I think it's just some managers are risk aversive and Rowett is on of them. He hinted in his post match interview yesterday that he thought the game was going to peter out at 0-0. His actual words were " I thought it was a nothing game. It was a game that looked destined to fizzle out." so he decided to take a point rather than try to put them under a bit more pressure.
I said to my during the game that it looks like we're not going to win so Rowett decided to set up so we wouldn't lose. I was quite confident that we wouldn't lose. I don't think either team really did enough to win and i don't think either team deserved to lose. A moment of chaos in the box from us and they nick all three points in the fourth minute of added time. It's always a risk that you'll get turned over like that when you haven't used the advantage of being at home. I think Rowett will continue to be cagey until he's got enough points on the board to keep us in the division. It seemed to look that way last season cause we played with a quite a bit more freedom once we hit the 50 points mark.
Well his interview yesterday suggests his gut feeling was we weren;t going to win and our shape and 2nd half performance suggest that it was what he settled on. Although he did bring on the two young lads which perplexed me somewhat because of the timing. It was more a cheeky roll of the dice and see if we can nick one rather than go earlier with them and have a proper go. I hope he learns quickly after getting his fingers burnt like that through his own indecision and perhaps not having the courage to trust his players to go for the win. I hope he felt like a right tit after getting done by a complete sucker punch.
We don't but we do know that they can also be enforced on you because of the fitness level and game time expectations of each individual player. Watmore for instance wil be earmarked by the fitness team as to how many minutes you'll get out of before he tires or is at risk/ susceptible to another injury. We wouldn't have got a player of his quality if he was able to do 90 minutes every week.
That makes sense when you read what Rowett said in his interview. The game would fizzle out at stalemate. He never thought about getting done by a late sucker punch so didn't try to win the game. It will be interesting to see how things pan out and will his tendency to be cautious stop. I say that because with the players he's brought into the squad ie Esse and Emanku are attackers and potential match winners. So what is going to be? cagey or using the attack minded players that he's acquired to do exactly that and from the start of games. If he's got them in as potentail get out jail cards only we won't improve on where we ended up last season.
You could well be right but todays game is much more about fitness and is science driven diets. When players were smoking in the dressing just after they'd eaten a pre match meal of steak and chips the game was slightly different. Todays top players are finley tuned athletes and wouldn't last ten minutes up against an opponent if they'd had a few fags and a fry up before a game. Same for players that like a booze, it puts them at a disadvantage and affects recovery time and slows down the healing process of bone injuries. Mason Bennett being an example of that. He doesn't look after himself and is known for loving the booze. Look at his injury record, it reflects his lifestyle.
I'm sure they do. I have mates that manage teams. But i will disagree when it comes to a supporter with the hump and a person that has played as a pro at a high level and has gone onto manage at a decent level. I'm sorry but i do not believe the two are comparable regardless of how much the supporter thinks he knows.
Surely experience and time served in that field trumps someone with no experience or history as a professional? Why don't we have Dave the butcher managing Liverpool. Why isn't Colin the carpenter manging Arsenal instead of working on a building site for 30k a week less than the pro? You could say the same for many professions, experience working in a chosen field will trump someone that hasn't done same pathway, level of training or practiced at a high level.
On top of that we as supporters and driven by emotions. Many of the rants on here that call for players to be fucked off, mangers to be sacked are done after we've just gone through a gamut of emotions, highs and lows, from hope to destitude, a roller coaster ride all in the space of ninety minutes. I think you're being a bit disingenuous with your reply because i've never said we're not allowed an opinion.
My point is there is a bigger picture, many facets and reasons why managers make the decision they do. Good and bad. They are human after all. It's not a simple as what some posts suggest that he should just pick him, drop him, do this, don't do that, and he's he's a cunt if he doesn't. That is just someones opinion, driven by emotion, mood when typing, like or dislike of the person in question.
You go to games, you've probably been to hundreds upon hundreds of them. You'd would have witnessed the bloke screaming and shouting his head off cause he's angry. He won't be making much sense or being measured and reasonable cause his beloved team is losing or has just lost.
Well that's what you get on forums too, posts are pinging up seconds after we've conceded or just lost, you hate the world, evreything is shit. At the same time someones fucking dictating what a geezer that's been in the game all his life should or shouldn't have done and when and with who. You want me to believe that person who's just his had his nerves torn to shreds and his heart broken is in any fit state or position to tell/ dictate to an experienced professional how to do there job.
No fucking chance mate.
For clarity again once more- i have never said someone is not titled to an opinion or there opinion isn't valid. If you post on a message board then expect to be taken to task if someone disagrees.
I said I couldn’t be bothered to REPLY & you went off on a tangent. 