The enigma that is Scotty Parker

[kritichris]

Some say he is doing well like BT
Others like Army are saying he is not playing entertaining footie and not getting the results we should be getting.
Some say he is playing players out of position, square pegs in round holes
Others say he's got the best defensive set up ever
Some say he's doing well with a team in flux with injury problems
Others say he's had enough time to form a more effective strikeforce
Some say the team he joined was asset stripped and he's achieved wonders with what he was left with
Others say he's had enough time to build an effective team
Some say he ripped Plymouth a new Rsole
Others say he was useless against a struggling Portsmouth team.
Parky continues to be an enigma
He's signed players and not used them
He hasn't signed an effective striker
He persists in playing Foster (the biggest enigma of all)
He doesn't give his other forwards enough game time (in fact he's just got rid of one)
He doesn't use his subs effectively
He primarily has a negative approach to games (got to agree with army on this one)
He's sorted out our defensive frailties (as did Sean Dyche) but he hasn't made any progress at the front.
In summary, if we don't get promotion he has to go, if you don't concede goals you don't lose but if you don't score you don't win and 3 points for a win trumps 1 point for a draw anyday.

[army88]

Some say he is doing well like BT
Others like Army are saying he is not playing entertaining footie and not getting the results we should be getting.
Some say he is playing players out of position, square pegs in round holes
Others say he's got the best defensive set up ever
Some say he's doing well with a team in flux with injury problems
Others say he's had enough time to form a more effective strikeforce
Some say the team he joined was asset stripped and he's achieved wonders with what he was left with
Others say he's had enough time to build an effective team
Some say he ripped Plymouth a new Rsole
Others say he was useless against a struggling Portsmouth team.
Parky continues to be an enigma
He's signed players and not used them
He hasn't signed an effective striker
He persists in playing Foster (the biggest enigma of all)
He doesn't give his other forwards enough game time (in fact he's just got rid of one)
He doesn't use his subs effectively
He primarily has a negative approach to games (got to agree with army on this one)
He's sorted out our defensive frailties (as did Sean Dyche) but he hasn't made any progress at the front.
In summary, if we don't get promotion he has to go, if you don't concede goals you don't lose but if you don't score you don't win and 3 points for a win trumps 1 point for a draw anyday.

Tbf Chris I?d just like us to go at teams with some intent - I?ve said some of your other points myself that he was dealt a bad hand week one etc.

I just think if you go to win a game you miss chances yea but that?s entirely different to passing backwards relentlessly ( jokingly I?ve said if there was a trophy for that we?d be world champions not just the championship.

The more I watch the less I think he?s a fit for us - if I
Could see some progression in his WIP and improvements etc I?d sit it out - I just get the feeling it?s lip service talk the talk not walk the walk

See what happens Tuesday - he?s running out of chances for me though.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

A few random thoughts.
Fine margins. (Ten 0-0's is ridiculous.)
Lack of firepower. Barnes was never the answer.
Impotent at set pieces.
Injuries to key players.(Ramsey & Benson especially).
Carrying too much deadwood. (Tresor, Foster & Sambo especially).
Recruitment team not fit for purpose.
Poor use of substitutes.
Lack of the will to win games instead of settling for the aforementioned 0-0's.
Look at Everton, Moyes changes the mindset and the Toffees look world beaters.
Play-offs look inevitable.
We need the EPL revenue.
What is Pace to do?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Definition of enigma: "something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely".

Seems to me to be the exact same sort of question as to why does Parker keep on wasting a shirt with Lyle Foster? It sure is something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand to me.

[ClaretinBudapest]

See what happens Tuesday - he?s running out of chances for me though.

I am confident that if we do not win convincingly on Tuesday there will be problems at the Turf.Another 0-0 or god forbid loss and the crowd will turn against SP.Look at some of the comments after yesterdays borefest:-


"No other team moves the ball so silkily sideways, slowly and then backwards, then sideways.
An 18 year old virgin has more penetration.
And I?m a Claret but Lordy this is painful to watch."

"Boring boring burnley. Parkerball is worse than Dyche''s tactics......who'd have thought."

"Just back from FP and whilst happy with the point as a Pompey fan, I'm infuriated with Burnley for their lack of ambition. This is a team just didn't from the prem with ?15-20m players sat just outside automatics playing us, Pompey, who are just up from league one. Timewasting and gamesmanship from very early on, diving, feigning injury and whatnot else. They should be embarrassed and ashamed."

"You go down to Pompey, have your keeper time waste from early on, and come away with 0-0? Come on Burnley fans.. whether you go up or not, that is an abysmal style of footy."

"Goodness me Burnley have got to be the most boring team in English football at the minute.?"

Boring Burnley. 'Football' that brings a tear to the eye.
Oddbod Parker more obsessed with clean sheets instead of winning games."

"As last week, a new low!! Dyche's was tough to watch, but this is absolutely shocking!! Pace should reimburse all the Burnley fans who made the long trip south!!"

"Thank god I'm not a Burnley supporter, if that anti football display sees them back to the promised land then they deserve all they get !

