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What I’ve been impressed with so far this season is the way Butler has come up with different plans to beat different teams. We don’t have the one-size-fits-all approach of Dean. Which is not to say that Butler will always come up with the right option but it does give me hope that he’ll have had Warrington properly scouted and will know their strengths and weaknesses.
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There is more to life than the footy … thought it does help keeping ones mind active in times of intense grief.
Amen to that.
I’ll never forget being at Donny the day after Billy Sharp’s infant child had died. I was watching with a family member who had been through a similar experience. The tears of pain during the minute’s silence turned to tears of joy when Sharp scored and celebrated wildly. I can’t imagine what Sharp was feeling that night but I imagine those 90 minutes will have helped him deal with it all.
Sorry for your loss IFA, remember you’re always part of the Iron family.
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And finished second not a great fan but statistics show he not worst
I would argue a better measure of a manager is how they achieved vs. the tools they were given and the expectations. For example, the job Nigel Adkins did in keeping us up in the Championship in 2010, even though he lost more game than he won that season, is more impressive than say promotion under Russ Wilcox.
My judgement of Dean is, admittedly, slightly clouded by the fact I found him really unimpressive as a leader (those interviews when he sounded like his world had fallen apart after a narrow defeat, you never got that from Adkins) and I found his style of football & refusal to change his approach very frustrating.
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A good lesson on the importance of “sample size” in statistics.
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Petition to appoint PhilAnders as official Iron Bru head scout.
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Reckon their keeper, centre backs and right wing back had over 50% of their possession but it was possession without intent.
A lot of their play was a bit like watching us at times last season.
That’s a testament to Butler in that case, had us set up solidly so that they couldn’t find a way to break us down. And as you say, tapping it around aimlessly at the back is exactly what we’d have been doing last season under Dean. The South Shields manager thinks he’d rather watch his team than us but having watched us play incredibly dull football under Dean, I’m all in favour of Butler’s approach.
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In Butler we trust! A controlled, dominant performance, at least judging by the radio coverage. God it makes such a pleasant change to have a proper manager in charge this season.
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The Lincolnite Website has folded and Gi News will probably follow, people won’t pay for websites but will pay a couple of quid for a quality paper, which the Telegraph isn’t.
You say that but all evidence points to the fact that they won’t.
