No problem with most of your observations, Mickey.
Itâs just that you seem to need to put a âsting in the tailâ to find a reason to criticise the managerâs âtenureâ.
Every team makes mistakes; if a Swansea defender hadnât missed the ball in the 6 yard box, we wouldnât have scored. Is that their managerâs fault?
The thing l get battered for on here why you finding a âreason to criticise the managersâ tenure.
If you notice, and this is what people fail to pick up, l highlight repetitive mistakes. Iâm not picking out mistake after mistake that is unique. Iâm picking out an issue lâve seen three or four times before that is concerning the same player or a team tactic. For example, the team tactic last season l highlighted that does my head in is the Argyle kick off. We kick off and often punted it out of play down our left hand side. What an aimless tactic.
Last season in January l had pelters when we were winning in January. I kept highlighting how teams were creating similar opportunities. I get the line often âWhy are you criticising the team, we are winning. All teams create chancesâ. And yet it wasnât the opportunities that were created. It was the type of opportunities and their ease. For example, a long ball over Watts and the opposition was in. One month later we started our second bad run with constantly watching Watts be exposed with the long ball over the top of him.
The reason why l criticise the manager is because there is a valid reason. You canât say last season l didnât have a valid reason.
For me, he has to prove himself. Currently l feel he is a sound bite manager. I want to see how he progresses with the team.
If you notice Davie, l give many examples of matches, before l criticise Lowe about certain aspects of his tactics. People just donât like Argyle being criticised. You always going to get certain peopleâs backs up because of that. Yet when it goes pear-shaped like it did last season in April lm not the one posting angry posts because of whatâs going on.
l support the team with passion. Yet when l write on here l do it with my head, not my heart. People unfortunately donât get that.