Glasner Out

[TheBigToePunt]

We have a system that's designed to play away against the top half.

It has been totally found out that a team of (Macclesfield demonstrated) non-league standard or higher can sit in against it and get a result. Every manager has worked it out.

Fredrikstad, Larnaca twice, Zrinjski Mostar, Macclesfield, 10 man Forest, 10 man Leeds, almost 10 man Wolves...

Glasner is either unwilling or incapable of doing anything about it.

He has more resource than any manager in our history. His system is consistently producing less than the sum of its parts. And above all, it's awful to watch.

Surely the only possible reason he's still here is that the replacement is still in a job elsewhere.

All spot on, though I would offer that a system designed to take the game to the opponents, be they lower than us in the table, cup minnows, or the big teams visiting selhust is not obviously one that will get us more, or even as many, points over the season.

We have stayed midtable for all these years by taking a conservative tactical approach, and whilst we've had a run of dreary non-events recently, and it feels like too many round pegs are being squeezed into square holes in the team, I'd still be surprised if the next manager changes that general 'safety-first' strategy.

Whilst our current squad is expensive by Palace standards, at least one third of the teams in our league have much better squads, and another third have squads at least as good. I don't hold the conservative approach against Glasner, or the inflexibility. He's entitled to think that a settled, familiar approach is more valuable overall.

That said, if Glasner had another year or two left on his deal, and even if he hadn't behaved like a prick earlier this season, I think Parish would still have a decision to make this summer. The new players just don't seem to suit the system the manager believes in. Of course Eze and Olise were fantastic, and far better than Johnson, Pino, Guessand, and even Sarr, but it's also relevant that Glasners system suited our former stars down to the ground, and doesn't seem to fit the current players.

Not every change in system has the effect seen recently at Man U, but trying something different has become critical. We cannot afford for these players to fail.

 

[Sportyteacher]

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[SurbsEagle]

You might have a point but on the other hand wouldn't that mean that there was/is a plan and that somebody was already signed and sealed? Such a situation would be a positive, avoiding the nedd for weeks of media speculation at season close but without having any evidence to the contrary, I rather doubt that given past experience.

Well you say that but we bought Daniel Munoz whilst Roy Hodgson was still in charge because he was a player crucial to Glasner's system. It seemed like we had no plan at the time and the club were fumbling etc etc... But then Glasner came in, said it was always the plan just that he had to come in a bit earlier than usual due to Roy's illness and subsequent sacking.

Just because we (the fans) don't know about it, doesn't mean there isn't a plan. It would also explain the requirement for Glasner to see out the season, as someone may have signed a contract for a summer takeover.

 

[palace99]

I'd have got rid of him as soon as Dyche became available, assuming Dyche would have taken the job.
Some might say Dyche's football is tedious but what are we watching at the moment.
I'm entirely confident that Dyche would grind out the necessary points.

At that point he'd already effectively told the board to go feck themselves and it was hard to see where the next points were coming from. Thankfully Wolves, Spuds and Leeds all helped out by playing with 10 men.

His behaviour has dented his CV, possibly the only way to repair that is to win the Conference League and as soon as I saw the team sheet on Sunday my feeling was this was as much about beating them as it was about keeping players in condition for Thursday. Well done Leeds for making it a game with 10 men. This can be seen in that he kept the defence intact until the 80min eventually swapping out Canvot for Kamada.

at which point he moved Lerma back into defence, therefore, keeping the 3 CBs in place for the whole game. Rotating a few players in fine, especially as there will be the odd knock that we won't know about, not changing the formation due to game circumstances is the issue most people have.

What will OG do if it's 0.0 with 20 minutes to go? If he puts on JP and takes off Larsen i may put my foot through the TV!!

 

[cryrst]

at which point he moved Lerma back into defence, therefore, keeping the 3 CBs in place for the whole game. Rotating a few players in fine, especially as there will be the odd knock that we won't know about, not changing the formation due to game circumstances is the issue most people have.

What will OG do if it's 0.0 with 20 minutes to go? If he puts on JP and takes off Larsen i may put my foot through the TV!!

I would suggest watch it in some one else’s house. That will be fun 😁