14-03-2017, 12:35
Danny looked unhappy - I imagine that was because he cared about Chesterfield (he always did and probably still does!) and the results he was achieving. He tried different tactical set-ups and changed the team. He made mistakes - all managers do, but you have to remember that we went into this season as one of the RELEGATION favourites. That was because we'd been poor the season before and we hadn't invested in the team in a way that made anyone outside our keenest supporters think we could succeed. We weren't a Barnsley who were expected to challenge for promotion and slumped to the bottom of the league. When Danny came in it wasn't just a matter of getting good players to go out on the pitch and do it right. Keeping us up was a fight and if he had stayed I'd guess at best we'd be battling it out with Oldham and Bury now.
A new manager comes with expectations, even the worst of them usually boosts results for a couple of weeks. Caldwell was either desperate, or a fool to take the job. Instead of taking measures to inject spirit he brought in the most dispiriting set of temps anyone could imagine. It's like Dancing replacing several of his engineers with unpaid graduate interns - however clever they might be and become, they wouldn't be able to cope with the environment. It's no accident that the other team that has adopted the same strategy, Swindon, is also bombing out and is the only side we've beaten.
So far Caldwell has made his own football values irrelevant. The team he has created can only survive in games by defending, otherwise they'd be hammered. If you never shoot you're permanently under pressure and a passing game can't work, because you'll be pressurised into mistakes. The players are giving away the ball, big surprise, when you carry no punch the opposition takes advantage and swamps you.
Once we sacked Danny, my opinion was short of a miracle we were DOWN! My only hope was The Hump.
My expectations of Mr Caldwell weren't measurable in wins. I wanted to see us be in games, providing a threat going forward, creating a few ooohs and aaaahs, seeing some sign that, even out of defeats, something might be growing AND not being certain that forecasting 0-2 to any opposition would be pretty near the mark.
Those white things with the nets behind them, they're the goals. They're the whole point. When you see Forfar 5 East Fife 4 that's what those magic numbers are about. My message to Mr Caldwell would be , "you're here for the supporters - not the other way round!"
A new manager comes with expectations, even the worst of them usually boosts results for a couple of weeks. Caldwell was either desperate, or a fool to take the job. Instead of taking measures to inject spirit he brought in the most dispiriting set of temps anyone could imagine. It's like Dancing replacing several of his engineers with unpaid graduate interns - however clever they might be and become, they wouldn't be able to cope with the environment. It's no accident that the other team that has adopted the same strategy, Swindon, is also bombing out and is the only side we've beaten.
So far Caldwell has made his own football values irrelevant. The team he has created can only survive in games by defending, otherwise they'd be hammered. If you never shoot you're permanently under pressure and a passing game can't work, because you'll be pressurised into mistakes. The players are giving away the ball, big surprise, when you carry no punch the opposition takes advantage and swamps you.
Once we sacked Danny, my opinion was short of a miracle we were DOWN! My only hope was The Hump.
My expectations of Mr Caldwell weren't measurable in wins. I wanted to see us be in games, providing a threat going forward, creating a few ooohs and aaaahs, seeing some sign that, even out of defeats, something might be growing AND not being certain that forecasting 0-2 to any opposition would be pretty near the mark.
Those white things with the nets behind them, they're the goals. They're the whole point. When you see Forfar 5 East Fife 4 that's what those magic numbers are about. My message to Mr Caldwell would be , "you're here for the supporters - not the other way round!"