Bignot post match

Quoted from ginnywings

Clearly frustrated and ar$ey after the home wupping and JT didn't help by also seeing his ar$e and ending the interview promptly. I don't care really what MB says after the game, as long as his team does the biz on the pitch and we won't know that until he has had much more time this season and next. Hurst has left us with many mediocre, defensive minded players and all the midfield are much of a muchness. The wide players are not good enough or clever enough or both. Hurst never got us playing well at home and he's left the same kind of solid but uninspiring types behind for MB to work with. Sorry if i mention the previous incumbent again but his legacy lives on in that team.

Though I think PH squad is not at a level to make us play off contenders that squad was maybe all he could cobble together for numerous reason's but we don't really know either way, I am sure he knew to an extent what he was getting and that might explain the style of play.

Just listened to it again and it doesn't show him in a positive light. They were better than us, but they aren't streets ahead of us in budget and recruitment, they were set up better, they had a system and a plan. Talking about how technically gifted, fitter, stronger and generally superior the Exeter players were doesn't wash with me and probably won't go down well with the players.
The question about being disappointed with the 2nd half was a fair one and he made himself look silly with his answer, turning the question back on JT who could've mentioned that Town didn't manage an effort on target.

You can have a billy big balls attitude when you've achieved something, there is lots to prove for a novice manager and acting like that doesn't look good. If you send a team out who turn a performance in like that, then you have to take it on the chin.

I had the pleasure of being present during that interview and what most people didn't see is the before and after and the atmosphere in the room and I have to say is what Marcus said was very light hearted.  He didn't come across as a man under pressure at all. He knows exactly what he wants, how he wants to play and the personnel he wants to bring in. He does  however understand that he has to work with what he's got until that happens.

I personally think we're in excellent hands and Marcus is very much the right man for the job.

How long has Tidsdale (sp?) had to work on that Exeter side? How long has MB had?

Quoted from Mighty_Mariner

I had the pleasure of being present during that interview and what most people didn't see is the before and after and the atmosphere in the room and I have to say is what Marcus said was very light hearted.  He didn't come across as a man under pressure at all. He knows exactly what he wants, how he wants to play and the personnel he wants to bring in. He does  however understand that he has to work with what he's got until that happens.

I personally think we're in excellent hands and Marcus is very much the right man for the job.

Pleased to hear it - still doesn't give him the right to belittle John Tondeur.

Come on guys and gals, he was clearly unhappy but trying to put a brave face on it. He is right with his assessment of out physical and technical weaknesses to do well in this league. Yet he seems to think there are players in leagues below us who can do better in this one. Time will tell. As for 10 Exeter players behind the ball making it difficult for us, I don't buy that and even if there was, so what, the onus is on us. Having said that this is nothing new as plenty of teams have frustrated us at Blundell Park over the past years in PH's reign and we do lack physical strength and power in the middle of the park and so far this has not been addressed. MB is trying to solve it with the players we gave by trying them in a different formation but at home it has not worked.

Quoted from Mighty_Mariner

I had the pleasure of being present during that interview and what most people didn't see is the before and after and the atmosphere in the room and I have to say is what Marcus said was very light hearted.  He didn't come across as a man under pressure at all. He knows exactly what he wants, how he wants to play and the personnel he wants to bring in. He does  however understand that he has to work with what he's got until that happens.

I personally think we're in excellent hands and Marcus is very much the right man for the job.

I thought JT let him off the hook when he turned the conversation to incomings and outgoings, I like JT he cares about Town but like him and   Mike White and the lad who does the MP stuff they ask some pretty lame questions. The type of things I waned to hear was,

-  Why did Shaun Person come off
-  Why no offensive change until around 60 odd minutes
-  Did he consider game time for McAllister?
-  How did he rate Gunning
-  Why do you think the home form is so bad

Once you turn the conversation to what we "don't have" in the squad you grant any manager who's team  has just been played off the park a massive get out of jail free card but I suppose it inevitable in a transfer window.  

  
  

Quoted from ginnywings

How long has Tidsdale (sp?) had to work on that Exeter side? How long has MB had?

Ages and not long at all.
I am completely of the thinking that managers need to be given the time and resources to be successful. I do also expect any manager to be able to organise a team of professionals capable of mustering at least one shot on target in 90 minutes.  

I feel there are loads of contradictions going on at the moment.

We're not as good technically or physically as Exeter, yet tonight we're both on 36 points.

Our players need to step it up as we're not in the Conference any more - yet large majority of our squad have played many games in the FL, and we have bids for three players currently playing in the Conference.

We're capable of winning at Plymouth and Carlisle but losing at home to Exeter and Hartlepool.

Some of the fans say our players 'aren't good enough' but good enough for what? At the start of the season I'd have thought the large majority of us would've settled for mid-table potentially flirting with the play-offs

We're good enough for that - and if nothing else at least we're not where Cheltenham are.

I feel the frustration, I really do. I understand the anger of watching us offer nothing at home against a mid-table side. I get it.

But the truth of the matter is that we're a team in transition. We have a new manager trying to impart his ideas and his tactics on a bunch of players signed by a different person who wanted them to play a different way.

I'm hearing some fans say MB is out of his depth, but in his 11 games we've won 4, drawn 3 and lost 4, scored 15 and conceded 13 - and that includes a really tough run against some of this division's top sides.

That's not a bad start really, under the circumstances. I wouldn't say he's out of his depth.

I think we just need to take a bit of perspective here. MB got a small side promoted on an absolute shoestring. He led a bunch of average players to a league title. That says he has some tactical nous about him.

We win some, we lose some. MB does a good interview, then does a bad interview. This is all very symptomatic of an inconsistent side sitting in mid-table.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I thought JT let him off the hook when he turned the conversation to incomings and outgoings, I like JT he cares about Town but like him and   Mike White and the lad who does the MP stuff they ask some pretty lame questions. The type of things I waned to hear was,

-  Why did Shaun Person come off
-  Why no offensive change until around 60 odd minutes
-  Did he consider game time for McAllister?
-  How did he rate Gunning
-  Why do you think the home form is so bad

Once you turn the conversation to what we "don't have" in the squad you grant any manager who's team  has just been played off the park a massive get out of jail free card but I suppose it inevitable in a transfer window.  

  
  

i thought jt spoke to mb in a different manner than he did to paul hurst ?