Quote Originally Posted by Leicesterbaggie View Post
I take your point animal that just like some players, some managers just aren't the correct fit for a certain club. I've never called him a fool but I do think that his tactics are archaic and belong to a different era.

If I could just say that in 1953 the Hungarians came to this country and with a completely new system of total football destroyed England 6-3 at Wembley. England had never lost on home soil before. They then proceeded to beat us 7-1 in Hungary. At the same time we had a manager called Vic Buckingham who, as a manager was, as were the Hungarians, years ahead of his time. In that same time we had a certain Ronnie Allen who played as what today is known as a false no. 9. The majority of centre forwards in those days were big, battering ram type of players. We were one of, if not the best side in the country at this time. Now remember, this was seventy years ago and to my mind the football that Ismael advocates for us is returning to the football played prior to the Hungarians and Buckingham. I, personally, think that this is unacceptable as surely football has moved on.

I accept that since then we have had other sides whose football has left a lot to be desired but I'm afraid that what we are producing today has got to be as poor as anything that I can remember.
But surely your CEO knew the style of football Val had us playing last season which brought us so many wins .

Almost everybody in the game knew how we'd achieved it , even Chelsea couldn't handle it for large parts of the FA cup tie we had against them , they scraped a 1-0 win with a late goal and were thankful to get away with it because we should have beaten them if we'd taken a number of chances .

This is what I can't understand about you appointing Val , surely the CEO understands the Albion DNA and the way you play is as important as the results .

Its like clubs who appointed Warnock or Mick McCarthy , they know what they are going to get and it's not always pretty but they know that .

I mean who are the real fools here , Val's done what Val does and was unlikely to move towards another style of play that had given him so many championship points at Oakwell .