Keep Phelan manager?

We are definitely playing a better style of football, and more importantly an effective style. This was evident in preseason also, and he has just continued it into the season.

 

oh but but but SB is our best ever manager............... we are hull... we regard change with suspicion... no lets remain the same
lets get PB

 

Really?

We played a very cautious game today by all accounts, before scoring 2 in the last 10 minutes.
I'm happy as ****, as I'm not one of these ****ers demanding entertainment and attacking football.
Now I'm reading Phelan is to be praised for his positive, front-foot football.

Guess what? It's the oldest rule in the book. Win and you're a genius, lose and you're a ****.

 

compared to SB?
hmm Id rather have Phelan

 

The main point I think is that we were attacking at the end rather than just trying to shut up shop.

I think our passing was better in the Leicester game but we still played well enough in this one, certainly well enough for Swansea.

 

Thoroughly deserved the win. Acid test next week for 606 Waldorf and Statler types as Hull's infamous OPE reds infiltrate the upper west.

You've been warned.


Phelan OUT

 

Exactly ... some people just dont understand tactics.

I was impressed with Phelans post match interview, saying how we had to conserve enery for 75 mins because of lack of players, the give it to them last 15m.

we had to be on the counter yesterday, and we worked it well. Brilliantly set up and executed - that is the sign of a good manager

 

Nice to see us attack with a bit of tempo.

 

Yes Really, I have been to all the preseason games bar the Austria trip, and with the 2 league games so far, IMO we are passing the ball better, we are playing the ball out from the back rather that booting it up the field and then the ball coming straight back, we are not just going deeper and deeper towards the end of the game, we are actually playing more in the opposition half. There seems to be much more or plan in place for each game, and so far Phelan in the 2 games has got is tactics spot on.

 

Remind me how Leicester won the Premiership last year!!!!??

 

He was an unknown quantity in terms of being the man in charge, but a lot of us wanted to give him a go just for some semblance of order amidst all the chaos. I doubt any of us would have thought he'd look this assured.

He has to get it. Has to.

He looks like he belongs there.

 

They got more points than anyone else.

 

So we were set up to defend for the point, with an eye for a cheeky breakaway goal?
Amazing.

 

Guilty as charged, m'lud.

In my defence, I will say that I have never been an armchair manager who makes bogus claims to do so.

 

I remember a game in the top tier we had at Swansea about 3 seasons ago, they were terrible. It was like we were bossing the game but had no ideas going forward. Ended 0-0 but it felt like a loss to me. This game will help wash that out of my memory.

Phelan obviously still has future tactical challenges, such as when teams are sat back against us. More speed combined with alert and technically good players in the middle and up front would be great in this transfer window. Every little bit of creativity we can add would help. Maloney is back which is great but you never know when he'll get injured.

 

Our starting X1 is very decent, just that we have zero cover, so the whole thing is in imminent danger of disaster.
We've played 2 games against teams who thought "We'll beat this lot down on their luck", but they have underestimated our determination and organization.
Surely we all know that newly promoted clubs have a honeymoon period where their weaknesses have not yet been identified and targeted?
A few more games and I'm sure we'll have been studied by the opposition more. Plus I don't know how long this intensity of performance that we've put in will last.
All I know is that every point gained is a point nearer to safety and that we're giving ourselves a fighting chance by not getting isolated down at the bottom, so that the points per game target becomes totally unrealistic.

 

We drew 1-1 there in 13/14 if that's what you're thinking of? We should have won that game and played quite well.