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Old 21-08-2011, 09:30   #47
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Re: Port Vale Thread

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Originally Posted by cashman View Post
Last nights ale may have contributed as well shaker?
Good point well made cashy!

I don't believe it's individual performances that need to be addressed (though it's clear McIntyre is not going to be of use to us as a starting player; perhaps his influence would be better felt on the training ground as John Mullin's was); it's Coley's tactics which leave much to be desired. By all accounts he's a great man-manager but in my opinion tactics have always been his downfall; whether it's sticking with something for far too long in the hope that it'll come good, having no second option when things are going wrong, or just the effective use of subs. I was proud of the way he admitted his error in not changing things sooner in the first two games and subsequently changed the formation to play Bradford. But yesterday he made a massive mistake in sticking with the system which we used to win that game. We played the wrong players in the wrong formation and we were punished by an effective side.
Someone in pre-season (I think it was Doug, apologies if it wasn't) noted that Coley displayed a hint of a defeatist attitude and though I disagreed at the time I've seen hints of it so far this season. Perhaps he is frustrated at the result of the club being run properly; that Eric and Dave aren't around to give him a massive squad that we can't afford. I don't know, maybe that's just negative conjecture after a negative (humiliating) result.
He has said himself that managers never stop learning and I hope that the lessons we've been given already this season will lead to change in the upcoming games. I know this is coming across as doom and gloom and attacking the gaffer but it isn't intended as such. In my view it's better to have glaring weaknesses made obvious in the first few games than to get a few results together and have everything fall apart in October. Perhaps this result will fire Coley into action and we'll have much more positive displays in the games to come. God knows he's got the ability to do that.

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