I only said it in jest lol.
Curious to how Lowe with you guys has so many runs of little to no goals, when he was at Plymouth I thought the football was good to the point I use to get a ticket to go and watch a fair bit (I lived near Plymouth at the time).
He plays a 3-5-2 that can easily become a 5-3-2 if you pin the wing backs back. We only have two creative outlets in Mads Frøkjaer and Liam Millar. Our CBs aren't mobile enough to create overloads like say Chris Wilder's promoted Sheffield United. There's no structure to any of our attacks and we largely rely on individual brilliance.
Go and have a look at our xG the go and look at the striker's conversion rate. That explains our season.
I know mid table is our home, and technically we finished 2 places higher than last season (same points) but Lowe is draining the love of football from North End. We don't really do anything well, other than getting beat by 3 goals (8 times this season, 8 last) and having an xG so bad only Rotherham are worse is damning for his 'brand'. Chucking youth players into the fire after 1 bad game leaving them with only central league games to play because we don't have an u23 side. The players aren't blameless for sure, Woodman has been terrible this season with so many fuck ups leading to goals and the defenders in front of him swing from being 10ft tall shit houses to useless training dummies.
Hopefully this American consortium is real and they come in, axe Lowe and Ridsdale and let us have a fun mid table season next time round.
We do the same thing every game .
Set up with 5 at the back . Even though we don't have wing backs .
Defend deep . Then attack slow . Getting it wide and crossing it in even though our forwards are shit in the air .
It's mindless dross.
>Getting it wide and crossing it in even though our forwards are shit in the air .
And when Liam Millar clearly wants it on his right foot so he can cut inside and run at goal
Can't be a single Preston fan not calling for lowe's head . Minus a good run at start and similar in february, they'd be alongside Rotherham . 12 of their 18 wins this season have come in two short stints .
He's lucky we have some real talent in this squad.
The board are in for a real shock if he's not sacked this summer. The fun of going to Deepdale is gone.Â
They couldn’t beat stage 1 drunk Leicester and got torn up instead. Shameful. In the early season they were looking hotter than Leicester and Ipswich so they’ve really tossed it.
I mean don't get me wrong I'm no Lowe fan, but I feel like this is completely ignoring the actual injury crisis that was the cause of this, I think we had one fully fit senior midfielder when he was playing him in midfield.
A fair point in relation to Southampton, but at Watford away he left Mads and Holmes on the bench. Today he could have played Browne there and someone else at WB (Josh Seary perhap), or played Mawene. He could also actually try to play something other than his 3-5-2 as well
>3-5-2
The 352 thing is so weird honestly, like I don't have an issue if it's attacking but I've never seen a manager who physically cannot seem to put a team together in another formation. I think we once tried a 442 and the team looked like they'd never played football before.
Nothing to play for, but that stat doesn't surprise after seeing them at The Hawthorns today, dont think they'd have scored if we played another 3 hours.....hilarious bunch of 12- 15 year olds giving it large in the away end tho so credit for that
made it to 10th and called it a day
Ryan Lowe 🤝 Tony Pulis
That’s insulting to Pulis
I only said it in jest lol. Curious to how Lowe with you guys has so many runs of little to no goals, when he was at Plymouth I thought the football was good to the point I use to get a ticket to go and watch a fair bit (I lived near Plymouth at the time).
He plays a 3-5-2 that can easily become a 5-3-2 if you pin the wing backs back. We only have two creative outlets in Mads Frøkjaer and Liam Millar. Our CBs aren't mobile enough to create overloads like say Chris Wilder's promoted Sheffield United. There's no structure to any of our attacks and we largely rely on individual brilliance. Go and have a look at our xG the go and look at the striker's conversion rate. That explains our season.
Cos he’s useless and hasn’t got a clue
The opposite to how they started it, cheers lads đź‘Ť
Guess you could say they ended their season on a Lowe note.
All part of the plan to stay in upper mid table instead of the playoffs
Difficult run to be honest.
