[Albion] Still keeping the faith with Potter?

[doogie004]

Re: Manager v Player being to blame.

It seems simplistic to me to dismiss any criticism against the manager because he's not on the pitch playing. He picks the team, he picks the tactics. He should be responding to what he sees, if the players aren't following his instructions why is he leaving them on the pitch?

If you have a game in which someone keeps making the same mistake, isn't it your job as a coach to, well, coach those errors out of the player? So shouldn't there be an improvement? If there is no improvement, why keep picking them?

If you don't have the players that can do the job you want, why aren't you taking a different approach? Why are telling the press you're happy with what you've got and you don't need to sign anyone?

But there is still the issue that he can only do so much during the game. Even if he takes players off, he can only do that with three of them. He's stuck with the rest who may have been fine during training, and just not been able to do it in match day.

I think one win in 14 would suggest that the coach hasn't been doing enough to coach the team into a better performance, that the club hasn't done enough to provide him with the players to do a better job, and the players haven't stepped up and taken enough of any coaching on board.

It's a complex web of responsibility.

Not according to warren on the radio an ex pro it’s not . Asked to explain potters post match comments disagreed with everything he said


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[BN41Albion]

That’s your Palace perspective.

Weren’t you worried at 0-0. The Palace end was dead quiet almost all the time.

It really was. And for most of the game it was the 50 or so ultras making their noise (what an embarrassment to football and the human race they really are otherwise, though) . It quietened our end too as the game wore on and we pissed around with the ball creating sod all, but then supposedly the Palace support is the greatest the world has ever seen

 

[Hugo Rune]

We have much better strikers than palace yet they are comfortably above us. Explain that one.

It’s called ‘percentage’ football. Sit back, defend, absorb, then take a scrap you are given. Newcastle, Palace and Burnley are world class at playing those tactics.

 

[doogie004]

They were awful today. Ayew’s chance was probably more difficult than March and Maupay’s. Football can be simple - today, take your friggin chances.

I disagree with [MENTION=18713]TottonSeagull[/MENTION], think the players are giving it everything, but pressure exposes your quality, and we’re lacking that quality in crucial moments.

Even more if a worry if u think the players are giving everything.players and quality yep agree to many players not prem standard Match being one . How much did we pay for trossard , and yet some on here beloved he’s twice the player of knocky [emoji23]incredible


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[Weststander]

It’s called ‘percentage’ football. Sit back, defend, absorb, then take a scrap you are given. Newcastle, Palace and Burnley are world class at playing those tactics.

This.

Counter attacking teams have done this for decades, CP for the last 10 years, absorb pressure, nick a winner.

Hence their victories at OT, Emptihad, Stamford Bridge. Whilst Hughton and Potter relentlessly churn out losses at those stadia.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

We are not good enough.

Potter got in wrong IMHO.

Bassouma is not a prem footballer, trossard is not a prem footballer, mooy was poor and propper ran around like a headless chicken.

Can someone explain what this obsession with changing the team about every game. Stephens should have started as should alzate and aliJ people have sussed Burn out now and if we are relying on him to be our only crosser of the ball, we are finished!

What is the point of buying a decent young full back and not playing him and a decent young Argentinian and again not even a sniff.

Can’t see where the next home point is coming from unless we are hoping to beat arsenal and manu......

The defence looks bloody leaky too!

 

[Ernest]

Potter is totally out of his depth , whoever thought a manager with a single season's experience in English football was qualified for this job is to blame and for giving him an extended contract is mindless

 

[Weststander]

Even more if a worry if u think the players are giving everything.players and quality yep agree to many players not prem standard Match being one . How much did we pay for trossard , and yet some on here beloved he’s twice the player of knocky [emoji23]incredible


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Montoya, Propper and Trossard are lauded as footballing gods. I’m sure in part due to their overseas background and occasional silky skills. PL football also requires minimising mistakes, some physical strength and concentration.

 

[dazzer6666]

I watched this closely in the match. Mooy received the ball in great positions, then took 4, 5, 6 touches, killing the attacks, allowing CP to get everyone behind the ball. He wasn’t alone ... Trossard.

Correct...and then we did get decent chances, March and Maupay fluffed them.

 

[Bold Seagull]

24 shots we had today, the most we’ve had in a Premier League game.

 

[A mex eyecan]

Potter is totally out of his depth , whoever thought a manager with a single season's experience in English football was qualified for this job is to blame and for giving him an extended contract is mindless

a gamble too far i fear

 

[elwheelio]

Montoya, Propper and Trossard are lauded as footballing gods. I’m sure in part due to their overseas background and occasional silky skills. PL football also requires minimising mistakes, some physical strength and concentration.

Footballing gods? By who? They're all average. If they were better than that they wouldn't be here.

 

[A mex eyecan]

24 shots we had today, the most we’ve had in a Premier League game.

but did sweet f a with them

 

[bluenitsuj]

24 shots we had today, the most we’ve had in a Premier League game.

Potters fault apparently

 

[London Irish]

Never had any faith in Potter to begin with because his track record of achievement at this level was a big fat zero, and such faith has to be earned by doing successful things. But happy to stay on the fence for a long while to give him a chance to succeed.

But he’s blowing it right? The inconsistency in selection is utterly maddening.

Today we were very poor and inaccurate with passing in our front areas. Isn’t this precisely Mac Allister’s strength?

 

[BN41Albion]

Potters fault apparently

The manager absolutely has to take a big chunk of the blame when you win 6 games all season by March.

And those stats don't paint the real picture of the fact that we texted their keeper a grand total of zero times

 

[A1X]

A Chris Hughton team doesn't lose that match. Just saying.

 

[Weststander]

Footballing gods? By who? They're all average. If they were better than that they wouldn't be here.

I agree.

But anyone daring to criticise them is usually jumped on.

 

[A1X]

What links Jeremy Corbyn and Graham Potter? Both of them hate right-wingers.

 

[Frankworthington]

It’s called ‘percentage’ football. Sit back, defend, absorb, then take a scrap you are given. Newcastle, Palace and Burnley are world class at playing those tactics.

Thats exactly what we should be doing.

Hughton was right,we do not have the players or resources to do anything else.