Archie

Rosenior:
Fleetwood A (17th)
Posh H (4th)
Plymouth H (1st)
Lincoln A (11th)
Wycombe H (13th)
 
Warne
Cambridge A (16th)
Port Vale H (15th)
Accy A (19th)
Ipswich A (2nd)
Exeter H (7th)
We played more difficult opposition under Rosenior. But created more chances, had more shots, more possession.
Exeter and Port Vale have conceded a combined 43 goals this season. We only scored 1 of those and probably created only 3 other chances.
Points wise it’s the same. But my eyes tell me we performed better under Rosenior and there was more cause for optimism.
Under Warne I’d say only Osula and Collins have improved. The rest have regressed.

The cross from Hourihane wouldn't have got over the first man.

The cross from Hourihane wouldn't have got over the first man.

The cross from Hourihane wouldn't have got over the first man.

And with a half empty stadium cos not many people will want to watch that..

And with a half empty stadium cos not many people will want to watch that..

Hoof from back to front and regularly change the midfielders. 
Have the ball for 3 touches, lose it, win it back 3 more touches, lose it, win it back 3 more touches, rinse repeat 97 mins..

Hoof from back to front and regularly change the midfielders. 
Have the ball for 3 touches, lose it, win it back 3 more touches, lose it, win it back 3 more touches, rinse repeat 97 mins..

Boring football again from Derby. It is a hard watch and not worthy of the ‘beautiful game’. 

Play to your strengths. We are not set up to play percentages or traditional long balls to a big striker and feeding off second balls. Not saying it can't be effective for some clubs but there are limitations to hire successful you will be if you sacrifice possession through too many aimless long balls.
The key thing for us is dictating tempo and controlling games according to circumstance. 
I personally felt we did this reasonably well under LR but didn't convert control into results. 
Against Port Vale we had very limited control, mostly because we didn't control possession. We gifted then the ball too often and failed to dictate the tempo when we were ahead.
We have to learn to mix up and use our considerable talent to get control of tempo and possession. I don't think a long ball game is suited to our personnel and I don't think it's going to get results that a possession based game would...

1. Most comments tend to relate to having control of the game (or not as the case may be). Long balls, to forwards to don't win the ball in the air very much is pointless as the ball ends up coming straight back and having to defend against another wave of attack, often without resetting in time.
2. The occasional long ball behind the defence is useful, but it has to be with purpose, not aimless into the corner with little chance of getting something from it.
3. A quick glance at the stats will show teams towards the bottom tend to have less of the ball than those at the top. This is shown by actually looking at the stats in more detail, where only 3 sides in the top half of the table are in the bottom 12 possession stats. Ipswich are the leaders in possession and are 2nd, whereas Morecombe are 24th in the table and 24th in the possession ranking. 
The other thing is, having possession doesn't mean you can't go long very often, just like having little of the ball doesn't mean you go long all the time. Yet, we see a similar trend. 5 out of the current top 6 are in the bottom 12 for long balls per pass attempt (Portsmouth are 13th lowest), whilst only 3 of the top 12 are in the top 12 for successful long passes per pass attempt.
You also have the belief that possession means fewer goals. However, there's a general trend of more possession = more goals. Ipswich are the obvious example, leading the charts in both, whereas Morecombe are bottom in both. Only 3 sides with less than 50% possession have scored more than 15 goals, whereas 6 with more than 50% have.
4. Since you're asking people if they want to stay in L1 for a long time or having a better chance of going up, the answer would be choosing the option which involves playing a possession based side with shorter passing.

Like you, I'm really pleased we have a football team to support. The uncertainty has been horrible for the last 15 months. Glad we're still in the game.
To answer your questions:
1. Yes I think he should have stuck with LR. There was so much goodwill around he really couldn't lose (I don't know the financial ins and outs). Signing PW and his team on a 4 year deal in our current situation was reckless imo. We didn't need to do it. Ratchets up the pressure on everyone at the club. 
2. The team was assembled for LR's approach and good enough to compete in the league but not for PW. 
3. Agree. But equally wish Clowes had given LR more time as well. Works both ways.
People are saying give PW more time and rightly so but I'm not sure what more time will show other than being better at the same approach. I don't think I can stomach it. I just don't think this is how football should be played. Once again, just my opinion. Good managers should be able to pick a style depending on the squad of players they have to work with. From what we have seen so far, I don't think PW has the ability nor desire to do this. 
I'm not being alarmist but really hope Cowles hasn't made a massive blunder here. 

Like you, I'm really pleased we have a football team to support. The uncertainty has been horrible for the last 15 months. Glad we're still in the game.
To answer your questions:
1. Yes I think he should have stuck with LR. There was so much goodwill around he really couldn't lose (I don't know the financial ins and outs). Signing PW and his team on a 4 year deal in our current situation was reckless imo. We didn't need to do it. Ratchets up the pressure on everyone at the club. 
2. The team was assembled for LR's approach and good enough to compete in the league but not for PW. 
3. Agree. But equally wish Clowes had given LR more time as well. Works both ways.
People are saying give PW more time and rightly so but I'm not sure what more time will show other than being better at the same approach. I don't think I can stomach it. I just don't think this is how football should be played. Once again, just my opinion. Good managers should be able to pick a style depending on the squad of players they have to work with. From what we have seen so far, I don't think PW has the ability nor desire to do this. 
I'm not being alarmist but really hope Cowles hasn't made a massive blunder here. 

