I reckon Duxbury has been hung out to dry in this instance.
I don't think the Pozzo's are 'destroying the club'. Far from it. Yes the ownership style is unique - in the UK,. Neveretheless, the squad we have is not playing anywhere near its potential. I've seen 4 games this season, + 3 on TV. The system isn't working. And there's no excuse. We have the players.
I don't know, but I assume he has to get us in and around the play offs sharpish!
I'd suggest that improved performances would likely see us win more games - part of the problem has been lacklustre performances in front of goal - ours as well as the opposition's.
Only a point off them as we speak !
I think we have a tendency to overate our squad Bodbo. Altogether we have 17 non British players in our squad coming from 13 different countries - only 4 of these are from EU countries. This is a scattergun approach to squad building built up on players who have mostly only played in sunnier southern climes for teams which are not premiership standard - players who are 'alone' in a foreign country. I've noticed that when some other clubs do this then they bring players over in pairs - ie. 3 from one country rather than individuals from 3 separate countries - this makes sense in that they can help each other to settle. And why so few players from EU countries ? Or does this have something to do with Brexit ? The truth is we don't have the players - the quality of players sent over by the Pozzos has deteriorated over the years - there are no Matej Vydra's or Almen Abdi's amongst the present squad. Apart from the last two the best foreign players I've seen playing for the Horns have been Helgusson, Gunnarsson and Allan Nielssen. Maybe the Pozzo pool of players isn't good enough or they are recruiting in the wrong areas. In answer to your questions - yes it would have been better to hold onto a manager for a whole season in order for him to have an idea where he wants to build for the following season - at some time we have to build that continuity because teams are built over seasons. Interesting to imagine whether the Pozzos would have sacked Graham Taylor at any stage - probably they would have, in which case they would have deprived us of the most important period of our history where real legends were made. Talking of legends where is the next one coming from (all those memories of Blissett, Barnes, Mooney, Tommy Smith etc. etc) ? These types of legends are what makes us a club not journeymen - and those legends are the reason we are all here now. So in a way I stand by my original claim that the Pozzos have destroyed my club because I grew to love them as my home town club - but there is no way I would have been attracted to the present set up at that age.
) but see them as a club many others would want to emulate, but I no longer see us in the same light.
I agree with all except the “should have been given more time” bit. I was done as he rang too much of Boothroyd’s (wow - unnecessary low blow) lack of reading what was evident. Forget the results, forget the league position, it’s the extrapolation of the likely result of our probable future performances that was critical, imho.
it seems that Giaretta is managing the team in the background so why not give him the job full time in full view, that way he will get sacked in a few months time.
A further thought, if he is the director of football and we have not been performing whatever manager we have, why does he still have a job?
