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I listened to his post match presser from the club and he mentioned fatigue towards the end of the game.
After the team he picked on Tuesday and how that went down, he really should be more careful with his words as this fanbase will eat him alive, they won't accept many more stunts like that.
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Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 08:20 - Aug 19 with 2351 views
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 08:08 - Aug 19 by Wegerles_Stairs
Clearly Stephan was told to play the youngsters at Plymouth and I suspect told that Walsh is going to be our keeper. The problem with this is you start to wonder what else he is being told to do and any decision he makes comes with that doubt. All very well if we're winning but if we have a poor run like last season he's the man in the spotlight, not the powerful figure in the shadows.
I wouldn’t exactly call Nourry the one in the shadows…he is cery clearly front and centre of all tjis, just as he wants to be.
That won’t stop Stephan carrying le can though, naturellement, if things do go south
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Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 09:44 - Aug 19 with 2101 views
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 08:08 - Aug 19 by Wegerles_Stairs
Clearly Stephan was told to play the youngsters at Plymouth and I suspect told that Walsh is going to be our keeper. The problem with this is you start to wonder what else he is being told to do and any decision he makes comes with that doubt. All very well if we're winning but if we have a poor run like last season he's the man in the spotlight, not the powerful figure in the shadows.
Thats a big concern for me, if Julien has chosen Walsh as his keeper thats fine his choice but if he's being told who to pick thats not going to work long term if results don't improve
The League cup team clearly came from above the manager to get a few really young players in the team, record low average age all stats for the CEO to point to when selling the club to young players, I get it and Les did similar during his reign pushing young players into the team before they were ready but that didn't work then and it won't now
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Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 09:49 - Aug 19 with 2067 views
One other thing on Ben Williams build them up plan which many say worked in 2023/24 It should be noted that these outfield players were around for that pre season
Osman Kakay, Joe Gubbins, Morgan Fox, Kenneth Paal, Sam Field, Andre Dozzell, Ilias Chair, Paul Smyth, Lyndon Dykes, Charlie Kelman, Sinclair Armstrong, Stephen Duke-McKenna, Elijah Dixon-Bonner, Chris Willock,Taylor Richards, Albert Adomah, Rayan Kolli, Jake Clarke-Salter, Jimmy Dunne
Out of those likes of Gubbins, Kakay, Duke Mckenna, Dozzell and Richards just never featured.
Morgan Fox suffered a bad hamstring injury after 10 games and missed several months, JCS missed the first 10 games through injury, played only 4 games before December. Sinclair Armstrong could rarley finish a game, Dykes played first 2 games then out injured for a month. Kolli struggled with mutiple injuries as he has ever since Adomah went from someone playing 30/40 games a season to not being able to last an hour and running in treacle, look at the number of games he played last year at Walsall in comparison. Taylor Richards didn't feature all season and is currently injured again
That second half of the season where we saw the benefits apparently, the team was mostly made up of players signed after pre season including Cook, Colback, Hayden, Anderson, Frey We also only had 3 games weeks on 3 occassions in the 2nd half of the season, one in feb, one in March and one in April We broke down into an exchasuted defeat for 2 of those in the 3rd game.
The main positive was getting JCS fit but he's hardly played a game since and does seem to have a good run once every 3 years going back through his career
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Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 13:18 - Aug 19 with 1531 views
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 13:46 - Aug 18 by Northernr
I do feel sorry for him with that. Baah is a unique opponent at this level. You look at his heatmap v Charlton the week before, the idea of putting a teenager in there, second ever game, against that... We said in the pub beforehand I wonder if he might put Mbengue out there just to do a specialist job on him, and then of course Baah didn't start.
I suspect they'll just go with Esquerdinha in future. Like you say, better have a round peg in a round hole. It didn't work on Saturday but I do see the thinking behind that one.
Morgan is also a teenager with limited experience yet Stephan had no hesitation in playing him at RB. If you're good enough, you're old enough.
I would understand the thinking if Mbengue covered at RB. He's right-footed, we have no specialist cover at RB, and it would free up Morgan to add more bite to a very lacklustre midfield.
Not only am I an advocate for round pegs in round holes but I also believe in looking at the bigger picture and understanding whether 1 decision affects the balance of the team. You don't upset that balance to negate 1 opposition player, especially one who as it turns out didn't even start.
