Post by joanna on Apr 11, 2014 8:07:01 GMT
For the realistic majority of us who are sceptical of Dougie's "magic" powers (of which he himself is the biggest fan), I thought I'd bring over from the old BN site a thread that had very many responses. There are new messages on the old site this morning from Alter and Julie that are a last blast at the management style of Dougie, Lennie and co. Well worth reading before they disappear. I wrote back to them as follows:
Julie and Alter: you are so accurate in your condemnation. We should not need to accept mediocrity and containment as the norm against the bottom clubs in this league. We have been hypnotised into accepting a deferential approach through repeated meek and sycophantic performances and pre- and post-match utterances. It was not so long ago that we were watching us comfortably hold off Atletico Madrid (and being on the receiving end of a police attack for the pleasure!). Now look at how Atletico have progressed whilst we have slipped into accepting decline so mildly. The game against Wigan proved that we do have the players to perform expansively and consistently without fear if they are managed appropriately.
But DF still prefers to attempt to prove himself superior and put his deluded "modern, educated" approach into practice, which produces sheer tedium.
No doubt, the "happy clappers", as Julie calls them, will want to respond, now that results have picked up from the horrible low that threatened us with relegation for much of a season in which promotion was the aim. The pre-season friendlies quickly disabused us of that optimistic delusion!
Julie and Alter: you are so accurate in your condemnation. We should not need to accept mediocrity and containment as the norm against the bottom clubs in this league. We have been hypnotised into accepting a deferential approach through repeated meek and sycophantic performances and pre- and post-match utterances. It was not so long ago that we were watching us comfortably hold off Atletico Madrid (and being on the receiving end of a police attack for the pleasure!). Now look at how Atletico have progressed whilst we have slipped into accepting decline so mildly. The game against Wigan proved that we do have the players to perform expansively and consistently without fear if they are managed appropriately.
But DF still prefers to attempt to prove himself superior and put his deluded "modern, educated" approach into practice, which produces sheer tedium.
No doubt, the "happy clappers", as Julie calls them, will want to respond, now that results have picked up from the horrible low that threatened us with relegation for much of a season in which promotion was the aim. The pre-season friendlies quickly disabused us of that optimistic delusion!