I'm sorry Pooch. You don't deserve this. I bought the Non-League Paper again today. That IS where we are going.
This manager has won 9% of his games for us. Arguably last season he turned a relegation-threatened side into the second worst behind Hartlepool in league football. This season, without Hartlepo0-1 he's quickly proved he can achieve his ultimate goal. He's a dreamer sleep-walking us into oblivion.
To answer Dancing's question it has to be both the players and the way they are trying to play. I really can't fit the the squad into a team I think even reaches the heights of POOR. We have roles with no-one to fill them - no defensive midfielder or attacking midfielder AND it seems GC has placed his reliance on wingbacks who are having no positive impact on the game. He even widened our pitch to accommodate them, but that will only emphasise our lack of pace and allow the opposition to use the space. If you play wingbacks they are expected to give attacking width, wide outlets in midfield and cover at the back. Ours are succeeding in ZERO areas of the field. That means our terminally slow pensionable defence cannot work, commits fouls and gets sent off through lack of pace. Notts County have the slowest, most geriatric, most zimmerish attack imaginable - but they were too much for us.
GC even played the front three i wanted him to pick but he doesn't sound as though he set them up to cause anyone problems. I was hoping Dennis would provide the link we lack between midfield and attack, take advantage of situations created by Ugwu and CO'G and even score a goal in open play. Not only didn't that happen, it apparently didn't look like it. We didn't even get a corner against a team that will sack its manager before Christmas and be in the bottom six.
Even a normal organisation which has appointed a manager who is clearly proving incapable of doing the job he has been employed for COULD SACK HIM! Compensation and paying up contracts has become the norm in football, but a 9% win rate is a measurable standard by which we can judge performance as inadequate. Being permanently bottom of leagues is another. Recruiting badly is another. If we can't get rid of him legally take him to Ladybower and drown him like the village. Get Danny back, bring back the Hump, get a random one of the many many managers who are out of work and would love the challenge. How could we do worse? Tony McShane was the worst manager in my life until NOW. This is the worst we've ever been. El-Fitouri had the right idea - Tripoli is a better bet. He obviously chose it because he thought it was better organised.
Suggestion: play Lee in goal and German up front. Select the nine in-between them at random and see if it is any worse.
By the way both Tommy Lee and Joe Anyon say they are 6' 2". I don't believe either of them or else Dancing is 7' 2".
This manager has won 9% of his games for us. Arguably last season he turned a relegation-threatened side into the second worst behind Hartlepool in league football. This season, without Hartlepo0-1 he's quickly proved he can achieve his ultimate goal. He's a dreamer sleep-walking us into oblivion.
To answer Dancing's question it has to be both the players and the way they are trying to play. I really can't fit the the squad into a team I think even reaches the heights of POOR. We have roles with no-one to fill them - no defensive midfielder or attacking midfielder AND it seems GC has placed his reliance on wingbacks who are having no positive impact on the game. He even widened our pitch to accommodate them, but that will only emphasise our lack of pace and allow the opposition to use the space. If you play wingbacks they are expected to give attacking width, wide outlets in midfield and cover at the back. Ours are succeeding in ZERO areas of the field. That means our terminally slow pensionable defence cannot work, commits fouls and gets sent off through lack of pace. Notts County have the slowest, most geriatric, most zimmerish attack imaginable - but they were too much for us.
GC even played the front three i wanted him to pick but he doesn't sound as though he set them up to cause anyone problems. I was hoping Dennis would provide the link we lack between midfield and attack, take advantage of situations created by Ugwu and CO'G and even score a goal in open play. Not only didn't that happen, it apparently didn't look like it. We didn't even get a corner against a team that will sack its manager before Christmas and be in the bottom six.
Even a normal organisation which has appointed a manager who is clearly proving incapable of doing the job he has been employed for COULD SACK HIM! Compensation and paying up contracts has become the norm in football, but a 9% win rate is a measurable standard by which we can judge performance as inadequate. Being permanently bottom of leagues is another. Recruiting badly is another. If we can't get rid of him legally take him to Ladybower and drown him like the village. Get Danny back, bring back the Hump, get a random one of the many many managers who are out of work and would love the challenge. How could we do worse? Tony McShane was the worst manager in my life until NOW. This is the worst we've ever been. El-Fitouri had the right idea - Tripoli is a better bet. He obviously chose it because he thought it was better organised.
Suggestion: play Lee in goal and German up front. Select the nine in-between them at random and see if it is any worse.
By the way both Tommy Lee and Joe Anyon say they are 6' 2". I don't believe either of them or else Dancing is 7' 2".