Do we still back Jan Portveliet?

[qwertySFC]

The best backing for Jan is feck off back to Holland, take your tired excuses , your pathetic inept decision making skills along with you.

The man is a charleton , could be subject under the trade discriptions act as he claims to be a football manager/coach. Does he come from the person who recomended Ali Dai ??

[suewhistle]

Bet his English spelling is better than yours though.

 

To be honest, if I were a manager who saw his side miss two penalties with the result that the team constantly had to chase the game I'd be mightily ****ed off. He can't just go out and buy new players (or even play one of the ones we have - Skacel) - and I get the impression that he knows what we need. He explained why he didn't immediately make substitutions. If he listened to people on here he'd have a team with even less confidence. At least they are playing some decent football, even if we all know DmcG is not the scoring answer at the moment. Nor is SJ, judging by the little I saw of him earlier in the season - on a different wavelength, but not in a good way.

 

It's good to know that there are a few injured players waiting to come in, although the predictable criticisms on here never take that into account.

 

This is the first time I've logged in since Saturday, but a quick glance shows the usual vituperative blame-seeking, so I won't be visiting often.

[qwertySFC]

Sue , I’m sure that you’re an intelligent person , if your starting to worry about a persons spelling in a chat forum maybe you don’t have enough ironing or cleaning to keep you busy , but that is another point.

 

I would just like to respond to some of the points you raised. Firstly, Jan as head coach is picking the first 11 , there is no evidence to suggest that RL is picking the side as you may have been suggesting about Rudi. I am aware that you are living abroad as you have said in previous posts so I assume your information is from the radio, TV and possibly the press reports. Watching Jan at most home games, a few away games and in pre season it is very clear that he is struggling to cope with this level of the game. For example, during the last home game, he stood on the touch line hands in pockets virtually silent, watching his young players become totally disillusioned. After every game we lose and that’s been a few, he returns to the same rhetoric irrespective of the game, his team selection has at times been strange, QPR away was a prime example, he had a recognised defender sat on the bench on Saturday, but opted again for a team selection of his famous 1, 4, 1 , 4 , 1 , or what ever the combination is , even the players are getting confused as to where they were playing and it took Wotton to point that out during the match that players were not in the correct positions.

 

To confirm my suspicions about his level of tactical awareness, the best was when T Pechart came on with 10 mins to go, we were 3 0 down , it was Wotte who approached Jan and said some thing to him within minutes Thomas was on , however, prior to this Jan & Wotte were holding a piece of A4 paper , showing and going to great lengths explaining what to do once he is on the field, we were 3 0 down , 10 mins to go, what needs explaining ????? The reason we are blame seeking, (No hyphen required here incidentally) is because it is his decisions, why ,we are where we are, he has no back up plan on the pitch, you can see the players are looking for direction from him when the going is tough, there is no flexibility on the pitch when teams have sussed us out , no inter changing of play , no lets mix it up here for a bit so the opposition get a bit confused , we are so rigid as a unit , yes we play some lovely 1 touch , controlled passing in the centre circle but you have to see it for what it is worth because that is where the total football ends. If you think that Jan has the impression of man who knows what he is doing , I would suggest contacting Ryan Air or Easy Jet and come over and see this mans ability upon a regular basis and make an informed , educated argument , rather than assuming we are over reacting, Sue , with 10 mins to go there was about 7 or 8 thousand people in our great stadium, that is the reality of Jan’s total football, the fans are not reducing the confidence , no player was abused that I heard during the games , the confidence is slowly ebbing away by the management of Jan and his weekly tactics.

[JohnnyFartPants]

Sue , I’m sure that you’re an intelligent person , if your starting to worry about a persons spelling in a chat forum maybe you don’t have enough ironing or cleaning to keep you busy , but that is another point.

 

I would just like to respond to some of the points you raised. Firstly, Jan as head coach is picking the first 11 , there is no evidence to suggest that RL is picking the side as you may have been suggesting about Rudi. I am aware that you are living abroad as you have said in previous posts so I assume your information is from the radio, TV and possibly the press reports. Watching Jan at most home games, a few away games and in pre season it is very clear that he is struggling to cope with this level of the game. For example, during the last home game, he stood on the touch line hands in pockets virtually silent, watching his young players become totally disillusioned. After every game we lose and that’s been a few, he returns to the same rhetoric irrespective of the game, his team selection has at times been strange, QPR away was a prime example, he had a recognised defender sat on the bench on Saturday, but opted again for a team selection of his famous 1, 4, 1 , 4 , 1 , or what ever the combination is , even the players are getting confused as to where they were playing and it took Wotton to point that out during the match that players were not in the correct positions.

 

To confirm my suspicions about his level of tactical awareness, the best was when T Pechart came on with 10 mins to go, we were 3 0 down , it was Wotte who approached Jan and said some thing to him within minutes Thomas was on , however, prior to this Jan & Wotte were holding a piece of A4 paper , showing and going to great lengths explaining what to do once he is on the field, we were 3 0 down , 10 mins to go, what needs explaining ????? The reason we are blame seeking, (No hyphen required here incidentally) is because it is his decisions, why ,we are where we are, he has no back up plan on the pitch, you can see the players are looking for direction from him when the going is tough, there is no flexibility on the pitch when teams have sussed us out , no inter changing of play , no lets mix it up here for a bit so the opposition get a bit confused , we are so rigid as a unit , yes we play some lovely 1 touch , controlled passing in the centre circle but you have to see it for what it is worth because that is where the total football ends. If you think that Jan has the impression of man who knows what he is doing , I would suggest contacting Ryan Air or Easy Jet and come over and see this mans ability upon a regular basis and make an informed , educated argument , rather than assuming we are over reacting, Sue , with 10 mins to go there was about 7 or 8 thousand people in our great stadium, that is the reality of Jan’s total football, the fans are not reducing the confidence , no player was abused that I heard during the games , the confidence is slowly ebbing away by the management of Jan and his weekly tactics.

 

So you are still undecided, yeah?

[SuperMikey]

Kick him out before he does too much damage. I think roughly 10 games has been more than enough time to prove himself, and he's really not done that. Fair enough, the team lacks quality and the finances are dire, but that's not an excuse for the poor tactics and selection choices.

 

Oh, and since I can't start a thread due to my thriftyness, I reckon that Burgmeier from Darlington would be a quality signing. He's great from set pieces and can really deliver a fantastic cross. He's got some skill too, which was evident in the televised game against Bradford the other day. And because he's playing in League 2 at the moment he'd be cheap as chips. He may not be good enough to be a regular fixture in the side, but he'd be a very handy squad player to have so that we aren't reduced to playing the majority of the under 12's side when a few players get injured.