If you could be the next manager?

If I was City manager....



I'd probably be asleep at 3.01 when you posted this.

 

Mate, it's 5:13

I'm only up because I crashed at 8 pm.

Some kind of weird post-viral fatigue thing going on.

 

'A little optimistic ' and probably had a few sherbets!

 

If I were City manager I'd resign well before the boo boys got at me after the first defeat of the season.

 

The first thing I would do is find out who @Fordy117 is

 

Are you female? You want to hock up with me or something?

You midget size?

 

I Would ensure all the sinks and toilets are serviceable... that really matters right ? Who ever Fordy is he has been right most of the time with his comments and the state of the club

 

I tell it how it really is!

 

Itry to see it develop and hope it turns around but alas I admit defeat dude we are a shambles at the moment.

 

4-4-2, I've been going since the mid 90s and I have never seen a successful City team that doesn't play this way. I reckon it's got something to do with the fact that the VP pitch is narrow but long.

You need a big man / little man combo up top. You tell the little man "when the ball goes long to the big man's head, just get within 10 yards of him" - Think Mills/Blake or Hanson/Wells

Two wingers. One to give the option for the out ball playing on the left, he can be real lazy and not track back for me but he must be the entertainer of the team. The other needs to be a real ground coverer and perhaps not as adventurous who steps in to make it a three man central midfield when out of possession. - Think Beagrie/Lawrence or Reid/Atkinson(to some extent)

One centre mid sits deep and protects while also being a useful long passer. The other centre mid is the box to box type and captain. - Think Whaley/McCall or Doyle/Jones

Full backs whose first duty is to defend but are encouraged to push up when we are in possession. - Think Wright/Jacobs or Darby/Meredith

One nutcase centre half who will head anything or anyone the other a little more tactful. - Think Moore/O'Brien or McArdle/Davies

GK to command his area and come for crosses, not just dally around on his line. - Think Walsh/McLaughlin

We play direct, we get the ball forward quickly.

When out of possession, the front two and LW press in the opposition half to win the ball back quickly. In our own half, we keep our shape but still apply pressure on the ball to force opposition errors.

 

Oooo would be a bit like the unmasking of Kendo Nakasaki

 

It’s Julian Rhodes

 

Even when it isn't

 

If I found myself as City manager, I'd probably offer up a series of inflammatory press interviews, blame the fans, make my position untenable, take the compo, and go manage a club that's set up to succeed.

 

I would probably do a similar thing faithful.
Recognise that I had been sold a dud. Realise that if I resigned on principal I would walk away with nothing, so somehow engineer a way to have my services dispensed with and walk away with a pay out.

 

4-2-3-1 works when used correctly. I wouldn't change the formation as the current players are used to it but I would ensure the midfielders push up when we have possession of the ball and the wingers stay wide with overlapping full-backs.

 

Exactly. West Ham seem to make it work pretty well. But they have two overlapping full backs who can cross really well and have three attacking midfielders who can all score goals.

When Adams got Morecombe promoted he had several players scoring goals as well as the lone striker. But it's never going to work if you have fullbacks like Threlkeld, who can't cross the road, plus a gang of non-scoring attacking midfielders. You end up relying on a solitary striker to score all your goals, and when that striker is as unfit and injury-prone as Cook that's never going to end well.