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Clough may well go even if we win the play offs.Reads to me that Clough will go if we fail in the play-offs.
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Clough may well go even if we win the play offs.Reads to me that Clough will go if we fail in the play-offs.
Do we have a new manager thread setup already?
Kenny Jackett, Nigel Adkins, Russell Slade or Karl Robinson would have won us this league given 18 months and £10 Million.
What a waste of time and money Nigel Clough has been and the sad thing is we will be stuck with his Derby rejects until their contracts expire or some other poor chairman hires him to bore everyone shitless at their club.
By my recollection (regarding the fans)...Those openly predicting our failure in the playoffs before the first whistle has blown are most certainly entitled to their views, but they might do well to pause and to consider the potential effect of their open negativity on the club they profess to love
That would be in excess of 3 years, with a relaitive gargantuan budget invested into a relative giant at it's lowest period in history, without making a step forward.It takes time. There's an undercurrent of Real Madrid sacking managers who don't win the European Cup.
Whatever happens I think Clough should be judged on next season at the earliest.
If he excites the crowd then he should be on the ball more often?
Shouldn't he be on the ball more often if he's going to increase our chances of winning?
.And lastly, if I am reading this right ... there's nowt left in the pot, even if we do scrape it and go up. Great. I guess we should be prepared therefore for a thorough beasting next season from the likes of Brighton, Huddersfield and fucking hell ... the Pigs.
We'd all be far more positive if we were scoring 5 and 6 like Swindon and MKD have been.
Why is it way too high to expect us to be more attackingCan't post in detail but for various reasons I think the expectations set out here are waaaaay too high.
If this is the expected standard after just over a season and half in charge then we'll need to install a revolving door on the manager's office which would be a real shame.
Deserves more than one 'like'By my recollection (regarding the fans)...
We went into the '97 playoffs believing we could win, and particularly fancied the final having just beaten Palace comfortably close to the end of the season.
'98 our form was poor going into the playoffs, but we got behind the lads and gave it everything in the home leg and deserved a slender lead.
2003 was no contest. We knew we were the best team in the playoffs, and I personally believed we were better than Leicester and at least as good as Portsmouth with automatic promotion sacrificed by two epic cup runs. The playoff semi final was one of the best nights we've seen and there was great confidence and optimism in the stands, even at 2-0 on the night. Again we were confident and positive going into the final, but 0-3 at half time is certainly beyond the influence of the fans. I even thought we might stage a remarkable come back when we got the penalty.
2009, having missed out on automatic promotion on the final day, again there was cause for optimism for the playoffs. Negative thoughts of losing the game were more like a running gag of how we never score in these big games, but I don't think we'd written off our chances before we got there.
2012 we were reeling a bit from our sudden striker shortage, but there was no reason to believe beating Huddersfield over 90 minutes, 120 minutes or 22 penalties was beyond us. Perhaps there were more pre-game predictions of defeat but I don't think the fans were being negative, just recognising a pattern.
2013 our form was poor and yes, we finally started to show that we're fed up of playoff disappointment.
I think my point is that positivity and confidence hasn't helped in any previous playoff campaign. We've believed in our chances going into four finals and failed to score a single goal. I think we can be forgiven for expecting yet another playoff failure and not getting excited at the prospect. Fans being thoroughly fed up of being stuck in League One AND a string of playoff final defeats is understandable, and moaning about that away from matches won't have any impact on the players.
The time that Steve Cotterril took to take Brizzle from bottom to 16th then pissing the league the following season and winning the JPT?It takes time. There's an undercurrent of Real Madrid sacking managers who don't win the European Cup.
Whatever happens I think Clough should be judged on next season at the earliest.
How?
Loans? Where from? Are available players going to be better or more reliable than who we have?
Signings? Instead of?
No hindsight allowed.
Kenny Jackett, Nigel Adkins, Russell Slade or Karl Robinson would have won us this league given 18 months and £10 Million.
What a waste of time and money Nigel Clough has been and the sad thing is we will be stuck with his Derby rejects until their contracts expire or some other poor chairman hires him to bore everyone shitless at their club.
Not sure quite how you've read into that, as I can't see Phipps say anything of the sort. Indeed he's consistently said there is a plan to ratchet up the investment in the event of promotion. In essence, there are funds available, but those will only be activated when we're in the Championship.
£10M investment over 2 years is £5M a year. McCabe claims to have been putting that much in consistently over the last few years anyway so is HRH just replacing that or is it really "new" investment in the team?
Also Clough has generated extra funds himself by selling Maguire, 3 lucrative cup runs and potentially now 2 or 3 play off matches. Be sure that HRH and Phipps wouldn't have allowed Clough the same amount of leeway in the transfer market if he hadn't been adding money into the pot himself.
Does the £10M he's invested cover the wages of Brayford etc going forward or is he committed to chucking another £5M in the pot next year and the year after that? Is it really £2.5M a year he's investing not £5M?
Phipps is correct that now is not the right time to speculate about the manager's position.
Neither is the right time to post inflammatory comments on Facebook, presumably to try and appease a few impatient loudmouths who are giving him a hard time.
