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Re: Emperors New Clothes

Sun Oct 19, 2025 9:48 am

What a weird thread.

1. We are top
2. Trott signing is a major MAJOR reason why we're top.

For me, yesterday showed BBM's brilliance.

1. Dropped Wintle. Ok it didnt work with Joel in next to Turnbull, but needed to be managed.
2. Half time sub of Osho. Needed. Strong call.
3. Isaak on got us ahead.
4. Ashford off got us the 3 points (NG plugged a huge gap). Huge call, boneheads around me seemed shocked. It killed their momentum.

Champions win that was. You can hear from his post match discussions that he wants the tempo upped, like we all do.

We are top of the league. We haven't really got going yet....

Re: Emperors New Clothes

Sun Oct 19, 2025 10:05 am

llan bluebird wrote:I am sorry, but I am having serious doubts on BBM's ability to be a front-line manager. Maybe a world-class developer of players, but his tactics and game management are plain crazy and show no sign of adapting or improving.

We scored today because of decades-old proper football, overlaps, and crosses

The stuff he wants us to play is make-believe, Pep, and the billion-dollar sqaud barely makes it work when you have had some of the greatest players to ever play the game.

We won again despite him, rather than because of him; we simply have better players.

I hope he wakes up and starts to manage games rather than leave us wide open. Whatever he sees on the training paddock is not translating at home.

I think we'll be better suited to away games anyway, so that may help him.

I may be on my own, but todays was another hard watch

Thats how I see some of it mate,said to my mates yesterday we got lucky again played awful,I don’t see what he see’s in Turnbull in the middle he’s a 10 not a centre mid,Willock to offers nothing I’d rather play isak davies,I think we’ve been lucky mostly all season,and like you said I do just think it comes down to we’ve got better players then other teams,and passing out from the back hardly ever works especially when passing it chambers who wants about 100 touches then just to pass it either back to keeper or to his right

Re: Emperors New Clothes

Sun Oct 19, 2025 10:15 am

SB 1927 wrote:What a weird thread.

1. We are top
2. Trott signing is a major MAJOR reason why we're top.

For me, yesterday showed BBM's brilliance.

1. Dropped Wintle. Ok it didnt work with Joel in next to Turnbull, but needed to be managed.
2. Half time sub of Osho. Needed. Strong call.
3. Isaak on got us ahead.
4. Ashford off got us the 3 points (NG plugged a huge gap). Huge call, boneheads around me seemed shocked. It killed their momentum.

Champions win that was. You can hear from his post match discussions that he wants the tempo upped, like we all do.

We are top of the league. We haven't really got going yet....


Great post.

George Elek says it so well on NTT20 podcast. Players don’t go out to play badly, managers don’t send their team out to play badly.