09-03-2017, 14:45
Blue, I admire your spirit and loyalty, but Dancing is on the money here. We were hammered by those Division 2 teams with a far better team within a far more stable club than we have now. We're a demolition derby demolishing ourselves from the inside. And we lost those games with a manager whose long career win record puts him in with Allardyce, Redknapp and Warnock. You seem to think he was the one destroying the club in the town in which he has chosen to live and the club at which he was a hero. He wouldn't even be a suspect on Midsomer Murders!
We have no money, or so we are told, but we are paying for seven loanees who have won us only one game by a fluke (and the goal was scored by one of our own players). Meanwhile we exile our own youngsters to Fylde and Matlock. Does that even sound sensible?
I've said it before but it's worth saying again - the only point to loanees is if they win you some points. We have a shit keeper x 2, a centre back who is joined by an umbilical cord to Burnley, and four kids who are going to need the intervention of the human genome project and Dolly the sheep to make a Premiership player between them. Stir in a manager who seems to have come equipped with blinkers .......
This is a team with a record of 8 wins from 36 games, most of which were accumulated by better players and at least a couple of which were down to Jay O'Shea's very occasional match-winning talents. Now we need this weakened scrag-end of a team to win at least 6 but ideally 7 of their last 10 games. We might win the lottery. Princess Di might materialise in the centre circle before our next game. George Clooney, Emma Stone and Casey Affleck might put on a short nativity play in the Parish Church.
O'Shea and Raglan don't play these days at all. So let's have them back for at least a couple of months. Maguire and Morrison can't learn league football in non-league, let's have them back. Seven loanees all go back (unless any of them has expressed a desire to come to us next season when their own club's manager calls them in for that final interview).
Let the team Mr Caldwell has to create, play and perhaps even lose (could they do worse?) so he is in a position to identify discards, potential and developers BECAUSE it looks as though any new talent he finds is going to have to be cheap. It won't all be good news from this process and we will all probably disagree with some of Mr Caldwell's assessments, but at least he won't have done it with his eyes shut. We don't deserve the ridiculous start he gave us to his Chesterfield career - in which he had two weeks to get his players together before the next game AND on the last day of that period he brought in four players with neither background nor experience. That is crap management that showed a complete disregard for the fans.
If Mr Caldwell wants to build something I'd offer him every chance, but if he just wants to run down the season in the hope that a better job with mates from earlier in his career might swallow him up ......... then I've no interest in the man. There could be a light at the end of the tunnel, but Mr Caldwell isn't even looking for the tunnel.
We have no money, or so we are told, but we are paying for seven loanees who have won us only one game by a fluke (and the goal was scored by one of our own players). Meanwhile we exile our own youngsters to Fylde and Matlock. Does that even sound sensible?
I've said it before but it's worth saying again - the only point to loanees is if they win you some points. We have a shit keeper x 2, a centre back who is joined by an umbilical cord to Burnley, and four kids who are going to need the intervention of the human genome project and Dolly the sheep to make a Premiership player between them. Stir in a manager who seems to have come equipped with blinkers .......
This is a team with a record of 8 wins from 36 games, most of which were accumulated by better players and at least a couple of which were down to Jay O'Shea's very occasional match-winning talents. Now we need this weakened scrag-end of a team to win at least 6 but ideally 7 of their last 10 games. We might win the lottery. Princess Di might materialise in the centre circle before our next game. George Clooney, Emma Stone and Casey Affleck might put on a short nativity play in the Parish Church.
O'Shea and Raglan don't play these days at all. So let's have them back for at least a couple of months. Maguire and Morrison can't learn league football in non-league, let's have them back. Seven loanees all go back (unless any of them has expressed a desire to come to us next season when their own club's manager calls them in for that final interview).
Let the team Mr Caldwell has to create, play and perhaps even lose (could they do worse?) so he is in a position to identify discards, potential and developers BECAUSE it looks as though any new talent he finds is going to have to be cheap. It won't all be good news from this process and we will all probably disagree with some of Mr Caldwell's assessments, but at least he won't have done it with his eyes shut. We don't deserve the ridiculous start he gave us to his Chesterfield career - in which he had two weeks to get his players together before the next game AND on the last day of that period he brought in four players with neither background nor experience. That is crap management that showed a complete disregard for the fans.
If Mr Caldwell wants to build something I'd offer him every chance, but if he just wants to run down the season in the hope that a better job with mates from earlier in his career might swallow him up ......... then I've no interest in the man. There could be a light at the end of the tunnel, but Mr Caldwell isn't even looking for the tunnel.