Your final analogy presupposes an improvement on the part of the amateur tinkerer.
Saints, however, are getting worse and worse.
This thread is about the manager's perception and if he doesn't think we have big problems then we're in trouble.
Granted, if we beat Forest and the teams below us fail to win things will suddenly look rosey but give it a couple of months and no doubt we'll be back to teetering on the brink. Does anyone seriously think the current team has the bottle for a relegation scrap? If we're not clear of the battle by the last few games of the season we will stuffed IMO.
I've never heard anyone say the Academy played toothless gash-formation until recently.
I'm a bit sceptical personally.
Certainly they played 4-4-2 every time I ever bothered watching them.
Boys, we need to do more to try and make goals and have the hunger to make a goal because this is a lovely game and we can make some goals and we need to get 20 points from our next 3 games by making the goals.
http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=11070
"For me it is very important that we are unbeaten for the rest of the month because then we will have done a good job".
Good one.
Although today we have Davis, Perry, Skacel and Euell in the team.
BWP can't be regarded as a "kid" anymore and Surman has a few years league experience under his belt.
It's more to do with the ridiculous shape and tactics IMO.
Simple question.
We are getting progressively worse and have been doing so, bar one or two exceptions, since the third match of the season.
We are one dimensional, incapable of varying our tactics, flacid and uninspiring.