Luke Williams: "We are happy and we are enthusiastic that we are moving in the right direction."
Has this man taken leave of his senses? Is he serious? Or is he taking us all for fools? We watched the game as well, Mr Williams, and many of us know what the fuck we were looking at despite what you and your clutch of seemingly useless coaches appear to think. We KNOW the game, mate, and some of us have been involved with football since before you were even born!
You might be happy; you might be enthusiastic about what you've seen in the last two games, which leads me to doubt that you know anything about football. I hear radio and TV comms, ex professional footballers, who very much question that we are 'moving in the right direction'. Quite obviously, WE ARE NOT despite the self delusion you keep churning out. You seem very pleased with yourself, pleased about our so-called progress but, rest assured, very many of us are not and highly doubt your judgement and therefore your ability to do this job. Some stats:
POSSESSION: 68-32 SHOTS: 15-10 OT: 4-4 CORNERS: 7-4 FOULS: 9-10 GOALS: 0-1, 0-1, 0-1, 0-1.
You see that last stat, Mr Williams? I repeated it a few times in case you had some difficulty in understanding it. We LOST!! I mean, you DID say that you are happy and that you are enthusiastic about the direction we're heading in. Well, just to remind you, we managed to scrape only ONE POINT in our last two games against opponents below us in the table (not too many of them mind) and we were hanging on like grim death to salvage the single point that we did manage - that by your own admission.
I watched Ipswich play Southampton later on and both those teams know how to play football - unlike us. They played with purpose, with pace, with skill, with effort, with attitude, with teamwork, with aggression, with intent - all attributes I look for in vain with our team because we seem to lack them all. This is happening on YOUR watch, Luke Williams, so what the hell are you going to do about it other than trotting out yet another useless platitude?