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GhostoftheBok

Agree with the warm words. I'd like to see him in the stands at an away game more than I'd like to see him on the pitch next season, though.

GhostoftheBok

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2024 12:47 pm
Job very not suited for him in that it’s been a very unstable club - revolving managerial door, boardroom chaos, entitled fans.

Is he at more risk there than he would be here?

A week ago yes. I'd suggest not now.

GhostoftheBok

Worthy4England wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2024 12:41 pm
Tangent - IE is currently 7/2 third favourite for the Birmingham job...

Which he would probably take if offered.

He's no longer "unsackable" at Bolton and we're no longer his guaranteed vehicle to the Premier League.

If he's going then us getting paid is nice.

GhostoftheBok

I do think the points required will be less next year. It's not like last season where there were 3 outstanding teams, then a decent group and then the dregs. There will be 8 or do teams who will genuinely think they can win it and will all take points off each other, and then those decent teams an...

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Worthy4England wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2024 12:23 pm
Doesn't Pep statistically make the lowest volume of substitutions in the PL?

Pep surrounds himself with brilliant people who tend to get things right the first time.

He also happens to have some of the best players in the world, who can fix things on their own when it's not working.

GhostoftheBok

Quite. His to-do list is considerable. If he doesn’t fancy it, off he pops. Which is not to say “rip it up and start again” or that he’s a hopeless cause. But there’s a big job on. Huge and not one he can do alone. Some things can't be made sense of from the outside. A lot of transfers didn't work ...

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Yep. Pep might well have made a change. Upsetting for the subbed lad(s) but it’s a team game. The not-so-secret secret with Pep is he doesn't do it alone. People like Dunn have a huge influence on how City set up game to game and what they target. Does Evatt have those people around him? We can see...

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What I keep coming back to is he refused to change it at half time. feck me if that wasn’t the time to go all Bruce Rioch when is? Should have put Victor and probably Dempsey on for jones and Sheehan and made them think. But we did not. We said ‘do plan a better’. Arghhhhhhhhhhh! Tactically the gam...

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Worthy4England wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2024 11:52 am
Abundantly clear that Oxford had the drop on us. As it was on other occasions in the main season.

Evatt's ability to organise a team is first rate for this level.

His ability to react when his gameplan doesn't work is not.

At least we know where he needs to improve.

GhostoftheBok

And now the other div in charge of the other team I support has lost his mind again as well. Lots of fun chat about who goes as the fifth choice central midfielder until they walk out of the tunnel for the first game and someone has to stand on the left of defence. Don't worry. Trippier, who has be...

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The problem is not that our press is more ineffective than Oxfords' - as Ghost says over the season, it's not - our Opta PPDA still has us as top, Oxford 4th bottom. But that's where the lies, damned lies and statistics come into play. In a one-off game, or even across the play-off, they might have...

GhostoftheBok

Every expert who talks about us (managers, techy pundits, etc) praise Evatt's press. I'm not wasting time on that topic. If you think the whole of football is wrong then I'm hardly going to convince you otherwise.

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Nobody associated with the football club is happy right now.

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The reality is that anyone on a 2025 deal is available unless and until they sign a new contract.

Anyone on longer than that leaves on our terms.

Whatever formation/system Ian picks some business will just be business.

GhostoftheBok

Why is our press much more ineffective than oxfords It's not. At the start of the season we were far and away the best pressing outfit. Where that fell down was when we lost Dion and Vic. None of the replacements could do the work. Without one key pressing player it worked, without both it didn't. ...

GhostoftheBok

Who is saleable then? Can we cash in on Santos, Sheehan, Charles to plug the gaps we need in mentality? Sheehan is 29 with a raft of injuries in his folder. The best business decision is to give him a new deal. If he won't sign we might look to sell him to record a profit, but the money we get won'...

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There is no good reason to play 3 at the back, bottom line is we can recruit into a 4131 far more easily it suits more of our players and even if you say the main ones it doesn’t suit are Charles and Santos…both of those might not be here…… If Evatt is manager he's shown before he actually prefers ...

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I think you're saying, probably doesn't get in the way of us, but might hinder his personal development in future. If that's correct, then I genuinely don't care. I was starting to get images of him sitting 13 round a table for the pre-match and making them say Grace... I don't think it hinders us ...

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If it helps, I am more worried about the books than The Book.

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Gonna ask a question, coz you've more than hinted at this a few times. Does his religion get in the way of his job? Because if it doesn't, I'm happy to leave him to it.. People are religious in different ways and for different reasons. Ian's extreme fervour wasn't apparent until after he had a fair...

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