I’m not so sure about that. It was clear that the players had much more freedom in the Stoke game than the ones before. Hedges would have been stuck in a triangle and there would have been no cross balls for him to chase as JDT never wanted that or quick starts from the goalkeeper. We were always fighting an opponent with all their men behind the ball which makes things quite much harder.
Accounts for a lot.
..... for NOWT! Just think we could have had a release sum for him? No doubt we'd heard about their interest and wanted a fee to rip his contract up whilst he and Sweden set about screwing us over by playing a waiting game? "We'll put a temp caretaker manager in and you get out of BRFC for nowt and the job's yours".
The thing with Trav is that he is always guaranteed a yellow card. He needs to work on this.
Yes but the opposition manager said JDT’s team were the best side he had played in 78 years.
I was merely stating a fact, Dunny. I’ve no opinion yet on JE but I was a great fan of JDT. I wish him well in his new job.
I agree with you, this would never be the easiest of starts for JDT and who cares about friendly games? However, would you go full attack against one of the best teams in world? In a away game? When you know the confidence of the players is rock bottom?
Its all black an white for you, isn't it ODB?
Is that not sweden though? No disrespect but you seem to have a bit of a golden generation of players in attacking roles; Gyorkeres, Isak, Larson, Kluseveski etc. less in defence where you are still playing Lindelof?
And your welcome too it mate. Sweden though for reasons I’ve just described to robin seem to have an embarrassing turn of riches when it comes to forward players! Less so in defence.
It’s not so much a golden generation in the Swedish national team as many of them are underperforming if compared to how they play in their club team.