22-01-2022, 10:43 PM
The first 4 or 5 games under Cowley gave me real hope: high energy, high press, movement and some goals……but it’s been downhill ever since !
As Pompey fans, we have to face some unpalatable facts, nobody any decent is going to come to manage Pompey. The unemployed ? Yes ! A payday is a payday after all- especially when your last job was quite a few months ago but if you have talent and ambition why would you want to manage Pompey ?
Compared with most of L1 and 2 we are a big club with big gates but with a small playing budget and no recognisable Youth/Academy set-up (and where the owners have little commitment to the playing budget, yes they are prepared to spend on fixed assets but not on the squad which is what the manager needs).
As someone has already said, Cowley is all smoke and mirrors, he can talk the talk but trips up every time he tries to walk the walk !
29 goals in 26 games, a virtually full strength side beaten by non-league Harrogate at home in the FACup tells you all you need to know about Cowley, his players and his tactics and methods.
Still, only another three and a half seasons of him to go and we’ll likely recruit yet another no-hoper.
As Pompey fans, we have to face some unpalatable facts, nobody any decent is going to come to manage Pompey. The unemployed ? Yes ! A payday is a payday after all- especially when your last job was quite a few months ago but if you have talent and ambition why would you want to manage Pompey ?
Compared with most of L1 and 2 we are a big club with big gates but with a small playing budget and no recognisable Youth/Academy set-up (and where the owners have little commitment to the playing budget, yes they are prepared to spend on fixed assets but not on the squad which is what the manager needs).
As someone has already said, Cowley is all smoke and mirrors, he can talk the talk but trips up every time he tries to walk the walk !
29 goals in 26 games, a virtually full strength side beaten by non-league Harrogate at home in the FACup tells you all you need to know about Cowley, his players and his tactics and methods.
Still, only another three and a half seasons of him to go and we’ll likely recruit yet another no-hoper.