The week from hell.. it started there and is still happening

[toledo]

Last season went belly up at the beginning of the week from hell../

After watching today’s game and given we are now 0-7 for the season and have not scored in 5 games, the week from hell started this whole situation that we are embroiled in.

Let’s be honest, today and this season has been a replica of that one week last season when we were top of the league and lost 3 on the rot to awful teams resulting in a playoff spot.

Fast forward, we have now lost 7 games on the trot against some very mediocre teams.

What the club has failed to see and failed to correct are the underlying reasons for a disastrous run of results over 2 seasons, not one.

Today we failed miserably to beat an ordinary side called Charlton Athletic, the same has been said about every game since the week from hell.// with the exception of Bristol City in the layoffs../

Every other game has been a replica of what we have seen this season…

There is something deeply wrong with this club that has be festering since that one week last season that ultimately defined the seasons conclusion and failure.

What went wrong?

Toledo

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Recruitment, Recruitment, Recruitment.
Or as Gene Hackman says in the replacement players when asked what his team needs to turn the game around..."heart, heart"

 

[bornablade]

The week of hell started at Oxford away.

The comeback will start at Oxford away.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

The week of hell started at Oxford away.

The comeback will start at Oxford away.

It's the Championship basement battle, a relegation 6 pointer - who would have thought it?!

 

[Blacksea]

Recruitment, Recruitment, Recruitment.
Or as Gene Hackman says in the replacement players when asked what his team needs to turn the game around..."heart, heart"

I am still struggling to get my head around the day after the window closed and the local media and many people on here were all saying how successful it had turned out with the flurry of late signings and this was now a top end Championship squad,Selles now had the players he had complained about not having in his quote about the recruitment policy a few weeks earlier and had no excuses for not delivering.
Now,a couple of weeks later,the reality seems to be the opposite of that and the consensus on here at least about the signings has shifted to negative.
For me,it was a dogs dinner of signings that left a lot to chance with a mixture of journeymen,unproven at top end Championship level and fitness issue players,most of them were huge gambles.

 

[Back post bob]

Small lightweight players with no pace or a footballing brain.Step forward COH 100% for effort,Zero for actually contributing anything remotely useful.

 

[54yrblade]

Recruitment, Recruitment, Recruitment.
Or as Gene Hackman says in the replacement players when asked what his team needs to turn the game around..."heart, heart"

Recruitment + a manager who can't be questioned by too many

 

[Servigliano]

Last season went belly up at the beginning of the week from hell../

After watching today’s game and given we are now 0-7 for the season and have not scored in 5 games, the week from hell started this whole situation that we are embroiled in.

Let’s be honest, today and this season has been a replica of that one week last season when we were top of the league and lost 3 on the rot to awful teams resulting in a playoff spot.

Fast forward, we have now lost 7 games on the trot against some very mediocre teams.

What the club has failed to see and failed to correct are the underlying reasons for a disastrous run of results over 2 seasons, not one.

Today we failed miserably to beat an ordinary side called Charlton Athletic, the same has been said about every game since the week from hell.// with the exception of Bristol City in the layoffs../

Every other game has been a replica of what we have seen this season…

There is something deeply wrong with this club that has be festering since that one week last season that ultimately defined the seasons conclusion and failure.

What went wrong?

Toledo

Largely agree - I saw the Oxford game - we were simply outfought which was a rarity at the time.
We had the option then of switching to 2 up front Moore and Campbell in an effort to try and score more goals.
Then we had the play offs, hammered Bristol and until the Burrows bloody no goal, thanks 160 million bastard VAR ( did you see Liverpool's Atletico VAR allowed goal, allowed because rightly it decided the keeper had no chance of saving it?)
Up to then even I thought 2-0 we're going to get rid of the play off curse.
I can only imagine how crushed the players must have felt - we'd outplayed Sunderland by any rights deserved to be 2-0 up at least.
After that we predictively collapsed, but the unjust bonus handed to them was the lifeline they needed because we had been taking them apart.
That for me was the instant from football hell.
Now we've no Anel, no Souza and criminally, no more no Moore.
WE do though have 6 or 7 CB's.-The only adequate replacement thus far being Tanganga.

No matter what you think of Wilder he's got a hell of a job to do and we've got to back him. Confidence is shot.
Fwiw I think we'll be ok, maybe even top 6 IF we can somehow hold the ball up front, rather difficult with no proper target man.
Even with the window closed we can sign out of contract players if we create a space in the registered squad?
Anyone with a suitable name in mind please write to Mr. C. Wilder.

 

[brownblade]

I am still struggling to get my head around the day after the window closed and the local media and many people on here were all saying how successful it had turned out with the flurry of late signings and this was now a top end Championship squad,Selles now had the players he had complained about not having in his quote about the recruitment policy a few weeks earlier and had no excuses for not delivering.
Now,a couple of weeks later,the reality seems to be the opposite of that and the consensus on here at least about the signings has shifted to negative.
For me,it was a dogs dinner of signings that left a lot to chance with a mixture of journeymen,unproven at top end Championship level and fitness issue players,most of them were huge gambles.

I don't see the need to write off the new signings. They're trying to play in a team that's somehow broken itself.

 

[chesblade]

Think we need someone new in the recruitment department if they think these player we have signed are any good compared to what we had last season

 

[Blacksea]

I don't see the need to write off the new signings. They're trying to play in a team that's somehow broken itself.

It's not me who's writing them off,I am talking about how the consensus was that we had had a great end to the window and the manager had the tools to do a decent job with.
My view was that most of them were a gamble on fitness and ability as far as having a go at the play offs and promotion was concerned,and even that needed to be backed up by the players who had showed they did have the ability to be top end Championship players who have shown no appetite whatsoever this season to lead by example and show the new ones the standard the club requires.

 

[UddersBlade]

Spot on - this team has no leaders on the pitch…. That is a recipe for disaster & probable relegation! Wilder needs to find a way to get Ben Mee on the pitch asap and make him Captain.

 

[Mattblade68]

3 League wins now since we beat SWFC 16 th March (excl.play offs)..