Originally Posted by
MAD_MAGPIE
That’s a good analogy. I guess for a new coach making the step up there is also wanting to make your own mark on a team but with the way we play it’s not a complete change of philosophy and it should be subtle differences.
When looking back at the games I’ve seen the Mansfield, Wrexham and Newport games were good performances as well as getting the result at Newport. Bradford seems to have been similar based on others accounts. They are the games where I feel there were subtle differences between how we played under LW and SM and what we could expect.
We’ve had poor performances and poor results in some of SM’s games and also the entertainment levels have dropped as well. Especially in those games where we created little. It sounds like Salford was the same. So it’s compounded because if we were really entertaining and creating chances and not getting the rub of the green people maybe more patient.
So it’s a case now of what was different in the Newport and Bradford games that enabled us to win and win well. Was it because we were at our best, or those at their worst, or a combination of both? What we know is we are not consistent and have not been so far under SM.
We’ve got seven games left and I was hoping we would be mathematically safe by Easter even though it’s very likely we are ok now. I can’t see a dismissal happening before the end of the season now, but what it will do is give a larger sample and a chance to try and get some consistency and some entertainment especially in the remaining home games.