One Thing That Has Surprised Me About Flitcroft & The Berk

That is it for me. I don't give a **** which formation we play as long as we got for teams. 4-5-1 can be a lot more attacking than 4-4-2 if played in the right way.

 

Say what you want about Keith, he had a plan and style of play. You could see what his teams were trying to achieve. That'll always buy someone a degree of trust.

 

Amen. It didn't always work. In fact it very rarely did. But you could see what he was trying to achieve the weird fecker.

 

If he was trying to get BFC relegated, then Yes I could see that and that he was a lovely person !
But I never saw any of this fabled ***** about style and effort !!

 

Anti football. All about possession and pass completions rather than what matters - GOALS

 

If you correct your sentence, by replacing the "n" with "c" in the word thinker.......you then get the real description.......

THICKER lovely person

 

Inevitably I disagree. His style of play has brought plenty of goals at Rochdale and did for us when it clicked. It works at Liverpool, Swansea, Everton, Exeter, Barcelona. I didn't work at times for us for a variety of reasons, none of which discredit possession football.

None of which was my point. I wasn't debating the merits of his style of play, just pointing out it was clearly identifiable and consistent, and was part of a plan and vision.

 

When it doesn't work it turns into the worst footballers on the pitch, the centre halves, seeing far too much of the ball and making mistakes.

 

It works with talented players. Not with the toilers we have.

 

But it's failure doesn't mean it's a flawed system. That's like saying socialism's **** because Stalin was a *******

 

I prefer the style we had after Keef had been binned

 

So we should just laik long ball all the time? Like we are now and did after March under Flitcroft?

I prefer a team that at least tries to do it the right way.

 

The right way was clearly anything but as we were heading in one direction.

 

But we're playing long ball, direct football now. What's the answer?

 

We're playing football of a worse standard and heading in that same direction now, only more obviously.

 

My own personal reasoning for running out of patience

comes down to budget. Hill made one or two bad signings but more great signing with very little budget. The money he generated from sales disappeared into Dons spreadsheet whereas Mansford has backed Flitcroft with decent money and so far his signings have been mostly poor. Flitcrofts best players are ones signed (or identified by in O Grady's case) by Hill. He has the same blindspot with certain players but I would have loved to have seen what Hill couldve done with the money Flitcroft has had.

 

'Assurances'

Wonder if he had to give any back.

My issues :

Goalkeepers
Hassell
Digby
RNL
Mellis
Back/square passing midfield
Jason Scotland - let's not play a striker who scores.
The post match interviews where he speaks about a totally different game to the one that ahs just happened.

 

Re: My own personal reasoning for running out of patience

This. On a f.cking stick.