Mid Sussex RoyalVision The Port Vale performance wasn't great of course but we won the game from the inverted winger on the left (to be fair I'm not sure what DK's stronger foot is as everything other than dribbling seems to be a whiff) cutting inside leading to the inverted winger from the right cracking an absolute beauty with his left foot. Not sure anyone within the game would be advising Hunt to rip it up and start again after our first League win and first clean sheet of the season on the back of two very creditable away draws.
I've said it before but it wasn't just the 4222 formation that was stifling Selles it was that he really didn't know what personnel he wanted. Once he decided on the players he wanted to work with, he then selected the formation that worked best for them. He wasn't exactly flexible after that because it was proving to be relatively successful despite a few bumps along the way. I think it's also true that player turnover is so high in the modern game that as a manager it's easier to have a set system that to integrate replacements into than change everything.
Lets see what Hunt does with the group he's now stuck with. I have my doubts but the last 3 league results (which is ultimately what he'll be judged on) have been a home win and two draws against Wycombe (close to automatic promotion last season) and Bolton who battered us on our previous 2 visits. We're also into round 3 of the League Cup.
It's hardly sacking material is it?
Agree it isn't but I'd say we've played well for a sustained period of a game for only 45 mins all season (Wycombe) aside from that its been odd 10-15 min spells.
We've scored 5 league goals all season and I believe the highest xG has been 0.1 ......we've had 3 long range efforts (individual skill) an unlikely header that goes in 1 in 500 probably and a lucky deflection.
The main theme of this thread has been performance and tactics and my view is Hunt/coaches haven't the nous to improve things so results will generally be poor.
On the basis of what I've seen to date I'd give us maybe a draw with Orient and Mansfield which will leave us near the bottom by the next break.
All season? We've played 6 games (and 4 of those against teams fancied for promotion). 5 points from the last 3 fixtures is a decent return and we were every bit as good in one of those games as we were supposedly bad in the others.
He's hardly been helped by a transfer policy that has seen the CEO/DOF (whatever JJ is) plus the owner talking about 3 levels of transfer window thus making early season more of a pre-season. For better or worse and barring any late loans/free agents, this squad is now his.
I have my own reservations but lets see what he does in the coming weeks. He's not Redwood's man and I get the feeling JJ will want his imprint more on things moving forward so I doubt it will take much to pull the plug on Hunt and replace him with a man of JJ's choosing.
