Hasn't been given a penny to spend on anything apart from wages. Third in the league. Lost three league games all season. Yes he's made a few questionable tactical choices such as subs, sometimes it's paid off, sometimes it clearly hasn't but every manager makes mistakes. Blame the players not Parkinson, the likes of Bailey, Semedo, Shelvey, Sam, Racon, Reid, Sodje would form half a Championship team that could get results tomorrow and with the attitudes of Dailly, Wagstaff and Burton they should have enough to get out of this league. Parkinson doesn't put a shirt on and cross the white line. Parkinson doesn't miss one-on-one's or tap-in's. It's time the players stepped up to the plate and pulled it out of the bag, starting on Saturday.
[cite]Posted By: ISawLeaburnScore[/cite]Hasn't been given a penny to spend on anything apart from wages. Third in the league. Lost three league games all season. Yes he's made a few questionable tactical choices such as subs, sometimes it's paid off, sometimes it clearly hasn't but every manager makes mistakes. Blame the players not Parkinson, the likes of Bailey, Semedo, Shelvey, Sam, Racon, Reid, Sodje would form half a Championship team that could get results tomorrow and with the attitudes of Dailly, Wagstaff and Burton they should have enough to get out of this league. Parkinson doesn't put a shirt on and cross the white line. Parkinson doesn't miss one-on-one's or tap-in's. It's time the players stepped up to the plate and pulled it out of the bag, starting on Saturday.
[cite]Posted By: ISawLeaburnScore[/cite]Hasn't been given a penny to spend on anything apart from wages. Third in the league. Lost three league games all season. Yes he's made a few questionable tactical choices such as subs, sometimes it's paid off, sometimes it clearly hasn't but every manager makes mistakes. Blame the players not Parkinson, the likes of Bailey, Semedo, Shelvey, Sam, Racon, Reid, Sodje would form half a Championship team that could get results tomorrow and with the attitudes of Dailly, Wagstaff and Burton they should have enough to get out of this league. Parkinson doesn't put a shirt on and cross the white line. Parkinson doesn't miss one-on-one's or tap-in's. It's time the players stepped up to the plate and pulled it out of the bag, starting on Saturday.
Thought Nicky was fine on Tuesday myself, sprayed some quality passes across to the flanks. Nothing particularly special overall, but I think pressure from his own high standards and tendency to carry the team means that you do get the odd run of not being at the races out of Nicky.
I think we need to be aware of Nicky's limitations a bit more. He's a fighter and a battler and he's got a great eye for goal and eye for a pass. But at the end of the day, he's one of us, he's a Division Three player, who is a step lower than what I believe is his natural level, just like we are. If he could play 8 or 9 out of 10 every week and shoulder the pressure of being "the man" week in week out, he'd be a Premier League player... fortunately for us, he can't, cos we are a million miles away from there!
[cite]Posted By: ISawLeaburnScore[/cite]Hasn't been given a penny to spend on anything apart from wages. Third in the league. Lost three league games all season. Yes he's made a few questionable tactical choices such as subs, sometimes it's paid off, sometimes it clearly hasn't but every manager makes mistakes. Blame the players not Parkinson, the likes of Bailey, Semedo, Shelvey, Sam, Racon, Reid, Sodje would form half a Championship team that could get results tomorrow and with the attitudes of Dailly, Wagstaff and Burton they should have enough to get out of this league. Parkinson doesn't put a shirt on and cross the white line. Parkinson doesn't miss one-on-one's or tap-in's. It's time the players stepped up to the plate and pulled it out of the bag, starting on Saturday.
I do agree with this but let's not forget Parky is supposed to instill confidence in the team. At the moment, it's just not happening and a lot people are getting the feeling that something is missing.
[cite]Posted By: ISawLeaburnScore[/cite]Hasn't been given a penny to spend on anything apart from wages. Third in the league. Lost three league games all season. Yes he's made a few questionable tactical choices such as subs, sometimes it's paid off, sometimes it clearly hasn't but every manager makes mistakes. Blame the players not Parkinson, the likes of Bailey, Semedo, Shelvey, Sam, Racon, Reid, Sodje would form half a Championship team that could get results tomorrow and with the attitudes of Dailly, Wagstaff and Burton they should have enough to get out of this league. Parkinson doesn't put a shirt on and cross the white line. Parkinson doesn't miss one-on-one's or tap-in's. It's time the players stepped up to the plate and pulled it out of the bag, starting on Saturday.
Silly post tbh, particularly the 'against 10 men' when that was only the case for 12 minutes.
A fairer question if you want to question the manager is are players playing to the best of their ability, and if not, why ? Is it down to the manager, the set up, or the individual ?
[cite]Posted By: razil[/cite]every player apparently played well, yet we couldn't beat a team with ten men, etc
I know you're only playing Devil's advocate, lol ..... but Walsall spent that 10 minutes with almost everyone behind the ball, denying us space and time.
