Frazer Lloyd-Davies":1wgd22z1 said:
The more I think about it, the more I think Gareth Ainsworth would be a good fit for the job.
I can see why he'd be unpopular. Nonetheless, we don't need pretty right now. We need to get whatever points we can, however we can and there's no doubt that his teams are hard to beat. What's more, for years now Argyle have been naive when it comes to gamesmanship. No one in this league is going to do us any favours, so if we need to toughen up and smarten up to stay in this league, then so be it. Wycombe are Trust run, so I imagine he hasn't had a great deal to spend either and to date he has a win record of 40%.
With all that being said, I don't imagine the fans would take to him greatly, we'd have to put together a compensation package and admittedly his CV isn't as impressive as Adams'.
I have to say promotion or not Adams has been one of the most boring tacticians I could care to watch. Two years we spent chasing promotion under him and in that time I can only recall a handful of dominant and entertaining performances to watch. Don't get me wrong I took great pleasure in grinding out results if nothing else because it wound up opposition fans, players and managers so much, we became a club resented for making a success of defensive yet hard to watch football.
I think that's part of the reason why it's hard to defend Adams right now; if you're playing well and creating good chances or nice bits of play but just not getting the results there is an element of forgiveness. However when you're watching your team sat back encouraging opponents to keep attacking you in the hope of snatching a lucky or brilliant goal on the break, unless you get that goal and the result that comes with it, it's a hard hard watch.
It would therefore be so Argyle to replace a horrible to watch results man with possibly an even more cynical results driven tactician. Ainsworth does a cracking job of competing with so little, as long as we're not the ones playing against him I have a great deal of respect for his ability to grind out results. Would I be happy with watching it every week though? I'm not so sure, I suppose it comes down to how desperate our situation gets this season, the longer we sit at the bottom the more we need results from the next man. If he did keep us up playing that way I would worry for the longer term though, it hardly inspires fans to want to watch us play.
