29-08-2019, 07:00 PM
(29-08-2019, 12:16 PM)Paplane Wrote: I loved the idea of MoN being our manager and was appalled when he was sacked but now, in hindsight, I've got to say that we took a step back with his football last year. We went from being a well schooled and organised side to being one who just went out on the pitch and tried to out-battle teams to get results. We were playing basic football that was lacking in strategy and finesse.
Contrast MoN's football to this season. It's like night and day. The on-pitch organisation that AK introduced to us has returned and with it some fairly sophisticated football. Sabri has taken no time at all to realise how the talent of Watson might be deployed to good use after both AK and then MoN had abandoned him. He's been decisive by rejecting 2 keepers (Pants and now Muric), and seems to have got Grabban motivated again. Using Dawson's return to bring the best out of Worrall is a masterstoke too. As for the rest, I just think modern footballers at our level just need to be told exactly what to do - they are incapable of playing from instinct and don't have the intelligence to make decisions on the pitch themselves. I suspect they are responding to Sabri because he let's them know exactly what he wants them to do.
Excellent summary.
His organisational and planning has been first rate.
He has the team playing well and still has players he is bringing along like Bostock, Chema and the kids from the Academy.
We now have genuine strength in depth in a squad that has not gotten out of second gear yet.