Dougie Freedman - New Manager

[thebish]

With Davies we lack the mobility, with NGog we lack the ability to hold the ball .

Are you insane?

NGog holds the ball up much better than the manatee we have at the moment.

He does sometimes. He didn't at Blackpool. And I think he holds it up well at feet, less so with the aerial stuff.

KD doesn't hold it up that well from the aerial stuff - he flicks it on to a defender!!

[SmokinFrazier]

We need someone who can do a bit of everything up front, with the priority being goal scoring. Davies, N'Gog, Afobe or Sordell do not provide that complete package we need, nor do any have the ability to get us the goals we need for promotion. Think about Newcastle, when they had Nolan and Carroll. Think about Reading last year with Alfie and Roberts, or Southampton with Lambert.

We have the creativity in abundance. Chungy, Mavies, Petrov and Eagles are all going to create plenty of goal scoring chances but if you lack a goalscorer, you won't see a benefit from all that creativity. It's like having a Lamborghini Aventador against a line up of Lada's but if your supercar doesn't have any petrol, it's not going to win. We have the potential to get a lot of goals but we lack a natural goalscorer who can turn those chances into goals, and goals into points.

[boltonboris]

So all we need is a strong, quick striker who can also hold the ball up aswell as get regular goals.

Nice one. There's a feckload of those around and they don't cost a bean either.

Sorted... What have we been worrying about all this time! Somebody phone Dougie and let him know.

[Enoch]

So all we need is a strong, quick striker who can also hold the ball up aswell as get regular goals.

If I were 30 years younger!

[SmokinFrazier]

So all we need is a strong, quick striker who can also hold the ball up aswell as get regular goals.

Nice one. There's a feckload of those around and they don't cost a bean either.

Sorted... What have we been worrying about all this time! Somebody phone Dougie and let him know.

By "a bit of everything" I mean head the ball, be able to pass it, be able to run with it and shoot. That's it, it's simple and yet we don't have it. N'Gog can't shoot or dribble. Davies is too slow. Sordell is worse than N'Gog, and Afobe is useless.

Even though he was limited, Klasnic would have been in double figures if he was still here.

[jonnycooper]

Walcott has,nt signed a new contract and could be available in Jan,and Chelski are,nt using Sturridge.We should go for both and have the best frontline in,t Championship.

[jonnycooper]

Walcott has,nt signed a new contract and could be available in Jan,and Chelski are,nt using Sturridge.We should go for both and have the best frontline in,t Championship.

Oh and grab Zaha so he can supply them..

[TKIZ!]

Must be a striker somewhere looking to get a game who can score goals and would fit into a 4231?

[bobo the clown]

Walcott has,nt signed a new contract and could be available in Jan,and Chelski are,nt using Sturridge.We should go for both and have the best frontline in,t Championship.

Oh and grab Zaha so he can supply them..

He could also fill that tricky right-back position.

[Ianmooreslovechild]

Must be a striker somewhere looking to get a game who can score goals and would fit into a 4231?

It's a nice idea but could be hard to find. Not sure how many strikers manage to be prolific in a 451. It's a system that really relies on goals from midfielders and Eagles aside there aint going to be too many of them.Mind you if you dont concede you only need one a game.

[officer_dibble]

Glwn Murrays doing alright at palace

[Ianmooreslovechild]

Glwn Murrays doing alright at palace

True tho quite a few have been pens.

[Enoch]

I'll be interested to see how Murray performs after Christmas. Holloway is about as different to Freedman as you could wish for, in terms of how he goes about his business. I'm ready to be proved wrong, but I think he might get lazy without Freedman's businesslike structure to keep him sharp.

[Ianmooreslovechild]

Not sure that Holloway is that lax but it does sound like he dropped the ball at blackpool judging by recent comments. However he's inherited a team on a strong role so if he has the sense to keep it going and doesnt have many injuries/sales there's every chance they will go up. There's no need to fix anything at palace just keep it moving along.

[Enoch]

Certainly there's more than one way to be a successful football manager and I'm not suggesting Holloway doesn't have a chance. My concern regard Murray, is whether he will thrive in the new environment, which will certainly be different to the well oiled way Freedman goes about his business.

To be honest, that might apply to a few of the Palace team, those that Freedman managed to get the best out of. Of course there may be others that react better to Holloway. We shall see. )

[Hoboh]

Freedman only really has a couple more games to show we are capable of reaching at least the play offs or we are i for a miserable season thanks to Gartsides inability to move fast when needed.
Coyle should have gone an hour after the Stoke game (most of us would have done it last Christmas latest) and its his failure to act swiftly that attention and our sights should turn on!

[BWFC_Insane]

Freedman only really has a couple more games to show we are capable of reaching at least the play offs or we are i for a miserable season thanks to Gartsides inability to move fast when needed.
Coyle should have gone an hour after the Stoke game (most of us would have done it last Christmas latest) and its his failure to act swiftly that attention and our sights should turn on!

Or perhaps we should just give Freedman a proper amount of time to sort us out.

What happened in the past can't be changed. No point getting angsty about it.

We need to move forward as quickly and well as we possibly can.

If that means ultimately we have to re-build then so be it. But we've been on sinking foundations for too long now.

I hope Freedman is someone who can rectify that.

Whether he is or isn't expecting it to happen overnight is just plain daft.

[BL3]

we are i for a miserable season thanks to Gartsides inability to move fast when needed.

Gartside acted when there were still 36 games to play and we were 6 points off a play-off place and 10 points off an automatic promotion place.

There are now 29 games left and we are now 7 points off a play-off place and 13 points off an automatic promotion place.

You can only keep on blaming the previous management for so long.

[Hoboh]

Freedman only really has a couple more games to show we are capable of reaching at least the play offs or we are i for a miserable season thanks to Gartsides inability to move fast when needed.
Coyle should have gone an hour after the Stoke game (most of us would have done it last Christmas latest) and its his failure to act swiftly that attention and our sights should turn on!

Or perhaps we should just give Freedman a proper amount of time to sort us out.

What happened in the past can't be changed. No point getting angsty about it.

We need to move forward as quickly and well as we possibly can.

If that means ultimately we have to re-build then so be it. But we've been on sinking foundations for too long now.

I hope Freedman is someone who can rectify that.

Whether he is or isn't expecting it to happen overnight is just plain daft.

Well again,

We have the squad, we have the setup (despite Coyle) of a premier league club, we have most of the players from last season, we have a stated aim from the wooden chairperson of promotion this season, so please tell me were I'm going wrong

[Hoboh]

we are i for a miserable season thanks to Gartsides inability to move fast when needed.

Gartside acted when there were still 36 games to play and we were 6 points off a play-off place and 10 points off an automatic promotion place.

There are now 29 games left and we are now 7 points off a play-off place and 13 points off an automatic promotion place.

You can only keep on blaming the previous management for so long.

Pedantic!
A new man should have had the whole summer to form his squad and at least make sure they were fit enough to hit the ground runing.