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QUOTE(Rotuham @ May 15 2012, 04:18 PM)
What's kenny's fault?
1)Narrowing his options to british players which has become irrelevant since early 90's.
Someone has to do it either way when the HG system come into force. KD took a bold move in implementing it first and now he gets the blame? Ouch
2)Practising favouritism with charlie adam.
Do tell me who else can we play in the middle with Gerrard out most of the time. Maxi playing in middle of the park? You must be kidding me. Henderson? We need a midfield general and being a general, you need experience. The prospect of Henderson and Spearing just wont work especially with Spearing so mistakes prone. And dont mention Shelvey, he was on loan before Adam got injured.
3)Failed plan to play henderson on the right wing ala ray houghton
Reminds me of those days Carra played everywhere from DM, RB to CB. Makes him a better player. Gerrard himself, played as DM, CM, RW, and even RB during early days too. At the end of the day, he is better at AM. All these switch helps to discover the best potential of the players. Versatility is also vital. See Valencia, Ferguson played him as RB!
4)Playing negative formation in the league too much. The 5-4-1 against stoke at anfield and the failed 4-5-1 formation with suarez as lone striker is a sight many times this season.
Argh, this...I mentioned before. People are forgetful. Isn't that the lineup, we played with 2 wingbacks the previous season where we whips in tonnes of goals? More strikers doesn't guaranteed you goals.Facts.
5)Blaming luck all the time instead of trying a different approach in tactics and training
''We'll keep doing what we have been doing all these and we'll get there with a wee bit of luck''-familiar mantra throughout the season.
Probably his management style? Of cos it will be stupid of him to bash the players in public? Eg: STUPID REINA FOR CONCEDING SO MUCH? Makes sense, no?
6)Insistence to play players on poor form and low in confidence.Charlie adam,stewart downing and henderson are undroppable.You can include reina and carragher if you like.
This I have to agree with you. He doesnt seem to trust the youngsters too much. Not sure why.
7)Failure to give the likes of kelly,doni and maxi time to play when he always talks about squad depth.
Kelly part is a bit hard isn't it especially when Glenny played pretty well throughout the season albeit one stupid backpass the other day. Doni doesnt grab his chances well when he was given one. No one but himself to blame. Maxi, hmm, not sure about him. His form seems on and off when he is on field. One thing disgust me about him is he tends to drop/fall at slightest touches in the penalty box. I however agree that he deserves more playtime.
8) The most important of all-failure to learn from most of the mistakes above by the end of the season.
I thought he learned? At least we din see spearing now.
Good replies.
Its also silly to mention favourtism with Adam. Is he suppose to buy the player and sit him on the bench?
He did play pretty well with Lucas.
Then Rotu would be slagging him for victimisation like that point 7.
In a first season. a coach will be trying to suss out his players.
Aferall he would not know them that well.
You would expect lotsa travailing in such a transition season.
However having said that, we did not expect such a roller coaster of a season, and for it to end that badly.
The positives:
a) We played very good football at times. But failed to score inspite of dominating even top 4 teams.
b) We hit the poverbial woodwork more than 30 times this season! Thats says something about
our good play BUT for Lady Luck smiling, we would be up there. Kenny should have paid Lady Luck.
c) Bad Season started off with i) Lucas longterm injury
ii) Stevie and Agger's injuries
iii) Carroll lack of fitness
iv) Than the fiasco with Suarez
d) Additon: Oh...we are back in Europe*
If your spine has been thrown out of the door, surely the team will suffer. And suffer it did. Experimentation came in.
Some worked, some did not. Its in transistion.
My only case with Kenny was that he integrated too many NEW players into his team of last season too soon, too fast.
So my question to those Nay-ers again:
What do you suggest to FSG if the new manager fails in his first season?
This post has been edited by prophetjul: May 16 2012, 08:13 AM 
May 16 2012, 12:23 AM
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