Like you, I'm really pleased we have a football team to support. The uncertainty has been horrible for the last 15 months. Glad we're still in the game.
To answer your questions:
1. Yes I think he should have stuck with LR. There was so much goodwill around he really couldn't lose (I don't know the financial ins and outs). Signing PW and his team on a 4 year deal in our current situation was reckless imo. We didn't need to do it. Ratchets up the pressure on everyone at the club. 
2. The team was assembled for LR's approach and good enough to compete in the league but not for PW. 
3. Agree. But equally wish Clowes had given LR more time as well. Works both ways.
People are saying give PW more time and rightly so but I'm not sure what more time will show other than being better at the same approach. I don't think I can stomach it. I just don't think this is how football should be played. Once again, just my opinion. Good managers should be able to pick a style depending on the squad of players they have to work with. From what we have seen so far, I don't think PW has the ability nor desire to do this. 
I'm not being alarmist but really hope Cowles hasn't made a massive blunder here. 

Like you, I'm really pleased we have a football team to support. The uncertainty has been horrible for the last 15 months. Glad we're still in the game.
To answer your questions:
1. Yes I think he should have stuck with LR. There was so much goodwill around he really couldn't lose (I don't know the financial ins and outs). Signing PW and his team on a 4 year deal in our current situation was reckless imo. We didn't need to do it. Ratchets up the pressure on everyone at the club. 
2. The team was assembled for LR's approach and good enough to compete in the league but not for PW. 
3. Agree. But equally wish Clowes had given LR more time as well. Works both ways.
People are saying give PW more time and rightly so but I'm not sure what more time will show other than being better at the same approach. I don't think I can stomach it. I just don't think this is how football should be played. Once again, just my opinion. Good managers should be able to pick a style depending on the squad of players they have to work with. From what we have seen so far, I don't think PW has the ability nor desire to do this. 
I'm not being alarmist but really hope Cowles hasn't made a massive blunder here. 

Like you, I'm really pleased we have a football team to support. The uncertainty has been horrible for the last 15 months. Glad we're still in the game.
To answer your questions:
1. Yes I think he should have stuck with LR. There was so much goodwill around he really couldn't lose (I don't know the financial ins and outs). Signing PW and his team on a 4 year deal in our current situation was reckless imo. We didn't need to do it. Ratchets up the pressure on everyone at the club. 
2. The team was assembled for LR's approach and good enough to compete in the league but not for PW. 
3. Agree. But equally wish Clowes had given LR more time as well. Works both ways.
People are saying give PW more time and rightly so but I'm not sure what more time will show other than being better at the same approach. I don't think I can stomach it. I just don't think this is how football should be played. Once again, just my opinion. Good managers should be able to pick a style depending on the squad of players they have to work with. From what we have seen so far, I don't think PW has the ability nor desire to do this. 
I'm not being alarmist but really hope Cowles hasn't made a massive blunder here. 

Like you, I'm really pleased we have a football team to support. The uncertainty has been horrible for the last 15 months. Glad we're still in the game.
To answer your questions:
1. Yes I think he should have stuck with LR. There was so much goodwill around he really couldn't lose (I don't know the financial ins and outs). Signing PW and his team on a 4 year deal in our current situation was reckless imo. We didn't need to do it. Ratchets up the pressure on everyone at the club. 
2. The team was assembled for LR's approach and good enough to compete in the league but not for PW. 
3. Agree. But equally wish Clowes had given LR more time as well. Works both ways.
People are saying give PW more time and rightly so but I'm not sure what more time will show other than being better at the same approach. I don't think I can stomach it. I just don't think this is how football should be played. Once again, just my opinion. Good managers should be able to pick a style depending on the squad of players they have to work with. From what we have seen so far, I don't think PW has the ability nor desire to do this. 
I'm not being alarmist but really hope Cowles hasn't made a massive blunder here. 

Me too. He has my complete backing. 
I think the style from LR's reign needed a 'tweak' to get the best out of the team we have and to be that bit more successful. We were in 7th. 
I don't see the implementation of a 'tweak' thus far, I see a totally different direction, vision and a complete overhaul. As a result, I'm not sure he can adapt to work out a system for the players he has. He doesn't seem one for subtleties.
Hope I'm wrong. It's been known before.
COYR 

Last I heard he bought a building firm, changed his name to David and had a partial hair transplant. 

For me it's a red day and night. He forearm smashes him in the head/face. He knew exactly what he was doing. 

Last I heard he bought a building firm, changed his name to David and had a partial hair transplant. 

There is lots of good stuff on Twitter this morning, I could post dozens of these.  I should probably stop looking though and get some work done ?
 

That's great support. Have a lot of time and respect for their fans. Pretty much every away game for them is a very long slog but they turn up in their numbers. 

That's great support. Have a lot of time and respect for their fans. Pretty much every away game for them is a very long slog but they turn up in their numbers.