flash-blade
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- Feb 11, 2011
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Another season in Division 3 will be disastrous for the club, a lot of fans have had enough and the club will be seeing gates drop to around 14-15k, we are currently averaging 19k and on par with Wendy for home supporters per attendance, its fantastic support for as a club that has been in this god-for-saken league for so long.
Clough can only blame himself now that the majority of fans have turned on him, no wonder he has a nickname of 'None league Nigel' he's stubborn, falls out with players all the time, negative to an extreme, he's now embarrassing himself weekly with his after match comments (plod on, good away point, slagging players, blaming height) its amateurish. every decent manager knows not to pick players out after games. Also leaving Flynn on the pitch for 15 minutes whilst being injured is dog and duck standards, hamstrings only get worse, so Flynn injury which could have seen him out for a couple of weeks will now be around 4-6 weeks. Whilst all this was going on Clough and Garner were arguing with fans in the south stand, he should have taken Flynn off anyhow not Done but when Flynn pulled up he should have taken him straight off, this would have enabled the ten players to get their heads around defending our 1 goal lead. It was shambolic management. Our set pieces at both ends of the pitch are shocking, 78 corners in our last 11 games have produced one goal, we cant defend free kicks and corners which is all down to poor coaching. Our play is set up not to concede and keep the ball but there is no tempo when we get it, its all so laborious, ponderous and teams get 9 players behind the ball easily. My Derby pals warned me of what would happen with Clough at the helm.
Going forward the board have two choices, sack Clough now to give the new manager time to assess what he has and maybe give the team a boost (ala Barnsley) or stick with Clough and let him fall on his sword, a new manager would struggle with a squad of small weak players who are constantly out muscled and don't show any signs of determination. They look like they don't want to play for Clough but that stems from him falling out with them, pulling them down in public ect. If we let Clough fall on his sword, remove him at the end of the season (I do hope I'm wrong but I've wrote off going up) then get the new man in place asap (Warburton is my choice). Also a fresh backroom team including the removal of Morgs so he can seek a fresh challenge and gain some experience.
The board and Mr McCabe are business men and struggle to make good footballing decisions, the Ched Evans debacle sums the club up. Its all so depressing and seems to get worse by the week, the players do need to take some of the blame as they can raise themselves for big cup games but let their standards drop for the bread and butter matches, the only thing that is premier league about our club is the fans and most of them have had enough.
Clough can only blame himself now that the majority of fans have turned on him, no wonder he has a nickname of 'None league Nigel' he's stubborn, falls out with players all the time, negative to an extreme, he's now embarrassing himself weekly with his after match comments (plod on, good away point, slagging players, blaming height) its amateurish. every decent manager knows not to pick players out after games. Also leaving Flynn on the pitch for 15 minutes whilst being injured is dog and duck standards, hamstrings only get worse, so Flynn injury which could have seen him out for a couple of weeks will now be around 4-6 weeks. Whilst all this was going on Clough and Garner were arguing with fans in the south stand, he should have taken Flynn off anyhow not Done but when Flynn pulled up he should have taken him straight off, this would have enabled the ten players to get their heads around defending our 1 goal lead. It was shambolic management. Our set pieces at both ends of the pitch are shocking, 78 corners in our last 11 games have produced one goal, we cant defend free kicks and corners which is all down to poor coaching. Our play is set up not to concede and keep the ball but there is no tempo when we get it, its all so laborious, ponderous and teams get 9 players behind the ball easily. My Derby pals warned me of what would happen with Clough at the helm.
Going forward the board have two choices, sack Clough now to give the new manager time to assess what he has and maybe give the team a boost (ala Barnsley) or stick with Clough and let him fall on his sword, a new manager would struggle with a squad of small weak players who are constantly out muscled and don't show any signs of determination. They look like they don't want to play for Clough but that stems from him falling out with them, pulling them down in public ect. If we let Clough fall on his sword, remove him at the end of the season (I do hope I'm wrong but I've wrote off going up) then get the new man in place asap (Warburton is my choice). Also a fresh backroom team including the removal of Morgs so he can seek a fresh challenge and gain some experience.
The board and Mr McCabe are business men and struggle to make good footballing decisions, the Ched Evans debacle sums the club up. Its all so depressing and seems to get worse by the week, the players do need to take some of the blame as they can raise themselves for big cup games but let their standards drop for the bread and butter matches, the only thing that is premier league about our club is the fans and most of them have had enough.
