And that comes back to what I have been saying for the last month. If you've got ingredients for Spaghetti Bolognaise and the customer wants a Burrito, you are fucked.
He recruited a team for hoofball, not total football. Everyone knows the liabilities of our players before we changed styles. Did anyone really think Sigmund was going to become this amazing 'footballer' over night because of a style change. He is a grafter and thats how he makes his living and if you watched Sunday, he was a possum in headlights many a time. He will continue to do so the longer the season goes. He is a grunt CB, not a finesse footballer.
I will concede that while we not that flash before 'total football', we were better than we are now (in terms of results)
I agree with you but the change in style is not totally on the coach/manager - it's the owners making this call and Ricki is doing as he is told - he is not totally blameless in this debarcle but the decision to change the style mid season using the polayers the club hired to play the old way was Gareth's and that decision was the start of the current mess onfield at the moment.