Some are saying (loudly) that time is up for SOD, but we have to stick with it, have the courage to go the distance, now is excatly the wrong time to ditch the manager. A new man would do what? we have been here before with Millen, Del and now SOD, they all said they inherited a team, put together 'their' team and failed.....................................we are out of options my friends, suck it and see time for me
We've been here before AD because we have a lousy top brass that wouldn't know a top class manager, or player, if it jumped up and bit them in the wallet. Terrible state of affairs that isn't going to go away anytime soon and, like you, I'm not sure that another manager can change our fortunes, but this guy is just as bad as the rest over the last few years. Who in their right mind would want to come and manage at Aston Gate? Probably just another sad sack who's good at coming up with reasons to fail rather than management skills to win.
Think I'd be prepared to take a punt- Bloody awful team effort today, even if individually might have been ok. There was no fluency, couldn't keep the ball, got muscled out of challenges, second to most balls and were lucky to get a point. SOD puts the team together and has the game plan. Think he has now had long enough
We are only 12 games away from when loads said that 20 games was not enough for him to preform a miracle last season. Games are running out quick I've been on the fence for a while but as I put on another thread LJ had less time and no money to produce a team that made us look lucky at home to get a point today. Sorry but I've joined Redprints gang
SOD has lost the plot, he has signed countless midfielders since he took over and yet game in game out we show no creativity compared to our opponents. If JET got injured we would be well and truly fooked, he is the only player we have who can conjure up something unpredictable that teams cannot defend against. Last weeks win only bought SOD time in my opinion and I almost wish it hadn't happened, it was pretty clear we are not set to go on a good run as the team is nowhere near good enough. I wanted SOD to succeed but he has had more than long enough and has a worse record than DM and I am very firmly in the SOD out camp now!!
I've been a SOD supporter since he arrived and have been wearing my rose tinted specs for quite a while now. However today was probably the worst second half of football I have seen in quite a while, at times it reminded me of Downs football. We couldn't pass, or control the ball, we lost most 50/50 tackles, we panicked when playing out of defense (not sure we actually managed to do that during the game) we constantly hoofed the ball forward, rather than passing (something SOD has been trying to instill) An ordinary team, with players supposedly no better than ours, managed by a youngster, ran rings around us and could have scored 4 or 5. I will keep trying to be positive but should the display on Tues. be anywhere near as bad then I will be hard pressed to defend SOD to my fellow supporters in the Atyeo stand
agree with redexile completely, my views of the game , especially the second half aswell. Think we were really lucky they didnt score the equaliser earlier or we would of been in real trouble, definately would of lost IMHO.
It seems to me that just when we play decently for a game, there then follows a longer spell of poor performances- what is most concerning is that over say a period of 3 games, we do not appear to be learning where it went wrong, and am not sure whether the quality of our play is actually better than at the start of the season. The learning curve, we hear so much about, and to a great extent what SOD's ethos is based, appears to have flatlined. Whereas under KM and DMc, the poor results actually dictated their demise, and although SOD's results are even poorer and we are also in a division lower, I think generally supporters bought into his philosophy, and were more forgiving to towards the lack of positive results. I agree with AD, that in a way there is little option than to continue to with SOD- if we are still in the relagation places at the end of the year- then I would say it was time to go. Sod will have had 1 year and if one hasn't moved out of the flatline in 12 months, then adieux, but in the meantime we must stick with SOD.
A lot of our members complained that the board did not act quickly enough with McInness so if we are going to change, we should do it earlier rather than later.
We have been saying "stick with it" for well over a month now, there has been no improvements, just gradual decline in performance. If it weren't for JET, we'd be half buried by now. No one could do a worse job than SoD, so the change needs to be made now. The players aren't playing for him anymore.
Then went behind his back and signed David James on ridiculous wages. A player we didn't need and one that Coppell didn't want. Lansdown was the culprit as usual. I genuinely wish he would sell up but who in their right mind would want to buy us, and the club isn't worth a lot. Catch 22
With the right people in charge, there is huge potential there, but FFP is making things harder and harder, and to be quite frank we would be better off flouting those rules like Blackburn do and just lumping a fine. But without the right people with the right organisation and forsight sat upstairs pulling the strings, we will never get anywhere. This 5 pillars nonsense is just embarrassing.
As I have said in another thread, its easy to identify the problems, and come up with some dopey phrases to sound like you are attending to those issues, but we have useless entities sat in that boardroom who don't know how to implement them. I'd love to know what their qualifications are if anyone knows?
I dont know for sure but I'll wager that they are only in charge because they've been succesful elsewhere, have made a few quid (Lansdown Senior and Keith Dawe) and have now tried their hand at running a football club. In the case of Lansdown junior, I know even less, but none of them are 'football' people. Having said that most owners/chairmen aren't football people either and other clubs seem to manage ok........ We have a small board of directors which may not help us when it comes to the really important decisions, especially when they are taken by rank amateurs.
