Re: Rowett got lesser players to the play offs
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Jacques Moran
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There can be no excuses for Harry, he's spent millions that Rowett never had and yet still can't get his team to win consistently. We're 21st.
Rowett had no money and got into the playoffs many times during the season.
We have to ask questions of the management of the club. We should be doing better.
You'll get slaughtered for posting this, but there absolutely nothing wrong with what you've said.
It's 100% accurate.
The truth hurts.
We're six games in and have replaced our entire first team ffs
What about the other 5 games where he had the same players?
And Bluesince "here they come", what? People asking valid questions as to why we've needed to spend so much money and change the entire squad when we were performing better with inferior players this time last year.
I categorically back Harry and I'm massively enthused by the team he's building, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with the OP pointing out that a poorer side was managed well to the playoff positions.
It's obviously quite fashionable to mock or downplay the job the previous manager did, I'm bored of talking about it and appreciate the irony of doing so here, however to dispute fact based on a personal dislike is a bit daft in my opinion.
I think Harry was stupid to publicly criticise the players in the way he did earlier in the season, it made him look stupid when these players performed well 12 months ago. Still, I'm grateful that he wants to build an entertaining team and take us forward.
Which goes to show, you play a system that suits the players and not don't force a system onto players who can't handle it. Zola did it, Redknapp did it (this season) whilst Rowett and Redknapp (last season) didn't do it.
I'm a bit puzzled as to why he changed that in the early days of this season but that's gone now, we've got a new, exciting squad to bed in and I'm looking forward to seeing it happen. I'm also really looking forward to not hearing excuses about how we need new players should it go wrong.
With the squad we have and the support continuing to pick up, the future is bright and it's a time to be positive, however being positive doesn't mean universally refusing to acknowledge any criticism or ask any questions when things are going wrong.
The last time that happened was the Zola tenure and that speaks for itself.
Write off Leeds as another bedding in game and we start on Saturday with a big atmosphere behind us.
Up the Blues (tu)