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That's fine but I suspect there are fans of plenty of clubs in The Championship who would just prefer a chance to see their team play in the Premier League over the luxury of concerning themselves with plan b's and legacies. I think we're in danger of becoming a pretty ungrateful bunch for the job he's done here.
I've said that, but then Warnock must have known that to get the best from Arter he needs better ball players around him. I don't think people realise how poor it is as we're still in shock after last season. It comes to something when fans are lauding the odd glimpse from a bang average Victor Camarasa-It shows how starved we've been of any kind of creativity since the days of Jason Koumas.
Peltier, Bennett, Morrison, Manga, Richards, Connolly, Ralls, Gunnarsson, Harris and Zohore were all at the club when Warnock joined and we were in the relegation zone of the Championship. Bamba and Hoilett were free agents. Explain to me how Warnock these players promoted to the Premier League 18 months later while simultaneously making them worse at football.
Because he's a brilliant man manager and implements a style that doesn't allow creative teams time on the ball, he'll give up possession and stick tem men behind the ball, bully them into submission and hope that our pace out wide or on the break can do the opposition. Players haven't become better, they've just fitted into his system, which isn't fit for purpose at this level.
Malky ruined Whittingham. I remember an interview with them where Malky apparently kept showing Whitts a video of him tracking back and making an excellent defensive tackle. Jones didn't burden Whitts with too much defensive responsibility and we had a 20 goal a season midfielder. Under Malky, Whitts had to become a team player who put a shift in. The goals dried up and, I reckon, his confidence.
Thinking back to last season, there are games where you think all the criticism thrown at Warnock is justified like Boro at home, and a couple more, but there were also games that showed his teams could play really good football like Aston Villa at home or Wolves away. He might be less natural getting his sides to play good football and more readily slide into playing percentages but the idea that his teams don't play football or play turgid football is unfair.
There have been times this season where we've been very poor but its rarely lasted as long as this current down period; Warnock has always been able to lift our spirits with a good performance or good result to break up the negativity. We're honestly not that far away but until we have a proper RB option and another DM we're going to be up against it more often than not. It's too early to say money spent in summer wasn't spent well but I think we'd all like the Tomlin and Madine money back and spent elsewhere.
Nah, Whitt’s still done the business under Malky, albeit an adapted role to that under Jones. He was integral in both of Malkys full seasons. The first half of the promotion season he was still the main man.
Slade completely ruined him playing him in a 2 man centre midfield.
The Villa and Wolves game we’re both in August and the very start of that season. They were good performances but were the exception rather than the rule. As the season progressed the football we played become less and less which is fine when you’re trying to get across the line and Warnock reverting to type.