David Unsworth - Temporary Manager

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Huddersfield are desperately bad away from home, although we only drew 0-0 with them. Last two away games, they were battered by Liverpool and Bournemouth. You need 3 points for sure against Huddersfield.
 

Lanolin said:
Yeah wins are hugely overrated in my opinion. I am absolutely fine with us not winning games and feel we will easily get out of trouble by drawing with the teams around us.
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We've only won 1 of our last 6 but that's fine, we got 4 points from 9 and hopefully we can play only relegation candidates like us every week at home for the rest of the season.... oh and they need their goalkeeper going off injured and miss all their penalties as well...
 
Kev50 said:
No it wasn’t. It was a dead rubber, that’s why we made the NINE changes. And we don’t have to get a wins sunday, 4 points from the next two games is fine and dandy
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Is that the message he will send them in training? " its ok lads we don't need to win on Sunday".

Another 4 points from a possible 9 is NOT "fine and dandy".
 

Kev50 said:
No it wasn’t. It was a dead rubber, that’s why we made the NINE changes. And we don’t have to get a wins sunday, 4 points from the next two games is fine and dandy
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Are you serious?
1-5 against Atalanta at Home?
Dead rubber or not we’re crap so don’t think 4 from 9 is a gimme.
A lot of those 9 changes were highly paid new signings, wasn’t like it was a team full of no marks
 
GwladysBlue said:
Can you put forward a case for him other than him ‘getting us’?

Every single interview he mentions his love for the club. We all love the club, doesn’t mean we should be tasked with managing it.
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He wasn’t a rubbish player. He may not have been Roberto Carlos but he was half decent.

And he’s not a rubbish manager, he’s guided the U23’s to a league win.
 
Groucho said:
He wasn’t a rubbish player. He may not have been Roberto Carlos but he was half decent.

And he’s not a rubbish manager, he’s guided the U23’s to a league win.
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I think based on the work with the U23's as a caretaker manager the board would have seen him as a easy transition I get that... Its just not worked.
 

orly said:
Absolutely spot on this MacmoFrandel.

The amount of times - and this is Under 12s stuff, let alone too complicated for a much-vaunted U23 league winning coach - their centreforward, who we made look like Diego Costa in his prime, dropped deep, Williams or Keane would charge with them and there would be a huge 15 yard hole behind was embarrassing.

You've got three centremids in front of you, why are you going with the striker into that area? Why doesn't the full back drop in and one of the centre mids drop into the full back area?

He sets us up 4-3-3 (god knows why) and that's supposed to work for width, a focal point striker who brings the full backs, wingers, and midfield in to the game. Only, we don't play with pace or width, or a 10 that gets beyond the striker, or a striker that can hold the ball up, or full backs capable of going past their opposite number....

There's a reason why coaches like Dyche, Silva are praised, because they realise the limitations of their players and PLAY TO THEIR STRENGTHS. Unsy however, being the tactical mastermind that he is, would rather we played to the mad Martinez system that Koeman was too lazy to change and then wonders why, gasp, we concede a massive amount of goals.
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Unsworth has a fixed squad - and I agree that he has to find a system that these players can fit into. However, it's an awkward squad, and I'm not sure that any manager could produce a competitive Premier League team out of it. Unsworth may have decided to set them up as 4-3-3, but would another formation have proved any better?

Neither Martinez and Koeman played 4-3-3. Martinez brought in Barry and Mccarthy to play as two defensive midfielders - and their flexibility was a great success in his first season. Koeman has continued with Schneiderlin and Gana. But many fans here disagreed; they complained that it was unnecessary to play two defensive midfielders in all games.
 
orly said:
I think the most damning thing about Unsworth is that he has made team selections that benefit him rather than the team.

He said in his first press conference 'we need a winning manager'. He's lost 4 of his 6 games. He's been hammered in Lyon and even worse, at home to a side that hadn't won an away game all season. He keeps picking Davies because there's this weird cult fetish for him, despite the fact the lad is absolutely useless at the moment.

The most astonishing thing though is that he keeps using the same formation as Koeman. Fantastic way to show that he has zero fresh ideas.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42095164

The parallels with Gary Neville are remarkable. Get rid of this dad on the Sunday League touchline and get a proper coach in.
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We need someone like that Marcelino fella.
 

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