ptc Most of the problems we now face are by Jewell's making! I watched us in the pre season game against Cambridge Utd where we fielded our strongest team and tbh we were truly awful. Even Cambridge Utd's youngsters cut through us so many times that day and it was embarassing as we were holding on for a draw at the end. I would have some sympathy for Jewell if he had made moves in the summer to bring in some decent players that weren't all past their sell by dates! The defence was desperately in need of an overhaul and he did very little to address this. Ingimarsson was a waste of time given his injury record and Sonko was just a desperate signing to plug a gap. These are Jewell's mistakes which we are now paying a heavy price for. 52 Goals conceded in 27 games is totally unacceptable at any level of football. To bring in 2 Goal Keepers on loan was unforgiveable and to carry on with no specialist Right Back was just plain incompetence! You cant keep blaming Keane for everything that has gone wrong especially this season. I have never known a team to have used 4 different Goal Keepers in just one season! Why did we let Fulop go in the summer when we had no one decent to take his place! This wasn't Keane's fault that we haven't now got any decent Defenders. We now have a manager in my view who sounds completely demoralised and beaten and I think we should now do the decent thing and put the poor ****er out of his misery!
The one position in my mind that has to be a settled one is your keeper. If thats filled then the defence can work with him to form a solid back line. When you keep changing the keeper from one game to the next, the defence doesn't build an understanding with him and your on a looser from the off. Jewel needs to make a descion on a keeper and stick to it, other wise I can really see you lot skirting with relegation imo.
Jewell brings in 3 CBs one of them on loan, one of them is so bad we pay up his contract and he goes, the loanee who is far and away the best of them disappears after his loan spell is up, and this is despite PJ stating " We will do everything possible to make his move permanent ". The last of them Sonko has cost us match after match with errors you wouldnt expect to see on Sunday morning in the park, so far we have given away 21 points after being in winning positions. We have needed a right back for a season and a half but still we have a right sided mid fielder playing there, Carlos will always give 100% but he is not a right back! As for the Goalkeeper fiasco Ive lost count of how many weve had in the last 2 seasons and I really cant be bothered to think about it, what a balls up. We apparently put offers in on players but no one turns up whilst the loan players like Andrews return to their clubs despite promises of getting them on a permanent deal at PR. If ME thinks hes put a lot of money into the club already just wait until we are relegated then he will know what a money pit is. Pj had a golden opportunity to rebuild when he came here and instead all we got was clapped out sub standard ex prem players and loanees and still the problem down the spine of the team was not addressed, how come we fans know where the problem areas are but he doesnt? For the sake of our club Jewell just go!
Fieldmarshall 100% correct, yes Keane left us in a mess but Jewell has had time, this is his team now and we are bloody worse!!!! Sorry but no way can anybody blame this mess on Keane, this is all jewell's doing!!
I’ve noticed that, generally speaking, opposition fans give a pretty fair assessment of your signings: what Watford fans told us about the supreme waste of space and wages Priskin, for example; what QPR fans told us about Delaney (then in his left back guise); Sunderland fans’ mainly doom-laden opinions of Keano and so on. When we got Jewell, Derby fans regaled us with their tales of his incredible loss rate, his general apparent cluelessness, but one redeeming factor which would have seemed to set him apart from Keane’s worst failing was his dealings in the transfer market. Here he earned his corn. This can’t even be said with us. Perhaps in a season or twos time we’ll look back and reflect that JET turned out to be a player, Chopra if he sorts his head out will be a good buy, then there’s Creswell of course. But right now, even his transfer dealings are a calamity of the highest order. It has to be the worst any of us can remember, even the ones that are old enough to vaguely recall front pages about the Titanic. And are the board going to do anything? Are they ****. Complacent twats. I would have said without a right back (where do Keane and Jewell get this notion that right backs are for wimps?) and two central defenders – inspired signing at that – we are sunk. Add to that now a new keeper. We have less than two weeks to do it while Clegg and Jewell fanny about like the blokes in the haggling scene in the Life of Brian. In the absence of radical / inspired action we are almost certainly down.
