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    Quote Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy View Post
    I would be more impressed if Morison demonstrated that he understands the system we are trying to play doesn't work with the players he has available.
    I agree with this. There's one thing about getting players to play a certain way, to a certain formation, but I've always felt that the formation should suit the strengths of the players you have, rather than trying to shoehorn players to play in a certain formation.

    I think this is particularly true of our 3 centre backs, where the old brigade are used to playing as part of a back 4. If most of them are likely to be going this summer, it makes little sense to try and get them to play as they are currently, but to play to their strengths and bring in centre backs during the summer that suit a back 3.

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    Harris, MM and Morison have all struggled with the rubbish Warnock signed.High wages and long contracts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Divine Wright View Post
    We need qualified people higher up the food chain. Then you might see some improvement. Until then, decisions made regarding managers will be hap hazard.

    Morison is too inexperienced for the job. He is too much of an unknown quantity.

    That said, I feel like a majority of the people on here wanted him, so we'll have to live with it for a while.
    Agree, there is nothing to suggest the club has learned anything from the serial failures in decision making over the last 3 years or so.

    There is no-one who knows anything about football on the board and the so-called leadership is AWOL. On the theme of recruitment does the batshit crazy Transfer Committee still exist anymore?

    Expect more in the way of random managerial appointments until the club brings credible football expertise on board.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
    if the season ended today then I dunno, you could understand them letting him go, but on the other hand I would fear a return to long ball style with whatever appointment they come up with next.

    in terms of what we've seen so far I'd say:
    positives:
    a genuine desire for us to play a more modern style of football, that hasn't been abandoned at the first hurdle.
    undeniable improvement in results and performances from the end of the McCarthy regime.
    he's demonstrated that he understands the system that we are trying to play, no longer are we playing centre backs or central midfielders at wing back.
    continued McCarthy's good work in bringing young players into the side - more often playing them in their correct positions.
    the team seems motivated and with good togetherness (although it is still early days)
    the team can battle their way back into a match after going behind.

    negatives:
    we are still very much in a relegation scrap
    results are still not good
    his interview style could use a lot of polish.
    seems a bit too defensive on a personal level
    we still concede soft goals far too easily often from simple through balls.
    we don't have very much attacking threat still.

    I'd say 5.5/10 so far, but we need to turn some of the promising steps into actual results
    This I agree with.
    Morison has years of neglect to try and turn around.
    He needs time to do that and he’s trying to balance that with avoiding relegation.
    Maybe now would be a good time to appoint a Director of Football to give him a bit of headroom.
    Olé’s free, isn’t he? 😆

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    I think we'll stick with him until we drop into the bottom 3 and if we are in there with 10-12 games to go the board might act.

    Either way, he's not really shown anything so far that would make me think he'd be the man to turn things around when half the squad is out of contract in the summer. Our defence is as useless as it's ever been, and we've not kept a clean sheet since he took over. Still just the one all season. The well talked about criticism of Davies whilst ignoring the more senior pros is quite telling as well.

    Hopefully we can find a few wins from somewhere and manage to stay up courtesy of Reading and Derby's points deductions, and Peterborough and Barnsley being even worse than us, but if we lose to Barnsley away or Peterborough at home at the start of Feb it will be a bit nervy, if we lose both I don't see him surviving it.

    I would try and get Nathan Jones in the summer, I know it didn't go well for him at Stoke but I'd be far more more confident in having him starting something from scratch than Morrison.

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    in terms of refreshing the squad, the players we've been linked to recently are pretty good, if that's the way we are going to go then I wouldn't have too many complaints

  7. #7

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
    in terms of refreshing the squad, the players we've been linked to recently are pretty good, if that's the way we are going to go then I wouldn't have too many complaints
    He's here to keep us up. If he succeeds he'll have done his job. This isn't the start of some major re-building, we're just bring in a few players to add to the squad and give him more options.

  8. #8

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    Quote Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish View Post
    He's here to keep us up. If he succeeds he'll have done his job. This isn't the start of some major re-building, we're just bring in a few players to add to the squad and give him more options.
    yeah of course this window is likely to be only loan moves to help steer us clear of the drop.
    I meant the next window where we are potentially losing like 9 players or something

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    Any club doing any planning would never have appointed him. Our chairman explicitly ruled him out but 4 points from 9 was enough to get him the job. Had kieffer not scored a last minute goal to win v Huddersfield Morison would never have got the job.

    However worth a go. I however have seen enough. The guy is hugely out of his depth and its frankly embarrassing having him manage the club when he conducts himself the way he does. We have purse and Hudson here also-both would be a better fit than Morison. I'd get shot ASAP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Father Dougal View Post
    Any club doing any planning would never have appointed him. Our chairman explicitly ruled him out but 4 points from 9 was enough to get him the job. Had kieffer not scored a last minute goal to win v Huddersfield Morison would never have got the job.

    However worth a go. I however have seen enough. The guy is hugely out of his depth and its frankly embarrassing having him manage the club when he conducts himself the way he does. We have purse and Hudson here also-both would be a better fit than Morison. I'd get shot ASAP.
    why do you think purse and Hudson would be better?

    people seem to be reading a lot into a couple of admittedly poor interviews - that's a very small part of the job in my opinion. if he gets us winning games then he can be as arsey as he likes in interviews

  11. #11

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
    why do you think purse and Hudson would be better?

    people seem to be reading a lot into a couple of admittedly poor interviews - that's a very small part of the job in my opinion. if he gets us winning games then he can be as arsey as he likes in interviews
    Not sure myself about the Purse/Hudson idea, if Hudson was brought in to improve the defence he hasn't managed that at all yet.

