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Possibly best since our Premiership days and away to a side who needed the points for their promotion push.
Puts a slightly different slant on things and makes rest of season important in how we go on from there. If we can show some consistency, and by that I don't mean win every game, that will breed confidence. It will mean we will have a greater chance of keeping players we want to and attracting others.
If last night proves to be a one off and we revert to being poor a lot of the time would possibly have opposite effect and also would make expectations for next season along the lines of more of the same.
Ollie's great strength has always been to gee up players and get them motivated. Some managers can't do that. There are any number of bright coaches out there who can't. His great weakness has been odd selections, tactics and a general inability to change games. I am hoping last night will have shown him two things:
1. Set the team up to play to it's strengths and forget how you would like to do things with your ideal squad.
2. Give youngsters a chance and they may repay you. Has taken a long time for them to start getting real game time.
If Ollie keeps things simple and focused whilst motivating squad could do ok. It's when he starts trying to be clever it goes wrong. He isn't a clever manager, simple as that.
History tells us Ollie can't help himself in indulging his weaknesses but up to him. If he learns from all the pluses from last night he has a chance to get the team playing much better and giving himself and the club a more solid base going into the summer and next season. We don't need to spend loads to do well next season. Keep the nucleus of the current squad, dispose of some more dead wood and couple of clever signings and we could do top 10.
Puts a slightly different slant on things and makes rest of season important in how we go on from there. If we can show some consistency, and by that I don't mean win every game, that will breed confidence. It will mean we will have a greater chance of keeping players we want to and attracting others.
If last night proves to be a one off and we revert to being poor a lot of the time would possibly have opposite effect and also would make expectations for next season along the lines of more of the same.
Ollie's great strength has always been to gee up players and get them motivated. Some managers can't do that. There are any number of bright coaches out there who can't. His great weakness has been odd selections, tactics and a general inability to change games. I am hoping last night will have shown him two things:
1. Set the team up to play to it's strengths and forget how you would like to do things with your ideal squad.
2. Give youngsters a chance and they may repay you. Has taken a long time for them to start getting real game time.
If Ollie keeps things simple and focused whilst motivating squad could do ok. It's when he starts trying to be clever it goes wrong. He isn't a clever manager, simple as that.
History tells us Ollie can't help himself in indulging his weaknesses but up to him. If he learns from all the pluses from last night he has a chance to get the team playing much better and giving himself and the club a more solid base going into the summer and next season. We don't need to spend loads to do well next season. Keep the nucleus of the current squad, dispose of some more dead wood and couple of clever signings and we could do top 10.
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