25-01-2017, 18:08
I think getting shut of Jay is a good thing! He was potentially our best player, but that's an eleven-letter word that kept getting in his way ........ and ours. When we had a lot of potent players he was a luxury we could afford, but as Dancing pointed out he was often on first on Cookie's sub list.
We are in Division One, this is nowhere near as bad as it gets for an old Spire. Pooch will certainly remember the days of Tony McShane as manager, regularly getting nowhere in the division below, every season about nine or more free transfers brought in to back the three or four regulars. There was almost no hope of a junior player coming through then. We were poor in every sense of the word. And going nowhere.
Now, we are in crisis because of decisions our former chairman helped us make. And he is the only one who can decide the who, when, what and how behind the resolution of those issues. And Mr Caldwell can only work with what he is given and he was very clearly told that to bring a player in, another had to go out. So the luxury sofa's in the pawn shop up the road.
Try as I might I can only see 2 or at a stretch 3 teams that might finish below us. If Mr Caldwell can transform us, then of course we might survive, but he'll have to do an absolutely excellent job ........ more really than we've a right to expect of him. So instead of putting him under pressure and giving him the idea it's keep us up or else, he deserves to know that if we go down we'll be asking him to get us back up again.
We are in Division One, this is nowhere near as bad as it gets for an old Spire. Pooch will certainly remember the days of Tony McShane as manager, regularly getting nowhere in the division below, every season about nine or more free transfers brought in to back the three or four regulars. There was almost no hope of a junior player coming through then. We were poor in every sense of the word. And going nowhere.
Now, we are in crisis because of decisions our former chairman helped us make. And he is the only one who can decide the who, when, what and how behind the resolution of those issues. And Mr Caldwell can only work with what he is given and he was very clearly told that to bring a player in, another had to go out. So the luxury sofa's in the pawn shop up the road.
Try as I might I can only see 2 or at a stretch 3 teams that might finish below us. If Mr Caldwell can transform us, then of course we might survive, but he'll have to do an absolutely excellent job ........ more really than we've a right to expect of him. So instead of putting him under pressure and giving him the idea it's keep us up or else, he deserves to know that if we go down we'll be asking him to get us back up again.