The usual suspects are so keen to have a pop at the current management team - not experienced enough is the cry. I have a message for you, why don't think about it properly and consider who it is in fact that is the inexperienced party...
I was going to save this until the end of the season (whatever happens) but some posters need their necks winding in a bit and their eyes opened. Just a reminder, WE DIDN'T LOSE TODAY - granted, we could really have done with 3 points but 1 is better than none
The current management team has to deal with what has been allowed to accumulate over the last 4 seasons, i.e. too many hard working but ultimately, unskilled footballers. Gary took us to a certain level but failed to build on it by buying better quality players for a long time and when he finally did, it was his undoing because they soon became distainful of his simple ethic of "work hard boys" with very little else to back it up and he got found out (and they left)...
We will never know if there was a disagreement with Steve Coppell over this and the squad he inherited. Whether he said they are not good enough and was told otherwise or whether his heart wasn't in it. I suspect a bit of both..
Then the bigger mistake, instead of installing a quality manager to build on the foundations laid by Gary, we appointed his deputy and allowed him to mostly carry on piling more lack of quality on top of what we already had.
The bottom line here is that you don't need to spend millions but what you DO need to buy is players who have a hunger, a desire to battle, to succeed with a mix of footballing ability and an ability to be able to play in and understand formations.
What we have now is a squad who have grown accustomed to NPC football to the extent that any desire has been replaced by an air of complacency, they just can't get themselves up for it - we know that they CAN do it ala Southampton but, NOT ON A CONSISTANT BASIS which what you need. We also don't have many players with either the brains, ability and desire to attack either the ball or, the box.
SO, the manager has to play the best he has and hope that with a sprinkling of decent loanees, we can do enough to escape, whether it is good enough remains to be seen but whatever happens, I expect that next year, we will have an entirely different breed of player here in the mode of the manager from his playing days.
6 games left starting next week - everyone who went to Nottingham back in old League One (wine bar wreckers need not apply) should renew their acquaintence - **** the TV, we need 4,500 up there to get right behind the lads and drive them on to victory
See you there...
I was going to save this until the end of the season (whatever happens) but some posters need their necks winding in a bit and their eyes opened. Just a reminder, WE DIDN'T LOSE TODAY - granted, we could really have done with 3 points but 1 is better than none
The current management team has to deal with what has been allowed to accumulate over the last 4 seasons, i.e. too many hard working but ultimately, unskilled footballers. Gary took us to a certain level but failed to build on it by buying better quality players for a long time and when he finally did, it was his undoing because they soon became distainful of his simple ethic of "work hard boys" with very little else to back it up and he got found out (and they left)...
We will never know if there was a disagreement with Steve Coppell over this and the squad he inherited. Whether he said they are not good enough and was told otherwise or whether his heart wasn't in it. I suspect a bit of both..
Then the bigger mistake, instead of installing a quality manager to build on the foundations laid by Gary, we appointed his deputy and allowed him to mostly carry on piling more lack of quality on top of what we already had.
The bottom line here is that you don't need to spend millions but what you DO need to buy is players who have a hunger, a desire to battle, to succeed with a mix of footballing ability and an ability to be able to play in and understand formations.
What we have now is a squad who have grown accustomed to NPC football to the extent that any desire has been replaced by an air of complacency, they just can't get themselves up for it - we know that they CAN do it ala Southampton but, NOT ON A CONSISTANT BASIS which what you need. We also don't have many players with either the brains, ability and desire to attack either the ball or, the box.
SO, the manager has to play the best he has and hope that with a sprinkling of decent loanees, we can do enough to escape, whether it is good enough remains to be seen but whatever happens, I expect that next year, we will have an entirely different breed of player here in the mode of the manager from his playing days.
6 games left starting next week - everyone who went to Nottingham back in old League One (wine bar wreckers need not apply) should renew their acquaintence - **** the TV, we need 4,500 up there to get right behind the lads and drive them on to victory
See you there...
