Quote Originally Posted by seventwo View Post
Sorry Aucks, TM has stopped experimenting with tactics that his players struggled to adopt because they were constantly played out of position. That was solely his doing and his fault.
Some employers would see it as gross negligence.
Dinosaur?
Yes, undoubtedly, he doesn't understand the new technology that tracks players performances. He often struggles to compete when opposition managers make substitutions and change tactics.
Maybe one day we will find out why he suddenly stopped his stupid tinkering?
Can't agree. Downing has been very successful "out of position' in the last two matches, and Williams made a very decent fist of the switch to centre-back.
We were pretty poor against Barnsley but won with a bit of luck on our side. That was enough to restore a bit of confidence, as we saw against Brentford.
I think that element of "confidence" was a far bigger factor in our successful week than "positions". The modern player has to be much more flexible in that respect, anyway. Chris Samba made a more than useful centre-forward at times!
In any case, I don't really buy that we had loads of players in the wrong spot (Bennett aside) - except by default.
If you have (as we do) half a dozen players who would prefer the No. 9 shirt, all but one of them are going to miss out! However, if they are amongst your most threatening attackers, you might well want to try to squeeze them in. Hence this third forward playing wide business. I don't really care for it myself either, but Gallagher did it well last time around, and before we went on the bad run, he had two very good games in that position this season.