ever since eckert was hired i was skeptical of how we would progress as a team with a manager whos only ever managed at youth level, this just shows the reactionary nature of the already useless board to hire a manager with no senior experience because of 4/5 decent results, which only came to fruition due to teams setting up against us to dominate possession and break us down, eg leicester, most of our goals in those games came in transition, we are seeing now when teams sit in their own half we are clueless breaking teams down, seen through the results against norwich and oxford, we now are seeing the effects of eckerts naivety and stubbornness in refusing to change how we attack or plan to score when we dominate the ball, which is now truly highlighting the horrific defending. i disagree with many that the system as a whole is the issue as we wouldn’t have beaten charlton and leicester 5-1 and 3-0 respectively, i personally believe it’s the inability to break low blocks down effectively, it looks like we don’t even have any idea on what we plan to do, highlighted by the constant belief we can use 5’6/7 adam armstrong and cameron archer as a target man we can play off. the reactionary decision of the board and naivety and stubbornness of such a young inexperienced manager has costed us big time in the last few months. i feel for eckert because he’s a tiny fish in a huge pond, i personally blame the horrendously reactionary and pathetic board, we’ve gone from a comfortably mid table prem team when they first took over to being a now worryingly regressive championship team, the trajectory since day one has been down and down, even the season of russell matting i bribe the quality of team he had papered over the cracks of his also stubborn tactics, where i think we got lucky going up against leeds in the playoffs, as we got shat on consistently when going up, and had a more horrific time with juric, it’s been shit appointment after shit appointment from the board, they’ve never got a manager appointment right. looking increasingly worrying but just my immediate thoughts. side note i struggle to see what scienza offers other than a player who looks pretty on the ball. i don’t see the hype in scienza if im being completely honest i think he works hard for the team but his final ball has left a lot to be desired in front of goal and in terms of creating chances recently and i think if the team around him isn’t up to scratch he doesn’t offer much more than any other of the players, he’s a high risk player so he looks better than the others but his actual return hasn’t been that fantastic i think he’s incredibly overrated by our fanbase but bit of a side tangent there. board out, eckert feel for him but gotta go.
