Easy to look at the run of the game and see a negative in being pulled back to a single-goal win. Fact is though, over the last three or four years we would have gone on to draw or lose that game probably 9 out of 10. But we held on. And if we'd have come from two down to win 3-2 we'd have been hailing the character of the team. Takes some character to hang on though when you've been hauled back. All of a sudden, we're one loss in five. The performances are not there yet, but we're beginning to see something to build on. Work to do on the defence for sure, but the result's everything today. And this helps to bridge us to January, when we can hopefully shore up the back four. I'd not have voted to keep him after that dismal performance against the Blunts, but given that the Board are determined to stick by him this hopefully represents the beginning of Lee turning it around.
A wins a win and away from home its even better ,wether its the start of a climb up the table ,who knows.
To be honest I'm not sure it's correct to give Lee all the credit for turning it round, or at least not by him identifying what's amiss and developing more effective tactics. I think it has been forced on him by a combination of horrendous results, fan pressure and possibly pressure from the board who can see what we see but have still been prepared to back him with two decent players...perhaps on condition. I'm not one of the ones that has called for him out..but that's not to say there hasn't been a lot to be critical about, I have thought through the season so far that there is something there, and that we have enough decent players to do well, the main reason we weren't succeeding being down to LJs 1 up front mentality...hopefully that's gone for good, at least as Plans A & B.
I've got to agree that the win was very important today. It looks like we have got LJ for the short term at least. So, he needs to sort out the defence. We need a Center half who has been round the block a few times and can marshal his defensive colleagues. We were 2 up today before they started playing and 3 up before the fight back started. We are not going to have that luxury every week so we need to concede less to convert the goals that we do score into points on a consistent basis. The maxim that we will win by scoring more that the opposition does not work at this level of football.
Great result! Massive victory against a dreadful Colchester team. Dog ***** defending and tactical naivety from the Head Coach nearly gave them a share of the spoils. This is as poor a league as I have seen for years.
Perhaps I am being unduly blinkered but I would go further than that and suggest that the credit for turning it around doesn't go to Lee, but to Adam Hammill, who seems to have almost single handedly turned the ship around in the last few games by being way too good for this league, and quite simply, seems to have saved LJ's job, or at least saved the board from being under intolerable pressure to relieve him of his job. Imagine, you are under massive pressure because you have been turning out a sack of ***** all season and all of a sudden, along comes a player who has been here before, lost his way and needs someone to give him a chance back into the game, but is obviously far too good a player for this league and wouldn't ordinary be on our radar. And he knocks on our door and begs for a chance to get back in - and we suddenly get a player who is likely to instantly become one of the best players in the league for a song, right when we are sat in the bottom 4. We were saying before, when LJ didn't get the sack seemingly just because of how many we have sacked before, that he was a lucky man. and then this happens. They say if you can't be good, be lucky - well LJ must be the luckiest bstard manager that ever managed. I want him to pick my lottery numbers. He should be offering to have Hammills babies.
so if we lose it's LJs fault for signing $hit players, but if we win, LJs lucky that a player is getting him out of the $hit. come on lads..