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 21:00 - Aug 18 by 1JD
Ben Williams appears to be deploying a common fitness strategy seen in cycling - where his expertise lies. Slow build, Progressive overload, and pacing strategy is all classic cycling and endurance-based fitness.
The problem is we are a football club with completely different fitness and performance needs. Some of the fitness strategies we are deploying are unheard of in football.
Indeed. A strategy that has resulted in the last 2 seasons seeing the first team rock bottom of the Championship come October, several points adrift of safety and left with a mountain to climb. We can't keep expecting to dig ourselves out of trouble every year.
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Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 13:34 - Aug 19 with 1407 views
Think I will reserve judgement, until after the transfer window with some key players returning and hopefully we have a settled side.
Some of the CN dislike is definitely creeping into people's perceived perception of stuff happening behind the scenes. I am still overall positive on the ins/outs plus contract negotiations so far this summer.
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Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 14:41 - Aug 19 with 1195 views
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 00:10 - Aug 19 by daveB
I once read that pissing in the garden worked to get rid of them which I tried, as I work from home a lot when I needed a wee I popped out to the garden and would piss in various areas of the garden for a week or so
One day I did this as normal and forgot the gardener was round and she looked very confused as I popped the old chap out and had a wee a few feet from the poor woman who was clearing some weeds. We never spoke of the incident again but she does now play her radio a lot louder I think to scare me off from having a wee near her when she pops round
Another fox tale, I was playing football with my daughter 2 weeks ago, night before we went on holiday and as I went to get the ball found a dead fox at the back of the garden, absolutley shit myself that is was not dead and was going to move so I bravely got my wife to bag it up and stick it in the bin
Anyway, back to Ben Williams He's another Mike Rigg, full of bull and bluster, he'll go far
Re the weeing in the garden to ward off foxes, you might be on to something there.
While travelling thousands of mile across Central Asia on horseback, Australian adventurer Tim Cope claimed that human urine is known to scare off wolves.
The idea is to wee on the ground, not spray the critters in the eyes, in case you were wondering .
Apologies for subjecting the thread to a rather odd tangent...
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 15:10 - Aug 19 with 1089 views
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 14:41 - Aug 19 by R_from_afar
Re the weeing in the garden to ward off foxes, you might be on to something there.
While travelling thousands of mile across Central Asia on horseback, Australian adventurer Tim Cope claimed that human urine is known to scare off wolves.
The idea is to wee on the ground, not spray the critters in the eyes, in case you were wondering .
Apologies for subjecting the thread to a rather odd tangent...
I read online that would work, I didn't see the fox for a while then heard it shagging one night so maybe it just got him going. Given how long the noises were going on for maybe my urine is like viagra for foxes
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Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 15:20 - Aug 19 with 1047 views
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 15:10 - Aug 19 by daveB
I read online that would work, I didn't see the fox for a while then heard it shagging one night so maybe it just got him going. Given how long the noises were going on for maybe my urine is like viagra for foxes
Vixen Viagra!
Available from all good vets, and some bad ones too.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 15:10 - Aug 19 by daveB
I read online that would work, I didn't see the fox for a while then heard it shagging one night so maybe it just got him going. Given how long the noises were going on for maybe my urine is like viagra for foxes
We get foxes as we back onto allotments and my wife has been trying to get me to wee in the garden. So I read up on it and it's a partial myth. It basically confuses them due to territorial marking, but you'd have to do it every day. Foxes are out marking every night. The other point was that city foxes are so used to humans that effect would probably be zero. Christ, they stick there head into our back room when the door is open, they don't care.
So wee every night, but only if you live in the country. You've been warned Julien Stephan.
My garden is prone enough to smelling of cat piss, I'm definitely not adding to that, especially as it hasn't rained since Charlie Austin last scored a goal for us.
Julien Stephan - Word of warning on 21:00 - Aug 18 by 1JD
Ben Williams appears to be deploying a common fitness strategy seen in cycling - where his expertise lies. Slow build, Progressive overload, and pacing strategy is all classic cycling and endurance-based fitness.
The problem is we are a football club with completely different fitness and performance needs. Some of the fitness strategies we are deploying are unheard of in football.
Was looking at Williams' CV on LinkedIn. His only job in football appears to have been with Eastleigh Women's FC in 2007-9. His longest job (7 years) was with the British Army.
Is he actually any more specifically qualified for a senior Championship fitness coaching role than Nourry is to be Our Great Leader?
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