And on this we DO agree.
I don't agree that they are atrocious.
But otherwise this is correct.
NP could see it. So set us up as a counter-attacking side. Pretty much home and away.
Of course, if he had been kept on and backed in the transfer market, he could have changed that.
It's no coincidence that Manning's only good results have come against teams that force us to play the way that NP drilled us to.