Reply With QuoteHe saw we were 2 down and a back four wasn't working so he replaced a defender with a forward, he needed to change something I can't see a problem with that.
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Our squad is set up to play with a back 3 the players signed show this.
My understanding is Wealdstone also played a back 3 which would help with the game plan.
Now we got a win at Newport with a back 4 but imo we dont have a LB at all really or one who can play the role properly in the modern game.
Yesterday SM could have just moved Cameron to LCB and moved Macari to wing back but no he Warner a scapegoat poor poor management.
Would he have took Cameron Bostock McGoldrick off after 20 mins my guess is no chance so already his authority is questionable.
As stated last night I hope he turns this around starting with Tuesday.
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He saw we were 2 down and a back four wasn't working so he replaced a defender with a forward, he needed to change something I can't see a problem with that.
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No he didn’t, he changed it after 12 mins at 1-0 which made Macari look like a fish out of water as RWB. He then subbed Warner at 2-0 to get Macari back in defence and Nemane RWB.Originally Posted by i961pie
He then reverted back to the original formation in the second half which put Nemane at RB.
I have no issues with managers making changes in a game but yesterday’s (and Wrexham) just felt very knee jerk and left us putting square pegs in round holes.
FWIW I dont think any formation would have changed the outcome yesterday.
Fundamentally you’ve still got to win your battles, and we lost them throughout the pitch.
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Like I've said in other posts in the past, anyone judging Sam Allardyce on his first four months in charge of Notts County would have had no idea how good he was ultimately turn out to be, not just for Notts but throughout his managerial career.
The game on Tuesday night is 'big' in the sense that a win would really give everybody a lift, but these owners won't be anywhere near making decisions on Maynard's future yet. The way they see things, this will still be the initial phase of the assessment process. They think like mature adults, weighing the evidence and data over an extended period time.
We've had too many owners in recent years whose thought processes were akin to football fans, most of whom act like emotional and petulant children, and it caused the confusion and chaos that lost our league status. I thought a lot of our fans would have learnt from those experiences, but the emotional instincts of the football fan often override common sese in the short-term. That's okay, as long as the people at the top making the decisions aren't influenced by such short-termism.
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Allardyce is the exception that proves the general rule. He went on to manage England. Comparisons with him are pointless.
Plus, he'd already taken Blackpool into the 3rd tier play offs with a 43% win rate on the back of a solid top two divisions playing career including club captain, he had pedigree. He was not an unknown quantity.
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From memory Allardyce suffered an awful lot of bad luck in his early games at Notts, there were last minute goals against and I remember us scoring 3 headed goals against Stockport and losing 2-1 ihn the last minute. It was also obvious he would sort things out for the following season.
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Also our drop in form will affect the price we will get for Macca and Jodi.
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Jodi is our only threat at the moment. If he is doubled up on or having a bit of an off day then we have nothing.
If only we had someone of Ruben’s skills to play those beautiful, incisive through balls. Dan Crowley is nowhere near that player, particularly this last couple of months.
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As bad a performance as it was, no one was worse than the referee.
The Crewe penalty was a clear dive after good work for Ashby-Hammond to cover his goal and a very heavy left footed touch from the Crewe striker leaving him with no option but to go down and the ref bought it. A good yard between them when he threw himself down.
That was made all the more shocking by the penalty that wasn’t given for the clear wrestling and pulling on Langstaff in the first half, and the two footed high challenge on McGoldrick that resulted in a farcical *throw in*.
Jatta’s shirt was being pulled off his back, and the ref couldn’t control Crewe’s persistent time wasting all second half.
We have been on the end of some very poor decisions over the last 6 weeks or so. We might be having very different conversations about Maynard if the goals at Mansfield and Wrexham were given and the ref did his job properly yesterday. Obviously we haven’t done enough to win games and we aren’t nasty enough ourselves, but it was one of the poorer refereeing performances I have ever seen on Saturday.
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