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[bolty58]

9 hours ago, Pablo said:

#ToffeeTrotters

 

🤣

I'll accept Trotters Toffs when we win the playoff final.

[R5dean]

On 30/01/2025 at 20:21, Underpants said:

Replace the word Scouser and that's exactly what I thought when Coyle got the job. 

Dude , don't jinx this !

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Just looking at the top six.

We've won away at two of them, and drawn away with another.

Lost 2 of them.

Drawn at home with one and lost to one.

Not actually that bad; and given we've more homes than aways left against them, then if our man can get us sorted, then maybe that record won't look to bad come the end of the season.

[Johnnyrotten]

3 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Just looking at the top six.

We've won away at two of them, and drawn away with another.

Lost 2 of them.

Drawn at home with one and lost to one.

Not actually that bad; and given we've more homes than aways left against them, then if our man can get us sorted, then maybe that record won't look to bad come the end of the season.

Yes our record against the current top 6 isn't that bad, made respectable by JDs win at Huddersfield.

But if we're talking play off challengers, any games against the top 10 are 6 pointers and we can't afford to lose them (Reading in 10th could go 6th if they beat us).  Under IE we only won 2 (Orient & Reading) - both were very much bottom half at the time!  And two 0-0s v Wrexham and Wycombe.  Lost 5, generally an appalling record against any challengers, that first JD and now SS have to put right to give us a chance.

As you say, SS needs to get us sorted for these games and I for one won't be criticising him if that doesn't happen immediately, he need to change the mentality as well as some personnel.

[Krimzon]

On 01/02/2025 at 12:21, Johnnyrotten said:

As you say, SS needs to get us sorted for these games and I for one won't be criticising him if that doesn't happen immediately, he need to change the mentality as well as some personnel.

Folk had been grumbling about the style of play when big Sam left . Personally I felt little Sams mistake was trying to completely overhaul the playing style, formation and tactics all in a Month . You can certainly try to change to much too soon . 

[paulhanley]

It's not major surgery that's needed but at the same time it's a little bit more than tweaks. The squad needs to be a bit more mentally tough, there needs to be a leader or two added and also a bit more physique, especially in midfield. SS is very unlikely to be as tactically dogmatic/predictable as IE so that problem ought to resolve itself. 

[Cheese]

They've posted a video of a training session on WanderersTV. Maybe they just didn't post videos of Evatt getting involved, but the impression I get is that Schumacher is a lot more hands on.

[Traf]

1 hour ago, Cheese said:

They've posted a video of a training session on WanderersTV. Maybe they just didn't post videos of Evatt getting involved, but the impression I get is that Schumacher is a lot more hands on.

Evatt was rarely there if you believe the rumours.

[thebells]

Wasn’t sure where to put this but thought worth sharing. 

Chatting to ‘someone’ close to things this week and they were nothing but complimentary about Schumacher and his temperament / attitude around the training ground. In stark contrast to how things had become. 

Lips that were loose about Evatt towards the end have got looser since he left and, if true (no reason to believe it isn’t), we’re well rid. Of the Blackpool ‘clique’ it seems Gilks was the only one who left with any credit. 

Anyway, not posting this to open another IE can of worms, but to highlight the shift that’s taken place. Whether it results in success is another thing, but SS certainly leaving a good impression on everyone he comes across so far. 

[tomski]

6 hours ago, thebells said:

Wasn’t sure where to put this but thought worth sharing. 

Chatting to ‘someone’ close to things this week and they were nothing but complimentary about Schumacher and his temperament / attitude around the training ground. In stark contrast to how things had become. 

Lips that were loose about Evatt towards the end have got looser since he left and, if true (no reason to believe it isn’t), we’re well rid. Of the Blackpool ‘clique’ it seems Gilks was the only one who left with any credit. 

Anyway, not posting this to open another IE can of worms, but to highlight the shift that’s taken place. Whether it results in success is another thing, but SS certainly leaving a good impression on everyone he comes across so far. 

Yep. 

[ianofcleveleys]

7 hours ago, thebells said:

Wasn’t sure where to put this but thought worth sharing. 

Chatting to ‘someone’ close to things this week and they were nothing but complimentary about Schumacher and his temperament / attitude around the training ground. In stark contrast to how things had become. 

Lips that were loose about Evatt towards the end have got looser since he left and, if true (no reason to believe it isn’t), we’re well rid. Of the Blackpool ‘clique’ it seems Gilks was the only one who left with any credit. 

Anyway, not posting this to open another IE can of worms, but to highlight the shift that’s taken place. Whether it results in success is another thing, but SS certainly leaving a good impression on everyone he comes across so far. 

The way we went about that second half, and in particular the last 15 + 12, laid bare for me how much of a malaise had developed under IE, and how quickly SS has managed to banish it to history. I saw players prepared to run, compete, tackle, block, head and take physical hits where they hadn't shown they had it in them previously. 

The most charitable way of putting it about how things had got would be that most of the players were doing what they thought was enough till SS walked in the building. A less charitable version would be that some were taking the piss and being indulged in it by a slack regime and culture.

[Zico]

7 hours ago, thebells said:

Wasn’t sure where to put this but thought worth sharing. 

Chatting to ‘someone’ close to things this week and they were nothing but complimentary about Schumacher and his temperament / attitude around the training ground. In stark contrast to how things had become. 

Lips that were loose about Evatt towards the end have got looser since he left and, if true (no reason to believe it isn’t), we’re well rid. Of the Blackpool ‘clique’ it seems Gilks was the only one who left with any credit. 

Anyway, not posting this to open another IE can of worms, but to highlight the shift that’s taken place. Whether it results in success is another thing, but SS certainly leaving a good impression on everyone he comes across so far. 

IE did the same in the first couple of seasons here in terms of impressing everyone with his methodical and analytical approach 

And it worked for a while

Guess all things come to an end but it doesn't surprise me that IE brought everyone one down with him as the pressure mounted

 

 

[Johnnyrotten]

Valerien Ismael new manager at Blackburn (ex Barnsley, WBA, Watford).

Reputation as a long ball, long throw merchant.

[Traf]

2 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Valerien Ismael new manager at Blackburn (ex Barnsley, WBA, Watford).

Reputation as a long ball, long throw merchant.

Great appointment.

Flopped at West Brom, flopped at Watford, hasn't worked for a year.

[Dr. Feelgood]

10 hours ago, Traf said:

Great appointment.

Flopped at West Brom, flopped at Watford, hasn't worked for a year.

... and there's no-one on the books who can throw long. Fact. (BBC Verify said it).

[Johnnyrotten]

2 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

... and there's no-one on the books who can throw long. Fact. (BBC Verify said it).

There will be next season!

[Whitesince63]

4 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

There will be next season!

Randell maybe as he’s only at Orient until the summer? 🤷‍♂️😁