I have to disagree with a number of posters on here regarding the style of football we should play.
The debate about winning ugly over trying to win playing good football is probaly a contentious issue.
Imo playing good football is a far better answer in the long term than hoofing the ball into spaces and hoping for lucky breaks here and there. Winning games luckily 1-0 with no real plan is not the answer for me.
To my knowledge i can only remember a couple of era's where we have tried to play decent football. The 70's with Weller and co, which our older posters will often refer to with fond memories. Again in the 90's under Mark McGhee which did not work so well. Under MM we retained the ball well but lacked an offensive style to go with it.
So why should we try to play football ?
Leicesters last promotion to the premier lge sums up imo why we are in Lge 1 today. That season by hook or by crook we managed to get promoted with a very good 90+ points accumulation. Fantastic, brilliant, superb, but then the reality sets in. We had no style, no plan, and no direction, and so a year later we were back in the championship. Hoof ball as little going for it in the premier lge, and hence our only realistic chance of survival would mean changing both the players and style of football to have a chance.
That season we were promoted behind a very good Portsmouth side. Having watched them on tv a few times that season, Pompeys football was different class to what we had to offer. Consequently on promotion, Portsmouths prospects were so much better than ours. The team became settled, played decent football, and found the transition to the prem far more manageable than us. In the long term Portsmouth built on this, whilst our story became the stuff of nightmares.
Portsmouth were not on their own, as Fulham showed by playing attractive football, and albeit apart from this season have done well in the prem.
If people think that this lge 1 malarky requires a bunch of thugs to get us out of it, then think again. Doncaster imo played excellent football and proved it can be done.
Imo this club is rock bottom, and i dont see why we shouldnt start again and develop a good style of passing football which will enable us to give PROPER service for the strikers to do the bizz. Players have huge ego's regarding their own talent. If we start playing a good passing game, then imo we can attract better quality players to the club.
We have been hoofing the ball around the pitch for several years now, and its hardly been a roaring success. I've lost count of the amount of times when people have trudged home from another abysmal performance and vented their anger on here.
Time for change, lets have some football please.
