Régis Le Bris Rewrites the Rules: Finishers Revolution

The Bournemouth game showed again how revolutionary this team is being managed.

Pundits and commentators continue to be baffled by the way the club is operating. Comments that the likes of Trai Hume, Brian Brobbey, Dan Neil, and Romaine Mundle will be unhappy at not starting games.

But they’re all missing the point. The players have bought into the project and understand that this is a multi-player environment. The players are tools which the coaching staff will use on appropriate occasions.

Brian Brobbey has come on three times on or around the hour mark and made three goal contributions.

Prior to that Wilson Isidor has run defences ragged, tiring them out, making them ripe for the unit that is Brobbey to pick pockets and make a difference.

On Saturday, he had the freedom of the six-yard box and was unmarked as he placed his header into the bottom corner.

Old-style commentators of the game aren’t used to this methodology and keep questioning it.

Régis Le Bris is constantly questioned about players being alright with not starting or only playing a few minutes during the game.

Clearly, each player has his role. Isidor’s tireless running stretches opposition defences and when a replacement in the form of Brobbey arrives who swats away defenders like flies, he has a good opportunity to add to the score.

Le Bris is flexible and pragmatic; he shapes his formations according to the challenge in front of him and is not afraid to change the system mid-game, keeping opposing coaches on their toes.

Enzo Maresca admitted he wasn’t expecting a change in system when we won at Chelsea.

Again, journalists and commentators have been lazy when commenting on the team this season. First, we were nailed-on relegation candidates; then the narrative was that we’d had a kind start to the season.

Then we held Arsenal and beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Then it was, it can’t last.

Why not?

The club are operating in a way that no club has done so before.

I mean, the way we have integrated 14 new signings into the team and have amassed 22 points in the first 13 games is phenomenal.

None of us expected that. But here we are. And as John Major said at his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, who’d have thought it?

Régis is changing the lexicon of football with his finishers, starters, and main courses. Let’s enjoy the ride.