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1-0 - Devongone - 14-01-2017
Beats an interview for me.
Dean Saunders did a good interview!
Of course we won't get it right. New man will dump the Hump as too much of a threat.
RE: 1-0 - bluepooch - 14-01-2017
Congratulatiions to Ritchie he deserves some glory ,there was a definite improvement today even if if the opposition was poor and we deserved the victory.
We actually played for a full ninety minutes and what quality was lacking was made up for by effort and commitment .He got the formation and tactics right today too .
If Caldwell doesn't accept I'd be comfortable letting Ritchie have the reigns at least in the short term.
RE: 1-0 - Dancingwilldoit - 15-01-2017
Why not long term? He proved he can do it with the reserves. Didn't go yesterday sat at home with a bad cold. Decided against sitting in the cold getting pneumonia with 5000 manic depressives. Well done "The Hump"
From what I heard we didn't sit back when we went 1 up. That alone has to be a major improvement. We came close a few times to making it 2. Doesn't matter how poor they were a win is a win and we needed it yesterday with those around us getting wins.
Looks like the new manager is Caldwell. That one i'm not sure about but then why listen to a fan?
RE: 1-0 - Devongone - 15-01-2017
The baffling, worrying aspects to me are us travelling the country like the set of pikeys we are, apparently headhunting just the right man who can't be arsed to come to us and checking back with our owner back at the plantation that he fully approves; he of course having our best interests at heart all the time he's a-plotting our permanent enslavement. Yes massa, we done got that Mistah Caldwell, cue Paul Robeson singing Ole Man River.
We jus' keep rollin' along ..........
Pray Caldwell doesn't fancy steering us down relegation river and wrecking what remains of his career. (Or maybe Gary Caldwell has got the Edward Woodward part and Dave Allen fancies himself as Christopher Lee?)
The whole dirty business sort of makes me puke. It's like a TV drama in which you can't find a character you like ....... and you just know somebody's going to turn out to have Aspergers and have been abused throughout their childhood.
I'll take 1-0. Coventry in Division 2, glad Jimmy Hill isn't here to see it. Swindon have loaned in every premiership nobody Tim Sherwood could find, the Shrews beat Bradford without SEB, well!, and Sheri's brushed off his 0-0 1-0 binary survival strategy which so aptly illustrates the whole town of Oldham ........ and then there's Bury setting out to catch Scunny.
RE: 1-0 - bluepooch - 15-01-2017
Why listen to a fan ? Im sure there are plenty of fans who have bombarded AC with opinions on Bookface and tweeter in the past week or so but If social media is the chice of communication then, like Donald T, he has to accept all the things the beast has to offer.
Caldwell would be my choice for what its worth and talking of listening to fans ,the Wigan fans rated him ,said he had an immediate impact when he took over and the football was good, played in the right way.But then we can listen to fans of Bradford who rated Gary Liddle highly and were unhappy to see him leave.
Lets listen to the fans shall we ??
RE: 1-0 - Dancingwilldoit - 15-01-2017
Caldwell may have played attractive football but he took Wigan down before bringing them back up again with a massive budget. He then got the sack after winning 2 in 14 or something like that. I hope I am wrong but its an appointment that does nothing for me. If he is as rumoured keeping us waiting then maybe he will turn it down but it seems its a done deal so I don't understand the waiting game.
The Hump on the other hand knows the squad and did enough that was heartening yesterday (put Ariyibi on the bench and played 2 up front) to make the difference. He was on a hiding to nothing but succeeded in getting a result. How many clean sheets have we had this season?
Dennis and Evans is a front 2 pairing I have wanted to see all season, ok Dennis didn't have a good game but given time together, I think they could put the fear of god up many a defender with speed and quick reaction.
RE: 1-0 - Devongone - 15-01-2017
1. If I were Gary Caldwell I wouldn't take the job. It's poison and so are we until DA sorts himself out.
2. If I were us and Caldwell hesitated over the job, I'd say "offer withdrawn, you don't want it enough".
3. I wouldn't listen to "the fans"; they are the denial of that book The Wisdom of Crowds, because like us, the facetweeters are a self-selecting bunch of odd-balls - they aren't the crowd anyway.
4. I'd get all the ex-players on the staff to get together over a very long lunch once a week to discuss nothing but football, the players, the club, the team and the way forward. (A civilised equivalent of the boot-room.)
5. I would not appoint a manager, but I'd give The Hump a rise till the end of the season.
My theory is that a moderate ex-player from outside is unlikely to come up with more good ideas than those already within the club were they given the freedom to express them and run with them. When you are failing it is the whole organisation which is failing - look at Rotherham, parachute Warnock in, he saves them, where are they now, back fighting relegation.
I've said it before, if you get a young centre forward like Ricky German, once a thug of a centre back like Morgan gets his maulers on him he'll progress backwards as he has. They might be the medic and the barman, but he'd be better hanging around with Roger Wylde and Bob Newton. If you have talent in your organisation you need to use it wherever it is located. And only appoint a new manager if you think he is more likely to win games than The Hump.
RE: 1-0 - bluepooch - 15-01-2017
The problem with giving the Hump a short term deal is that we have to rely on CT to make the long term signings in this window.
RE: 1-0 - Devongone - 16-01-2017
I agree Pooch, but the Fat Controller's gonna be involved anyway. The Hump is supposed to be CT's mate. The Hump must have played against almost every lower-league player in whom we might be interested ....... a huge advantage in my book.
We could recruit on that basis, but I wonder what standard of player would consider us (but I wonder that anyway when we may or may not be in financial crisis).
The deal I'd give The Hump would be a bonus for every win we accumulate to the end of the season AND if we avoid relegation - a 2-year contract guaranteed.
I've nothing against Caldwell, but promotion at Wigan backed by millions, is hardly like for like with relegation on a budget at Chesterfield ........ If he's the wrong choice and we go down, we've still got him and all the conditions that had got him relegated might still be applying to life in Division 2.