Is Bruno Lage A Good Manager Or Should He Go?

[redvictor]

Kilman is properly awesome - just goes about his business. I hardly knew he was playing yesterday.

Collins will get better with age. He is excellent for 21 years old.

Yeah, 21. He's a really quality player for that age. Will only get better. We are sorted (bar injuries) for few years in defence. I like that the team average age is so much younger now. If we can keep everyone they should learn as a unit and be around for a while.

 

[Wolvensam]

Yeah, 21. He's a really quality player for that age. Will only get better. We are sorted (bar injuries) for few years in defence. I like that the team average age is so much younger now. If we can keep everyone they should learn as a unit and be around for a while.

I think it goes without saying that Moutinho will be the next to go, but Nunes is probably a ready made replacement.

 

[redvictor]

I think it goes without saying that Moutinho will be the next to go, but Nunes is probably a ready made replacement.

Yes. He's the old man of the bunch now. I hope the club will keep him around to keep coaching the younger guys after this season.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Of course, potentially. I suppose for me he’s just not been a failure from the outset: Solbakken didn’t take off, nor Zenga and the less said about Saunders the better. But whether it was luck or whatever, Lage got a tune out of these players for a period of time and got them to 6th/7th prior to the monumental drop off.

FWIW I think Zenga and Saunders are one of the same, they're both wankers but I digress!

We were a statistical anomaly last season, up until December we were scoring the few chances we created and had the best performing goalkeeper in the league. We were consistently in the bottom 5 for chance creation and goals scored and the same players that were mentality King's under Nuno in recovering points from losing positions were now 91st out of 92.

It just wasn't sustainable, I dont think there was a huge paradigm shift rather things just righted themselves from late January onwards. The people you cite not giving him a chance were possibly more tuned in to the fine margins we were skirting by on rather than being seduced by the results and knew it would likely bite us later on (I'm not claiming to be one of these I didn't turn until much later on)

I said about yesterday's second half tactics werent viable because it only takes a rick/moment of brilliance to cause disaster and if you look at last season, Southampton hit the bar and then Adama wraps it up with the final kick 10 secs later. Sa won us 2 points against Everton with a save from Gordon at the end etc things dropped for us. The farce of Villa away, though enjoyable was just football at its ridiculous best.

As the season wore on we managed to nearly altogether stop scoring, the defence looked more fragile and Lage increasingly clueless, the nadir being Leeds at home with him being the only bloke inside the stadium or watching at home unable to see what was needed.

There were some moments like West Ham at Home, Yanited away etc but with the fullness of his body of work I'm more inclined to view them like Cup upsets or giantkillings where everything has come together, he's proven himself incapable of delivering that consistently.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I think we do have to examine the possibility that us and Villa could both be looking for a new manager at around the same time, which potentially complicates matters. If they get battered against Arsenal and City this week then Gerrard is surely very close to the exit door. I think Lage will go if we lose one of tomorrow or Saturday.

 

[AndyWolves]

I think we do have to examine the possibility that us and Villa could both be looking for a new manager at around the same time, which potentially complicates matters. If they get battered against Arsenal and City this week then Gerrard is surely very close to the exit door. I think Lage will go if we lose one of tomorrow or Saturday.

Chuck Leicester into that mix too

 

[Keef]

John Terry can go to villa for his first manager job, and we’ll have Rodger’s when Leicester bin him

 

[Lupollet]

GET OUT OF MY CLUB NOW YOU INCOMPETENT CLOWN!

Total embarrassment. He’s now going to say ‘we did a good game’. Makes me sick!!!

 

[PuntsWolf]

Untenable

 

[DogWeasel]

Out with this clown and his shit coaches.

 

[YoungWolf]

He’ll keep his job until Saturday but he shouldn’t. Clueless

 

[Tredman]

Fuck off you fucking fuck head. Fuck off now.

 

[Johnny75]

Just fire the cunt.

 

[GLASGOWOLF]

Get the fuck out our club you useless prick

 

[pr0sl0]

John Terry can go to villa for his first manager job, and we’ll have Rodger’s when Leicester bin him

Honestly, I'd take Rodgers. He always seems to go off the boil three seasons in but at least he usually knows how to get teams attacking before that happens.

 

[PuntsWolf]

How many times do I have to watch Neto or whoever refuse a cross, then take a touch do a step over and cross it when the defenders are set and the strikers static. Brainless tactics

 

[Wolvensam]

Yeah I’m done after that. Absolutely clueless and brainless tactics (you can’t call them that really)

 

[Jack Regan]

I suggest he either ups the 80% of training spent on attacking to 100% or just fucks the fuck off.

 

[thisisgil]

I desperately wanted this to work out. Absolutely pig-sick of negative football and really bought in to the attacking 4-4-2 manager.

Even before tonight I still thought that things might work out. I could see the formation transitioning and I thought it was only a matter of time before things started to click. I just can't see it after tonight though. The same old problems culminating in a Nuno-esque performance against the relegation favourites.

I'm still not convinced this is a coaching issue alone - the spine of the team is a counter attacking unit and that maybe won't change until Neves leaves and the reboot really kicks in. But seeing Bruno leave it so late to do something proactive to get a handle on things was aggravating.

 

[Wolvensam]

I desperately wanted this to work out. Absolutely pig-sick of negative football and really bought in to the attacking 4-4-2 manager.

Even before tonight I still thought that things might work out. I could see the formation transitioning and I thought it was only a matter of time before things started to click. I just can't see it after tonight though. The same old problems culminating in a Nuno-esque performance against the relegation favourites.

I'm still not convinced this is a coaching issue alone - the spine of the team is a counter attacking unit and that maybe won't change until Neves leaves and the reboot really kicks in. But seeing Bruno leave it so late to do something proactive to get a handle on things was aggravating.

Pretty much how I feel. Desperately wanted him to work but he’s running out of games now and tonight was just remnant of the loss to the United reserves or Jackett at Wigan - a manager on borrowed time.

Our tactics are so predictable and it’s criminal with the ball carrying talent in the team and the players we have who are capable between the lines. But every single time that pass is a fraction too late or the cross is hit when the defence has set itself because we’ve dawdled. When that’s a team problem the blame has to land on the manager’s doormat unfortunately.