FilthyDon wrote:
Can anyone really see how Neilson is going to improve things? I can't.
Part of the problem is that Neilson and the recruitment team truly fucked up with recruitment - players of questionable calibre, but even if we all agree they are all good/above average players, they mostly have too similar attributes - physically strong/athletic and tall but that's about it. They aren't all suddenly going to become Ben Reeves or Harvey Barnes and suddenly make everything tick. Unless Neilson tears up his tactics book and starts again from the ground up, this is what we are going to have to settle for under Neilson.
I really hope Pete is having a serious think about this - it's been said before but Pete has said at least once in interview that we have an identity, a style of football, and that any incoming manager would have to adhere to that. That's completely gone now.
But surely PW must have done his homework on Robbie, it not like Hearts played free flowing football under his guidance, they were a defensive team primarily and were successful playing that way.
I think the game is a bit different in league 1 and the tactics aren't working how he envisaged