"If Burnley actually played for 90 minutes instead of spending half the game time wasting they might actually score a goal I don't know when I've been as frustrated and bored watching a team play such negative football."

"Parker will be the reason we don?t go up.
No ambition to go forward, no creativity in midfield and to not make substitutions !
Na playoffs at the best.
Worst season in Burnley?s history last season under Kompany and now this.
But as we say
Up The Clarets?

The fans have had enough.And finally most tellingly:-

"Bournemouth fan in peace!!...we did warn you Burnley....Parker if you lucky will get you promoted but will bore the pants of you..then when you are bottom of Premier league next season will blame players and board!!!...Simple!!"

[army88]

Definition of enigma: "something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely".

Seems to me to be the exact same sort of question as to why does Parker keep on wasting a shirt with Lyle Foster? It sure is something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand to me.

I get all your frustrations with Fostet but like I posted earlier thread to pick Foster out of that lot isnt fair

If you looked at the rest of them honestly you’d find a similar rating

Foster - playing left wing ( out of position - doesn’t understand and or want to do the tracking of players)
Fleming playing number 9 isn’t a forward and I’m convinced would thrive as a 10 with a proper forward
Sarmiento - no idea flitting around in a team between no10 and the wings and midfield ( too lightweight gets clattered and goes missing )
Laurent - steady but comfortable for me not a good mix just doing about enough
Anthony has the talent but is probably playing on the wrong wing in truth - drifts through games not offering enough ( when he’s involved and contributes he’s good ).
Cullen - has the reigns on him and is a master of the black arts - backwards football under this manager anyway - slows us down from our already mediocre pace to a slug like transition

Brownhill - is decent but I get the feeling he’s saving himself for something and it ain’t us. A good player at this level but not quite good enough for the next level
Never manages to turn up in games that matter - it’s like he finds a hole and just does the minimum in those games imo. ( we did miss his movement yesterday )

Pires - is not a full back he can’t defend and is lightweight at best - can carry the ball well occasionally but is a liability for me .


Read the above and then look at the team and the manager the season is hanging by a thread reliant on Egan Riley and Esteve and Roberts - Humphrey’s and the goalkeeper- Dyche would be all over that defensively but with every game I look at the players playing out of position- cruising and wasting away and it’s a recepie for disaster.

Many believe a single player will change it all ( I really hope it does ) but you need the Cogs of the chain the engine room and all to come together going in the right direction- if you leave a good striker up top while you mess around in our box he’s useless to you.

Watch Leeds - Coventry and the championship in general - regardless of win lose or draw the teams look fluent they try to go forward together and move to shift defences around to try and score goals - we are disjointed playing people in wrong positions - with a man at the helm who is calm and composed and says all the right things and yet sends his teams out to not lose.

For me it’s not working.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It does not help when we do not get awarded stonewall penalties.

[Supersub6]

The concensus seems to be that the team isn't good enough, the manager isn't good enough, the recruitment team aren't good enough etc., etc. and yet you want them to be promoted.
WHY?
Do you just want to see the same as last season with a team obviously not good enough getting stuffed on a regular basis and being relegated as is happening more and more in recent seasons for the promoted teams?

We do not have the fianancial resources to make it in the PL, in fact, the only manager that did make a decent fist of it was sacked and criticised for his style of football, just as happened to him at Everton, in spite of having kept them up for a couple of seasons and leaving them in a decent position, in spite of all the off field events that were going on at Goodison.

Last season we had a manager who spent over ?100 million pounds on players but had a dismal season, as far ass results were concerned, however, lots of fans were happy because we were trying to entertain.
Possession is becoming the bane of modern football and it means absolutely nothing without an end result.
Brighton had 67% possession at the City Ground yesterday, had less shots than Forest, less on target and lost 0-7. The previous week, at home against Everton, they had 69% possession and forced 1 save out of Jordan Pickford in losing 0-1.
Conversely, Everton have averaged 38% possession in their last three matches, won them all and scored 8 goals.

I shall be at match on Tuesday and will be surprised if it is anything but a 0-0 draw, although, Oxford were decent yesterday and have one or two quick players who could give us problems, however, they could not beat a Bristol City team who ended the match with 9 players, having played with 10 from the 31st minute.

It is what it is and the choice of paying to watch or not is entirely on the shoulders of the paying customer because there is plenty of football outside of the EFL and PL and costs much less.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I don't think there are many (if any) "$hite" teams in the Championship. They can all play a bit, have strong athletic lads that all want to play in the EPL and give their fans something to sing about. It seems to me a lot of our fans have acquired the "Leeds United Complex" and think we are better than we actually are. Big test coming up on Tuesday night against the divisions "form team". UTC#

[ballcock]

I don't think there are many (if any) "$hite" teams in the Championship. They can all play a bit, have strong athletic lads that all want to play in the EPL and give their fans something to sing about. It seems to me a lot of our fans have acquired the "Leeds United Complex" and think we are better than we actually are. Big test coming up on Tuesday night against the divisions "form team". UTC#

Definitely some entitled buggers on here reading the comments in this section.

3rd in the league, 2nd best goal average and best defence, and they do nothing but moan