Big positives were the crowd (I didn't expect over 5,000 under the circs) and the fact that we scored and we were dangerous.
Blue, not everything that happens is down to Danny. SEB was poor-ish even with the support of Lee Novak under Deano, he carried on in the same vein and much worse for Danny and was consigned to darkness, he went to Shrewsbury was soon relegated to permanent sub' by one manager and was quickly not fancied by the man who has turned them round. So that's four managers who got nothing from him .......... and remember he came to us because he wasn't doing much at PNE and even looked out of shape. Now SEB's future is on the line, his contract is almost done and suddenly he is all over the field? What do any of us think is going on? Genius management or I-need-the-easy-life-of-a-footballer-look-what-I-can-do? If it weren't such a racist thing to do we'd be asking Ron Atkinson for his point of view.
I'm delighted the ridiculous interns are beginning to disappear from the team. I was pleased Dennis scored and hope he can find himself. I was more than delighted Rai Simons got a start and made a goal in minutes. Give him some more time, we're down, see what happens ......... get Joe Rowley off the bench and on the pitch, get Maguire back and starting. Most of all don't be fooled by some old pro' bidding for a new contract anywhere, get someone on the field with a future - the sort of player who scores for the reserves!
The truth is Mr Caldwell hasn't done anything very different from Danny. Danny played three at the back, he tried the passing game, he even played park the bus ....... but didn't have the courage to make it work even though he had one of the main weapons (he had in Ariyibi and Mitchell the genuine pace necessary to play on the break, but didn't go with it!) Danny wasn't a dinosaur, he was just a manager of a club with enough resources to be in the bottom six of its division even when things were going right.
The worrying aspect of our play is that despite edging the battle for possession we still only managed eight efforts on goal and yet again the opposition topped twenty. So neither in attack or defence are we really getting it right yet.
At Wigan Caldwell had every advantage, but his team did score goals, so he isn't only a park-the-bus merchant. All we want from him at Chesterfield is that he views what we've got and what we lack realistically. That he recognises supporters want to win, but they also want to see their team attack and play (because most of humanity is living a dreary defensive life, under buggers of bosses, debts, screwball kids and cock-a-mamey mothers-in-law). We want some joy! A few minutes of that stretches a long way. I hope it continues and drags Dancing from his delphiniums.
Blue, not everything that happens is down to Danny. SEB was poor-ish even with the support of Lee Novak under Deano, he carried on in the same vein and much worse for Danny and was consigned to darkness, he went to Shrewsbury was soon relegated to permanent sub' by one manager and was quickly not fancied by the man who has turned them round. So that's four managers who got nothing from him .......... and remember he came to us because he wasn't doing much at PNE and even looked out of shape. Now SEB's future is on the line, his contract is almost done and suddenly he is all over the field? What do any of us think is going on? Genius management or I-need-the-easy-life-of-a-footballer-look-what-I-can-do? If it weren't such a racist thing to do we'd be asking Ron Atkinson for his point of view.
I'm delighted the ridiculous interns are beginning to disappear from the team. I was pleased Dennis scored and hope he can find himself. I was more than delighted Rai Simons got a start and made a goal in minutes. Give him some more time, we're down, see what happens ......... get Joe Rowley off the bench and on the pitch, get Maguire back and starting. Most of all don't be fooled by some old pro' bidding for a new contract anywhere, get someone on the field with a future - the sort of player who scores for the reserves!
The truth is Mr Caldwell hasn't done anything very different from Danny. Danny played three at the back, he tried the passing game, he even played park the bus ....... but didn't have the courage to make it work even though he had one of the main weapons (he had in Ariyibi and Mitchell the genuine pace necessary to play on the break, but didn't go with it!) Danny wasn't a dinosaur, he was just a manager of a club with enough resources to be in the bottom six of its division even when things were going right.
The worrying aspect of our play is that despite edging the battle for possession we still only managed eight efforts on goal and yet again the opposition topped twenty. So neither in attack or defence are we really getting it right yet.
At Wigan Caldwell had every advantage, but his team did score goals, so he isn't only a park-the-bus merchant. All we want from him at Chesterfield is that he views what we've got and what we lack realistically. That he recognises supporters want to win, but they also want to see their team attack and play (because most of humanity is living a dreary defensive life, under buggers of bosses, debts, screwball kids and cock-a-mamey mothers-in-law). We want some joy! A few minutes of that stretches a long way. I hope it continues and drags Dancing from his delphiniums.