de niro said:
OB1 said:
My confidence levels have not dropped as a result of the change in manager. I do have concerns: I am more nervous than ever about the mentality of the players but I see that as an inherited problem. The fact that we have lost four league games means that the mental hurdle away from home is more pronounced than ever and that our room for error in the rest of the season is much reduced.
I continue to believe that our error rate has been abnormal in the early part of the season and remain very hopeful that it will change. I will worry about that if and when it doesn't.
Pellegrini's detractors are keen to blame the errors on him for changing how we play. Of course it is easy to say if he hadn't done this or that, something would not have happened e.g. If he had not changed from zonal marking, we would not have conceded two goals from corners at Cardiff or if he had picked Zab at Sunderland, Milner would not have been in the RB position when he was fouled... Well, the world would have been a different place and, without getting all philosophical (especially as learning about philosophy is still on my bucket list), that in of itself would have lead to different outcomes. How much of what has gone wrong is down to a poor choice of tactics and how much of a failure to execute effectively due to pure player error? I defy anyone to have a definitive answer to that. Errors may well occur because players are getting used to a new system or approach but that may just have to be a price of change.
I'm not sure that I have expressed myself effectively here but, whatever the reasons, I hold fast to the belief that we are making an abnormal number of errors and that it won't continue that way for long.
i'm not one of those, i'm saying why change the manager at all, to whoever. we had a natural born winner, pelligrini was a risk. why take that risk?
Wasn't aiming the detractor comment at you, btw; just trying to answer your question.
As to the point about why change from the last manger, I don't want to get into that. I thought it was the right decision and the reasons for and against that have been done to death on here. I will reiterate that I was a proponent of bringing Mancini to the club well before he was appointed. I was a staunch defender of him for the better part of three years and only came firmly down on the side of removing him after the last visit to Goodison.
I was in favour of bringing Pep to the club before then but that wasn't because I wanted rid of Mancini it was just something that I would have made an exception for. Pep though become a non-option before I voted "out". With him not being a potential replacement, I still had several managers ahead of Pellers on my wish list but not so many that I was displeased with his appointment. I believe that time will eventually prove that Pellers' appointment was / is not a big risk; time may prove me wrong but whether or not it does, I still think Bobby's position had become untenable and someone had to replace him.
I think that it would have been better for all concerned if he had resigned after we won the title.
