I'm sorry but if Mr Caldwell's philosophy involves playing other clubs' players instead of his own then it is going to be an enormously expensive one for a club with nothing.
When we sent O'Shea to Sheffield for the rest of the season I was envisaging us using that contract to bring in a player capable of sparking our team into life. I thought it was a good thing as Jay is anything but a 100% die-on-his shield player. But it has substantially weakened our team because at least every four or five games we carried a threat. Now we've been disarmed.
Patience should already be wearing thin towards any top we have (though I fear it is more the lava bubbling below we should look at than the apparent top, or the real top located round Mr Allen's house). If on Tuesday night Simons and German trotted out up front, Maguire in defence, and perhaps a couple of younger pro's on the bench ........... surely our crowd would get behind them - will them to succeed? We all want OUR boys to do good don't we? If we got hammered everyone would put up with that, perhaps even our tattered little board too.
What patience did we exercise with Danny? He saved us last season, as reward for that this season he was allowed what resources? We gambled on a man who hadn't played football for more than three years, and another who hadn't scored a league goal. To back these up he got a centre forward he didn't fancy with a ridiculous continuing contract. Amidst an absolute mass of injuries he tried to build a midfield and defence. And when his goalie went we didn't go out and get him one, he had to find some Scottish kid .......... For some of the injuries I blame Danny because he believed in Morgan and the decisions made regarding our keeper getting injured and replacing him revealed even professionals have no idea the influence keepers have. But giving Danny just over a year is patience?
The danger for Mr Caldwell is he will have shortly expended everyone's patience by taking a series of wrong turns and trying to suggest he is leading us to where we want to go. Hansel and Gretel were better off following the breadcrumbs; at least the witch was fattening them up before she ate them.
His choice is continue down loanee road imposing a style of play which has brought us a total of 13 efforts on goal in our last three games, OR start down the road he is paying lip-service to, the road into the future. He is letting our world and his own end with a whimper ....... why can't we go out with a bang? Next season we start again and if we are lucky Mansfield won't have gone up!
When we sent O'Shea to Sheffield for the rest of the season I was envisaging us using that contract to bring in a player capable of sparking our team into life. I thought it was a good thing as Jay is anything but a 100% die-on-his shield player. But it has substantially weakened our team because at least every four or five games we carried a threat. Now we've been disarmed.
Patience should already be wearing thin towards any top we have (though I fear it is more the lava bubbling below we should look at than the apparent top, or the real top located round Mr Allen's house). If on Tuesday night Simons and German trotted out up front, Maguire in defence, and perhaps a couple of younger pro's on the bench ........... surely our crowd would get behind them - will them to succeed? We all want OUR boys to do good don't we? If we got hammered everyone would put up with that, perhaps even our tattered little board too.
What patience did we exercise with Danny? He saved us last season, as reward for that this season he was allowed what resources? We gambled on a man who hadn't played football for more than three years, and another who hadn't scored a league goal. To back these up he got a centre forward he didn't fancy with a ridiculous continuing contract. Amidst an absolute mass of injuries he tried to build a midfield and defence. And when his goalie went we didn't go out and get him one, he had to find some Scottish kid .......... For some of the injuries I blame Danny because he believed in Morgan and the decisions made regarding our keeper getting injured and replacing him revealed even professionals have no idea the influence keepers have. But giving Danny just over a year is patience?
The danger for Mr Caldwell is he will have shortly expended everyone's patience by taking a series of wrong turns and trying to suggest he is leading us to where we want to go. Hansel and Gretel were better off following the breadcrumbs; at least the witch was fattening them up before she ate them.
His choice is continue down loanee road imposing a style of play which has brought us a total of 13 efforts on goal in our last three games, OR start down the road he is paying lip-service to, the road into the future. He is letting our world and his own end with a whimper ....... why can't we go out with a bang? Next season we start again and if we are lucky Mansfield won't have gone up!