a rocket up his arse will not wake him up, in his total belief that options are not necessary.
The greatest all playing football teams could do it, but they still adapted during a game to compensate for the opposition's tactics.
He needs to waken up.

1.) 07 Dec 2016
07 Dec 2016 07:59:59
He needs to leave.

2.) 07 Dec 2016
07 Dec 2016 08:08:12
I'm really glad the Internet wasn't about when Smith was manager, what do people like you want? To be dominating Scottish football? Studding teams in Europe? We have just been promoted from the championship and our finances are in disarray, it's going to take time.

3.) 07 Dec 2016
07 Dec 2016 11:07:23
Cee, empty barrels make the most noise, he doesn't have the capacity for thinking that we do. I'll explain everything to you once. Our manager like most modern managers has a footballing philosophy, you think nothing is changing because the formation isn't? Are you really this naive?

First of all, the manager sets up his team in a way that allows his philosophy to be carried out. The philosophy being to bully the ball. On the simplest level if the other team doesn't have the ball they can't create chances and score. He views losing the ball as the biggest mistake you can make. Why? Because he doesn't set up to be defensively strong in the sense of a traditional team. If you look on occasions last season where BOTH fullbacks were in their box as they broke, people like yourself would say "oh we can't defend" without ever realising why we were looking so exposed (lack of teamplay in defence due to overextending fullbacks and no CDM) . In games where we have dominated the ball (Celtic semi as the easiest example) the other team has to then come and adapt to our style of play. Initially this was very difficult for teams you look at how they started the league last season but now of course teams have had time to think about MW system and come up with counter strategies. It's MW job to ensure that these counter-strategies can't be implemented. This season so far, we have been trying to click as a team due to the whole squad bar 3 being completely revamped with the arrival of MW. Why as a manager, who brings in 11 players, is he not given time to get the team to click? Why is it due to the insane turn around last season that MW was heavily credited for (the short time he put the squad together and how quickly he got them playing) that now we are complaining that it didn't click on day one? are you forgetting our terrible preseason in the sh--fred cup?

Why does MW have a philosophy he sticks to? The key is to allow us to produce youth talent by having a consistent system where youth players will know if they are a left wing exactly what MW will expect of them if he calls them into the first team. As a club going forward we must move to produce elite talent or we as a country will fall on our sword. Why waste time making a plan b, trying to teach and mould your team around a different system they weren't signed for, for one game when you can master a system for every game?

"The manager doesn't make changes", "The manager doesn't know how to use subs". Both are false, if you have a keen eye and are like myself having watched MW since day one, its easy to tell the small tinkering and changes he makes on the field. The only thing that NEVER changes is the formation. Whether he's using the first 5-10 minutes to attack the left, whether he be focusing on the left or right hand side because he see's that teams particular weakness there. Forcing the wingers to do extra running on corners by taking them short sometimes forcing them to have to run down and mark on EVERY occasion meaning they will have to do more distance and as a result tiring quicker. Swapping Wingers, playing miller in st after starting on the wing to drop deep and create space in behind. There are honestly a million small things he does during a games. As for subs, they are pre-determined, his philosophy isn't about having a team its about having a squad and that's why he runs it with tight numbers. Every player in theory should be fighting and battling in training because they all realistically can see a path to the first team creating a more appropriate training and squad environment. The only times substitutes change in a general game is due to injury or a red card. He will sub a player based on three factors. Injury (gaining or recovering), total distance covered in last 5 games and position on the field. His sub times are based on these factors also but generally the times of the subs go more with the flow of the game rather than being specific times although everyone thinks he "always makes 60 minute subs" when in reality its 60mins+/ -5, the number of subs also changes depending on the flow of the game (two or one here but always one within that time frame and three by the end of the game) . Players are the most important assets to your club and if we can't keep them fit we can't use them nor can we sell them.

Should MW go? No. He's a much smarter than he gives himself credit for and is an extremely pedantic man. It's false to suggest he doesn't change anything or that he doesn't have a clue.

Do we understand the nature of the squad as much as we should as fans? No.

Time is all the squad needs.

4.) 07 Dec 2016
07 Dec 2016 17:44:11
Naw it's no.

5.) 07 Dec 2016
07 Dec 2016 19:42:49
Well you used more characters than you have brain cells Negri.

6.) 08 Dec 2016
08 Dec 2016 17:43:23
Doesn't matter what his philosophy is anti if it's not working it's not working? It's usually easy to see something that's in plain sight but clearly not to a few on here. Everybody's entitled to an opinion but most of what you just wrote is crap, especially about time to settle we've had 9 or 10 of same starting 11 from last year most games soi don't get why they need time to gel? Maybe you could shed some light on that?

7.) 08 Dec 2016
08 Dec 2016 19:25:00
Cede

Compared to the rest of the teams in the league bar one the finances are significantly better so if your describing them as in disarray how would you describe the finances of the other 9 teams in the league?