by Vision »
23 Nov 2017 08:54
leon Vision leon There’s more to it than just a few hot heads complaining about some losses. People are genuinely fcuked off.
I’ve a friend who for the last 20 years or so has been the annoying voice of reason to my trigger happy lunatic but he was texting Stam out yesterday.
Personally the jury is still out. I’m just not seeing the great improvement in approach that others are just yet. Certain issues are still causing us pain and Stam hasn’t fixed them.
I think the issue of individual errors is still haunting us and needs to be addressed but a few weeks ago people were crying about our lack of penetration and goals. We've scored 10 in the last 4 against 4 "in form" teams and the one blank we drew we hit the woodwork twice and the keeper made at least one wonder save. I just think people have already made up their mind over Stam and how they perceive his playing style is and are simply not prepared to be balanced about it.
Simple facts are we finished 3rd last season.
In the last 4 games we've bagged 7 points and scored 10 goals.
As pointed out earlier by Genome we've taken 10 points from our last 7 games.
Not suggesting everything in the garden is rosy, far from it, but a lot of the comments on this thread regarding Stam & the team are hysterically OTT in my opinion.
All fair points Vision.
The last 4 games we’ve also conceded 6. Even last season we were shipping far too many. That demonstrates a problem Stam seems unable to fix.
This seems to be more than just unlegislatable errors to me. I think we need to improve our coaching.
The two things go hand in hand though. We've been playing sides that for the most part (Bolton aside) have come to play. It suits us better. And yes the big question mark over the team (and Stam) is that we still struggle to break down the sides that drop off with 10 men behind the ball.
I think we can both agree that a lot of the complaints have been about "entertainment". I don't think anyone can complain about lack of entertainment if we take the last 4 games as a whole with 17 goals scored in total. Yet the same people will now complain about how many we're conceding in that period. I may be setting us up for a fall here but actually I don't see us getting a mauling like we did in a few games last season. I do think we've actually improved defensively this season when you consider Al Habsi was our POTS last season and spared our defensive blushes in several games.
Of course there are areas of concern with Stam and it's right to point them out but I think he's still a novice manager and given what state we were in when he joined some of the vitriolic abuse on this thread ( HI Strap!
) is just ridiculous really.