28-08-2017, 12:23
This Caldwell mantra of his way of playing being difficult to learn ....... well if he is right WHY is he trying to teach it to old players who have spent entire careers playing in other ways? Old dogs and new tricks etc ......
Surely his most receptive learners will be Maguire, Willock, Smith, Fowler, Ofoegbu.
I would love 8/1 against anything I regard as a racing certainty EXCEPT OUR RELEGATION.
Pooch mate I have not said this to you before, because I like you and love your optimism, but it was supporters like you calling for Wilson's head (a loyal man who had saved us once already) who precipitated Danny's sacking & put the club and GC into a near impossible position. Learning about the club, its peculiar problems and assessing his squad and re-building it during a transfer window without any resources ....... would have been difficult even for an experienced manager, for one whose experience was totally irrelevant IT WAS A RIDICULOUS ASK! If we were going to go down under Danny we should have done it and not embittered a good man and ourselves .... and we could have let a new man start then. I even came up with the alternative of the Hump in charge of the team and Danny moving a little upstairs .......... It was you and your man who gave as most embarrassing and abject relegation in a quarter of a century. Dancing and I were never in favour of it.
The reason why I say NOW is the time to be rid of the man is not only has he had the equivalent of half a season and collected just 15 points BUT also that waiting as you have suggested until the end of September is once more the WORST TIMING POSSIBLE. Just look at the fixture list. Sack GC at the end of September and we'll spend all October sorting it out. We have no functional administration. There are FIVE games in October - all would be potentially winnable for even a moderate team. Ten to fifteen points gathered then could be the difference between being in the league and being in outer darkness, the club continuing to live and starting to die! You want to take potential victories and dump 'em in the Hipper! Great move!
It gives me no pleasure to say that I did tell you that not only would we lose at Newport but also that we'd be "THRASHED". Looking at the club from way outside can give you some advantages. From here it is obvious we are bottom because we are the most dysfunctional. We have a manager making regular and bizarre prognoses simply because we are the most dysfunctional. He reflects the club. We are him! To me the question is not how we can be saved but IF. We have the outward trappings of a football club, but lots of the internal workings are just missing.
At the moment we're looking more 1/8 than 8/1. I hate it. I can't tell you how much. But I do find it insulting to be told I should back us to be relegated Blue when you've been the cheerleader for the on-field mess we've created to match the off-field chaos DA is promoting.
Surely his most receptive learners will be Maguire, Willock, Smith, Fowler, Ofoegbu.
I would love 8/1 against anything I regard as a racing certainty EXCEPT OUR RELEGATION.
Pooch mate I have not said this to you before, because I like you and love your optimism, but it was supporters like you calling for Wilson's head (a loyal man who had saved us once already) who precipitated Danny's sacking & put the club and GC into a near impossible position. Learning about the club, its peculiar problems and assessing his squad and re-building it during a transfer window without any resources ....... would have been difficult even for an experienced manager, for one whose experience was totally irrelevant IT WAS A RIDICULOUS ASK! If we were going to go down under Danny we should have done it and not embittered a good man and ourselves .... and we could have let a new man start then. I even came up with the alternative of the Hump in charge of the team and Danny moving a little upstairs .......... It was you and your man who gave as most embarrassing and abject relegation in a quarter of a century. Dancing and I were never in favour of it.
The reason why I say NOW is the time to be rid of the man is not only has he had the equivalent of half a season and collected just 15 points BUT also that waiting as you have suggested until the end of September is once more the WORST TIMING POSSIBLE. Just look at the fixture list. Sack GC at the end of September and we'll spend all October sorting it out. We have no functional administration. There are FIVE games in October - all would be potentially winnable for even a moderate team. Ten to fifteen points gathered then could be the difference between being in the league and being in outer darkness, the club continuing to live and starting to die! You want to take potential victories and dump 'em in the Hipper! Great move!
It gives me no pleasure to say that I did tell you that not only would we lose at Newport but also that we'd be "THRASHED". Looking at the club from way outside can give you some advantages. From here it is obvious we are bottom because we are the most dysfunctional. We have a manager making regular and bizarre prognoses simply because we are the most dysfunctional. He reflects the club. We are him! To me the question is not how we can be saved but IF. We have the outward trappings of a football club, but lots of the internal workings are just missing.
At the moment we're looking more 1/8 than 8/1. I hate it. I can't tell you how much. But I do find it insulting to be told I should back us to be relegated Blue when you've been the cheerleader for the on-field mess we've created to match the off-field chaos DA is promoting.