Quote Originally Posted by darrenshedtastic View Post
I get that point And i totally agree with the upheavel we've had this summer.

What i mean is, everything seems to be coming off just now for him. The setup, the rotations, the giving youth a chance. yeah the positive feeling he brings is brilliant cant lie but if we go on a bad run and are near the bottom people will naturally start to question some of the stuff that so far he has done well in.

Remember everyone loved the way RN talked when he first came in. he had some good early results with the players he had. It happens to all managers. MM has done really well so far but lets not get ahead of ourselves and expect too much.
Darren, expectation this season is simply survival, and getting points on the board as early as possible not only gives the team confidence, but obviously helps the cause. I don’t for a minute think it will be an easy task, but I like the way it’s started, and very much doubt Micky will create problems for himself. It will be due to other teams simply being better, or not getting the breaks, and we’ll just take that on the chin.

In the Championship, we were the top team and should have been aiming to steamroller the other teams every week, but after a great start where we had something like a 12 or 13 game unbeaten run, our master tactician started to overthink things, then took a more cautious approach, changing players, formation and tactics, that started to undo all that great work. That led to the players and team losing confidence, and from then on, it was a mixed bag of results. Any manager worth their salt, would have kept the same team, formation, and tactics, and simply instructed the team to continue going out and kill the game asap every week.
Before anyone jumps in with a comment about injuries, Robbie was notorious for putting square pegs in round holes, so rather than swap a like for like player when injured, he would change the team/formation to fit around the player he wanted to play, which was utter madness, and we saw the effect that had. I rest my case!