    I think Morison should absolutely be given to the end of the season, but this summer is probably the biggest summer in recent memory terms of club direction and the long term managerial appointment will have a massive bearing on the path we'll take. I just hope the board make sure they get the right guy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Father Dougal View Post
    Any club doing any planning would never have appointed him. Our chairman explicitly ruled him out but 4 points from 9 was enough to get him the job. Had kieffer not scored a last minute goal to win v Huddersfield Morison would never have got the job.

    However worth a go. I however have seen enough. The guy is hugely out of his depth and its frankly embarrassing having him manage the club when he conducts himself the way he does. We have purse and Hudson here also-both would be a better fit than Morison. I'd get shot ASAP.
    Embarrassing? Not for me - a young man learning his trade and making mistakes along the way

    This thread has become, in my humble opinion, a massive over reaction

    Hope he doesn't read this board and if he does takes it with a huge pinch of salt

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    We’ve got a hybrid squad - half of it is cloggers from the old regime and the other half have come from the academy and are used to playing a possession style, so it’s not necessarily a case of there being an ideal system for the players we have.
    I think there’s a lot of overreacting here: we’re in transition and it’s not going to be easy or pretty.
    If Morrison went back to hoofball, there’d be a similar outcry on this board.
    I agree that his treatment of Davies was poor, but on the other hand, the recruitment policy shows the direction of travel for the playing style. These loan players will help our boys because they’ve come from clubs where the first team does more than just knock it long.

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    Re: Morison OUT

    Quote Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw View Post
    We’ve got a hybrid squad - half of it is cloggers from the old regime and the other half have come from the academy and are used to playing a possession style, so it’s not necessarily a case of there being an ideal system for the players we have.
    I think there’s a lot of overreacting here: we’re in transition and it’s not going to be easy or pretty.
    If Morrison went back to hoofball, there’d be a similar outcry on this board.
    I agree that his treatment of Davies was poor, but on the other hand, the recruitment policy shows the direction of travel for the playing style. These loan players will help our boys because they’ve come from clubs where the first team does more than just knock it long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw View Post
    We’ve got a hybrid squad - half of it is cloggers from the old regime and the other half have come from the academy and are used to playing a possession style, so it’s not necessarily a case of there being an ideal system for the players we have.
    I think there’s a lot of overreacting here: we’re in transition and it’s not going to be easy or pretty.
    If Morrison went back to hoofball, there’d be a similar outcry on this board.
    I agree that his treatment of Davies was poor, but on the other hand, the recruitment policy shows the direction of travel for the playing style. These loan players will help our boys because they’ve come from clubs where the first team does more than just knock it long.
    Good post.

  16. #16

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw View Post
    We’ve got a hybrid squad - half of it is cloggers from the old regime and the other half have come from the academy and are used to playing a possession style, so it’s not necessarily a case of there being an ideal system for the players we have.
    I think there’s a lot of overreacting here: we’re in transition and it’s not going to be easy or pretty.
    If Morrison went back to hoofball, there’d be a similar outcry on this board.
    I agree that his treatment of Davies was poor, but on the other hand, the recruitment policy shows the direction of travel for the playing style. These loan players will help our boys because they’ve come from clubs where the first team does more than just knock it long.
    I thought we were showing signs of a return to hoofball against West Brom and Preston, but not on Saturday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw View Post
    We’ve got a hybrid squad - half of it is cloggers from the old regime and the other half have come from the academy and are used to playing a possession style, so it’s not necessarily a case of there being an ideal system for the players we have.
    I think there’s a lot of overreacting here: we’re in transition and it’s not going to be easy or pretty.
    If Morrison went back to hoofball, there’d be a similar outcry on this board.
    I agree that his treatment of Davies was poor, but on the other hand, the recruitment policy shows the direction of travel for the playing style. These loan players will help our boys because they’ve come from clubs where the first team does more than just knock it long.
    Agree.

  18. #18

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    it would have been nice to try to change the playing style a few years ago, when we still had premier League money, and the senior players were a couple of years younger.

  19. #19

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    He's way out of his depth.

  20. #20

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy View Post
    He's way out of his depth.
    Yep, he has no idea what to do when things go wrong

    Unfortunately things go wrong all the time.

  21. #21

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    Quote Originally Posted by City123 View Post
    Yep, he has no idea what to do when things go wrong

    Unfortunately things go wrong all the time.
    Things start going wrong as soon as he puts his pen towards the team sheet

  22. #22

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    What is that saying about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    Things start going wrong as soon as he puts his pen towards the team sheet
    That's absolutely true I'm afraid. Pack in for Wintle big error. Then his substitutions are all wrong. He takes off the best player on the park! Dunno

  24. #24

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    The squad is terrible lets face it. Definitely one of the 3 worst teams.

    Can a better manager save us because of the point deductions.?

    Probably bonkers selections today.

    Best chance of survival - the Cardiff Way with someone like Pulis or Warnock. Long term gets us nowhere.

  25. #25

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hilts View Post
    The squad is terrible lets face it. Definitely one of the 3 worst teams.

    Can a better manager save us because of the point deductions.?

    Probably bonkers selections today.

    Best chance of survival - the Cardiff Way with someone like Pulis or Warnock. Long term gets us nowhere.
    Forgotten about McCarthy already? I envy you

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