2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[Blueclouds]

He should get a free season anyway unless it goes really bad. Lets hope not.

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

Regardless of our opinion the manager is relatively safe this season.
You have to give any appointment a reasonable length of time to coach and build his own team , and half a season isn’t nearly long enough to judge his abilities.
This time next year we will have a more accurate idea of his future.
Barring any relegation dalliances of course.
All we can do in the interim is support the team and by inference the manager.
And , of course, grumble darkly.

 

[toffeejack]

Any talk of dismissing Marco is ridiculously premature but yesterday he definitely planted one foot on the slippery slope that could lead to his sacking. It's all well and good talking about 'long-term projects ' and 'clearing out the deadwood', but no manager in today's football can afford too many results like yesterday without paying the consequences sooner or later, depending on how trigger-happy the owner is, or how irate the supporters become.

His tactics yesterday were ridiculous, bordering on full-blown Martinez. Going toe to toe with a Spurs team who are like a Formula 1 car, whereas we chugged along like my old 2nd hand Volkswagen Beetle, was always going to end in a disaster. They could have scored 10! If the absence of one player, Gana, makes such a difference to the team it's up to the manager to find a way to cope and not just send Tom Davies out there and expect to play the same way.

There's still time for Marco to leap clear of the slippery slope but he needs to start soon by getting back to the disciplined, intelligent, and hard-working performances we saw at places like Stamford Bridge and Anfield. Burnley is now a huge game.

yeah, the defence just got ripped to pieces and like you say, when we don't have gana, we don't have any midfielder that can tackle. I'd have rather seen mccarthy play than davies. McCarthy should be gueye's backup and davies should be gomes', with schneiderlin on the transfer list. But regardless of the tactics our players need a stick shoved up their ar... it's been this way since moyes left, they're so bloody un-reactive. I do curse our luck in the penalty areas because ricochets and rebounds seem to go past all our attackers in the box, and then yesterday in the opposition box they fell to spurs players for a few of their goals. But watching the highlights now, our players are like bloody statues, whilst there's are always anticipating. It's why we never score from corners, our players don't make runs at the ball, they take two steps and leap. It started under martinez and no matter how much we change the team, our team always looks so static. Even the goal against the RS. None of the defenders went back to cover just in case the unthinkable happened, it could still have been prevented if one of them switched on. A perfect example is gueye standing on the post in the world cup and letting it go in because he was so lazy. I wish someone at the club would sort that out.

 

[mkrudden]

For me yes it is, its an embedded philosophy, we are at the start of a cycle. If we want to progress we are going to have to go tow to toe with teams like Spurs, United, City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Mordor. Dont get me wrong we have clear limits now that need to be built on over time. But the philosophy and psychology around it, is important id rather try and have a cut of the big teams, then try and scrape another glories draw to be honest.

This.

 

[N.S.N.O.]

well in my opinion, coleman should be nowhere near the squad, rather have Kenny. ( he's nothing special either ) but coleman has been disgraceful all season and to be honest I don't like his attitude, he fcks up and then turns around and argues with everyone around him, takes no responsibility what so ever

secondly ( and I like davies ) if you've got no gana you go for like for like ( or as close to it ) as possible and that's deffo no davies, that's a McCarthy or even baniginme or whatever hes called

You've named 4 players not good enough for a top half Premier league team (and that's being kind to them), Kenny in particular is terrible....

And that's our problem.... We have a decent first 11 right now... But that's it really, a few injuries, or drop in confidence, and we have no quality options to freshen things up... Upfront we've had to try Richarlison, due to no proper striker at the club

 

[evertonarntwe]

You've named 4 players not good enough for a top half Premier league team (and that's being kind to them), Kenny in particular is terrible....

And that's our problem.... We have a decent first 11 right now... But that's it really, a few injuries, or drop in confidence, and we have no quality options to freshen things up... Upfront we've had to try Richarlison, due to no proper striker at the club

not saying any of the names mentioned are good enough, but coleman has been absolutely embarrassing most games this season so I'd rather try Kenny for a few games, I don't think coleman deserves to start, not just his performances like I said I think is attitude is disgusting as well, seems to just blame everyone around him for his poor showings

and re the gana position, I agree we don't have good enough back ups but what you do when a important player is missing you change like for like so at least the one coming in knows his job, davies is nothing like gana and that's down to manager putting him in ( especially against a team like spurs )

 

[N.S.N.O.]

