Have just read the whole thread from start to finish and thought i'd chip in with some of my own thoughts, opinions and answers
No way are we playing worse than we were under JED.
Main difference for me between the two, is that JFH seems to have an idea of what he wants and gives some clear instructions to his team (albeit they aren't always followed). JED seemed to have no ideas and just moaned when people made mistakes but there is no clear guidance and it was just lazy thoughtless football.
Whilst I know Revell is the not the saviour, without him up front i think we lose so much. His energy, closing down and defending from the front. Holding up the ball and winning a lot in the air. He was an out ball when we had nothing on. I appreciate when he was up top on his own, much of it was vain, but for the short spell he played with Long it worked. Its no coincidence in my mind. Ill agree that long term we need better strikers than him, but of what we have at the club he would always play for me.
its not just pace on its own we lack, it is the speed in which we can turn defence in to attack. If it was just pure pace we actually have 3 extremely fast players in the squad in Long, Hanley and Smith. Powell is quite fast, its just the winger part of him, beat a man and get the ball in the box we are lacking when he isn't there.
Hoskins is not fast. He just attempts more sprints than others in a game, but he isn't particularly quick.
Someone said ' how have we ended up with only one winger in the squad? ' the answer is easy. JED was fixed on a 5-3-2 they wouldn't of featured in his plans.
Will JFH succeed, I have no idea. I think i can see what he is trying to achieve and a lot of the players don't fit his style. that is different from saying they aren't good enough for us. Yes i would of expected more to date from the squad, but i think he deserves the chance to manipulate the quad to be his own and see if it works. JED got that and it absolutely didn't, in fact it got worse with his own players than it did with Pages.
Points made about Gorre are very good, would have him back in the club in a heart beat, but you still need the rest of the team to work to that style.
And the nonsense of ' where would be if Wilder was running this squad' get over it, he has gone. so has Holmes.
You must be watching something totally different to me. To me the football is no better then it was under JED, to me it looks like there is very little idea or plan (the constant teams changes week in week out tells you he has no clue what his best 11 is).
As for Revell winning stuff in the air - I certainly have not seen it! the ball is pumped long and it just comes back again.