And now for something different

Quoted from petethemariner

Any out of the box theory on a weekly basis? Are you real? I have posted about
3 at the back for months if you care to check, as a matter of fact i have coached
teams and played in something in excess of 1500 games at a good level in a
35 year career- including 3 at the back, so reckon i have just about earned the
right to an opinion about the game..
For your information i have not been the most vociferous in crticism of PH by
a long way, indeed i posted on here a while back that he had suprised me how
well he had done - (until recently) and IMO he has now lost the plot - i am far from
being alone in that opinion, although your clearly  superior football knowledge
means you know better doesn't it?.
By the way, look at my reputation score of +31 and -1 against your plus 5 minus 2
before you start slagging off posters.
Thanks Chaos for pointing out to him about tone - i try not to offend anyone with
my posts and have a right to an opinion, i d'ont need to wear the rosiest of rose
tinted glasses that Salford Mariner seems to wear to know something is currently
missing  or wrong with the team and Salford if you cannot debate in a reasonable
manner, d'ont bother.

There are plenty of comments i would love to make to SM, but manners, clearly
something he doesn't possess, prevents me.



Touched a nerve there fella!?!

I was trying to have a reasonable debate. I have asked a few footballing based questions in counter argument to your attack on our manager. Can you have a reasonable debate and try and back up your attack on him?

How did you get on with introducing 3 at the back btw? How many training sessions did you think it took, and how many have town had between games?

I was referring to how you were critical of pre dartford about squad changes- I am surprised that you wouldn't sympathise with having played all those games.

It's not a personal thing- and it's not just you I just find it frustrating when people can be so critical of a manager for things that can be very easily counter argued.

Squad acquisition, personel in key areas, lack of pace, breaking up the best defence, lack of creativity in the middle of the park I understand and sign up to but I feel he gets a lot of undeserved stick which does not help at all at this stage of the season.

Quoted from petethemariner

Listen 'Fella'  as  Robocod correctly says, this is a thread about something different,
playing 3 at the back is something different and something that has worked with
countless teams, just how difficult is it for 3 professional  defenders to take care
of what is usually a maximum of 2 attackers? Not difficult at all i would say and yes
i have played in successful sides playing that formation - it isn't difficult so long
as your wing backs do their jobs with discipline.
I am quite happy to discuss your 'footballing points' in a reasonable way - calling
a reasonable suggestion 'ridiculous', 'even more ridiculous' and then claiming i make
weekly attacks on the manager  for some sort of vendetta's sake is unreasonable
i would say, I  agree  i have i made some critical points of Hurst in recent  weeks
because i feel  he warrants them, bizarre team selections on a weekly basis
instead of a settled side as much is reasonably possible,  persistance with  'hoofball',
and strange treatment of certain players give me that right on a football forum,
i have also made positive points about Hurst  in the past and i  would say i am not
even in the top 10 of Hurst  critics on this forum, yet you  choose to make a
personal attack on me.
Regarding Dartford, i admitted that players needed to be rested, but not 10 and
why was there not one players on the bench capable of getting us a goal when we
needed one? - i think those are fair observations - even prem sides with quality
squads do not make 10 changes.
I hope Hurst succeeds but feel he has lost his way and plenty on here agree with
that assessment.
You can have your opinion - i am entitled to mine.

Quoted from petethemariner

But playing with wing backs ISN'T negative at all Salford, just the opposite
so long as your wing backs are prepared to put in the hard work neccessary,
as i said earlier it allows a more positive role for someone in the 'hole' which
is an area of the pitch that  opposing defenders hate because they d'ont
know whether to 'stick or twist' ie; go out to meet them or allow them too
much space 20-30 yards from goal - i accept that if the wing backs aren't
prepared to put in what amounts to 60 yard 'doggies'between supporting
attack and getting  back to defend it could come unstuck, but IMO we
HAVE to start playing more football, i just do not think we will get through
the play offs playing the 'hoof' game and that extra man in an advanced
position would encourage the ball to be used more creatively than at present.
Even you with your support for PH must surely admit we do not score
nearly enough goals and that cannot be  solely down to players who have
proved in ther past that they CAN score, but c'ant now - there HAS to be
a reason for this and IMO is summed up in two words - No creativity.