We had players in the building the last 3 years and those juggernauts still beat us to promotion. All I want is promotion. I think that's all any of us wants.
So you're not quoting anyone but claiming they said it ... ... I think you're choosing to remember it how it suits you tbh. Your paraphrasing is inaccurate. You're starting to look a bit manic so I'll bow out.
All this "its crucial we get players in early in the window" is rubbish. It obviously has its benefits and I'm sure managers do say this in interviews but I've also heard of them saying the exact opposite and that patience is key to good recruitment. Also, no full backs... I must have played every position on the pitch during my thoroughly unremarkable amateur football career and I was adaptable enough to be able to do that. Imagine how difficult it must(n't) be for some who is paid to play the game every day to be that adaptable.
It's nit a binary choice though. It's possible we have missed out on perfectly good players nit poor ones.
What happens if no one wins all their 1st 5 games and are on about the same amount of points as we have at that time when we have say 2 full backs and a striker to sign on the dotted line the next day? No one knows whats going to happen the first few games. Take Ipswich or Wigan for example - they've signed players they wanted - are they gonna hit the ground running and win their 5 games or does the team not gel as quickly as the manager would like? Lets just take a back seat and see what happens
I've actually enjoyed the style of football we are trying to implement. You can certainly see progress being made. As for new players it shouldn't take them long to fit in as we are targeting players who will fit the system. In the past we've signed players then have had to try to fit a system around them.
yeh I agree. I’m just saying it could be worse. As I posted earlier, I’m nervous as hell about the clubs ability to turn this round and my optimism has dropped quite a bit. But I still understand and back what they’re doing and think it could have been a lot worse. I mean for example we were linked with Vokes and Lichaj - would you feel better if they’d been signed? It’s so so so frustrating obviously, as this is our first preseason in 4 years that hasn’t been disrupted by a takeover snd should have allowed us a whole summer to plan and do business early. And whilst we’ve clearly planned, it’s not resulted in early business. we still might get what we want. I’m not as confident as I was, but it’s far from over. Major questions will be asked in September if it hasn’t gone well.
No not at all. Re watch the interviews. Both agreed they want players In early. That's not inaccurate at all. If it doesn't suit your argument so be it but diet make it less true. Neither does it prevent it being accepted that coaches want players in early to work with them. Our currebt position is a position the club can't have planned to be in.
The whole league draws the first 5 games your right that no one knows but that old saying fail to prepare and prepare to fail springs to mind.
Hmm, that sounds like having them in early didn't help. Surely we're better waiting for the right players
Totally agree we've signed players in the past and try to fit them into a system rather than the other way round but I certainly can't see a style of football across the 4 games so far. Maybe in patches but cerainly not regularly. What would you say the style of football we're trying to implement is?
I agree, and there’s nothing to say that can’t be achieved even by going into the season a few players short.
Wed have gone up last year if we'd won 5 more games. No.ones suggesting we'd be promoted based on 5 games but to suggest it means nothing is just plain wrong.
Imagine the meltdown if we'd have signed 10 players on the first day of the window for a total of 5m+ quid, did **** all for the rest of the window and Wigan spank us 3 nowt first game. I read the Chronicle article and the journo said he has covered 18 managers at SAFC under numerous owners and it's always been the same.....slow. Only constants I can see in that equation are the fans and the geography. All the other variables like owners, managers, scouts etc have changed over the years.
I agree to a point. Vokes was just a rumor and lichaj thankfully tanked in trial. I've repeatedly said nut just to sign anyone but quality. It's nit unreasonable to have expected more by this point.
