The result of that has been two draws against Stevenage and Ipswich plus defeats to Wellington Phoenix and Sydney FC - something that the manager attributed to the change in style, which he has had less than three weeks to work on.
"The football was not good enough to get results, but we're experimenting and working on more open attacking play," he told the press following the surprise reversal. "It hasn't worked well from a defensive point of view.
“We have to be more open and expansive. That’s what is demanded now so we are working on that side of it, we just lost the defensive resilience that we had last season. Today we got caught on the break twice in the first half; we’re trying to play and open teams up so we left too many spaces."
