Scunthorpe – we need to be worried

What style of play is that?

Is this like double bluff fishing?

I’m confused here whether people are being thick or winding each other up and nobody knows it :silly:

Its just about the football with me Tez. I don’t mind how many we concede just as long as we score more. Football styles are soon forgotten in a all out game between two attacking teams. Of late we are not an attacking side. Actually Martinez Coyle McKay and even Rosler despite his promises have all been pretty boring apart from the occasional glimse of what we cam do. Gary seems to be continuing that trend. All you ever get every time you comment on this type of football is criticism.

yep that’s what I thought Standish

however that last post by Donny is pretty accurate

The Jewell way if there’s an option please

at the moment it’s as much John Benson as any other manager you mention

I’d disagree about MacKay coz I think his style of play was very defensive & boring. His sole tactic seemed to be built around surrendering play up till just outside the box & then hoping to hit on the break – the problem being that our defence & midfield weren’t up to the task of keeping other teams from scoring & our attack didn’t have enough pace or strength to hit teams on the break
this style may have been due to the players at his disposal but a mate of mine has a friend who is a Cardiff fan who said when Whelan appointed MacKay that (whilst successful) hi style of play was awful to watch

Thing is with Bob though we used to lose a lot too. Set out for a draw and in the end still lost. With Paul Jewell we played some of the best football during a most memorable period in Latics history. Earliest memory of Bob was the home game against Wolves and it was bewildering what was happening. Jason Scotland up top on his own and a slow monotonous style that was awful to watch. What made it all the worse was that we were expecting to see football how it was supposed to be played. It was to many equally as bad on the eye as the football styled by John Beck at Cambridge and Nob End. Even more frustrating was when Bob let the players become more cavalier it could work. Most shocking was the beginning of his relegation season and we were all expecting a start to the season similar to how we finished the previous season with positive pressing football but oh no it was back to the horrible slow negative game that was being shoved down our throats as the way the game should be played. No thank you Paul Jewell any day. Paul should have a bronze statue at the main entrance to New Springfield to commemorate our greatest ever manager.