Some fair comments here indeed and I think what I personally missed while JDT was our manager was a bit of passion and engagement during the games. I'm not for these extrovert managers who shout orders the whole game through. However, there were times when we really struggled in games and JDT looked like he didn't care which I really don't hope was the case. Furthermore, you have to change tactics if you see that you don´t have the squad to play champagne football and he was actually taking us down to a relegation fight because is own stubbornness. His way or the highway (In this case, the Swedish national team)?
And if we flip the coin to the other side we have seen som extraordinary football while JDT has been our manager and his first season was indeed very entertaining even though the last games were a rollercoaster of emotions. As long as he has the players that understand how to play accordingly to his vision its all good but as mentioned earlier, he need to get along with the players on this ride and he seemed to have managed that last season.
For this season some things seems to have changed as we for instance sent out Buckley and Travis on loan which still is mind-boggling to me. There must have been going on something in the background that we don't have any knowledge about and maybe one day we will find that out. The amount of losses and conceded goals have in the end lowered the morale of the players so they have looked rather lost on the field playing in triangles, often without any end product and yet no changes to turn this around. I just cannot understand how you can be so bloody stubborn not to change a bit of tactics?!? There was rumors from his time in Sweden with Malmö that he was very arrogant and I think we have further proof of that now with his time with Rovers. The big difference was that in Malmö he had the players/money to play accordingly to his vision meanwhile in Rovers was the opposite. Little money and less good players. If JDT could only have been a bit more open minded about how to play football, he might still have been here but that was never going to happen, was it?