Which of course, is what every determined team should do reduced to 10 men for the final few minutes.
[cite]Posted By: razil[/cite]every player apparently played well, yet we couldn't beat a team with ten men, etc
I know you're only playing Devil's advocate, lol ..... but Walsall spent that 10 minutes with almost everyone behind the ball, denying us space and time.
Which of course, is what every determined team should do reduced to 10 men for the final few minutes.
Except Charlton who would equalise with 9 men ; - )
Not only did Walsall only have 10 men for 10 minutes but they also has a striker sent off which meant they did not have to re shuffle too much. If a defender had been sent off (eg the number 26 i think, the beast) then surely we may have got a couple more chances. As it turned out, the red card did not seem to affect them too much, saying that I think if he had gone 10 minutes before, we may have had a breakthrough.
[cite]Posted By: razil[/cite]every player apparently played well, yet we couldn't beat a team with ten men, etc
I know you're only playing Devil's advocate, lol ..... but Walsall spent that 10 minutes with almost everyone behind the ball, denying us space and time.
Which of course, is what every determined team should do reduced to 10 men for the final few minutes.
Except Charlton who would equalise with 9 men ; - )
or millwall, who would also equalise twice whilst playing with 10 for an hour.
Agree with the comments that some players need to do that little bit more. When they're confident they take more gambles and it pays off. An example is that ball Shelvey played across the goal against Leyton Orient, Sam should have been ready for that. Earlier on in the season we might have taken chances like that. Same defensively, Dailly especially we need to him to step up and play like he can. Getting a few little things right will turn a draw or 1-0 defeat into a win. If we can do that we will win games and the confidence will return. Parky was right when he said the team needed to relax and up the tempo a bit more.
Razil i understand your frustration, as do all of us!But jeez give the man a break!ISawLeaburn summed it up perfectly,blame the players not Parky, someone else said he can still instill confidence into the team. Maybe he tries, but i dont think they need anything more of an incentive to go out there and give it their all than winning promotion!But still recently we havent looked anywhere near our maximum potential, Parky can only do and say so much, the rest is down to the 11 players out on the field!
essentially the team are underperforming any idiot can see that week in week out, its not good enough, and to keep saying the players done good etc, is wearing very thin in my book, we have a huge wage bill and a dearth of talent apparently, and are getting poor to average results against teams we 'should be beating' .....but then you all knew this is what I meant.
[cite]Posted By: ISawLeaburnScore[/cite]Hasn't been given a penny to spend on anything apart from wages. Third in the league. Lost three league games all season. Yes he's made a few questionable tactical choices such as subs, sometimes it's paid off, sometimes it clearly hasn't but every manager makes mistakes. Blame the players not Parkinson, the likes of Bailey, Semedo, Shelvey, Sam, Racon, Reid, Sodje would form half a Championship team that could get results tomorrow and with the attitudes of Dailly, Wagstaff and Burton they should have enough to get out of this league. Parkinson doesn't put a shirt on and cross the white line. Parkinson doesn't miss one-on-one's or tap-in's. It's time the players stepped up to the plate and pulled it out of the bag, starting on Saturday.
Just to play devils advocate, does this mean he wont get any praise if we go up, as he doesnt cross the white line ?
A non tongue in cheek answer: no he won't get hardly any praise... the majority will point to the fact that we had X Y and Z top players and that we'd just got relegated and should have expected to go up. Look at McLeish at Birmingham. Until their run of good form started in the Autumn plenty of Bluenoses I know wanted rid of him. "All he'd done" was get a team that should have been promoted, promoted (after being left with dross and taking them down in the first place)... parallels? Too many to mention I think.
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"I can't believe we couldnt beat a team with ten men - all the players I have at my disposal are absolutely sh*t. We're never going to win again"
What he said
In. A. Nutshell.
I do agree with this but let's not forget Parky is supposed to instill confidence in the team. At the moment, it's just not happening and a lot people are getting the feeling that something is missing.
How do you think they played then ?
An average player can look good, in a good team.
A good player can look great, in a good team.
sums it up nicely i think, i agree 100%.
A fairer question if you want to question the manager is are players playing to the best of their ability, and if not, why ? Is it down to the manager, the set up, or the individual ?
I know you're only playing Devil's advocate, lol ..... but Walsall spent that 10 minutes with almost everyone behind the ball, denying us space and time.
Which of course, is what every determined team should do reduced to 10 men for the final few minutes.
Except Charlton who would equalise with 9 men ; - )
what walsall had 10 men for 90 minutes FUCKING HELL PARKY
or millwall, who would also equalise twice whilst playing with 10 for an hour.
Just to play devils advocate, does this mean he wont get any praise if we go up, as he doesnt cross the white line ?