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RE: Dylan Hand - bluepooch - 14-10-2017
Anyon was at fault again certainly for the second.He has shown he can be decent but overall not good enough and I feel for Jack because there f@ck all he can do about it .
To be honest there were some positives .We had many efforts on goal especially second half and the substitutions made a big difference ,we took off OG ,Weir and Mcourt who were all ineffective and we started to play some decent football on the floor creating chance after chance but unfortunately a combination of Barry Roach (i wish we still had him)and poor finishing meant another defeat.
Jack has a massive task on his hands to even keep us in touch but there are glimpses from the second half today that he could at least get some results to hang in there.
RE: Dylan Hand - spireitematt - 14-10-2017
I went to Buxton to watch them play Gateshead in the FA Cup. Lost 2-1 but Buxton played pretty well against a mid-table Conference side.
RE: Dylan Hand - Dancingwilldoit - 14-10-2017
Blue, do you still think Lester was the right choice ?
RE: Dylan Hand - bluepooch - 15-10-2017
Dancing ,Its early days but yes i saw something today which makes me feel that he can turn it around but I said this about Caldwell so maybe I am not the right person to ask .
What do you think ?
RE: Dylan Hand - Dancingwilldoit - 15-10-2017
I didn't see yesterday so cant comment but I didn't think he was the right one and said so at the time. Maybe once we had somebody in to keep us up then yes but wrong time for me. The current squad would need a bloody good magician to make things work, don't think Jacks CV covered that.
He will always have my full support but unless he makes some serious changes in his team selections there is only one we will be going. We are beginning to lose touch with Port Vale now so he has to do something drastic.
RE: Dylan Hand - Devongone - 15-10-2017
The trouble for Jack Lester is I'm afraid, for once, I was right, when I said no one could make a decent team out of our first team squad. So far Jack has tinkered with the squad. We still lose by two goals to a club without resources other than a resourceful manager.
I don't think Jack was the right choice, or the wrong choice. He was a decent call, who at least the fans will get behind if he ever creates a team that produces just one of Pooch's sparks. I don't think Warnock would make a team out of this lot. The only hope is a revolution.
What is wrong with German and Ugwu, injured, dead or what? Charlie Wakefield, is there anywhere lower than the Juniors for him to get a game? WOW DIMAIO got on the field ..........
I think / hope Jack will tire of normal solutions. First thing I'd do is take Matt Briggs in the office and tell him he's gone from being a Premier League player at 16 and the England squad to a place on the bench at the worst club in the country. I'd make him face up to whether he wants to play football at all. If he does and could convince me of that, he'd get the next three games at left back whatever happened. If he couldn't convince me then I'd be pushing him for a mutual cancellation of the remaining months of his contract.
Second thing I'd do is send back ALL our loans. Loans are only any use to you if they win you some games. Ours could not be less successful. Just being better than Jak McCourt wouldn't hack it for me. The money we save on the loans might enable us to offer contracts to a couple of free agents. I'd be willing to gamble on Wabara - he's usually a free agent and we might find an actual midfield player somewhere too.
I'd arrange some friendlies and play O'Grady at centre back and Mitchell at full back. If O'Grady is as effective at stopping the opposition scoring as he is a stopping us getting a goal he could be a revelation. We're clearly not troubling anyone with him up front are we? Mitchell, like Briggs, needs to decide whether he wants a career in the game. This could be his last throw of the dice too. I'd either enthuse him, or ditch him.
I'd take Hird off the bench, stick him in front of the back four, tell him to protect them, read the game and be a centre back in front of the centre backs. Use all that experience!
Whatever is wrong with Maguire, I'd send him off for two days to talk to his brother, and tell him whatever, he's going on the field at centre back on Saturday and he's going to be Captain.
Ricky German, Ugwu and Brewster I'd tell them, I was expecting goals, life and running out of them. They were going to get full games, perhaps not all at the same time, but they weren't in the wilderness they were wanted.
I'd look at how Kristian Dennis scored 60 in 65 games for Curzon Ashton. At any level that's impressive. It's not enough to dismiss it as being at a lower level, goalscorers keep doing it as they move through the levels. Did they play a big guy with him? Did they have a clever playmaker? Was he alone up front? Did he feed off knocked-down crosses? And yeah I'd try feeding him his favourite food on the field in our games.
The "juniors" would find out they'd every chance of a game. Rowley and Wakefield would be on the field. Brownell would come back from his successful loan to bench appearances at worst. Hand, Fowler and Willock would know there were going to be opportunities in the team for them.
