I genuinely think they want to and genuinely think they’re asking them to.
However, I also think we’re paying the price for making little if any progress over the season in terms of our actual play. We have no clear style, no patterns of play and no one has any real plan on how we can break teams down. It’s luck and reliance on Hutchinson, or sometimes Knowles or previously DJ, to pull a moment out the bag.
Sometimes you have to accept progress may be slow and have some short term pain.
For example, this was a new group. I’d have much preferred that we started slow, finding it hard to find our feet, lost some games, made some terrible mistakes passing out and passing into midfield, showed some inconsistency etc etc but had a clear identifiable way of playing….and then as we improved and kept with it we finished the season strong, maybe missing out on play offs but with real momentum going into next season. Much like Orient did last season.
The problem with this, in football in general not necessarily Walsall, is that fans and owners find that tough to take and often start calling for the managers head in October!!!
It’s very hard to see the progress when games are being lost, but in early days or new starts there has to be a strategy, a plan and a process that is more important than an immediate outcome.
Unfortunately, we are going to stumble into the summer and return next season in very much the same place we returned this season and we will have very much the same problems and we will almost be starting again but someone has to be brave….as the saying goes the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago…the next best time to plant it is now.
Surely if you know what has worked before, the type of player required, you recruit to that model? Funny thing is at this moment I’d label a Flynn as a long ball manager.
I wont share the link because it was mentioned in a betting show, but Ali Maxwell from the Not The Top 20 podcast watched the Wimbledon game as a neutral and gave a very stark assessment of how we are set up and how we have no established route to goal.
