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I'll leave the cricket chat for a cricket thread, because I could quite happily write about that endlessly and I'll end up annoying everybody. I just wrote about 3 paragraphs of waffle before realising I'm basically just agreeing with what you're saying.

I don't see our problems, or strengths, as being significantly different from the past couple of years. Regardless of any changes in detail.

I think Bob Simpson in Australia was probably the first significant head coach/manager figure in international cricket, in the 1980s. The change in the England team's performances over the last year does go some way to illustrating how much difference the management/coaching of a team can make...

I'd think that Potter's masters in Emotional Intelligence (or whatever that course was actually called) should be viewed as an academic qualification rather than having much to do with making him more emotionally intelligent. You certainly wouldn't want to employ a doctor or engineer on the...

To be fair, I distinctly remember Swansman arguing (quite rightly) that the manager generally makes little to no difference to a team's results, when Potter was here. Admittedly that was probably after we'd lost 0-1 in a game where we'd had about 30 clear chances and missed two penalties.

I suppose that depends what you mean by taken apart, we have conceded 4 against Arsenal (fine, they're really good) and 3 against Liverpool (who let's face it, aren't).

I think everybody thought starting Connolly against Spurs was pretty bold at the time. I'm also intrigued by the suggestion by some on here that we used to set up for containment and a draw against the better sides under Potter.