Negative, tentative, not good enough. One up front at home might be gotten away with if the midfield support got up there quick enough and the team played well generally. Played ok in the first half, hardly great though, second half abysmal and the kick in the balls at the end. Shrewsbury had their worst start to a league campaign for sixteen years. Until today. I'm sorry, I'm sure I'm going to be hammered for saying this by some, but I have seen absolutely nothing yet to convince me that Lee Johnson is an able manager. I'm not saying get gone - not yet - but he needs to bloody learn. So far he's as stubborn as every bugger else we've had and refuses to change anything. I'm sure one or two will tell me why I'm wrong.
You're bang on. I posted something similar a week ago. Tactically the guy hasn't got a clue. Playing our best players out of position to accommodate a morngy loanee.
"Sow" please. But as soon as I heard that Shrewsbury hadn't won so far this season then I knew, from dismal past experience down the decades, we would **** it up. Managers are stubborn, they don't want to appear fallible.
One thing LJ is going to have to do is to be strong enough to leave out one of Nyatanga, Roberts or Mawson because we are losing a lot playing Nyatanga at left back. originally I think he signed Roberts as cover but he has played so well, LJ now has a problem. That's me trying to be constructive when really I just want to say we were fxxking awful in the 2nd half and deserved nothing against a team I predict will be in the bottom 6 come the end of the season.
For me LJ is no different to our last 3 managers. Playing players out of position. We will not do anything with one striker up front on his own. It's OK bringing all these loan players in but it's not making any difference up front.
My son was saying that exact same thing coming back. So tongue in cheek we came to the conclusion that todays loss was down to Roberts cos he's turned out to be too good to drop.
I would argue that today was one of Hourihane's best performances in the last 6-9 months. Had his confidence back it seemed, wanted to shoot, was a nuisance defensively, and put quality balls in to the box from open play for a change. You're being far too critical of Crowley. I know where you're coming from, but he just wanted to play 90 minutes. I'd take that attitude over Wilkinson's at Rochdale.
Probably been harsh, I know the lads only young (which pisses me off more because we needed more experience not more kids) but I think he'd burnt himself out & wasn't contributing second half & should've learnt from it & in future pace himself better
