Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
One of the best performances of the last 30 or 40 years is stretching it by some distance.

YOU are the only one implying the players are not following the managers tactics and going off their own bar so why should we go with that theory?

Page deserves credit for the Croatia victory but he followed it up with same side and gameplan against a team 97th in the world rankings!!! That just goes to show hiow tactically inept he is. Horses for courses and to play just 3 attacking players against Ar-****ing-menia was criminal. Substitutions like for like, hes limited tactically its unbelievable.

In 7 qualification games weve played well once and that was on the back of 6 national league defeats and a World Cup finals where we looked completely out of our depth.

Page is not the man to take this group forward and no amount of you laying all the blame on the players rather than Page will make me think otherwise.
So you think that all of the blame lies with Page and you think I’m laying all of the blame on the players? I’m not, I’ve said I believe Page is limited at this level and I found his response to what was happening disappointing, but if he has to shoulder his share of the blame for Saturday, then I say so do the players.

I said earlier that, as far as I’m concerned, only Ward can claim to have played pretty well, the best of the outfield prayers (maybe Jordan James), plus the subs, were worth no more than a six out of ten and I don’t see how such a blanket under performance can be laid solely at the manager’s door.