Pooch, I'm interested in your opinion of Simons. I know you had hopes of him at the start of the season that were so dashed your opinion became forget about him forever. (I always kinda hoped he might just be a young player being encouraged to do things that weren't part of his game or character, which I think also happened to Ricky German. And you know who I think was responsible.) Is a player going to emerge, or was he the reason we didn't score?
Dancing, apparently Sky is becoming Skyfall as far as footie is concerned. We'll all be streaming for free, cos we don't wanna to pay. Yes, my view is Wigan should've stuck by Caldwell and see if he had it in him to save them. My view of Cookie is he gave us two good seasons and left behind a legacy of devastation. Once he was going to leave so were all the players at the end of their contracts. AND he did it to go down a division. He came dirty and left dirty, like so much of football.
Yes we are desperate for Ched to score, but he went a long time at Sheff Utd without a significant return before he started scoring for fun.
My view is managers aren't that different. Klopp's a messiah, I like him, but he couldn't beat Swansea, Allardyce can't buy a league win, people are saying Pulis's West Brom are good to watch, Pep threw out a good keeper, put a new one under unbearable pressure and doesn't seem to have grasped that's the basis of his problem, Mourinho picks Fellaini in front of Rashford, Lee Johnson saved Bristol City and now can't win .......... and when Pooch or Matt produce their stats of managerial wins they aren't that different. No one manages Chesterfield and wins 75% of the time and getting down to 20% is beneath the dumbest of clucks. It's not like the exam results in Form 3B. (If you want to win 75% of the time, manage Celtic.)
My conclusion is that managers are similar kinds of bloke, from similar backgrounds, educated in the same way and we shouldn't be surprised they find the similar solutions to the same problems, their teams look much the same and that all their figures regress to the median (is that right? the median?). Danny succeeds at Barnsley, saves us then fails, Cookie gets a bigger budget and more support at Portsmouth but can't repeat his success with us, Ferguson relegates a Doncaster team that looked like play-off contenders on paper and is now getting them back up ............ And so it goes. And as Dancing says our desperate desire for success makes us impatient. All we see is smaller pictures. We never give the bigger picture time to be drawn. Football's like those Rolf Harris pictures where you thought it was going to be a wallaby, but it turned out to be a paedophile (I definitely did not write that!).
Dancing, apparently Sky is becoming Skyfall as far as footie is concerned. We'll all be streaming for free, cos we don't wanna to pay. Yes, my view is Wigan should've stuck by Caldwell and see if he had it in him to save them. My view of Cookie is he gave us two good seasons and left behind a legacy of devastation. Once he was going to leave so were all the players at the end of their contracts. AND he did it to go down a division. He came dirty and left dirty, like so much of football.
Yes we are desperate for Ched to score, but he went a long time at Sheff Utd without a significant return before he started scoring for fun.
My view is managers aren't that different. Klopp's a messiah, I like him, but he couldn't beat Swansea, Allardyce can't buy a league win, people are saying Pulis's West Brom are good to watch, Pep threw out a good keeper, put a new one under unbearable pressure and doesn't seem to have grasped that's the basis of his problem, Mourinho picks Fellaini in front of Rashford, Lee Johnson saved Bristol City and now can't win .......... and when Pooch or Matt produce their stats of managerial wins they aren't that different. No one manages Chesterfield and wins 75% of the time and getting down to 20% is beneath the dumbest of clucks. It's not like the exam results in Form 3B. (If you want to win 75% of the time, manage Celtic.)
My conclusion is that managers are similar kinds of bloke, from similar backgrounds, educated in the same way and we shouldn't be surprised they find the similar solutions to the same problems, their teams look much the same and that all their figures regress to the median (is that right? the median?). Danny succeeds at Barnsley, saves us then fails, Cookie gets a bigger budget and more support at Portsmouth but can't repeat his success with us, Ferguson relegates a Doncaster team that looked like play-off contenders on paper and is now getting them back up ............ And so it goes. And as Dancing says our desperate desire for success makes us impatient. All we see is smaller pictures. We never give the bigger picture time to be drawn. Football's like those Rolf Harris pictures where you thought it was going to be a wallaby, but it turned out to be a paedophile (I definitely did not write that!).