I'll go against the tide

Well, not sure this will be universally accepted but I thought the first half today was better than we were used to seeing under Nige. There was better control in confined spaces and I thought that we always had an "out" ball. We had players taking the ball between the lines and, with some better finishing could have been a couple of goals to the good. I thought the "system" was working well but that the players didn't quite have the quality (or confidence maybe) to finish the job. Secon

Just to pick up on this one, because for me it gets to the heart of the issues we’re having. It has been under any analysis worse in the second half than first over the embryonic Manning regime, and I don’t think it’s because he’s drugging their tea at half time - I think it’s for a couple of reasons: - I do think Manning has a plan for each game based on the “process”. We can play better in the first half of games in part because there is a pretty small sample of how we’ve played under Man