I hope that Cullen was only subbed to be saved for the Leicester game. If there was any other reason other than injury then I'm saying here and now that I'm done with Luke Williams. He's on thin ice anyway with me for a number of reasons. Why on earth keep Yates on? The man is as useful as a perforated condom. After that first half why not put on our stronger bench players immediately? Okay, we drew the second half but Muff had obviously decided to go through the motions after that with the game well and truly won.
I'm now having grave doubts about Williams. The last two first halves of football have been diabolical and he doesn't seem to have learned the lessons that are so evident to the rest of us. At least as I type, in his post match interview, he's admitted that he got his tactics wrong but he also did against Soton, so it proved he learned NOTHING from that defeat.
Leicester will already be rubbing their hands in anticipation of getting 3 points and improving their GD out of sight. So where does Williams go from here? After tonight I suggest straight to the training ground with a very early start for the next four days. His admin should involve getting rid of Fisher and Yates; sending Humphries back to Chelsea; telling Joe Allen that he's not here just to top up his pension; have strong words with Fulton about upping his game to its previous level; tell Woods to stop sulking about missing his move to Soton, or wherever: send Patino back to Arsenal because, based on his performances with us he's been grossly over-hyped and inform Grimes that he is allowed to pass forwards rather than backwards and sideways. I could go on.......
As for training, the accent should be on pass and move then pass and move again and again. Then he should be drilling the team in playing with a back 4 because we're totally incapable of playing any other system with the players we have. I'll stop there for now but, predictably, I'm saying yet again that he MUST play Cullen at the centre up top if he wants goals. It's his strength and he's being mis-used in a criminal fashion.
I'm now having grave doubts about Williams. The last two first halves of football have been diabolical and he doesn't seem to have learned the lessons that are so evident to the rest of us. At least as I type, in his post match interview, he's admitted that he got his tactics wrong but he also did against Soton, so it proved he learned NOTHING from that defeat.
Leicester will already be rubbing their hands in anticipation of getting 3 points and improving their GD out of sight. So where does Williams go from here? After tonight I suggest straight to the training ground with a very early start for the next four days. His admin should involve getting rid of Fisher and Yates; sending Humphries back to Chelsea; telling Joe Allen that he's not here just to top up his pension; have strong words with Fulton about upping his game to its previous level; tell Woods to stop sulking about missing his move to Soton, or wherever: send Patino back to Arsenal because, based on his performances with us he's been grossly over-hyped and inform Grimes that he is allowed to pass forwards rather than backwards and sideways. I could go on.......
As for training, the accent should be on pass and move then pass and move again and again. Then he should be drilling the team in playing with a back 4 because we're totally incapable of playing any other system with the players we have. I'll stop there for now but, predictably, I'm saying yet again that he MUST play Cullen at the centre up top if he wants goals. It's his strength and he's being mis-used in a criminal fashion.