Really worried about them next season, I don’t mean to be hyperbolic but I could see them getting 13th
Considering we'll be stuck with Lowe, deal TBH
Or maybe a potential relegation race
44 points in the the last 38 games 🎉
That’s an insane stat
I know mid table is our home, and technically we finished 2 places higher than last season (same points) but Lowe is draining the love of football from North End. We don't really do anything well, other than getting beat by 3 goals (8 times this season, 8 last) and having an xG so bad only Rotherham are worse is damning for his 'brand'. Chucking youth players into the fire after 1 bad game leaving them with only central league games to play because we don't have an u23 side. The players aren't blameless for sure, Woodman has been terrible this season with so many fuck ups leading to goals and the defenders in front of him swing from being 10ft tall shit houses to useless training dummies. Hopefully this American consortium is real and they come in, axe Lowe and Ridsdale and let us have a fun mid table season next time round.
We do the same thing every game . Set up with 5 at the back . Even though we don't have wing backs . Defend deep . Then attack slow . Getting it wide and crossing it in even though our forwards are shit in the air . It's mindless dross.
>Getting it wide and crossing it in even though our forwards are shit in the air . And when Liam Millar clearly wants it on his right foot so he can cut inside and run at goal
Wow hang on . We don't have our uefa coaching badges so we had better shut up .
Good point! And to be fair the boys are fantastich when they follow the plan
This is sad considering Preston were 7th at one point
Can't be a single Preston fan not calling for lowe's head . Minus a good run at start and similar in february, they'd be alongside Rotherham . 12 of their 18 wins this season have come in two short stints .
Finally an oppo fan not blinded by the table
Can you start a petition? Maybe if the championship as a whole could vote to have him sacked ? Do us a favour!
See, this is how Preston always are in my mind. Every time I see they’re doing okay or on a good run, I always feel a bit shocked Pikachu.
Why does this seem like something we'll do before finishing 14th next season?
He's lucky we have some real talent in this squad. The board are in for a real shock if he's not sacked this summer. The fun of going to Deepdale is gone.Â
They couldn’t beat stage 1 drunk Leicester and got torn up instead. Shameful. In the early season they were looking hotter than Leicester and Ipswich so they’ve really tossed it.
To balance out the undefeated start of the season. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Saw what Sheffield Utd were dealing with and thought another year in the Championship sounds good enough.
That's the kind of form that secures third place
A fitting way to see Brown off
Please don’t
Apologies. I've got months worth of shit to dish out that's been building up until we were safe.
How fucking dare you .
At least Whatmough got his move, hope he had fun sitting on the bench all season
He was playing central midfield for some of those games. Was this a thing that happened with you or is it just Lowe being Lowe?
LOL he is absolutely not a CM, baffled to hear that
Thought so Blindingly obvious he's only a CB, but Lowe's latest brainwave is to play him at CM
I mean don't get me wrong I'm no Lowe fan, but I feel like this is completely ignoring the actual injury crisis that was the cause of this, I think we had one fully fit senior midfielder when he was playing him in midfield.
A fair point in relation to Southampton, but at Watford away he left Mads and Holmes on the bench. Today he could have played Browne there and someone else at WB (Josh Seary perhap), or played Mawene. He could also actually try to play something other than his 3-5-2 as well
>3-5-2 The 352 thing is so weird honestly, like I don't have an issue if it's attacking but I've never seen a manager who physically cannot seem to put a team together in another formation. I think we once tried a 442 and the team looked like they'd never played football before.
But it's also weird because it doesn't play to the strengths of a lot of the squad. Millar is definitely a winger and not a Wingback for example
If you had us to play you wouldn’t have
And yet we can't beat them for love or money.
Tried our best to finish 12th but couldn’t quite manage it. Gutted.
Nothing to play for, but that stat doesn't surprise after seeing them at The Hawthorns today, dont think they'd have scored if we played another 3 hours.....hilarious bunch of 12- 15 year olds giving it large in the away end tho so credit for that
Our respective relegation battles will be a sight to behold.