ANY ONE ELSE NOT CONVINCED

Patience is a virtue. Sadly, it is not often seen here.

Quoted from EY Mariner

Patience is a virtue. Sadly, it is not often seen here.

You say it's not often seen here. Perhaps you'd like to tell us which football forums it is shown on ??  And given that the majority of posts rightly so still support MB how do you justify that comment ??

I'm still to be convinced but likewise need to unconviced also. I agree the midfield is weak, hoping McAllister and Comley could form a strong base when McAllister is fit, maybe even put Davies in there. Jackson isn't a wide player, so why not play Browne or Bolarinwa?

Quoted from Civvy at last

You say it's not often seen here. Perhaps you'd like to tell us which football forums it is shown on ??  And given that the majority of posts rightly so still support MB how do you justify that comment ??

I'm simply giving my opinion, based on what I've read here this morning. But, seeing as you ask, I'm not referring to any other forums. I'm not interested in any other forums. I'm talking about THIS forum, this thread and others like it. The very fact this thread exists, after five meaningful games under a new manager, including three against sides in the top four of this division, is a total and utter nonsense.

He Needs to sort the midfield out  cant have a midfielmidfield That nede 3-4 touches to get going but Needs a lot more time. Outplayed Yesterday  a 0-1 scoreli
Ne flattered us to be honest.

Can't understand the negativity at all. I do feel that the midfield is the key issue, but rather than just point fingers and declare that player x isn't good enough I think it's more down to the type of play that MB wants to instill. Seriously, how can anyone really make a judgement until we have at least a couple of new faces in.
The mention of Hartlepool is an interesting one, with Hignett they have a supposedly ambitious and promising new manager, brought up in the true footballing tradition, yet this guy has pretty much built his own team (including a certain couple of ex Town players) and they are looking awful, losing 1-0 at home to Pompey is frustrating for us, but 5-0 at home to Cambridge quite rightly has the Monkey Hangers alarm bells ringing.
You could also point out the much heralded new era at Citeh under Guardiola, beaten comprehensively by Leicester and struggling to lay down his very disciplined ethos with his current players.

I don't think we're far off a steady top 5 team, though I'll have a better judgement on MB come the end of January onwards.

It seems to me that MB likes to play at a high tempo, moving the ball forward quickly. He was clearly frustrated when that did not happen, especially in the first half. He wants this to start with the keeper and was clearly dismayed when Macca took ages the get things moving. I also think that some of the miss placed passes in midfield were due to them trying first touch passes without looking to see where colleagues were. I have my doubts if Summerfield and Berrett can actually do it. They need too much time to think and execute, added to which Portsmouth denied them time which made things worse. Despite the result it is much better to see BP nearly full playing Portsmouth  than say Guisely who would bring a car load. I know we want town to win, but sometimes you need to look at the overall game and appreciate the opposition's play. I personally enjoyed it, plenty of action and atmosphere and what a delightful attempt by Ashley Chambers in the second half. I was right behind it and with great skill he placed his shot towards the top corner only to denied by a good save.

Quoted from oldun

It seems to me that MB likes to play at a high tempo, moving the ball forward quickly. He was clearly frustrated when that did not happen, especially in the first half. He wants this to start with the keeper and was clearly dismayed when Macca took ages the get things moving. I also think that some of the miss placed passes in midfield were due to them trying first touch passes without looking to see where colleagues were. I have my doubts if Summerfield and Berrett can actually do it. They need too much time to think and execute, added to which Portsmouth denied them time which made things worse. Despite the result it is much better to see BP nearly full playing Portsmouth  than say Guisely who would bring a car load. I know we want town to win, but sometimes you need to look at the overall game and appreciate the opposition's play. I personally enjoyed it, plenty of action and atmosphere and what a delightful attempt by Ashley Chambers in the second half. I was right behind it and with great skill he placed his shot towards the top corner only to denied by a good save.

This also has something to do with the movement of players around them - Jackson and Bogle spent too much time waiting for the ball rather than moving into space yesterday - that also meant that there was no space for Mills or Andrew to move into, it's not easy to make a telling pass when there's no movement or area to pass into. Portsmouth denied us room to play at every opportunity which is also made easier by us having two slower centre backs that tend to play deep.

PH left at the right time (for him) with us a respectable position in the table after a fairly easy start to the season, we were always likely to drop back down the league - whoever was in charge - once we came up against the better sides in this division.

Quoted from Grimsby2012

Childish Remark but it's no wonder I guess......

I always backed Hurst, and I was correct too. You always came on here with your doom and gloom attitude. Where as I stood up for Hurst and he got us Promoted.

Having MB as Manager was the cheap option and it's simple as that. We had better prospects in line but instead we went for someone for someone who basically didn't cost the club much money. Whatever way you look at it, that's fine, but it's wrong. Cheap option=Relegation, we should know that by now.

Okay mate.