William, FFS achieving managers make things happen and never in my experience have their brother scouting for them. The latter point is a divergence from the basic fact that achievers make things happen and see a problem , sort it and profit from the solution. however the quality of the scouting effort , allied to the academy effort, is key to everything a manager achieves.
"While I will keep my counsel on the specifics, I think it is fair to conclude that we have provided substantial support to management together with the discretion to use the resources as they see fit (within broad parameters). ...I earnestly believe we have conducted ourselves in a manner which enables us in good faith to hold management (front office and touchline) accountable for their performance."
My reading of that is "We have paid more than enough dosh and given enough support and latitude to hold those responsible to account. The seasons not over but we are not happy with either front office or touchline management and there will be changes" There's a message in there for Nigel for sure, but also for Brannigan, Simon Clough (and hopefully the tannoy announcer). The least change one would expect is for some of those parameters to be narrowed and closely monitored. More likely there will be aspects deemed unsatisfactory (otherwise why say this) so, for example, if the Board felt that the performance of the club in identifying and securing transfer targets is unsatisfactory they might want to put in place modern systems with a new scouting structure to improve it or even a director of football to oversee transfer activity. (This may cause Nigel a problem as it would clip his wings and probably put his brother out of a job. If he chose to resign it would be a cheaper option than sacking him). Of course they may just sack NC.
"That said, I believe it is not the time to be discussing the results with a view to determining our go forward plans. Simply put, all of the relevant results are NOT yet in. To my my tastes, we would all do better to settle in for a promotion battle in the playoffs and then when it is all said and done look at things in light of all the facts."
Reads to me like - " We are not going to fall into the trap of being seen to undermine NC or the promotion effort, but this is a shot across the bows that there will be consequences for failure since we cannot ignore the fans unrest or the team's performances. Failure will not be laid at the feet of the Board and there will be changes in that event - we will tell you what they are when we know how the play-offs go"
Those openly predicting our failure in the playoffs ..... might do well to pause and to consider the potential effect of their open negativity on the club they profess to love. Let's be positive, keep our doubts tamped down, and do what we do every Tuesday and Saturday -- show up determined to sing the lads on to victory."
Reads to me like - Support the shirt, let's try and get up and keep your powder dry on what's gone wrong till after the play offs and we know the outcome. Key words for me are "our doubts" - he clearly has them. I doubt none of this is news to NC - I can only think it is in public to distance the Board from NC and to try and get the supporters in a more positive frame of mind for the playoffs by indicating change will happen.
"While I will keep my counsel on the specifics, I think it is fair to conclude that we have provided substantial support to management together with the discretion to use the resources as they see fit (within broad parameters). ...I earnestly believe we have conducted ourselves in a manner which enables us in good faith to hold management (front office and touchline) accountable for their performance."
My reading of that is "We have paid more than enough dosh and given enough support and latitude to hold those responsible to account. The seasons not over but we are not happy with either front office or touchline management and there will be changes" There's a message in there for Nigel for sure, but also for Brannigan, Simon Clough (and hopefully the tannoy announcer). The least change one would expect is for some of those parameters to be narrowed and closely monitored. More likely there will be aspects deemed unsatisfactory (otherwise why say this) so, for example, if the Board felt that the performance of the club in identifying and securing transfer targets is unsatisfactory they might want to put in place modern systems with a new scouting structure to improve it or even a director of football to oversee transfer activity. (This may cause Nigel a problem as it would clip his wings and probably put his brother out of a job. If he chose to resign it would be a cheaper option than sacking him). Of course they may just sack NC.
"That said, I believe it is not the time to be discussing the results with a view to determining our go forward plans. Simply put, all of the relevant results are NOT yet in. To my my tastes, we would all do better to settle in for a promotion battle in the playoffs and then when it is all said and done look at things in light of all the facts."
Reads to me like - " We are not going to fall into the trap of being seen to undermine NC or the promotion effort, but this is a shot across the bows that there will be consequences for failure since we cannot ignore the fans unrest or the team's performances. Failure will not be laid at the feet of the Board and there will be changes in that event - we will tell you what they are when we know how the play-offs go"
Those openly predicting our failure in the playoffs ..... might do well to pause and to consider the potential effect of their open negativity on the club they profess to love. Let's be positive, keep our doubts tamped down, and do what we do every Tuesday and Saturday -- show up determined to sing the lads on to victory."
Reads to me like - Support the shirt, let's try and get up and keep your powder dry on what's gone wrong till after the play offs and we know the outcome. Key words for me are "our doubts" - he clearly has them. I doubt none of this is news to NC - I can only think it is in public to distance the Board from NC and to try and get the supporters in a more positive frame of mind for the playoffs by indicating change will happen.
Interesting and I broadly agree with some of it but...
The play-offs are a lottery. Keeping or sacking the manager should not depend on those results. I really hope this is not their intention. If it is it would be inconsistent with previous statements. So I like to think they are still looking long term.
This doesn't answer the question: Who do we loan, or who should we not have signed in order to get a CH or two instead?
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