Agree with that. However Liverpool and Man City are able to buy the best players and the best coaches so they will always have a statistically better chance of playing good football more consistently than say Norwich.
To get a team like ours playing consistently good football at our level needs the coach to identify players he can rely on to do what he asks of them, coach them to be able to be comfortable in possession, to hold the ball up until another player is available, to move off the ball to create space and have at least one creative mid who can play balls in behind defenders or triangles just outside the 18 yard box. Plus at least one winger who can beat his man and deliver crosses consistently. Imo under Robbie we had none of that, although we did show it in flashes.
Robbie won the league because we overall had better players than the other teams, not by the quality of football the team produced.
In the Premiership we won't have that superiority of players we'll need to beat teams by playing better football than them on that particular day.
If you look back to the great days of the 80's we didn't beat Celtic the Rangers Aberdeen etc because we had a bigger budget, we beat them consistently because the manager had an eye for a player and was able to coach them brilliantly into a winning unit.
He talks a good game, says all of the right things. If his team plays as well then we will be in good shape!
Yes but that was in the Championship. With our budget we should have won it at a canter and have been able to play attractive football. I won't be expecting the same in our first season in the Premier league. Survival is all that matters this season, then we can build on that.
Cracking interview with the new man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrHQ...R9yNqPN18wz6qc
I’m already fearing the day this guy moves on (whether sacked or moving on to bigger things!)
Been an absolute age since we had an honest, decent and genuinely optimistic guy at the helm. With the exception of Raymondo we’ve had one arrogant f4nny after another since Houston.
Really like the way this guy goes about his business!