The Inquest Now The Dust Has Settled

[Shawoddyred]

It seems like most people have got over the other night and now would prefer Sabri to stay on. Honestly, I disagree...I would completely agree if his tactics weren't so clearly negative and 'not to lose'. I think the comparison with Leeds throwing it away last year and Bielsa is a non-starter - the way they play football is completely different and they dominate teams, press, try to score...I would happily give that kind of manager the chance to build a club playing style.

Most of the support for continuing with Sabri is to build a style and not change again...I don't really want to build on a backs to the wall style and actually make it more entrenched by sticking with it when it has started to fail. This would then make it even harder to change to a more progressive style when the new manager comes in later this year (something I think will be inevitable as I don't believe we will suddenly develop a plan B etc etc and I can't see anything but us carrying on our poor form since February). Signings in January were pants, but we still have enough players available to play an adapted and more positive game than anything I've seen us try.

If Sabri was backed again, we'd hardly be left with a team full or Warnock type cloggers though would we? Who in our squad at the moment would you say couldn't adapt to a new system? Players are players, tactics are tactics.

I do agree with that point but lots of people seem to think that you build a club ethos and style for the academy teams to follow etc. Players can adapt, of course they can, but it probably does take a bit of time to change again. To be honest, your point helps the argument that we could change Sabri now and be ok going into the new season in a few weeks. 

It really does feel so much better when the manager does seem to be a genuinely likeable bloke and I do hate talking about people's livelihoods to be honest, but I really am unsure that we will be in a good place as a team and club if we stick with him - he just doesn't seem to want to dominate the teams we could dominate and that for me is a big problem for a club trying to be ambitious. He could learn before next season starts but he's messed up a few times this season and not changed but actually seemed to double down on the defensive side....and I personally don't buy into it being the players at his disposal

He's had one single senior striker to play with all season. One single player to carry the load up top for an entire season. He allows Cash and Ribeiro to advance up the field and supplement the attack - that's a modern way of doing things these days and the opposition have to try to counteract that. He has nothing to play with centrally in midfield. Semedo, Bostock, Carvalho all no-shows for whatever reason. Put a swashbuckling player like Geddy (in his pomp) in his midfield and take out yates and we look a completely different side.

Again, I do agree with your point, I would definitely be looking to strengthen up front and centre mid. But, perhaps Sabri's style has meant we haven't got the best out of the more attacking players we do have at our disposal. Maybe Mir isn't as crap as he seemed, Walker with a different manager perhaps (I would consider him a senior striker now having played over 150 times and being 23), I think Sammi could have played up front with Grabs etc. Point is, he has barely tried it and I'm sure he doesn't focus his coaching on it. And when we were playing poorly, he put on another CB when we already had 3 on the pitch. 
 
Similarly, why haven't our midfield players shown up more? Their talent or the system? It's quite easy to play the Watson way (not taking anything away from him, i do think he has done well), but sitting back does make it much harder to be swashbuckling further up the pitch as defenders don't need to worry about Watson advancing at speed.