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Post by a more piratey game on Jun 16, 2019 12:18:15 GMT
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Post by a more piratey game on Jun 16, 2019 12:23:51 GMT
Neil Maggs very good questioning towards the end - are you a difficult character/a marmitey character/a bit of a luxury player
good questions and good answers from Linesy I thought
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2019 13:54:12 GMT
Didn't sound opinionated to me.
Sounds like our manager will be OK as long as he's in control but has the potential to lose the dressing room at any moment.
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Post by laughinggas on Jun 16, 2019 16:02:55 GMT
Thought slightly odd, under GC they planned more for the opposition.
Yet I got the impression that DC was always picking systems to counter the opposition.
Yet again Lee Mansel said preparation should be 95% Rovers, 5% opposition. Can't remember why he was saying that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2019 18:27:16 GMT
Thought slightly odd, under GC they planned more for the opposition. Yet I got the impression that DC was always picking systems to counter the opposition. Yet again Lee Mansel said preparation should be 95% Rovers, 5% opposition. Can't remember why he was saying that. Can't say it showed particularly, we did the same thing in every game apart from the last one. |
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Post by laughinggas on Jun 17, 2019 9:14:54 GMT
Didn't sound opinionated to me. Sounds like our manager will be OK as long as he's in control but has the potential to lose the dressing room at any moment. So GC comments around the number of games Lines had played, is it really 499, and his quote about only putting him on because of the crowd. Were these an attempt at humour, him saying he is the boss, I don't like Lines or something else. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2019 9:52:23 GMT
Didn't sound opinionated to me. Sounds like our manager will be OK as long as he's in control but has the potential to lose the dressing room at any moment. So GC comments around the number of games Lines had played, is it really 499, and his quote about only putting him on because of the crowd. Were these an attempt at humour, him saying he is the boss, I don't like Lines or something else. Don't ask me. All I know is that we've lost a dimension to our game. Still, the manager came in at a difficult time and we didn't get relegated, that was his primary job, obviously Chris is going to be frustrated at not being included much last year, but one thing that was obvious about the new style of play was that we were compact in defence but still got more players around the opposition area quickly, at his age that's not going to be easy for Chris to do for 90 mins. I don't know how the team will line up or what the style of play will be next season, but letting Chris go gives more than half a clue. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2019 10:48:43 GMT
‘ One person is not going to change,,,,,,,’ in a nutshell shows exactly why Chris Lines ended up in the situation he did. ‘ I think I’ve earned the right to,,,,,’ another clear indication to his mentality. The wheels had fallen off of the Clarke ‘fun bus’ and the team was in free fall. Coughlan brought in discipline and structure and achieved what he was tasked to do.
These things happen in football, Clarke was easy going and one of the boys, Coughlan is old school and players have to adapt to the manager not the other way around.
The coming season will provide the answer as to who was right.
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Post by irishrover on Jun 17, 2019 11:20:01 GMT
I agree that we need a player like Lines. Despite the eye catching defensive signings GC's offseason will be judged on whether he can add creativity to our midfield - something sorely lacking so far under his tenure.
However, I don't really think we need Lines himself. He'd slipped down the pecking order way before the current manager came into position. I'd argue that he's a 33 year old box to box midfield player whose main attacking asset used to be the ability to run directly at the opposition creating space and attacking opportunities for others and his legs just don't allow him to do it as effectively anymore. While he has reinvented himself as a play-maker it seemed to me as if he was being forced deeper and deeper in games in order to find the space to operate in. What we need is an upgrade to a younger version - whether we can find that though is a whole other question.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jun 17, 2019 12:32:56 GMT
I agree that we need a player like Lines. Despite the eye catching defensive signings GC's offseason will be judged on whether he can add creativity to our midfield - something sorely lacking so far under his tenure.
However, I don't really think we need Lines himself. He'd slipped down the pecking order way before the current manager came into position. I'd argue that he's a 33 year old box to box midfield player whose main attacking asset used to be the ability to run directly at the opposition creating space and attacking opportunities for others and his legs just don't allow him to do it as effectively anymore. While he has reinvented himself as a play-maker it seemed to me as if he was being forced deeper and deeper in games in order to find the space to operate in. What we need is an upgrade to a younger version - whether we can find that though is a whole other question.
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