We scored that's good the last I heard it was 5-0.
We played Terry Butcher style football and we did ok.
Hughes came in and we went backwards and it wasn't just for one game, he wanted us to play a certain way. When we had 4 defenders to pass and 3 of our players are in front of the ball it seemed better to pass back to the goalie if a forward pass was too much of a gamble and play against 11 again.
He played a 442 with Falkirk and brought it here changing to a 244 in attack. Against Aberdeen he had Josh and Garry too far up the park and too wide. Josh ma Guinness just ran in between them and had them 4-0 up by half time. He didn't change anything after the 1 st goal only at half time. His latter games were very gung ho and we dropped loads of points at the end of matches. Against Hearts last season he calmed things down at the end and settled for a point.It didn't happen often though.
Hughes is a good bloke, he played a game of patience with his football and it worked wonders in cup games.
Terry was more direct with defence sitting back with protection from midfield and long balls to 3 Irish guys who ran riot.
We have a new manager who needs to cut his teeth somehow and it's a steep learning curve. It would have been a safer option as an assistant but our frugal club must see something in him to offer him the post with 4 years thrown in.
I will be warming the hands up for a good bit of happy clapping on Saturday and feel the need to be a bit more vocal too.