First of all, I’m sorry to see you are down at the bottom of the EPL. I like Norwich as a club and you have a great traditional stadium.
Now then, Alex Neil.
We seem to be seeing a familiar thing happening to us as to what happened with his time with Norwich.
It started off great for him, but now 3 seasons of ups and downs with massive injury crises in each of these seasons has brought me to this forum.
You may think that little old Preston have been punching above their weight, but fans are becoming increasingly frustrated with Alex Neils approach to matches and constant stubbornness. We were top of the championship in November, and now we’ve seen a steady decline in winning results ever since now having the worse form this year in the championship.
We are finding that not only does he seem to have no plan B, he leaves it far to late to make subs. The timings and personnel of the substitutions have been odd to say the least. Most of the time when drawing and the game is there for the taking, it will take for us to go 1-0 before he makes a substitution, even if that’s in the 80th minute. Or on the other hand, if we are winning by a tight margin he seems to make a defensive substitution not long into the second half which has most often resulted in us conceding late on as we haven’t been able to kill the game off.
We are also finding that he has been holding back younger players back who have excellent potential like Josh Harrop and Tom Bayliss, both cost the club a decent whack of money to sign (certainly the latter).
I can speak for most fans here when I say I’m becoming quite peed off with Negative Neils tactics, his constant sulkiness and stubbornness. He never sticks with the same team often making 3-5 changes to the starting 11 each game. Enough may be enough.
Since football resumed, we drew 1-1 away at bottom of the league Luton, and we have lost 2 home games since. The tactics have been terrible and has left me wondering what must they be doing in training. Let’s not forget this dire run of results started way before lockdown. You wouldn’t think we were in and around fighting for a play off spot!
I would like to know your thoughts on your ex manager Alex Neil, so I can see if this is a becoming a trend with Neils management.
Thank You.
