12-02-2017, 13:01
Like Dancing I suspect Mr Caldwell was the wrong appointment, but what is certain it was made at a pretty impossible time for the guy. The club is in chaos and he is expected to make the playing side miraculously ordered and successful.
He has chosen to fight experience with youth. Unfortunately it is youth he has brought in from other clubs. And it is his choice to try for a kind of football apparently beyond his players; so it's his fault not theirs.
My opinion is we'll go down by a country mile. Like Coventry we are begging for it. Tuesday is irrelevant, so we'll probably win that one.
These three games have strengthened my opinion that we should have gone with The Hump and Danny, but we have to be fair with Mr Caldwell. If he doesn't walk away he should be our manager next season. He's done nothing to deserve having his career wrecked by our idiocy.
The real worry is not relegation, but that Mr Allen will play the same game with us as The Oystons at Blackpool, or The Chicken Factory at Blackburn. As everyone says, he'll have to drop his price to sell, but that pre-supposes selling will be more rewarding to him than orchestrating the chaos into which the club has been plunged. We are told he has the good of the club at heart, but we need to recognise that he has more money than he could ever need whether or not he sells us. Our true position is not that our current lack of a team might take us down, but that our former Chairman might have his finger on our self-destruct button. By pricing us so high he might just be making sure we never leave the shop window.
He has chosen to fight experience with youth. Unfortunately it is youth he has brought in from other clubs. And it is his choice to try for a kind of football apparently beyond his players; so it's his fault not theirs.
My opinion is we'll go down by a country mile. Like Coventry we are begging for it. Tuesday is irrelevant, so we'll probably win that one.
These three games have strengthened my opinion that we should have gone with The Hump and Danny, but we have to be fair with Mr Caldwell. If he doesn't walk away he should be our manager next season. He's done nothing to deserve having his career wrecked by our idiocy.
The real worry is not relegation, but that Mr Allen will play the same game with us as The Oystons at Blackpool, or The Chicken Factory at Blackburn. As everyone says, he'll have to drop his price to sell, but that pre-supposes selling will be more rewarding to him than orchestrating the chaos into which the club has been plunged. We are told he has the good of the club at heart, but we need to recognise that he has more money than he could ever need whether or not he sells us. Our true position is not that our current lack of a team might take us down, but that our former Chairman might have his finger on our self-destruct button. By pricing us so high he might just be making sure we never leave the shop window.