Most liked posts in thread: Gary Bowyer - when do we judge?

I'm just happy to have a team to support.

#pleaseprayforburyfc

 

Sounds like a fully fit Hope Akpan to me.

 

People have judged Bowyer purely on his media Rhetoric, he talks well, looks well, decent honest guy and people love this, they want him at our club for a long time etc etc. The hard facts at this particular moment are his results are poor. With the players he has brought in he needs to win games. He needs to stop 4-3-3. We have the best two forwards in the league by a long way. Get balls in the box, use two wide men and get some goals it’s really not rocket science.

 

As I've said elsewhere I think Bowyer wants to play 4-3-3 come what may. His problem is that he hasn't the players to do it at the moment and he can't shift those he doesn't want because they're on good money and no one else seems to want them anyway. Similarly, he can't get the players he does want as there's no money left. So he can play his system with what he has or adapt and play to the strengths of what's here. Trouble is he doesn't want to play 4-4-2 because we haven't anyone for the left side, nor do we have two central midfielders strong enough to play in that way. So he hasn't the players needed for either system. I think this is why he continually refers to the need for two or three windows to get what he wants. Until that happens I think we'll be seeing square pegs in round holes whatever team he picks.

 

Nah.

Let's support the man now instead.

 

No.
I’m sick of negativity.
I truly believe a football club is more than football and winning games.
It’s a community and we need to stop moaning about crap off the field and support our club no matter what.
Again I point out Bolton, I think they have more to moan about than us but they still stand proud. We should be that and GB has already shown that’s what he is about.
So no I won’t wait. He is exactly wählst this club needs.

 

Have another read.

 

But @Skp referred to it being not ‘last chance saloon’

 

Agreed. Think this is our best best bet at the moment with Longridge and Mellor at full back, POC and BRE at centre half

 

I'm not trying to be disingenuous, but you have to figure that we've been changing managers like we change our underwear under Rahic - you'd have thought we'd want that era to have ended when the clown left, but I'm worried people are used to it and aren't thinking long term anymore.

I don't want the embarrassment of continual managerial change to continue, and would rather we persevered for now.

 

But this just reinforces the point that many of us tried to make in the summer.

Buy cheap- buy twice. Giving new contracts to Anderson, Devine and Colville was always going to mean we needed to go back into the market to plug that gap because none of them are good enough to stamp their authority on the most important part of the pitch.

Had we not ‘spunked’ some of our budget on those 3, perhaps we could have got better players over the line?

 

The highlighted is bang on but at this minute I think the 442 comments are accurate and would at the very least allow all players to play in their best position.

Left wing would be Gibson. He can do that role while we hopefully get a left winger in. He's disciplined enough defensively and got an assist from that position at grimsby.

CM would be palmer and akpan (yes I know). I though that combination in a 442 worked well against Wigan so why not try it again? You never know they might suit each other. But akpan still needs replacing.

Plus it allows Donaldson and Vaughan to play next to each other and form a partnership. We saw glimpses but promising signs in the time they played together as a partnership against Wigan and then for the last half hour at grimsby.

And then as an added bonus Doyle and Anderson are nowhere near the starting XI.

 

I've seen very few calling for his head. The majority are expressing legitimate and obvious concerns about how we've started the season.

 

Blame Bowyer but don't call for his head surely being logical? It's a new season, we haven't actually lost a game in the league although performances do need to improve. But is that really enough to warrant a manager sacked? 2 effing games and two draws because if it is the fans are to blame for the state of modern football is in just as much as anyone else.

 

It's not been good enough but to take points from two games isn't a complete failure and previous promotion campaigns by other teams have started worse. It's an over reaction because we're a big club in league two and folk think we are going to steam roll teams straight away, I think we'll gradually turn the gears as we go through the season with a couple of extra bodies coming in.

 

You think Anderson is a good player, your posts are irrelevant.

 

If that happens, and September the third arrives with no new players through the door, the optimism in the stands will drop considerably - and we all know (including the chairman) what happened last time. My worry is that Rupp only acted when Rahic told him to. This time he seems to be a bit of a deer in the headlights. What's Rhodes doing? Is he still even here? Someone - and I thought Bowyer would be doing this on a daily basis, unless he really is blind - should be in Rupps ear telling him the repercussions (on every level) of not getting his wallet out.

 

Yes those players you mention are still here but he has no obligation to pick them!!!
He chose to sign Anderson and he chooses to keep picking Doyle and AOC.
So where does the blame lie?
He had all summer to bring in his own players yet he’s persisting with the same shite that got us relegated.

 

Probably not. However, dangerous game to play for mediocre, we could end up at the bottom of the heap