standupforcity
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The guy seems to have no idea about team selection or establishing a game plan. Utterly hopeless. Another sisu horror story!! I feel sorry for the players...
Are you surprised given the situation!!Not another Slade thread!
He's completely failed to improve an awful season, but we must have had a good number of managers who took a good team and ruined it.
Imo they would
Mowbray is proof of that. We drew more than we lost in league under mowbray this season
Now we lose more than we draw i think under slade
Lets change manager now and try win a few before seasons end
I know CC4L is going to turn this into yet another Mowbray thread, but the facts are clear.As Otis points out he came in to a sinking ship and has failed to save her, however whether he is the worst manager is irrelevant and meaningless.
I would like him to go, he is not the future in my opinion, so I would pin my rosette on the man who will take us in to Division four and start our upward journey back. That man is not Slade.
Can't disagree with any of that. I'm all for giving managers a chance. Too much of one in most cases. However I don't see any benefit for our club, our players or Slade to continue on as we are. Who would take the job? I'm not Rickett's biggest fan by any means but him and Oggy maybe? Who else is there?
Would agree this is a result of the whole season not since December. TM acquisitions were very poor albeit I think funds had changed from last season which showed in the quality we attracted. MV made this situation worse and now slade has finished it off. I don't think any of them had funds to make a fist of a promotion charge anyway but we are dropping out of the league with a wimper. At present this team are not fit enough for league two and that is the big big worry for next yearI know CC4L is going to turn this into yet another Mowbray thread, but the facts are clear.
Mowbray started the season with a clean slate. No games played, obviously no position in the table, no losses.
Slade came in with us already in the bottom four and on the back of 6 straight defeats.
Which one was at the disadvantage?
Not making excuses for Slade, cos his remit was to extricate us from this mess and he has totally failed to do so.
Slade's stats do look really bad, but you do have to factor in what he came into, which was already a basket case of a club.
This season has been a season of total failure. Every manager has failed this year, all 3 of them.
Our only hope now is to try and go out with a bit of fight about us and maybe a bit of hope for next year rather than disappear with just a whimper.
The whole season has been a mess.Would agree this is a result of the whole season not since December. TM acquisitions were very poor albeit I think funds had changed from last season which showed in the quality we attracted. MV made this situation worse and now slade has finished it off. I don't think any of them had funds to make a fist of a promotion charge anyway but we are dropping out of the league with a wimper. At present this team are not fit enough for league two and that is the big big worry for next year
I think I would agree with that if we weren't already bottom four when he came in and weren't already a mess.It's looking that way. Said a few weeks in that he's reminding me of Thorn, not sure he's that good to be honest. Certainly on league form he isn't. If he'd come in after the window and just had to work with what he was given I'd have some sympathy for him but that isn't the case. He's made wholesale changes in January and we seem to have gone backwards as a result of it and list any hope of fighting to remain in league one. That alone makes him the worst manager I've certainly witnessed at the club.
I think I would agree with that if we weren't already bottom four when he came in and weren't already a mess.
He came to firefight an already desperate situation, but he hasn't taken us forwards and that was his remit.
We should have seen an upturn in fortunes and it simply hasn't happened.
As I've alluded to in the Yakubu thread there are some worrying questions.
With regards to his tactics he has one plan. What's certain is that plan does not work with this group of players. Question is, would any manager's tactics work with these players?
Thing is with Sordell, we don't know if Slade wanted to sell him or was told to because of interest from other clubs.We didn't even get a new manager bounce that's how infective he's been. The team he inherited looked immediately worse than it did under either Venus or Mowbray and he happily offloaded our best player (not a hard task, I'll give you that) in Sordel and replaced him with worse players in what must go down as the most ineffective January transfer window ever witnessed at the club that has destined us go down without even attempting a fight. That's before you even get on to tactics.
Not sure these players are a hell of a lot better.These players are a helluva lot better than they appear...with no cohesive plan they look a shambolic and incompetent squad. You can see the frustration out there when the plan just isn't working and no changes are made. And if you're not going to start with your best players, and just leave them on the bench regardless, well you know what they say...'nothing changes if nothing changes'!! In his interview Slade said things are going to have to change for Tuesday...well we'll see...
And anyway, didn't last January window result in Peter Ramage, Darius Henderson and Stephen Hunt?
Not sure these players are a hell of a lot better.
Both keepers are not good enough. Haynes is not a left back by any stretch of the imagination.
Still a question mark over DKE, despite his great endeavour and enthusiasm.
Lameiras is not good enough, nor is Reid, nor is Ghadzhev, nor is Rose. Tudgay is all but past it.
Said before, if we compiled a list of which players we would ideally like to retain, it wouldn't be very big.
Below average keepers, leaky defence, poor midfield, not enough goals up front.
I honestly don't think these players are at all a hell of a lot better than they appear.
I'm not of course saying this window had been good, it hasn't.We did but we also retained the services of our best player in AA. It's not like we lost our best player and replaced him with far less superior players. We sold Maddison but retained his services for the remainder of the season. I'm not saying last January was a success story, it wasn't .Well, not unless you're comparing it to this one.
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