> bit naive that Terry. "We lost 'cos the opposition played better than us." > Don't think you'd make a very good manager ! Why did they play better ? > Are you saying that no matter what we did we would have lost. I do believe > we beat Donny at their place despite being under the cosh for most of the > match. Explain that one.
Because sometimes the better team loses (us at Cheltenham for example) but 7-8 times out of 10 the better side wins. Donny have been better than us in 3 games last season but do not always sucessfully exploit in terms of goals the good positions their football creates, so the opposition is able to sneak wins they don't always deserve. > It wasn't just that Sheehan didn't play at left back - it also meant we > had a player playing on the left who can't play there effectively and also > we had nobody who has any track record to take free kicks. Add to that a > player who is not a left back stuggling like f'ck with all their attacking > down the right in the first 20 minutes and to be honest we were lucky to > get away with a 1-0 defeat. It also meant that Kilkenny was stuck out on > the right out of position and as a whole the team was completely > unbalanced. Agree with that but the same team, with all its imperfections, had won (and comprehensively outplayed) a good Carlisle side a few days previously, so there was logic in sticking with what had been successful. > > I think the decisions were poor and the manager should shoulder a lot of > blame for that result. I'm not content to sit back and say eh, they were > better than us. We could have won that game. I am worried by Macca's > decision making. Fair enough, and I agree we could have won that game. With a better choice of final pass or a better cross we could have won anyway, even with the "wrong" team out. I think it's too early to be concerned about Macca. I wouldn't have picked the team he did and would have made different changes and made them sooner but all managers do things us mere punters don't understand. I think the time to judge Macca is after he's got his own players in and he's had a pre-season with them. If we're not in the top four at Christmas, then it's time to start and worry. Incidentally you're right. I wouldn't make a very good manager! :-) _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist "the morphine patch and the handfuls of dihydrocodiene and paracetamol did the business. I am GOING TO WEMBLEY !!!!" Dave Nattan May 16th 2008
