Ray Lewington ?

[duffbeer]

Anyone think our dismal performances and Sanchez style long ball has something to do with Ray Lew not being the assistant coach anymore?

[alfie]

I think there may be some credence in that statement

[FatFreddysCat]

Cant wait to see what shady has to say about that, i know he was very upset to see Lew go.

[Lighthouse]

I am a fan of Lewington. But are we guilty of clutching at any old straw?

[TonyGilroy]

There are managers who rely heavily on their coaches but Hodgson isn't one of those. Lewington, I'm sure was an assistant only.

Our problem is lack of strikers and pace. You can't coach that.

[HatterDon]

I am a fan of Lewington. But are we guilty of clutching at any old straw?

Yes, we are. It is refreshing, however, to discover that now that Liverpool have strung together a few decent performances, Roy has been rehabilitated. While they were sucking and we were one of two undefeated sides in the Prem, you may remember, we were all celebrating his failure and looking forward to the Hughes era. Now, of course, we recognize that sort of talk as delusional. Roy is once again God and Hughes is just a cut-rate version of Sanchez.

[duffbeer]

Lewington got reassigned sometime in mid to late October I think.  Since then I think we've seen progressively more long ball.  And I probably find long ball less distastful than all of you because I think there is a time and a place for it.  But launching balls up to AJ is madness.

Also, yesterday I think we saw more long ball than Sanchez was ever guilty of.  He at least mixed it up.

[HatterDon]

Lewington got reassigned sometime in mid to late October I think.  Since then I think we've seen progressively more long ball.  And I probably find long ball less distastful than all of you because I think there is a time and a place for it.  But launching balls up to AJ is madness.

Also, yesterday I think we saw more long ball than Sanchez was ever guilty of.  He at least mixed it up.

The vast majority of long balls we saw yesterday resulted from the defence trying to get the ball the hell out of our half. I don't think it was a strategic plan; I think it was "hoof that fecker upfield and give me a chance to catch my breath."

"You are never as good as you look when you win or as bad as you look when you lose." -- Earl Weaver.

[CULTUREVULTURE]

Ray Lewington would be a better buffer between players and Hughes than any of the henchmen that Hughes has appointed.

[TonyGilroy]

Ray Lewington would be a better buffer between players and Hughes than any of the henchmen that Hughes has appointed.

Any evidence?

Do you know what Hughes relationship is with the players?

[CULTUREVULTURE]

Ray Lewington would be a better buffer between players and Hughes than any of the henchmen that Hughes has appointed.

Any evidence?

Do you know what Hughes relationship is with the players?

In the most recent Ful-time Mark Bowen talks about how Hughes likes to keep a distance from the players (nothing wrong with that) and that he (MB) acts as the buffer. Now we have Hughes saying they are still finding things out about the squad. Common sense shows that Lewington could still be performing a valuable role around the first team.

[TonyGilroy]

Simon Davies was very complimentary about Mark Hughes last week but whatever we read is PR babble. Unless you have a source close to the players it's not possible to know how good the situation is between management and players.

I reckon bad results make us think things are bad when the fact is that we lack strikers and pace in midfield. I really don't know what can be done about that other than play ultra defensively and hope to nick the odd goal.

[Logicalman]

There does appear to be something in the air in West London these days, what with the goings-on with the two Rays, Lew and Butch. Hopefully the downturn the scum have seen since Butch was butchered won't be similar for us since Lew was reduced to the loo.