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Good post CT,Cox is as deluded as our chairman,full of shit /excuses.
Plays boring non attacking football ,chops and changes formation and team weekly and more importantly has learned Nowt.1 user thanked author for this post.
Well put CT.
The same pool of players ! The same ones who fail time and again. Our new pro’s from the academy must wonder what they have done. They don’t have a chance, we recruit others failures and ignore our own.
He says we don’t have a CB – we do, he is called Charlie Barks problem is he may be the answer and the Manager won’t like being proved wrong. Look what happened when 442 started to yield points back to anything but.
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I’m going out on a limb here and actually defending Cox.
Sure I am certain that he’s made a few tactical errors, and his squad selection at times leaves me bemused. That is to be expected with an inexperienced manager, regardless of what level they’re plying their trade at.
For me the issue is with the squad as a whole. It lacks cohesion and it is clear to me that whomever put together this team doesn’t really understand the importance of having several experienced players and an on field leader.
With regards to Cox being in charge. Let’s be honest, over the last few seasons we’ve struggled with managerial appointments. Our chairman’s attempt to become a Poundland Roman Abramovich by sacking manager after manager hasn’t really lead to lasting success. With the limited funds available for new players, our current league status, and our chairman’s reputation for sacking managers, I cannot see that we’d have a long list of suitors lined up to take over the reigns from Cox.
For now despite his inexperience and mistakes, I would rather we stood by Cox and what little funds we have in the club are invested into getting a on field leader through the door and not paying off managerial contracts.
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I don’t think you can really class what Cox has been doing as “mistakes”. Cox has put thought into it and chooses to take that approach.
I will put that down to a negative mindset rather than making mistakes. I fear this is what Cox is like. It appears to me that he’s just a negative manager who’s completely gone into his shell.
I honestly don’t understand why he’s not going back to 4/4/2. Loft is struggling so playing him upfront on his own is no good to anybody.
Nothing to lose yesterday, what did he do ?. Took a striker of for a striker instead of putting one beside Loft. Again, that’s not a mistake…that’s a negative mindset.
I don’t think fresh players next season will solve it either. I suspect the problem mostly is with Cox.
You can have the worlds best musicians making up the most impressive orchestra the world has ever seen but if the conductor is utter crap, what would you ever really get out of them ?
It’s a mistake, a big mistake, if you keep doing the same thing, watching it fail and then repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. There’s a famous quote expressing this but I’m not bright enough to know who it was that said it. Playing Loft up front alone is a mistake, we all know that but he keeps doing it.
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CT, the quote was attributed to Einstein, –
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”About sums Cox up.
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“Loft has glaring holes in his game so he needs support and a bit of help.
Why can’t Cox see this ?”
If he can’t see it he must be blind. Loft is 23, had 3 years at Spurs and 2 years at Leicester, but he can’t control or pass the ball. If Loft isn’t 3rd or 4th choice striker next year I can’t see how we can improve.
Cox needs to play 2 up front. I would prefer to see Olomola and McAtee in the next match. Something has to change.
The other problem with playing Loft is that the defenders take the easy way our and keep aimlessly hoofing it up in the air. Not Loft’s fault and I do agree that he plays better when the ball is played to his feet.
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