If Still isn't gone tomorrow, then there damn well needs to be a crisis meeting between him, the coaching staff, and Spors; in which he is told that he is effectively a dead man walking, and that he might as well go for broke, get out of his comfort zone, play the ****ing players you Spors got you, and attack, attack, attack. Any more of this defensive negativity and you can f*ck off.
We would’ve heard something if he was going tomorrow I wonder if he will go down the shoehorn Stephens route like Martin did. We definitely lack leaders and Stephens is probably the best one we’ve got, which I think Martin realised and put a lot of emphasis on.
They won’t sack him, unless the fans turn on SR on Saturday. If he stays just play the better players in the right positions and formation to suit. Needs to be a 4-2-3-1 with Fellows and Scienza wide with Azaz free to play the passes as he did Saturday a couple of times.
I would love it if he turned it around and started getting results. Just can't see it happening at the moment
I've steered away from the many iterations of this conversation across the various threads (which for some reason seems to have become an I'm right / You're wrong debate everywhere) to give a bit of time to it, plus I've had some code to finish.. I'm not interested in getting drawn into the verbal bun fights but will happily discuss valid points of view and here's mine for what it's worth. I can't see SR pulling the trigger on WS until nearer the window, if at all, as there isn't a stand out candidate from the likely available list that you'd go "yes - that person will gets us promoted (via the playoffs)" - which is probably why they are available. We aren't going to pay out someone from another team at the moment - it just doesn't make financial sense until our own positions are more solid. WS has to start learning from the past games and not keep making these odd team decisions on the pitch that consistently have a negative impact. He probably can learn as he can't be a bad coach considering the experience he does have - the question is will he do so quick enough to turn back the fans? The table is tight enough that we could be in the mix for play offs quite quickly is something does indeed change with the team. There seems to be some off pitch issues with the team availability. Is this normal but we are focussing on it more as we are looking for any negative things to pounce on? Maybe I'm naive and thought all the squad travelled just to cover for these types of situations and if you weren't playing you still had to be there etc etc. Injuries and sickness has impacted some games with players not well and / or injured so on top of the team decisions I feel we have yet to play what I think is the strongest squad. WS is too defensive minded with the players we have - that shows when he tries to shut up shop with a 1 goal lead - take the hint from coventry - if you batter the other team with constant attacking football of sufficient quality you will win consistently and well (which creates a positive loop for us and a negative one for the other team - no one wants to play coventry at the moment) The window didn't cover all bases - but I think it was done to plan but we got hit with some issues that likely weren't expected. Downs hasn't gelled, Stewart has glass hamstrings and the rest of the players who should have goals in them have forgotten that the round thing has to go inside the net. The past decisions from SR have led us to here - that's a fact you can't hide from. We can't change them now though and whilst protesting will highlight the feelings of the fans unless Solak wants to sell, and someone wants to buy at the acceptable valuation to all parties, he isn't going anywhere. So I think we're in for a rough couple of months which could have some light at the end of the tunnel but that could just be a train coming the other way..
Who the hell do you think you are coming on here being all balanced and sensible. FFS this is the meltdown express You’re right in so many ways, of course. But that’s not the point!
