Florian Bianchini

[JackSomething]

For me we've definitely reached the point where these players need to play under a different manager with a totally different approach to Williams. Then we'll have an idea whether the problem is with the manager or the players we sign.

 

[WentToSchoolWith]

For me we've definitely reached the point where these players need to play under a different manager with a totally different approach to Williams. Then we'll have an idea whether the problem is with the manager or the players we sign.

Agreed, Vipotnik is the perfect example of why. Barely touches the ball when he plays, and then dropped to the bench the following week.

 

[A4Jack]

For me we've definitely reached the point where these players need to play under a different manager with a totally different approach to Williams. Then we'll have an idea whether the problem is with the manager or the players we sign.

Absolutely. I've seen enough from Vipotnik to say there's talent there. He's the most isolated a striker I've seen for us with the lack of service.

But we could have prime Ibrahimovic out there and he'd still be getting criticised for not playing well. When it's the service that is the problem.

 

[Cooperman]

IMO bang on the money. As a winger it is difficult to beat a defender from a stagnant position unless you are that fast over five yards to knock a ball past a player. He needs diagonal through or over the top balls when he is moving which he attempts to make the space for. Our possession football is killing that creativity.

Watch him for five mins next game. Mark my words, you will see him looking for space. At times it looks like he’s running around like a headless chicken, but in reality he’s hoping for the ball to arrive in an area of space.

 

[Cooperman]

A dink over the top. One of the best attacking passes known to man.

I was master of the diagonal dink over the top. It was also said that I gave away too many throw ins, but we won’t go into that.

 

[Dr. Winston]

I started paying attention to Ronald when he was off the ball. In his defence he tries to find space and is regularly on the move, but his plight is not helped by our static build up play and by the time the ball reaches him he has someone stuck on him, which makes his task somewhat more difficult.

This every day of the week. Been banging that drum for a couple of years now. We're simply too slow moving the ball forward, and we're mostly playing the wrong type of pass for them in the process.

For a similar example from previous years, we can see the changes made when Monk took over as boss. Dyer and Routs went from receiving a ball 30/35 yards into opposing halves, usually a through pass they could run onto and maintain the pace of the move, they started receiving it more statically and deeper. Both suffered as a result and our attacks started getting bogged down.

 

[Dr. Winston]

Watch him for five mins next game. Mark my words, you will see him looking for space. At times it looks like he’s running around like a headless chicken, but in reality he’s hoping for the ball to arrive in an area of space.

People can watch the amount of times Bianchini makes a run into space for a pass that never comes whilst they're at it.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

For me we've definitely reached the point where these players need to play under a different manager with a totally different approach to Williams. Then we'll have an idea whether the problem is with the manager or the players we sign.

Many of them were here under Duff and Martin, some even going back to Cooper and Potter. They were crap then too. I'd bet you any money they'd stink the joint out under a new coach as well.

When we are going to just accept that 90% of the time we don't sign very good players, and that's been going on for a good 4-5 years, possibly even longer than that?

 

[Dr. Winston]

Williams and Martin are basically the same manager. Some did better under Duff (Grimes especially). There's not that many left who were here under Cooper.

 

[LaJollaJack]

We have bundles of pent up latent talent gagging to be unleashed from Williams' nonsensical self-indulgent shackles. Just like it was unleashed when Martin was sidelined when at his lowest ebb.

QPR is the proven winning formula when Williams is excluded.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Poorest squad we have had at our disposal in 20 odd years however you try and dress it up. It is what it is

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Williams and Martin are basically the same manager. Some did better under Duff (Grimes especially). There's not that many left who were here under Cooper.

Alternatively, Grimes looked miserable as sin most of the time under Duff, and was at the forefront of a dressing room that effectively downed tools to get him out.

It's weird you keep claiming otherwise, choosing to focus instead on what, two games, Plymouth and Millwall, that Grimes played reasonably well under Duff. They were merely outliers.