The thing is Captain he is a very poor coach - if you see him in the training ground he ‘huffs and puffs’ (literally ) he tries players in different positions and if you don’t win he gets rid. It does cost money to get players in and out with the frequency he does. He never brings players on. For example can you imagine him doing a one on one with Jorden Graham improving his technique and vision.. of course not. His method has always been the same whatever club he goes to .. you keep changing the players until you get a few results and then change again if they don’t work out. He bullies and blusters and bullshits his way through everything. The man is a salesman not a technician. Rayner is just his puppet. They scream and shout about everything. Lovell bless him had far more class in his little finger than these two muppets. The other thing I keep hearing is that we have such a low budget well if that’s the case Evans has blown a lot of money on many average players that have come and gone which a more astute manger would have used more assiduously. Gills may flirt with the play offs they won’t go down as they will always be mid table under these two. You have to question their ‘coaching’ content and style. Can anyone be serious that we play great entertaining football. The football is no better IMO. That being said we have 2/3 v good players who can turn on a little magic occasionally to get the occasional good results. Then we lose against some of the poorer teams. There is little consistency. I don’t like Evans behaviour or mouth on the touch lines especially when younger kids are around. Then I listen to the garish bullshit he gives to the fans and the local press and he comes across as quite charming. I wouldn’t be sorry to see them both Evans and rayner go they should be confined to the dinosaur football bin with the likes of Pullis and Allydice - with those around we will never develop young talent and progress them. IMO that’s why we won’t win a football World Cup unless we have a complete shake up of all football league clubs with the likes of our leagues being development leagues for English talent. I would ask limit the Prem league clubs to a specific amount of foreigners. If you think about it we have so many Loan players who we develop for their parent club.
Anyway rant over.
Think your view is slightly warped and bias but that just my opinion and whilst I didn't want SE to be appointed manager he's surprised me on a few fronts and ultimately it's about results although I actually think they did better last season than they have this season so far.
As Shotshy says SE was brought in as a coach. I don't think SE has ever or will ever be a coach, that side of it from what I've seen and heard in their time here has been PR domain.
Trust me a lot of footballers and managers are different people away from the pitch than they are during a game or training, SE is no different in that aspect.
Don't agree with dinosaur football either, you play to your strengths, whatever they may be. If you expect total football in League one you're living in cloud clockwork land with the majority of clubs. We've seen plenty if times teams having massive possession stats, but losing games. That's not playing effective football.
You say SE doesn't develops hound talent, but both Walsh (who has made the club money in desperate financial times) and Tucker have both come on under SE watch. Tucker was being released (by Lovell) when SE came in.
Young coaches are all well and good, but are there that many successful English coaches. I know a few people who have their coaching badges, I doesn't mean they know f all about football IMO. One thing is for sure TP would have got us far more organised defensively than both SE or SL.
One thing is for sure SL was treated poorly by Socially, but IMO in our current situation both with what's going on in the world and in football, I doubt we'd be where were are in the table if SL was in charge, sadly.
SE has always operated the same way, so it's no surprise the revolving door is spinning fast at Priestfield.
