Oh how things have changed.
I'm in my fourth season by the way, I don't know if i've mentioned that or not. In my first three seasons I finished 8th, 9th and 17th. So that what what was causing my frustrations. I couldn't understand why the performances seemed ok but we were rapidly going backwards. After the 9-1 defeat I really wasn't sure that I was going to bother playing again. But I decided to give it one more go.
So tweaked my tactics to better suit my players. I was spending too much time worrying about promises and shoehorning players into the system. I introduced a new set piece routine which has started getting goals for my centre halves (If I could afford one with a normal shaped head, he might win the golden boot) and the tweaks seem to have paid dividends.
we have won 4 of our last 5 and we're playing some really nice football. To demonstrate how far we have come, in our last game we had a player sent off (for what seemed to me like a great challenge, i think i'm about to get a touchline ban) in the first minute of the game. We were playing Chippenham Town who are rock bottom and essentially down, but we beat them 1-2 and that never would have happened a few weeks ago.
I'm in my fourth season by the way, I don't know if i've mentioned that or not. In my first three seasons I finished 8th, 9th and 17th. So that what what was causing my frustrations. I couldn't understand why the performances seemed ok but we were rapidly going backwards. After the 9-1 defeat I really wasn't sure that I was going to bother playing again. But I decided to give it one more go.
So tweaked my tactics to better suit my players. I was spending too much time worrying about promises and shoehorning players into the system. I introduced a new set piece routine which has started getting goals for my centre halves (If I could afford one with a normal shaped head, he might win the golden boot) and the tweaks seem to have paid dividends.
we have won 4 of our last 5 and we're playing some really nice football. To demonstrate how far we have come, in our last game we had a player sent off (for what seemed to me like a great challenge, i think i'm about to get a touchline ban) in the first minute of the game. We were playing Chippenham Town who are rock bottom and essentially down, but we beat them 1-2 and that never would have happened a few weeks ago.