Lost all enthusiasm for SOD today, I thought the atmosphere was fine from where I was sitting, everyone, even some of the nego's (negative folk) behind me were in oddly good spirits. That crowd gave great support today, and got little in return in terms of inspiration to keep going. Lots of sideways passing, balls to nowhere, JET shooting from distance... It all boiled down to a absolutely shocking defense again, as they almost gifted the game away at the end from another countless careless mistake. SOD was never the right man for my choice, like Millen being second choice to Coppout, SOD was not our first choice, as we could of had him before DM and didn't want him. His time is up, his football matches his persona, and I am now tired of the excuses. We need to give MK Dons a bell in my opinion. I am also very surprised to how many people have skipped the fence sitting stage, and gone from pro SOD, to "get him out while we still have time to do something other than just fight relegation".
Not at all well so didn't make it today but listened on the radio First half sounded like we were in charge but our inability to defend balls into the box meant they scored in one of their few attacks. Second half sounded like wave after wave after wave of attacks in which we did pretty much everything but score, the possession stat for this half must have been something like 80/20% and we had over 20 shots at goal Sounded to me like on another day, we could easily have hit 5 or 6 but of course, as we are under a bit of pressure at the moment, people aren't happy with the point. Crowd got behind the team, the team responded and we should have won a game we dominated from start to finish Don't know what people want sometimes....
Radio sounded better than being there then. I don't care if I get slagged off I've been to all home games and away to Swindon this season. And it wasn't a great game to watch, but was at least better than the last 2 home games where I was bored stupid with. And no I don't want to see lumping it but I would like to see players moving off the ball. And as someone said when Harewood started trying to get the crowd going after he shot wide. You score we cheer, that's how it normally works
"Don't know what people want sometimes.... " Ummmm, 3 points, and something more adventerous than sideways passing between a dodgy back line would be nice.... Possession means diddly if you don't do something worth while with it. Aston Villa today, 3 shots on target, 3 goals against a team a lot better than them. Whatever you say Prem, today was not good enough by a long long way, and it certainly wasn't down to a lack of support.
Sacking yet another manager will get us nowhere I'm afraid. Years of bad management from board level with regards to a philosophy, signings etc has led to this point. How come successive managers since Johnson have failed with the same problems reoccurring all the time? Coppell obviously saw something at our club he didn't like and that had to be something higher up in the club. SOD is trying to change and stop a 4 year rot. It's going to take time but unfortunately time is not a commodity in today's football. Our current position reminds me very much of Wales under the start of Speeds tenure I.e. trying to play the right way but without any confidence due to a change in style after the drab stuff played under Toshack. It's hard to break a playing style when your used to lumping it forwards to the big man up top. It takes players time to adjust and with Wales it took a flukey win before embarking on a run which nearly got them into the play offs for Euro 2012. It all culminated in a 4-0 demolition of Norway just a month before Speed took his own life. I say stick with it. We need a bit of luck, a flukey goal, a penalty or something to secure a win and I'm confident the rest will follow. I was hoping Shorey's free kick at the end would do it but alas it wasn't to be. Not convinced the wall was 10 yards either? Didn't see the ref pace it out. Sat directly behind the goal in the Ateyo, had the kick beaten the wall it was looking good for the top corner.
We need to find the RIGHT person for the job... Then get rid of SOD, he is not the person who will lead any kind of change, he is just moving us further in the wrong direction. There isn't just two ways of playing football, lump it, or incessant pointless passing.... A bit of luck is papering over the cracks... It's like an unhappy married couple who think a holiday away will sort all their relationship problems out, but eventually the same problems are still there when they get back. Unless we see 3 or 4 wins out of 5, it's clear that he is not up to this job!
