It all rather makes the Forest Green Rovers stories ring true now - where Hockaday got the heave-ho after underperforming for 2.5 seasons despite being well funded for that level, but blamed it on the players not being good enough to be able to play the football and systems he wanted.
No doubt a similar excuse will be wheeled out at Leeds in 1-10 weeks, whenever the axe falls. A bad workman and his tools... On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Ted <[email protected]> wrote: > Believe me - it was atrocious. > > I'm usually optimistic, but I saw nothing to give us hope last night. Boro > result - a false dawn? I think so. > > And listening to the Hock on the way home - is he watching the same game as > me? He said we played better in the second half, he was happy with that > and that we created lots of chances. What? We had no shots on target, > NONE. > He also said that the age of the winger was dead. Really? Someone better > tell Bale and Ronaldo. > Apparently we played 'the diamond' the first half and then changed it to > the "brave" system of man marking in the second. Brighton were all over us > in the first half and we were lucky to go in just one down. Second half > was a minor improvement - we stopped them a bit but as I say, we created > nothing. > I still can't understand why, when we get a free kick in their half, do we > not lump it in the box? We do a short pass sideways, one across the back > to the other flank and then either lose it or do a wayward pass. We also > never seem to put the final ball in the box, why? In his defence, The Hock > did say he couldn't understand why we weren't putting early balls in the > box as that what the players were instructed to do. Believe what you will. > Either way, shite. > > We had no pace, no aggression, and definitely no passion. And we persevere > with 3 of the 4 crap midfielders that were rubbish last year. Its time to > face facts - Austin and Murphy just aren't up to it. I'll give Tonge a > chance as a sub, when we're desperate. And I'm not that convinced about > Bianchi (sp?) I watched him for a bit in the second half and he didn't do > enough movement off the ball. Often Byram wanted to pass and move and > Bianchi was just stood there. When he did get the ball, his final pass > went astray more often than not. > > Chasing the game he takes Sharp off. It's hardly his fault (or Smiths) > that they had no service. I don't think the score would have been any > worse if we had played without the midfield players at all! We're just not > good enough to play tippy-tappy football, even in our own third. > > 3 games in, early days I know but I just hope we get some new, decent > players in or we're doomed. > > Hockaday gone by mid-Sept (or even after we lose on Sat and get knocked out > of cup by Bradfud) > > After a good day out, and result, on Saturday - back to reality. > > > Ted H > > > > > On 20 August 2014 00:35, [broken-address] Nicholas Armit < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Very, very early days. We were shit last year, the year before , the > > year....I have some weird faith in Cellino to buy some decent players. I > > want go give the players some time to gel (which is easy cos I'm not > paying > > to watch the shite.) I do think Hockaday is getting undue grief just > > because he is Hockaday. McDermott turned out to be pretty bloody awful. > > > > Cue vitriolic abuse. > > > > Nick > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Jeremy Adams <[email protected]> > > To: Leeds List <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:52 PM > > Subject: [LU] Official report > > > > > > Well they've not updated since about 60 mins but if you read it, it makes > > it sound like we were decent and had some good chances in the game. The > > list reports say we were the worst we've been in a long long time. I know > > who I believe, going to be a long season. > > Best, > > > > Jeremy > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leedslist mailing list > > Info and options: > > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > > Rest In Peace old lad > > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > > _______________________________________________ > > Leedslist mailing list > > Info and options: > > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > > Rest In Peace old lad > > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
