I feel sorry for genuine fans who turn up full of hope like Pooch.
The truth is Danny has been a successful manager .... and with his squad he seemed to be going nowhere and it appeared he didn't have the resources to change things even IF he wanted to.
Mr Caldwell takes over. He clearly has no resources either, so he brings in loanees on Tuesday night, signs a player Wednesday was it, and the new squad has two or three days even to know each other. As I pointed out elsewhere we exchanged over 900 senior appearances with the players we exiled to make room for newcomers who have made 52 appearances between them. And we were due to play against a manager whose known approach to escaping relegation is 0-0 0-1 away from home and at home.
EVEN I MANAGED TO FORECAST THE RESULT!
Dancing's right, possession only counts if you do something with it. And I'm the first to admit I don't understand pro' managers. The youngsters were enough of a change, but dropping in Dan Jones after months out is surely the manager admitting we need a miracle from somewhere. The fact he replaced him with an Angel reveals how far outside Chesterfield he is already looking for help.
To me it's baffling that we wait until the dying hours of the transfer window to bring in new players, especially very young ones who are likely to be nervous and find settling down difficult. We had two weeks to get ourselves a team and have them playing together and we deliberately compressed it into two days. I can't believe any manager would think having only two days together is an advantage so I can only assume the motive was financial. What you get for our investment, or lack of it, is relegation.
The only point to any of our loan players is that they bring us WINS. If they don't and I'm afraid they won't, we may as well spend the rest of this season playing the players who are ours, that means Allinson in goal, bring Raglan back from Oxford's bench, get Maguire in and so on.
Must say I felt like weeping yesterday when I saw Sarcevic had scored for Plymouth. The moment he left Shrewsbury to become a free agent we should have been round his house, even if he is an odd character, cos he's a mile better player than what we've got. Omar Bogle was at Solihull when I suggested him, yesterday he came on in the Championship. If a numpty know-nothing like me can see reports of players and think he's worth a try surely a professional club with a manager, assistant/s, a Director of Football, specialist coaches and scouts can do better than we've managed so far?
The truth is Danny has been a successful manager .... and with his squad he seemed to be going nowhere and it appeared he didn't have the resources to change things even IF he wanted to.
Mr Caldwell takes over. He clearly has no resources either, so he brings in loanees on Tuesday night, signs a player Wednesday was it, and the new squad has two or three days even to know each other. As I pointed out elsewhere we exchanged over 900 senior appearances with the players we exiled to make room for newcomers who have made 52 appearances between them. And we were due to play against a manager whose known approach to escaping relegation is 0-0 0-1 away from home and at home.
EVEN I MANAGED TO FORECAST THE RESULT!
Dancing's right, possession only counts if you do something with it. And I'm the first to admit I don't understand pro' managers. The youngsters were enough of a change, but dropping in Dan Jones after months out is surely the manager admitting we need a miracle from somewhere. The fact he replaced him with an Angel reveals how far outside Chesterfield he is already looking for help.
To me it's baffling that we wait until the dying hours of the transfer window to bring in new players, especially very young ones who are likely to be nervous and find settling down difficult. We had two weeks to get ourselves a team and have them playing together and we deliberately compressed it into two days. I can't believe any manager would think having only two days together is an advantage so I can only assume the motive was financial. What you get for our investment, or lack of it, is relegation.
The only point to any of our loan players is that they bring us WINS. If they don't and I'm afraid they won't, we may as well spend the rest of this season playing the players who are ours, that means Allinson in goal, bring Raglan back from Oxford's bench, get Maguire in and so on.
Must say I felt like weeping yesterday when I saw Sarcevic had scored for Plymouth. The moment he left Shrewsbury to become a free agent we should have been round his house, even if he is an odd character, cos he's a mile better player than what we've got. Omar Bogle was at Solihull when I suggested him, yesterday he came on in the Championship. If a numpty know-nothing like me can see reports of players and think he's worth a try surely a professional club with a manager, assistant/s, a Director of Football, specialist coaches and scouts can do better than we've managed so far?