Pooch, you are the truest-hearted of supporters, but you read Dancing absolutely wrong. He doesn't hate the club, or the team; he hates what is being done to them and/or happening to them. In the current circumstances it is hard to know where incompetence ends and malign intent begins. We are all left guessing at the motives of a successful man who builds us a stadium, has the club in his debt and the palm of his hand and then walks away but doesn't leave ....... and we are left with this brooding presence, failure on the field breeding only further failure and supporters who would protest, but aren't quite sure on what that protest should be pinned. Dancing rates Jack Lester. He knows we gave GC a very difficult job and, like me, he's sure any new manager now is gambling his career on his own personality and charisma being enough to draw this strange squad of players together. There's very little opportunity to change the squad until January and it is still September. We could be virtually down by that time. Dancing fears that; almost all of us do.
Hird did play the role we want for Danny Wilson - briefly. Under Cook he played further forward. We want a third centre back essentially in front of our centre backs. He's a sweeper behind the midfield, or slightly in front of the defensive line. We don't want him to run about. We want him to scent danger, picks up loose ends, intercept ...... and when he's got the ball yes use it as he actually can. Give him videos of Ledley King playing for England - do that Sam ....... but we don't mind if you cut down on the carrying ball forward bit!
Are you surprised Hird was rubbish against Yeovil? He was ready to play alongside a guy of 6'4" he was just getting used to, a few minutes in he gets a younger, smaller partner who plays a different game - actually a game similar to his own. Okay he should have adapted, but once a game starts to run away from you sometimes you can't stop being crap. If you don't want Hird to try the role I'd like to see, the only other choice on our books is Wiseman. By inaction in the transfer market we've created our own problems at centre back. Hird and Evatt as a combo is too often found out, Hird and Maguire maybe wasn't great against Yeovil, that leaves Evatt and Maguire or using Wiseman or Hird in some kind of role. Dancing and I are just choosing one that we think might make the defence more secure and help our full backs and midfield to provide more and better attacking opportunities.
The oddest thing about all this to me is Dave Allen is getting himself hated as he was at Sheffield Wednesday. He should be loved. He has every opportunity to be loved. He can afford to be loved. He is choosing our hatred. Why does anyone want to be hated, when being loved would have been so easy?
Hird did play the role we want for Danny Wilson - briefly. Under Cook he played further forward. We want a third centre back essentially in front of our centre backs. He's a sweeper behind the midfield, or slightly in front of the defensive line. We don't want him to run about. We want him to scent danger, picks up loose ends, intercept ...... and when he's got the ball yes use it as he actually can. Give him videos of Ledley King playing for England - do that Sam ....... but we don't mind if you cut down on the carrying ball forward bit!
Are you surprised Hird was rubbish against Yeovil? He was ready to play alongside a guy of 6'4" he was just getting used to, a few minutes in he gets a younger, smaller partner who plays a different game - actually a game similar to his own. Okay he should have adapted, but once a game starts to run away from you sometimes you can't stop being crap. If you don't want Hird to try the role I'd like to see, the only other choice on our books is Wiseman. By inaction in the transfer market we've created our own problems at centre back. Hird and Evatt as a combo is too often found out, Hird and Maguire maybe wasn't great against Yeovil, that leaves Evatt and Maguire or using Wiseman or Hird in some kind of role. Dancing and I are just choosing one that we think might make the defence more secure and help our full backs and midfield to provide more and better attacking opportunities.
The oddest thing about all this to me is Dave Allen is getting himself hated as he was at Sheffield Wednesday. He should be loved. He has every opportunity to be loved. He can afford to be loved. He is choosing our hatred. Why does anyone want to be hated, when being loved would have been so easy?