Martin Allen out Stuart Pearce in!

[gillsfan1066]

Jesus you guys, how ungrateful can you be ? He purchased Perspex, each piece of Perspex GUARANTEED to bang in 5 goals this season and see us into the Championship Division. What the hell do you guys want, GLASS ?

[Rimshot]

Anyone really believe decisions about playing strength and wage bill are made by the manager ?

[Garawa]

Maybe not but I don't believe Scally would have put those 4 up for transfer!

[gillsfan1066]

Playing strength yes, wage bill somewhat. Think M.A. is given a guide line, told not to look at players who want more than 47 quid a week and not to spend more than X number of pounds each year on the first team players.
Then with a bit of luck he will sit down at the bar one night with Scally, and the Scall Myster will say say guess what M.A., Mrs. S. has found another couple of million Dirham under her mattress, go out and get some players, SAVE US ,SAVE US from the drop into the dark depths of Division 2.

[Robpthegills]

We invited teams onto us for most of the end of last season. After the Oxford away game we seemed to defend more often than not inviting teams onto us and
then grabbing the odd winners.

We seem to be doing the same this season. The difference is we are now in Div 1. The opposition strikers and midfielders are of a higher quality but we didnt improve
the quality in our defence. We just assumed the same back 4 could do it again...Why?

For a team that is supposed to be super fit we seem to be conceding a lot of goals, but we will if we keep inviting teams onto us and then just hoofing it out and hoping it
doesnt even come back.

I still do not see the Logic in not leaving any players whatsoever up front when the opposition has a corner, I think you should always leave someone up there.

We should definately give Allen more time, however it is strange that he now wants better quality players, we got rid of a Championship quality player in Jack Payne.

[Garawa]

The narrow midfield is never going to work looking at some of the flying wingers in this division. It's all very well saying the full backs can push up but they are spending too much time defending, are we really saying Fish and Martin were better at getting forward than Whelpdale and Weston? Play 4-4-2 at least and I am sure Whelpdale would be back to scoring super goals from outside the area and Weston doing the attacking. In a narrow 3 they have to stay solid instead and now Whelps has been transfer listed because of those tactics!

I still don't get how Gregory and German, who hardly set the side alight, won contracts in the summer and 6 games after deemed surplus to requirements. Unless Mr Scally signed them, that was all the managers fault I'm afraid. It looks like it was a case of almost settling for any player instead of the ones that could do the job required.

[Garawa]

This is slightly more worrying for me. I didn't go, I am not in the football game either so really I have no ability to criticise at all but every Gills fan everywhere seems to be concerned about tactics and yet Martin Allen has said they were right!

“It was hard to take, the players put in a fantastic performance and we had a game plan to set out and frustrate them,” he said. “We conceded a goal in the first minute after giving the ball away but after that there were numerous opportunities for us to score.......There was no way that we could leave ourselves open and the areas they were weak we exploited them."

“We added some pace and some athleticism and tactically we changed the way of playing so we wouldn’t get cut open or passed through......We restricted them to very few chances and overall I thought it was a good performance and if they keep playing like that we will be alright.”

“I thought we played really well. We had good pace in our team, good tenacity, good organization and tactically we got it right."

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