Originally Posted by
City123
I think that's a very unfair view of Warnock that has been cultivated by his media image. If his entire tactical view of football was just Sunday league phrases like "win your battles" and "get it in row Z" he'd have been kicked out of football long ago, to still be as successful as he is at the age of 70 shows an ability to adapt as the game changes, just because a side don't play a possession based game doesn't make them tactically naive or make the manager a poor tactician, Warnock makes the most out of what he has and took a hugely unfancied side to the Premier League, he didn't do that with just telling players to win their battles.
Osian Roberts waxed lyrical on Warnock's tactical nous on Radio Wales throughout our promotion season, we played Wolves (managed by flavour of the month Nuno) off the park at their place in our promotion campaign, destroyed Aston Villa and humiliated Leeds. "Primitive" is an incredibly harsh way to describe our play, we played some brilliant football in the first half of our promotion campaign, were we more conservative in the second half of the campaign? Yes, but injuries played a large role in that (We ended up having to play Lee Peltier in midfield)