If we are going to keep MoPe, what has he got to change?

[SaintJackoInHurworth]

Sometime before Christmas I swung from being a fan who was prepared to give MoPe a little more time to one who felt he had to go. As time goes on I have become more and more certain that we have got to get rid of him. Yet the club, for whatever reason, seem intent on keeping him on as manager. I don't understand that, but it is what it is.

 

So, if we do have to keep him on, the big question must be what can he do (and particularly what must he change) to get us to play to our strengths and to get some confidence and get some better results?

 

Here are a few suggestions:

 

* Attack with more pace, in order to be able to press forward and catch the opposition out before they can get organised.

* Practice shooting with all players.

* Practice making that final telling ball that will provide the kind of chances we need to create.

* Organise the defence, laying down clear but simple instructions and guidelines.

* Build up player fitness and speed.

* Provide better motivation to the players - if language restricts the ability to communicate the passion required, identify the player(s) or coach(es) who can provide this.

* Build up player confidence - especially for players like Redmond and Gabbiadini.

* Work on mental toughness and a winning psychology.

* Develop the kind of pressing game that worked so well under Pochettino and identify the players who can implement that.

* Work on being less nice and more assertive, bordering on the aggressive while keeping (mostly) within the law.

* Practice mixing up approaches including occasionally resorting to a more direct longer ball (without going as far as to develop a a full long-ball approach).

* Get the players together to arrive at an agreed approach to tactics and game managhement instead of (allegedly) asserting tactics with which the players don't agree.

 

And here are a couple of slightly more alternative tactical possibilities:

 

* Play Jack Stephens as centre forward.

* Play both Bertrand and McQueen together to provide both width and defensive cover.

 

Do you agree with any of those? Can you suggest any others? Are there any you disagree with? Why?

[LGTL]

His ****ing brain.

[Batman]

with him here. nothing will change.

we may win one or two more and have a couple of honourable defeats. he simply is miles from having the ability to turn us around.

[MarkSFC]

His personality, his tactics, his training methods, his motivational skills, and his decision-making.

[Saint Albert]

If he stays, the only thing likely to change is our Premier League status.

[lordswoodsaints]

His appearance, he looks like jimmy Carr and his lack of tactics, motivation, a plan b, starting lineups and substitutions are just as funny.

[70's Mike]

any change should be better than at present although with this bloke i think he could make it worst.

not pc but at half time he should have been saying to Long get on right next to van dyke and rough him up a bit, but no he is stuck out wide and was not in game.

one thing is certain goals are scored from inside the box, so unless balls and players get in there , you are not scoring

[OttawaSaint]

The whole culture. We need fit and hungry players vying for spots in the first 11. Fire in their bellies for giving every last bit of energy for the cause.

 

Instead we have a bunch of unfit players coasting and barely worrying about their place in the team or the team's place in the league.

 

Not sure how numbnuts is going to achieve this, if he sincerely believes the guff he spouts in pressers then we are ****ing doomed.

[Saint_John]

Get in a tactically aware no 2, somebody who reads the game very well.

Somebody like Edwin Koeman who has worked with some of the players already and knows their strengths and weaknesses and is a good reader of the game. (Even if he only came in on match days would be better than we currently have).

 

Somebody who will tell MP2 to ABANDONED this fascination with putting players wide on the touchlines (early in the season he played 433 with redmond stuck to the left touchline blocking the full backs overlapping and not getting close to the main striker. Even yesterday we often had 2 players on the left touchline and another 2 stuck on the right touchline at the same time leaving the oppo with 10 outfield to our 6 in the centre ).

We need to return to a system that served us well over the last few years - tight 3 in the midfield to WIN THE CENTRE OF THE PARK and let the full backs use the wide areas for overlapping when necessary.

[Wade Garrett]

I'm not interested. He has been an absolute car crash for our club.

[AK]

He has to go, he’s not capable of change or adapting as he has proved throughout this season.

[Matthew Le God]

[h=2]If we are going to keep MoPe, what has he got to change?[/h]

 

Brain transplant with a competent manager?

 

[Wrensup]

Really isn't even worth discussing. too many things to point out that wont change with Pellimongo in charge

[badgerx16]

Brain transplant with a competent manager?

 

If he got it right he wouldn't even need to change his first name or many of the letters in his surname.