The return of the Pressley who thinks he is a Football Manager

Not a fan of his but in fairness Parkys football could be very old fashioned and seen as dark age, we used to get peed off when other teams played like that against us under McCall. Especially if they got something against us.

 

Aye I don't like Pressley neither. He's literally achieved nothing has a manager in England as he? yet slated Phil Parkinson and his choice of tactics! Blimey!

Anyways, my view on the game:

NKP first time back at VP after leaving, not sure what kind of reception he will get but hope we focus on ourselves than him/the opposition.

With NKP & Byron Webster likely to be the centre back partnership, I really hope we don't try and lump/hoof it. We need to work around these and I hope Bowyer as been working on it through-out the week (minus the mid-week game obviously)

More minutes in the belt for Cooke, Ismail, Connolly, Pritchard - They should be getting fitter and sharper as the days go by. Donaldson needs a rest so I hope Oteh or McCartan comes in for him. Wouldn't mind seeing Anthony O'Connor playing the holding midfield role neither!

Vaughan one yellow away from a suspension which is a worry, thankfully it's just the one game, I'd rather him get it tomorrow and miss Scunthorpe at home than miss Swindon away.

Hopefully we put Paudie O'Connor back in the eleven. Always seem to be stronger with him & he's capable of a goal or two!

I believe we've scored the same amount as Carlisle in the league, but they've conceded a lot more (15 in total) - hopefully we can exploit their defence, would try play Cooke/McCartan and try play it through the middle (only at times) - If we play 4-4-2 I just hope Pritchard & Connolly only cross the ball when we literally have people in the box. Would be nice to see Pritchard try take some defenders on, not seen it from him yet if i'm honest but I love his set-piece ability however.

People may laugh at this one but I think Connor Wood has made that LB position his own now. I hope we can get him into the game and perhaps overlap Pritchard and give him an option down that side?

 

Watching Wood the other night he never once overlapped Pritchard and got a cross in. Wasted by Bowyer imo unless thats how he played within himself??

 

Talking to a Carlise fan on holiday described Pressley's football as the football that he once criticised us for playing under Parky.

 

That's what I mean, we need to get him up there supporting. It's frustrating really

 

From what I've seen (in the home games) Wood has been getting forward and putting very good balls in the box.

 

me too, must be away from home perhaps

 

he wasn't wrong though, was he?

we DID play football from the dark ages.

 

Effective wasn't it.

 

Horrendous to watch though.

 

It was but the end result was worth it.

 

I'm not sure it was @marshy77 usually on our way back to our cars after the game there weren't many complaining when we had just gained 3 points with the system we played, that system got the best out of the players in that squad.
Apart from Nahki who was without doubt a great find, the rest were lower league players with limited ability but boy did they use what ability well.
There were very few days going to a match I didn't think we won't get anything here, and Valley Parade was a ground many opposition teams knew it would not be an easy 90 minute and they would have to play very well to come away with anything.

 

thats subjective.

if making it a chore rather than a pleasure going to VP, making wanting to leave the ground at half time or earlier because of how poor it was, going on a run of 1 win in 21, losing 6-0 at home to Bristol City, and making taking the entertainment out of what is supposed to be an entertainment interesting is 'worth it' then yes it was worth it.


f*ck Parky, f*ck dark age 1970's kick lumps out of the opposition and hoof it to the corners football, and f*ck making a hobby and a pleasureable experience miserable and a chore to do.

I'll tell you now, if offered Parky back tomorrow I would not touch him with a barge pole. I'm only just getting some form of enthuiasm back after Rahic killed it all, the last thing we need is to bring a darkcloud back over VP by going back to a bygone era with a relic of a manager who is so far past his 'best' (whatever that is) we might aswell be trying to appoint Don Revie.

it's not popular on here (because City fans are backward) but Stuart McCall's team played the best football at VP we've seen in years, he achieved more in the play offs than Parky did, and was sacked for going on a run that nowhere near as bad as the worst run's Parky presided over and we endured. oh and we were unbeaten at home, for a full season, against every team in the league. that includes those that won the title and got automatic promotion.

 

You really need to get over it mate, it's not healthy

Regardless of your opinion about PP's style, I wouldn't swap the memories for me & my young 'un for all the money in the world, something we couldn't have achieved without PP as our manager

 

I'd say Stuart's footbal was, at times, just as tedious. Football is about winning for me, being entertained is usually just a bonus where City are concerned.

 

yes I remember being at Stamford Bridge thinking this is dark age football

 

A very selective memory @Ricc.
I'm sure City fans much preferred the Terry Dolan,Terry Yorath, John Docherty, Frank Stapleton, Lennie Lawrence, Chris Kamara, Paul Jewell, Chris Hutchings, Stuart McCall, Jim Jefferies, Steve Smith, Nicky Law
Bryan Robson, Colin Todd, David Wetherall, Stuart McCall, Wayne Jacobs, Peter Taylor, Peter Jackson, Colin Cooper, Stuart McCall, Greg Abbott, Simon Grayson, Michael Collins, David Hopkin , Martin Drury days.

Take Trevor Cherry, Paul Jewel, and Chris Kamara, out and how many of the above managers actually won anything with Bradford City all nearly men Parkinson went on to improve the team/club season on season.

Stuart's teams might have played the most attractive football in a long time but it was all about possession football not the best in the final third, he won nothing under his managerial times at Valley Parade, you're quite right Stuart did take us further than Phil Parkinson did, it could be argued Stuart bottled the final against Millwall by playing Charlie up top on his own otherwise winning at Wembley would have been a great achievement in his first season back.

 

that would be a nonsense argument, we bossed that game and didn't get any luck.

Parky however and his team took a dive the previous year, against the same opponent, a stage earlier. now that's bottling it.

 

We bossed many games and I posted as much, unfortunately it didn't always bringing the desired result, the Wembley Final being a great example the final third we shot blanks, even though we had 61% of possession, yet the corner stats say we had 5 but Millwall had 14, that would suggest to me they had far more involvement in our penalty area than we did in theirs, which again makes my point having the ball in areas that don't damage team is not a lot of good.

Now your making stuff up to try and help your argument.

If we are going to debate players "taking a dive" the season Stuart got sacked is a great example of players taking a dive after the Fleetwood game and before the Wycombe Wanderers debacle which eventually cost Stuart his job,