Nope hope the club does one thing right and sticks with Chris Ramsey If he has to go then after the season has finished when everything can be looked at It's simply time to support the club If we have crap matches like last night so be it We work to get it right
Right. Stick and sort out the problems we have with the various Managers, coaches and Director of Football we have already got. I want to hear about some new defenders coming in and a DM if we don't have better already, not more bluddy Managers to reinvent the wheel.
There was an interesting discussion about Southampton on the radio last night while I was driving my daughter to a party in the middle of darkest rural Warwickshire (well chaperoned, the parents were doing bag searches on the way in). Trevor Sinclair, Kevin Kilbane and a journo called Sam (Wallace?) all said they thought that they could get away with their system of developing and selling on talent for a year, but now recognise that they have a really solid business model. Sold Shaw because they knew they has Chambers. Sold Chambers to Arsenal for tons because they knew they had Clyne. Sold Clyne to Liverpool and bought Suarez from Portugal for £3.5m who looks the business already. Held on to Schneiderlin for a year before they sold him. They've had £60m off of Liverpool over the last couple of years. Refused to sell Wanyama to Spurs. They are in control of everything they do, only sell for top dollar to big clubs, know exactly who they need to replace assets, their manager, director of football and chief scout working seamlessly. This club were in administration in May 2009 and in League One 2010-11. FFS its not impossible to do better than we are. We're in the fifth season of the current fiasco now.
Our problem starts and finishes with the owner, he's a starstruck cretin who compounds our problems with every knee-jerk decision he makes. To put something in place such as Southampton have would take seven to eight years as they already had one of the best youth academies to start with. We face a long wait to be even steady in the Championship...
it seems to me that CR has lost a bit of faith in Faurlin recently. At first i thought he was worried about his injuries but he's not been first choice for a while now. However, given that Henry and Toszer aren't properly functioning surely Ale is worth another stab?? As for Superhoops67s post above… we've got a good side on paper it's just a question of them getting it together and that's Ramsey's job to sort out.
You can always tell if a club has the right management in place. The owners are seen but not heard, the manager speaks only when he needs to and the playing roster is structured and in total harmony. Southampton have their finger on the pulse. We are the George Costanza of the football world. "Yeah, I’m a great quitter. It’s one of the few things I do well. I come from a long line of quitters. My father was a quitter, my grandfather was a quitter… I was raised to give up." TF should take the quote from the great man, go do the opposite and make this club the best it can be.
It's pretty simple... we have an average mid table team; an average manager (who is cutting his managerial teeth after an admirable coaching career); a very average group of owners who keep writing new strategies and filing them away and then making random decisions that have nothing to do with Strategy A, B, C, D etc etc. We do have some good individual players in some positions, however their ability to work as a team seems to also be filed away with the various strategies. Ramsey follows the same non-strategy approach with our defence... keeps shaking up the back four most weeks with no hope in hell of obtaining a cohesive (functional or successful) defensive wall. There doesn't honestly seem a clear way forward at the moment - but more managerial roundabout jumping on and off doesn't seem the right way forward. However I understand the frustrations of many crying for a change. Accept mid-table mediocrity, because that's all we deserve right now. Hopefully things will click at some point. Maybe there is a plan - and we're not all party to it or seeing it. Its the hope that's killing us all!
Ramsey is crap but a nice bloke, for what it's worth (not much) Sherwood is crap and a complete and utter minge
I think the fact that Ramsey, a supposedly good coach, continues to make school boy errors ............ so there goes the good coach theory!
I think all of us would be far happier if we could see progress being made. We've actually had a fairly easy start fixtures-wise yet our form is erratic and the quality of football we see is shockingly poor. The season is almost one third gone and we are mid-table with an awkward run of fixtures against some of the top teams and unless we improve significantly we could start a run that will end in a relegation battle, I see little confidence or swagger that says we can play our way out of this poor run of form. The biggest worry I have, and it's one I think that is the main reason we're sinking fast, is decision-making. From picking the wrong team, no apparent game-plan and then clueless substitutions we appear to be rudderless and we rarely respond well to going behind, all signs that the manager and players are not in unison. When that happens it normally signals curtains for the manager, the fans have already turned on him so to have any chance of avoiding some heavy defeats in the next few tough games TF needs to try making a right decision for once and that definitely is not Sherwood...
What worries me about this scenario is that Ramsey appears to be unable to get anything like the best out of what is - by Championship standards - a good (on paper) but expensive squad. A number of those players will be leaving at the end of the season, leaving us with a significantly weaker squad (on paper) This suggests that we need to bring in some new players, and (more) regularly play some of our youngsters The problem with this is that: - Ramsey doesn't seem to want to play our youngsters (does he not think they're good enough?) - decent players are unlikely to join a club that is poorly run / managed unless there is real personal benefit to them ie big money. We can no longer afford that approach in the Championship I would love to be wrong on all this, but I just don't see the current management team taking us forward however long they have If this were a properly run business (good reference above to Southampton; Swansea is another good example) the shareholders / owners wouldn't allow the management to continually experiment whilst the business collapsed around their ears
