DS “new style” point packs a punch
In fact most of the time he’s pretty restrained and getting a hard and fast public view can be pretty tough going.
Ok there were the well publicised Charlie Austin quotes which in reality were all pretty harmless anyway but he has yet, for example, to react to anything Sam Allardyce has had to say about his time at the club.
I doubt very much indeed that he will, even should there be inflammatory stuff in the upcoming book. It really isn’t his style – why does he need to?
Tonight, though, he makes what I found an amusing comment in his ‘From the Boardroom’ column on the official website when revealing that we are trying a new approach.
He says: “I think we’re trying a new style and we’re trying to pass it out of defence more. Sadly, we’ve only been trying it for seven games so you sometimes get errors like we saw on Saturday.
If it (Mark Noble’s loose pass) had just been humped down the pitch that probably wouldn’t have happened but at the same token we wouldn’t be creating so much down the other end if we did that.”
Whoa! Sometimes you don’t need to get bang into someone’s face to make your point to do you? Were you listening Sam because I certainly was and it put me in my place.
For last night I wrote in pretty damning terms that Mark really needed to get his passing act together if he wasn’t to find himself in danger particularly when Alex Song is fit.
But Sullivan makes a very good point indeed – we are now playing to feet all over the park and after four years of the other stuff it obviously takes some getting used to.
Point made point taken!
Our pic shows the last minute equaliser against Norwich.