This manager isn't good enough

I could agree with you to be honest. But at the same time there's absolutely no doubt that the manager is massively underperforming, making bizarre decisions and not getting the best out of the squad

 

We've lost one player since last season when we finished in the playoffs thats mowatt, dike was never our player. We've swapped a head coach who's enthisis was on playing the football in the opposition half to one who wants to play it mostly in our own half. I know where I think the blame lies.

 

To the vast majority of fans playing Clarke oduor upfront is a bizarre decision, just because you think he's a striker for some reason doesn't make it any less bizarre to thousands of others

 

Well you said he hasn't made bizarre decisions, many of us think that's a bizarre decision

 

I'm not saying we don't miss dike I'm just saying the head coach is a bigger miss because this one looks clueless, your saying this squad is worse than the one relegated under morais I disagree. Collins is one of the best keepers in the division made more good stops yesterday to keep the score down. Helik would get in any championship side, styles was the best lwb in the division last season but we now play him in center and he looks poor, Britain again looks a diffrent player under schopp to last season, palmer and benson i belive are good enough for this league aswell as cauley. I haven't included anderson and Morris as they aren't avalible but they are also good enough.

Schopp had a good bunch to choose from yesterday team selection all wrong tactics all wrong toothless in attack yet again. The players body language said it all, aswell as schopps body language just stands there with his hands on hip asif he's mid macarena no connection to fans or players for me sooner he's gone the better.

I find it laughable how people have gone from saying "we've had a hard run in to start" to "he's missing alot of players" to now "its the players they aren't good enough"

 

It's a pretty big decision and hasn't Cole been available too?

You can add to that the decision to piss about at the back and to continue doing so when it wasn't working. The substitutions. Or the decision to lump the ball to Woodrow's head and make him the throw in target at his head too when he doesn't head a ball

 

It's odd that you think playing a left back in midfield is bizarre but you think playing a left back at the right hand side of a front three is perfectly normal. It isn't. It's bizarre. We have an academy at the club. It has strikers in it. People who are paid to play up front. We sent killer out on loan. A striker. We have many options but instead a left back is chosen to play in the most opposite possible position on the pitch

 

What position do you think odour is by the way? I'm curious because I was under the impression he was a left back/stroke left winger (or to put it another way ideally suited as a left wing back)

 

Well if I've read it wrong fair enough, but imo I don't think this is a side who should be playing so poorly with 1 win in 10 and 6 league goals, looking like relegation fodder. I belive we have a decent bunch and the head coach is holding us back with the style he wants to play.

Schopp is always going to get compared to val as he's the previous head coach that happens.

I agree but for me he hasn't looked right at center midfield all season we had Gomes,palmer on the bench styles could have played wing back instead of williams. We can't just keep playing him in center midfield in the hope he comes good.

 

There are some really interesting points raised in here to be fair:

- Alex Mowatt is overrated and wouldn't be wanted by any other side in the top half of the vision. Can we put that one to bed please?

- Styles will move inside and into his natural position. I'm not sure that's correct either. He seems much more dangerous out wide. But most fans wanted that to happen, and now it has this is also Schopp's fault.

- How many of our new signings does the Head Coach actually rate? Benson obviously, as he's straight back into the side. The same as Kitching. But Cole has played about an hour this season. Vita not sighted yet. Gomes a game. Oulare next to nowt. Issa even less. Who is making these decisions? Conway? If so, he might need to speak to his gaffer to see if he fancies them before we stump up the brass

- To say we aren't weaker than last year is plain wrong. Mowatt, Dike, Morris and Anderson are all not playing regularly for us this year - and also Ismael isn't in the dug out (as at the minute, Schopp is inferior). Just because Dike wasn't 'our' player doesn't mean we just discount him and pretend he doesn't exist. That's lunacy. "Well we aren't weaker cos Dike was never our player". OK then, I must have imagined those goals he scored last season.

- The style of play has reverted to a more possession based one. The jury is still out on this. We bullied teams last year, but then again we had the personnel to do so. We had Mowatt delivering balls to Dike and Morris to harass defenders. Now we're hanging Woodrow out to dry by making him look daft as he goes up against tall centre halves, when he isn't great in the air. He wants it to feet or a pull back.

- Onto the topic of Woodrow. He clearly performs best when he's next to a Big Man (hairy arse preferable). His best goalscoring season was with Moore, and last year he had Morris and Dike providing the muscle. He was comparably poor when he had Chaplin and Brown up with him. Maybe there's something in this?

- Brittain and Helik have underperformed compared with last season so far. Last year, Brittain was almost like an out and out right winger, and how he didn't score a few goals I'll never know. He was electric. Helik also scored a fair few, and seemed more assured. Maybe he is less confident in being asked to play a more possession based style. It'll be interesting when Mads returns, because his improvement with the 'Vertical' football was immeasurable. He was like a rabbit in the headlights under Struber.

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I think that's all I've got for the time being. Maybe yesterday was a wake up call. Maybe it's the continuation of a poor run that will end with Schopp leaving. Who knows? I hope it's the former. It's top early to tell though yet (in my humble opinion).

 

"Yesterday was Schopp’s first proper audition for me and he failed."

I agree with much of what you post and, unfortunately, the above is accurate.
I will aways preach patience and perspective but yesterday I think Marcus missed an opportunity to swing fans opinion. Another confused selection and a performance which lacked any real urgency.
I was v disappointed that he didn't come over to the fans at the end of the game. 3000 for an away game is a great turn out and the team and him let us down.
He did fail the audition. He has two more within a week now and he absolutely must show he is capable of motivating and organising this group to the appropriate level.
I think Blackpool looked decent. They looked hungry. We didn't. They looked together. We didn't.
On the way home we were debating what we'd do if we were in charge....trying to be objective ...my brother in law hit the head on the nail..."Bring them in on Sunday morning and make them all look in the mirror." Make them realise they're letting themselves and us down.
Thought Kitchings brief post match interview was good in that it showed he was hurting. In this case the hurt can help us improve.
They owe us. They owe us a massive upturn in performance.
This has turned into a random rant. Apologies. Its borne out of frustration knowing that we have the quality to be in a better position after 9/10 games.

 

So we've now got available 5 strikers and yet he still plays Odour up front instead of one of them. If it's not bizarre to play a bad LWB as a striker when you've strikers sat on the bench or at home then what is it. If he was scoring or making goals for others regularly then fine schopp's pulled of a masterstroke but he isn't and yet Schopp persists with him in front of others. If the 2 Belgians and Cole are worse picks than Odour in a front 3 we really are in deep ****.