Silva ain't all that and if he were to leave I for one would not be arsed in the slightest. He can't get a tune out of this gang of players it seems, so maybe we could find somebody else who is capable. Get Bielsa from Leeds if they don't get promoted end of season. Miles, miles better.

So you'd want to appoint a manager who failed to get his team promoted?... and also a guy whose had a car crash managerial career...

 

[MercuryBlue88]

Find it hard to blame marco for this one, the starting team was the best available. We would have been two nil up if the ref didnt call for the softest touch all game. Then you cant predict Pickfords rash decision. After that defence doesnt trust the keeper.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

So you'd want to appoint a manager who failed to get his team promoted?... and also a guy whose had a car crash managerial career...

I think has he proven himself to be a better manager than Silva over his career so far. I'm sure there are many, many better managers out there who would love to be in Silva's job, but obviously we're too short sighted to find them and plumped for the guy who downed tools for half a season at his previous club.

 

[N.S.N.O.]

not saying any of the names mentioned are good enough, but coleman has been absolutely embarrassing most games this season so I'd rather try Kenny for a few games, I don't think coleman deserves to start, not just his performances like I said I think is attitude is disgusting as well, seems to just blame everyone around him for his poor showings

and re the gana position, I agree we don't have good enough back ups but what you do when a important player is missing you change like for like so at least the one coming in knows his job, davies is nothing like gana and that's down to manager putting him in ( especially against a team like spurs )

Sadly the leg break was always gonna damage Coleman's career...and I think its been noticeable since he's returned that his performance level isn't near what it was before that injury....Silva will already to looking out for right backs for next season (remember he needed to replace Baines, Jags, Williams & Funes Mori in the summer), you can't do everything in 1 window..

 

[Khalekan]

So you'd want to appoint a manager who failed to get his team promoted?... and also a guy whose had a car crash managerial career...

Based on what I saw yesterday there is no way Leeds won’t be promoted.

So the point is moot IMO

 

[Zatara]

....whilst the team organisation was suicidal yesterday, I think what concerned me most was not changing things when it was obvious early in the match.

I like Silva and I generally like the players he and Brands have brought in but he got it very wrong yesterday. 24 points at Christmas is just above the minimum acceptable target but a run of good results is needed or his position will be increasingly questioned.

Looking at that bench im not sure what he could have done aside from Zouma swapping with Coleman and Mina subbing in for Coleman.

Unless he went full Ossie Ardiles of course

 

[Berenger]

Big lesson for Silva from that game. If you concede 6 I don’t see how you can look anywhere but the manager. Yes there are individual issues for many of the goals but they are all functions of the general setup. He went toe to toe with a better team, tried to play them at their game, and got walloped.

We aren’t good enough yet to play that way and it was a massive error of judgement.

 

[messymascot]

Baines doesn't give sloppy penalty away against Bournemouth we probably win that game, Sigurdsson buries his against Watford we probably win that game we would currently be sitting in 7th 1 point behind United where everyone expected us to be. I mean you could blame Silva for not starting the season with Digne and leaving Sigurdsson on penalties after Fulham but they are 2 small decisions that have changed an acceptable 7th to a slightly underwhelming 11th. We are playing decent stuff and had DCL goal stood the game yesterday could have turned out a lot different. The manager has my backing but he maybe has to be a little more reserved even in the home games against the sky 6. I still think we will get 60 points we've just made the 2nd half of the season harder. It's a 5 year plan in my opinion and the 1st year was always going to be tough.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I don't understand people having a go at the system tbh.

The problem yesterday was a string of abysmal individual errors in defence and a lack of aggression. We didn't want to win tackles.

The system is irrelevant when you defend so poorly. We were shambolic in defence. They need to have a long hard look at themselves in the mirror.