Aye. The only positive is our relegation form won’t lead to relegation as there’s enough points in the bag. This is the worst time in the clubs whole history. Absolutely shameful.
As for the grumblings about the team selection, he’s going to pick a team based on what he sees in training. It’s the squad that’s defecient not the chap picking the team. It’s a sad day when you think Flanagan would have made a difference there.
They will be watched, of course. The data is just used to remove the subjectivity of the process and to help compile lists of players to watch. Even the old days, scouts would have used some level of data.
Our DOF is doing a very poor job, I think he will be gone in the summer, in fact am almost sure he will be gone
Team looks deflated and tired. No manager can get players fitter at this stage of the season and some of the young ones are clearly in the red zone and should not be playing. We are, once more, a team that others will want to play. The make up of the squad is so terrifyingly out of balance it makes you wonder what the plan is, other than to buy hopeful younguns and hope to sell them on. Whatever improvements are being made off the field, they are not helping on it, and for all the talk of plans and philosophies and projects, it's all about putting a competitive team out. Certainly we were that, right up until the 99th minute at Wycombe. But the dip was coming, it was bound to with so many young and inexperienced players carrying the load. This can't be put on the manager, or the previous one, as it doesn't seem as if he had much say on recruitment either. But the invulnerable man who does have a say is still there.. And I'm guessing as long as he is , we'll stay where we are.
Sacking the manager after the transfer window had closed is literally madness. No new manager can make these players any better, not even Klopp, Guardiola et al can make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Any prospective new manager (such as Keane) will not take the job knowing they cannot identify players and sign them as they think they will solve the problems as they see them. Alex Neil is rinse and repeat, happy just to have a job until we inevitably sack him and pay his contract up. Until Madrox, Speakman and all the other chancers and bullshitters are driven out of the club we will drop further and further down the leagues until the costs of running a Premier League stadium and Premier league training facilities far outweigh the ever dwindling income from falling gates as a result. We are ****ed as long as the spivs from Oxford are here I am afraid.
So the six clubs with the largest fan base are all outside the Top 6. And if none manage to get promoted and Derby get relegated, League 1 is going to be oñe helluva a división next season.
I think AN will get this bunch of players winning games. The question is: will it be in time for the play-offs?
If that,s true how come so many of us on here can see the obvious problems, but they cant. Pritchard will never be a winger, Evans will never be strong enough to play in this league, the younger players are exhausted yet still get picked in key positions we have no full backs but stick to 4 at the back, and I am sick of hearing about what these coaches see in training, it must be a hell of a lot different to what we see on the pitch. Sorry to go on mate , I'm done and about to watch Death in Paradise for some light relief.
Where Neil is concerned I think it’s Because we’ve been watching them all season. He’s seen them in one game and in training fir a week. Hopefully he learns quickly
Two useless blokes from Oxford (who have failed in everything they have ever done) got to buy a football club with it's own money. The End.
I thought we were ok today, not great but ok. At 1-1 we were piling on the pressure. A loose pass, counter attack, a poor tackle and they had the lead. Quite unfortunate but once they took the lead, we looked shot of confidence. No idea where we will finish in the league but Neil has to get a tune out of this squad.
