Time to challange the status quo?

[hallamblue]

Last night twas the last straw for me. If ever there was an opportunity to beat Man Utd , it was now . We..McKenna, failed, miserably IMHO.

I've officially now lost faith in this cliche of "Trust the process". What process? Repeating the same mistakes game after game ?

The post match comments of
"we will take the positives"
"we will learn from this "
"The opposition are a quality team"

All now are sounding quite hollow to me. Its like GroundHog day.

McKenna is either unable to adapt, and change tactically or is stubborn and inflexible in his approach. I edging towards the latter. simply because he, and the players say , "we will not change the way we play"...WHY NOT its clearly not working the way we play is it ?

McKenna is trying to keep Town up on the back of a very inexperienced front line, (average age 20yrs old ) Game after game we picks the same formation and and the same players. ALL our experience sits on the bench!! What is the use of bringing on these players, cold into a game with 10 mins to go? They wont even have warmed up by the time the final whistle goes.


Player choices by Mckenna :

Where is Broadhead, Szmodics, Hirst, Chaplin (yes hes injured but hes had no look in even when fit )? These players should be starting EVERY game and be our front line.
Yes the nation and everyone on the football world is waxing lyrical about Liam Delap. He has tremendous POTENTIAL,. He gets by on raw aggression, blistering pace, power and strength. But when he fades as he so often does after about 30 mins , what else has he in his locker atm ? Yes. hes scored the majority of goals for us this season, but that just 10...you cant blame other players for not scoring , when they spend all their time on the bench!

Hirst offers something different . He can hold the ball up , he plays other forwards into the game . Within 2 mins of being on last night he slipped a ball through to Broadhead in the box. It didnt come off, but this is the type of ball we need Delap to do ...Its not in his game atm . He likes to run at a defenders, head down, ( usually from the half way line). Opponents have sussed this now , and put 2-3 players on him ...he loses the ball. He doesnt look up to see who is around him to lay it off to. His soul mindset is to blast a shot on goal. Great, if it comes off. But how often did it last night?

Clarke . Why is he getting that shirt ahead of Broadhead? He's lightweight, has no end product , rarely crosses the ball into the box.

Phillogen : Why is he in the team on the right wing ahead of Hutch? Yes he score 2 goals against a very poor Utd defence , one was an absolute gift , so Im not even counting that tbh. What else did he offer for the rest of the game ? Or any game hes played in? His tracking back / defending out of possession is poor and ineffective.

But these are young inexperienced players, So I can forgive them their lack of experience atm. But McKenna KEEPS picking them ahead of more experienced players who can / do offer more stealth, and inventive attacking play that we are not seeing from the kids. This is down to the manager, not the players.

Szmodics: Where the hell is he in this team? The guy score over 30 goals ;last season. Mckenna tracked him for 2 seasons, and paid over the odds for him, so why isnt he playing him??

We have seen so many games this season , that frankly we should have won. But due to Mckenna's approach , and lack of adaptability we have lost these points. WE will get relegated ( as we all expected) but when yiu look back at this season , I really do wonder how we would have fared with a more experienced manager at the helm.

I wont be surprised to see Hirst , Szmodics, Chaplin and Broadhead asked to leave in the summer ....If you were them, would you hang around?

We have the payers at the club, fit and ready to play, but Mckenna is blinkered to that fact and chooses to keep picking these young players with vast, but as yet, unproven talent, to try and keep us up. He is expecting far too much iof them , and is ignioring some very good experienced players.

For the love of God man, ADAPT!

[Bluemike]

A good post Hallam and not too much to argue about although as you know we've been saying for ages both Hirst and Delap should be starting, its really that simple but when he persists with One we all know who that will be and we have to have a bit of sympathy for both of them, Hirst for no game time and Delap for being expected to do an experienced and top strikers job already, its unfair.

As for Szmodics, its ridiculous how we broke our backs to get him and then seldom use him, ok he's been injured lately but its gone on all season. As for Chaplin and Broadhead, the Two best footballing brains in the squad, who knows?

For me though our biggest problem is the defence, you score Two at Old Trafford against Ten men and it still isn't enough, just as Three wasn't enough at Brentford, or Two at home to Villa, that 8 extra points right there and we f*cked all Three up through awful defending. McKenna cannot coach defending, I read a post by a guy on TWTD this morning who sits near the dugouts and said when we get a corner or a free kick to defend Mckenna often sits down and the defence coach jumps out of his chair to bark out orders and instructions as to which player should do what and where they should be, then goes and sits back down again, if true how bloody ridiculous is that.

As for the process, it hasn't worked all season, going along fab off the pitch, dross on it.

[Cabanas Blue]

I think Maguire played exceptionally well last night and Delap was out of his depth against him and Fernades was also excellent, I would have played Burgess and as to the forwards I would have started Hirst and put Delap on for the last 40 minutes and would have started Broadhead and Szmodics rather than Clarke and Philogene but what do I know roll on next season.

[The Odious Mr Rossi]

Surely you're not putting the blame on McKenna, Liz.

After all - he's the Messiah, isn't he?

[marko69]

A "Status Quo" thread and a "Rossi" post ----->> That's it complete, close it.

Or...., just leave it open. Whatever you Want.

[The Odious Mr Rossi]

A "Status Quo" thread and a "Rossi" post ----->> That's it complete, close it.

Or...., just leave it open. Whatever you Want.

Cos we all know that Town are heading Down Down because of McKenns'a refusal to Break The Rules. Is a stint in the Championship What You're Proposin, or should we be looking to change tack and end up Rocking All Over The World?

[marko69]

Not a fan, so could not continue without googling!

But, suppose Nothing Comes Easy for Ipswich or The (Wolverhampton) Wanderer.

Just got to hope that the Messiah doesn't get properly shafted from all the fanbase like he's "In the Army Now".

[ITFC2024]

Although difficult to read, some good stats info in this link. What really stands out for me is 0.96 goals scored per match vs 2.11 goals conceded, and only two clean sheets in 27 matches. So much for attacking football, Kieran...or is that the process?

https://footystats.org/clubs/ipswich-town-fc-220

[marko69]

9 x 24% sure that you need to contact Mash for answers to anything "process" related.

[hallamblue]

lol , there's some funny responses on this thread ...hadnt thought of the SQ link tbh ..nice one marko

[The Odious Mr Rossi]

Not a fan, so could not continue without googling!

But, suppose Nothing Comes Easy for Ipswich or The (Wolverhampton) Wanderer.

Just got to hope that the Messiah doesn't get properly shafted from all the fanbase like he's "In the Army Now".

Ah yes, KM tells us Again And Again that lessons will be learned, but he's just taking us Down The Dustpipe.
When he walks out of Portman Road, I wonder if he'll leave MA a Dear John letter

[Bluemike]

I like it I like it I like it i like it

[marko69]

Rearrange the words in the thread title, Hallam.

“The Status Quo Challenge”

[Blue Wilf]

McKenna only knows 3 chords - that is his biggest problem!

[marko69]

Noooo, way too cool for that. He wouldn't be seen dead in "chords".