Thank you Mr Farke

Manager’s rarely ‘improve’ players much individually in my view… they just give them the platform to show what they can do. And Thats what he’s done.

He’s manager not coach, no DOF, so he has final say on all signings. It’s his team. The guy’s done great.

If he’d been less stubborn about the goalkeeper, and Sheffield united and Burnley had’t ridden their luck all season we’d have won the league by 15-20 points.

Way more goals than anyone else, way more ‘big chances’ than anyone else, way more shots on and off target, more corners, more possession, more touches in the opposition box. Second best defence, in terms of goals against, and best defence in terms of expected goals against… better than Burnley).

And still people moan.

Agree. Well done Farke on doing what he was paid to do and doing it in style at times. However, the Prem is the prize for his/our success. So, enjoy every single minute of this success. However, football is a business. No room for sentiment after Monday's celebrations.

We need a massive summer of recruitment whether Farke's still in charge or not. If he is, let's see where we
are in September and check the appetite for Farke then.

My hunch is we won't be so gushing with the praise.

comment by Mattyp (U8926)
posted 8 hours, 9 minutes ago
Honestly thi k people really underestimate where we were when he took over.

We had just sacked our third manager of the season and the club was all over the shop.

He came into that and has had two fantastic seasons with the club where he has turned players who were losing every week, players who had lost their way and players who were permanently injured and turned them into a 100 point team.

The guy has done a fantastic job
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Correct Matty. Let that list start with Dan James. Look how he walked Archie Gray through to having such a marvellous season. Without that value added to his sale, imagine what an impact it would be having now:

Let him take us forward or give him the sack?..

Without the right backing from the club there is no way he can prove himselfe, the same as the so called top manager that some are crying for!..

We are now where he has got us, its up to the club to help him prove he can do what we want him to do, but he needs the backing of people outside the club to, ie the people that some of are shouting for him to go!..

Farke in, he's earned that right and has to be backed by the people that hold the key to our future!..

He’s won the championship 3 times now, that’s impressive. Yes, I find him frustrating sometimes and have criticised him on occasions when I felt it was needed, but the bottom line is, he got us up, but also got us up as champions. Now the board need to invest and the recruitment team need to be savvy to get us the players to improve the team and the squad to make us competitive.

I personally think it would be a bad idea, bad policy
and bad PR to sack Farke.
I hope it doesn’t come to that?!

From Farke’s perspective, from the way he looked,
slumped in the seat after the final whistle, was he
perhaps thinking shall I go now, call for the taxi, get
out on a ‘high’.?

What could await me next season if the team get
relegated, may not even relegated but struggle ?
I will get ‘murdered’ by the fans…the club won’t
hesitate to call for the dreaded taxi.

I need to think about my future now…from my point
of view I couldn’t have done anymore…delivered
the Championship with 100 points…got the club into
the Premiership with a financial dividend.

My problem with Farke was highlighted brilliantly yesterday.
We're 1-0 down at half time and Burnley were drawing.
The team were playing really well but as usual our finishing was beyond terrible.
We have 3 decent strikers on the bench, one of which reminded us just how good he can be in the measly 10 minutes he was given in the last game.
I'm thinking to myself, Daniel, just change it all up at half time and really go for it attacking wise.
But no, he just sticks with his pathetically predictable subs at 70 mins. Every game he does this regardless of what is going on in the game.
You can't be doing this in the premiership, you need to react quickly and tactically.
Furthermore, Daniel's substitution was to bring on Wober for Byram. And yes, that made sense, Wober is left footed and should be playing left back but why wasn't he on from the start??
But in a game with 80% possession defending wasn't our problem, scoring 2 much needed goals was and he did nothing.
In my opinion that's just not good enough and without Manor Solomon's last gasp bit of magic yesterday we would all be wondering about Farke's future anyway.
So I'm sorry, I really like Daniel, he's a brilliant motivator and he has done a wonderful job this season and achieved the task he was paid to do, but going forward we need a manager with actual tactics and can change things up when things get more tricky on the pitch.
And they undoubtedly will next season.

Not sure I follow the argument hammer.

If we’re playing well and creating lots of chances as you say… what is there to change? Managers usually make tactical subs when their team is being outplayed.

We got the equaliser, and had a goal scored by our striker incorrectly ruled out for offside. The wingers who are normally subbed off, got the goals and assists. Who should have come off? Or did we need more attackers on the pitch… at the expense of players who give them the ball?

"a manager with actual tactics and can change things up when things get more tricky on the pitch."

And which Championship side scored 22 goals in the final 10 minutes of games? Far more than any other.

comment by HammertimeYeboah (U8153)
posted 12 hours, 11 minutes ago
My problem with Farke was highlighted brilliantly yesterday.
We're 1-0 down at half time and Burnley were drawing.
The team were playing really well but as usual our finishing was beyond terrible.
We have 3 decent strikers on the bench, one of which reminded us just how good he can be in the measly 10 minutes he was given in the last game.
I'm thinking to myself, Daniel, just change it all up at half time and really go for it attacking wise.
But no, he just sticks with his pathetically predictable subs at 70 mins. Every game he does this regardless of what is going on in the game.
You can't be doing this in the premiership, you need to react quickly and tactically.
Furthermore, Daniel's substitution was to bring on Wober for Byram. And yes, that made sense, Wober is left footed and should be playing left back but why wasn't he on from the start??
But in a game with 80% possession defending wasn't our problem, scoring 2 much needed goals was and he did nothing.
In my opinion that's just not good enough and without Manor Solomon's last gasp bit of magic yesterday we would all be wondering about Farke's future anyway.
So I'm sorry, I really like Daniel, he's a brilliant motivator and he has done a wonderful job this season and achieved the task he was paid to do, but going forward we need a manager with actual tactics and can change things up when things get more tricky on the pitch.
And they undoubtedly will next season.
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I agree with you, Hammertime, Farke's limitations were there for all to see and throwing on all our strikers at the end was more an act of desperation more than tactical genius. That said, he has built a team that fight for each other and the badge. He's not perfect, but he go the job done. Can he adapt to the challenges of Premier League football? That is the question. Our pre- season friendly against Man U will be very interesting 🤔 👌