Sky Blue Harry H
Well-Known Member
mmmmm......no
Drew 2, lost one.
mmmmm......no
I understand all of the frustration in this thread but what surprises me is that some of you guys seemed surprised! the performances have been dreadful this season, even the wins and draws, the bounce has been well and truly over for while. I see comments like play Tudgay with Sordell together( remember Oldham at home anyone?) You can't polish a turd.
Yesterday was not a blip, its just that Oxford scored when on top and pressed home the advantage. How I wish we could play like that.
That's it ! The answer. Replace the manager every six weeks or so and hopefully the "new" manager bounce will just about keep us in this division.Absolute shambles. After the new manager bounce wore off we've seen some pretty poor performances
I think a hammering has been coming really. The midfield is hopelessly weak and teams are going to eventually decide to prevent space.
The players all, with the exception of Stevenson, cannot move the ball forward at all. It's short square or diagonal passing. There is no support for the defence at all. I'm amazed we've not had this much until now.
We've got big problems. Few of these players are up to standard. We have one goal scorer. The two wide players are not consistent at all. We have a powder puff midfield that has no energy or drive. The back lines ok but the team is always vulnerable if put under pressure.
The games coming up are difficult. What's more difficult to see is where the options are in the squad,
Venus needs to step aside. Not the answer.
Funnily enough i was thinking the same thing, a hammering has been a long time coming this season (suppose we got one at Charlton as well), we ground out/clung out onto draws early on in the season that we arguably didn't deserve and we had a spell of winning under Venus that we again ground out wins where we were pretty poor, I hoped this was a sign the tide was changing but we were going to be a gritty side to beat.
But I just think we are a poor side in a shockingly bad inconsistent league which is probably our best saviour!
MV is no TM, lol . it's the way I tell em .Mv is no tm
Bring in Stevie g or franky lamps or giggsyyy
some on this forum rave that it's the best team we've had in yonks!
Why is it that L1 is such a surprise to our recent managers.............. we all knew you need physicality, a large dollop of experience and have to earn the right to show the technical talent in matches
Listened to Venus after the match. Worrying that he should make such comments even if they are true. The side lacks confidence and his comments wont have helped, however honest he was in public.
- it did seem he deflected the blame on to the players, which to a degree I understand but surely if the message is not getting through he must look at himself?
- Yes the players were not good enough but calling them out in public is not going to make them fitter, stronger, more talented but I fear many will lose further confidence
- the club under whichever manager has been asking boys to do a mans job for several seasons - that's not just down to Venus
- I know some people are saying Mowbray got the recruitment wrong which I think he did but it wasn't just him tasked with bringing players in, he wasn't the one managing the playing budget Venus was. More importantly the comments about throwing it all together last minute by Mowbray shows the mess the club is in
- when asked Saturday about the budget, I believe Venus said he didn't know - strange given his primary function was managing it and that he is a director
Given the fall in attendances then I would think any surplus they held back for January recruitment has been eaten away in trying to live within means. Some tough games coming up and some very big cracks in the façade are showing. How many are leaving in January - we will need to replace but also build depth and experience that wont be cheap and after the last few transfer windows I cant say I am confident of a positive solution.
Why is it that L1 is such a surprise to our recent managers.............. we all knew you need physicality, a large dollop of experience and have to earn the right to show the technical talent in matches
Bishkoff?Adams and Robins are the only managers in our recent past who've looked at what they've got, and tried to address the weaknesses rather than just signing the best players they could get for the money.
Not saying they all came off (can't even spell the random Man City central midfielder Adams brought in on loan!) but at least it was looking at weaknesses and trying to rectify them, rather than just ending up with eleventy billion centre forwards and nobody to get the ball to them.
Nah, Ng-wotistBis
Bishkoff?
Did we not sign muscular players because they cost more to feed or something? Can players demand a higher wage based on strength?
NOPM will solve it
I was fairly ambivalent about the sale of Vincelot at the time, but now recognise that it was a very poor decision from Mowbray.
NOPM from SISU...or the long suffering fans ?NOPM will solve it
Oh him.!!
a myth peddled by understandably desperate people isn't it fp .............. a strategy that is far from getting rid of SISU, but the biggest NOPM driver is the team on the pitch
but equally there is the myth that we don't have a budget that allows us to be competitive in this poor division - yet our turnover exceeds many, its how the money is used that has to be questioned
Seems to me it is decision making that has been worse than abject from all concerned
Why did SISU bring the Club back to the Ricoh?
Because they wanted to try and stop the Wasps deal if possible.
Oh.... Is that why on the day of the game against Gillingham, Motormouth Fisher said "We still intend to build our own Stadium" and "The move back to the Ricoh was only temporary"?
So you're saying they moved to Northampton not to distress ACL, but because it was genuinely the only place they could go as relations had broken down, they were forced out, and were actually planning their own stadium?
Why is it that L1 is such a surprise to our recent managers..............
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