Champagneblade
Stop moaning and get on with it
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Hopefully he comes back refreshed and with a new perspective.
It’s a worry when you hear your manager comment and it doesn’t feel like he’s watched the same game.
There was a throwaway comment in there that we could have won last week? Really? At best, a losing draw where we defended with discipline but created largely nothing.
We then bemoan losing to two worldies. What was ours? Phillips bangs a free kick on from 30+ yards. What’s that? A well worked team goal?
We are playing fear football. Before each game we hear for one reason or another what a powerful club the opposition is. By the end of December we’ll have justified how all the teams we’ve played should finish above us!
On the same theme, there’s just far too much emphasis on stopping the opposition and what we do without the ball. That’s not how a progressive team talks. We seemingly have little idea with the ball.
We’ve also seemed to sign players on reputation rather than actual current data or recent feedback. In doing so we’ve also signed far too many defensive players or as per above those that lack flair.
We have Donovan, for Brooks. Even when we hadn’t sold Hamer, we still needed left sided player.
We set off playing 2 in central midfield for 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 yet we have as many as 7 central midfield options (Phillips, Peck, Arblaster, Rothwell, Riedewald, Choudhury, Shackleton).
So I agree he’s had to deal with players being sold. Brooks went early and Donovan came in so, based on what we’ve seen he has a similar option. Hamer and O’Hare left. Only BBD really came in.
But if he had chosen 5 midfield options then he could have probably saved 2m in the kitty. Let’s add Doherty who looks well short and square it to 3m. 3m and we need cover for right back. We didn’t use all the loans. We could have got one plus change.
There’s some credit alluded to by decreasing the wage bill (Hamer and O’Hare no doubt big hits) but we’ve let go fringe players on a pittance. We’ve bloated the squad to 26 of which 25 are not classed as young players. To the extent when January comes and we’re looking to boost the squad, we can’t. Not without first offloading. Perhaps we’ll be bemoaning that as if it wasn’t by our own doing.
There are so many things wrong with the make up of the squad and so much more money that could be saved with so little impact to performance.
And don’t get me started on those out of contract this summer and next. We need to get a move on there given the club doesn’t want players in their final year.
It’s a worry when you hear your manager comment and it doesn’t feel like he’s watched the same game.
There was a throwaway comment in there that we could have won last week? Really? At best, a losing draw where we defended with discipline but created largely nothing.
We then bemoan losing to two worldies. What was ours? Phillips bangs a free kick on from 30+ yards. What’s that? A well worked team goal?
We are playing fear football. Before each game we hear for one reason or another what a powerful club the opposition is. By the end of December we’ll have justified how all the teams we’ve played should finish above us!
On the same theme, there’s just far too much emphasis on stopping the opposition and what we do without the ball. That’s not how a progressive team talks. We seemingly have little idea with the ball.
We’ve also seemed to sign players on reputation rather than actual current data or recent feedback. In doing so we’ve also signed far too many defensive players or as per above those that lack flair.
We have Donovan, for Brooks. Even when we hadn’t sold Hamer, we still needed left sided player.
We set off playing 2 in central midfield for 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 yet we have as many as 7 central midfield options (Phillips, Peck, Arblaster, Rothwell, Riedewald, Choudhury, Shackleton).
So I agree he’s had to deal with players being sold. Brooks went early and Donovan came in so, based on what we’ve seen he has a similar option. Hamer and O’Hare left. Only BBD really came in.
But if he had chosen 5 midfield options then he could have probably saved 2m in the kitty. Let’s add Doherty who looks well short and square it to 3m. 3m and we need cover for right back. We didn’t use all the loans. We could have got one plus change.
There’s some credit alluded to by decreasing the wage bill (Hamer and O’Hare no doubt big hits) but we’ve let go fringe players on a pittance. We’ve bloated the squad to 26 of which 25 are not classed as young players. To the extent when January comes and we’re looking to boost the squad, we can’t. Not without first offloading. Perhaps we’ll be bemoaning that as if it wasn’t by our own doing.
There are so many things wrong with the make up of the squad and so much more money that could be saved with so little impact to performance.
And don’t get me started on those out of contract this summer and next. We need to get a move on there given the club doesn’t want players in their final year.