Keeper? We've got Anyon for two long years, that right? What I'd do is try to sign Tom McHale from Truro City in January and see if they would take Anyon on loan if we paid half his wages. Failing McHale, Van Vliet from Jersey's training with England C, he's only 20, he'd be worth a go, but what would we do with Joe? Maybe we could train him so hard he gets a serious injury .......
On top of that I would change every routine and pattern in training. Why? Because even if you give the players something new that is no better, they need something different, something that draws a line under the past. I'd change their diet, where they eat, how they find out who's in the team, how they travel to games ........... training times. Anything I could change I would. I'd bring in a sports psychologist. I'd ask Tony Minichello if he'd come down a couple of hours a week from Sheffield ,or we could go to him, for athletics training. I'd start recording every performance, every statistic not only for its usefulness, but for its impact on the players who would always be keen to better their own stats.
I'd have signs everywhere - The Season Stars Here. And targets. 42 more points maybe. 12 wins, 6 draws by the end of the first week in May ..... something that sounds readily achievable. And I'd stop referring to anything that has gone wrong in the past, I'd concentrate on everything they did right .... and any success I'd celebrate big time with them to make sure they wanted more.
I'm hoping Jack will have his own revolution. Mine might keep us marooned at the bottom forever, but at least we'd have tried. At the moment Talking Heads are providing the theme tune for our journey and we're going down without a whimper. If I were CEO I'd tell Jack I'd fight for him, whatever he did, however much it was opposed and even if it failed, just so long as it represented change.
Come on Jack, be as bold as your words. Make your thoughts into actions.
RE: Dylan Hand - bluepooch - 15-10-2017
When Paul Cook came in it was about this time of the year and if I remember he pretty quickly brought in loan players like O Shea and Cooper.Jack doesnt have that luxury ,he cant even bring a keeper in on loan, so he has to somehow try and extract a way of playing that will suit the players we have and second half yesterday we played it on the floor and caused them loads of problems .This gives me some encouragement for the immediate future.
RE: Dylan Hand - spireitematt - 15-10-2017
I think the team we have needs to play 4-4-2 and players have to play in there positions there used to, so there is none of this square pegs in round holes.
We also need to close players down better. Grimsby and Cheltenham game we let players run at us without closing them down. We also need to attack as best form of defence is attack. Need to shoot more outside the area instead of passing the ball around allowing defenders to get back and organise themselves. Need players at the back post to get on the end of crosses.
Barcelona and Spain play tika taka football and when asked why they did once the reply was "we have the ball and as long as we have the ball the opposition don't".
Whoever came in as manager was always going to find it tough and I think Jack knew it was going to be tough.
Dancing you say make changes what changes can he make? He can't bring anyone in as the window doesn't open till January and we can't bring anyone in on loan either because the transfer rules changed. FIFA changed the rule beginning of 16/17 to say to clubs you can only bring in loanees in the two transfer windows and that's it. Only solution we can do is let the youth team players play even then I think there is a rule on how many youth players you can have in the first team.
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10509644/emergency-loan-window-system-changes-explained
RE: Dylan Hand - Dancingwilldoit - 15-10-2017
Matt,
Why bring German back from Alfreton then not even put him on the bench, whats the point? Why not give Brewster just a few minutes even? Like Dev says where is Maguire? By all accounts Dimaio was our best midfielder yesterday and only had 25 mins. He has a chance to change things, when I have seen Sinnot he has looked useful so that's 5 possible changes without a single youth team member. Like Dev says play a back 4 of Mitchell, Maguire, Evatt, Wiseman with Hird as a defending midfielder. Dimaio, Sinnot and Rowley making up the midfield with German and Brewster up top. The only problem slot is keeper.
Jack has worked with youngsters so should know how to get the best out of them, the whole squad needs a bloody good shake up.
RE: Dylan Hand - spireitematt - 15-10-2017
(15-10-2017, 17:33)Dancingwilldoit Wrote: Matt,
Why bring German back from Alfreton then not even put him on the bench, whats the point? Why not give Brewster just a few minutes even? Like Dev says where is Maguire? By all accounts Dimaio was our best midfielder yesterday and only had 25 mins. He has a chance to change things, when I have seen Sinnot he has looked useful so that's 5 possible changes without a single youth team member. Like Dev says play a back 4 of Mitchell, Maguire, Evatt, Wiseman with Hird as a defending midfielder. Dimaio, Sinnot and Rowley making up the midfield with German and Brewster up top. The only problem slot is keeper.
Jack has worked with youngsters so should know how to get the best out of them, the whole squad needs a bloody good shake up.
I don't know Dancing but I think there is something more to this than meets the eye.