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Midlands Eagle Flag 18 Mar 16 7.28am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

In fairness to Freeman, how long do you think he'd have been in charge had he stayed on as manager, and gotten promoted.

That is one of the great unknowns.

He had the team flying in the Championship and I'm sure that we would have grabbed one of the two automatic promotion places if he had stayed but the Premiership is another world and we will never know the answer

 

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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 19 Mar 16 9.54am Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

That is one of the great unknowns.

He had the team flying in the Championship and I'm sure that we would have grabbed one of the two automatic promotion places if he had stayed but the Premiership is another world and we will never know the answer

Sure?

This is the man who could've made the play offs at Bolton on the last day and instead played for a draw and didn't make it.

Don't forget there was a period in that season when we lost Garvan for a couple of months in Autumn/Winter and our link up play suffered massively. Moritz was also unavailable. This was again where we were inadequate compared to bigger clubs. (our revenue was 14th in the division and £5mil in the red before player sales)

The Champ is a division where you need to score lots of goals, where you can concede 2 in lots of weeks, sometimes 3 and still win, or scramble a draw late on. DF could not cope with this in his Italian football philosophy.

DF was also pretty useless from the dugout. He was often outfoxed by the opposition dugout. IH may not have been a master tactician but at least his gung-ho subs had a strategy. Goals goals goals and get a point or 3 in the last quarter of the match.

Oddly I think DF's style would be more suited to the 1st 1 or 2 seasons after promotion to the Premier League but we've moved on from that and need to evolve. And he'll need to earn that from promotion but I don't think he has the winning mentality or bottle in that highly competitive division.

 


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