[Dancingwilldoit]

Blue, Caldwell has stated they were his signings. Next season is too late. You are seriously suggesting we let Caldwell bring in more dross then expect somebody else to pick up the pieces? There is only 1 way that will take us and that's down again.
Just as an aside, can you tell me one single good thing Caldwell has done since he arrived? I honestly cant. Please don't say signed Stuckman.

[bluepooch]

Id be careful thinking a knight on a white charger is going to come and rescue us with a buyout. look at leyton orient since barry hearn sold up

[Devongone]

The January signings if anything should have been more rushed. Caldwell had two weeks without a game. Trained his team. Thursday night before the game signed 5 players. Played some of them on Saturday!!!!!!!!

What were the two weeks of training for, to make our lads good enough to fit around random imports?

Surely he should have signed them two weeks earlier, but then we'd have had to pay them 2 week's money for not much ( same as we're doing with Fulton now). BIZARRE, but it can't just be Caldwell, it has to be the club.

[bluepooch]

Dancing whats wrong with stuckmann ? Caldwells got more out of ebanks blake than any other previous manager.he got rid of liddle and o neill.
I just think we cannot judge him until next season and thats just because i like the way he talks about building an ethos at the club and he has had success.

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Talking of liddle and o neill ,Carlisle have dropped alarmingly since lidds went there and o neill didnt figure for cambridge so either manager doesnt fancy him or hes injured yet again .

[bluepooch]

Also caldwell has improved the overall fitness of the players borne out by the stronger finishes to games

[spireitematt]

Blue, only you could put positive spin on another loss. 3 shots against 23, players out of position. Just face it he really is a crap manager. He finally plays dimaio then because he has 2 good games and gets an international call up and he gets dropped onto the bench. The guy is a plank. The sooner he goes the better.

Doesn't look good does it? 1 win 12 games and 8pts from a possible 36, a win ratio of 8.3%.

Problem is we can't keep sacking managers because then we have no stability but it does feel like we've gone backwards under Caldwell. We have to accept we are relegated and will be playing L2 football next season so the results are irrelevant and all the fans probably want to see now is a bit of fight and hopefully a few good matches with our youth players.

What is worrying is the future of the club. Will we get a buyer?

Problem is Matt if we stick with him, where will we end up. You have to draw the line somewhere. Just because he took Wigan up seems to be the only thing people remember. He struggled when they went up and got the boot. His man management skills have to be questioned, anybody who can sign Morsy then send him out on loan wants a lobotomy.
Whats important is here and now. We are in the sh!t well and truly. Its rumoured several players turned him down in the window, why would that be? Is he just the type of manager players will never play out of their skins for? It seems that way to me.  
Our paymaster seems happy to watch us go lower and lower. Is he really serious about selling the club having allegedly turned away at least 1 offer and putting on it a price tag that would make anybody think twice.
Caldwell is a liability that anybody would have to deal with if they were serious about taking the club and fans on. Best get rid know before he brings in more deadwood.

I don't know where we will end up. You do have to draw the line somewhere but we can't keep getting rid of managers. I don't think we should have got rid of Wilson because he probably knew it was going to be a struggle and a chance we could go down. I think Caldwell was probably the wrong choice because in a relegation fight you need an experience manager who has been there and done it. Shame that Warnock is at Cardiff because he would have been the perfect candidate to come in and keep us up.

I read in the Derbyshire Times the other day that we turned an offer down because someone was offering to buy the club but not the ground as well.

[Dancingwilldoit]

Warnock wouldn't have come to us in a million years Matt. Caldwell was just about the worst appointment we could have made though. The song and dance made at the time made everybody believe we had signed the Messiah.

Blue, its not Caldwell that's got EBB playing well its the fact he is out of contract and needs a paycheck for another 2 years off some poor suckers (probably us if Caldwells still in charge). Can I ask you a serious question, if Caldwell doesn't win a single game before the end of the season would you change your mind about him no matter how good a talker he is?

[bluepooch]

Dancing Ive always said we need to see some improvement from Caldwell so I can safely say if we do not get another win before the end of the season even AC will have his doubts and hes the only one who has more faith than me !

[spireitematt]

Probably not.

One thing I don't understand is why change the team which played in the Peterborough match?

The other night we played 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 and then reverted back to 3-4-3 why? Chelsea and Juventus play 3 at the back but that's because they have the players to do that we don't.

We play Rochdale next week and this is the team I would send out if I was in charge

         Stuckmann

McGinn Hird Anderson Jones

Simons Dimaio Martinez  

Dennis Ebanks-Blake German

[Devongone]

Matt my only alteration to that would be that I object to SEB now cynically using us as a shop-window after robbing fans blind for almost two years. So I'd replace him with Simons and and put one from Nolan / Mitchell / Gardner into his place in midfield. AND I'd load our bench with as many of our own younger players as possible and start getting them onto the field in the next few weeks. I also can't see why Caldwell, as an ex-centre back, doesn't bring Raglan back for a look-see before we decide to discard him. I'd have thought that was an obvious move.

(O'Neil has been regularly getting a game at Cambridge till now and much as I'd like Liddle to be the explanation for Carlisle's decline I think Charlie Wyke going to Bradford was pivotal as Ibehere now seems to be struggling for fitness.)

Like Matt I don't think the club can keep sacking managers (especially when perhaps it ought to be the other way round). The trouble is that by throwing Caldwell into a job that only perhaps his predecessor or a specialist relegation-avoider might have succeeded with is we have branded him as a flop in front of our fans, other clubs, potential players and buyers of the club. Wigan sacked him when he'd won 2 in 12 and now he's got us just 1 in 12. That has to impinge on his own decision-making this season, his ability to build next season, our ability to recruit - it changes everything. That's who we've made him, having already created an image of ourselves as a club owned by a former Chairman who says he wants to sell, but is keen to take up only impossible negotiating positions. We look like what we are - a club in chaos. I'm not surprised Mr Caldwell found January recruitment difficult - even Jurgen Klopp would have struggled to talk anybody with a future into choosing us.

Unfortunately I don't see how this goes away except by DA selling the club, or Caldwell starting to win. And I don't know which of the two is more unlikely. My fear is that by treating Mr Caldwell properly and sticking with him we are condemning ourselves to limp into next season, having recruited poorly and failed to blood our youngsters. The alternative is The Dancing Solution, which would be to sack him now I'm guessing, & appoint Humphreys immediately ..... in the hope that the club's problems off-field might resolve with a vibrant, young manager we all like fronting the operation with a decent team playing its socks off for him.

I wish I could be an optimist like Bluepooch and find positives like, we are finishing games stronger. I'm afraid I find it difficult to forget it took us only 1 minute to concede. It frightens me for us that Mr Caldwell complains of having talked extensively to the players and then they go straight out and concede. AND HE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE QUESTIONING HIS OWN PART IN THAT ......... I keep looking at the glass. It's neither half-full nor half-empty, it's cracked and the Champagne's evaporated. Sorry.