20-11-2017, 14:26
According to the stats their keeper didn't make a save and Anyon made two. We scored with our only shot on target.
I feel full of praise for Jack because he is getting results I'd have thought impossible with these players. I was and am willing to stick by him even if were to lose touch with the rest of the division by the January window, because the legacy he inherited was so poor.
I wouldn't have done many of the things he's done so far and I certainly wouldn't be selecting the side that defeated Exeter, but I always feel like that about managers. Managers make mistakes like the rest of us and they win all the time with a team on the field few of the fans would think optimum. So what, if they do win; it's only an issue when they do a Caldwell and end up 3 wins to the wind.
The whole trouble with the worship of managers is that it gives fans no basis upon which to handle even a temporary lack of success. They go from a love affair with the manager who has them challenging for promotion to calling for his head the next season when they are just above the relegation zone in October.
In our own case it led us to change from a manager who had already once saved us from relegation once, to a new man who not only wanted to save us, but also create a playing revolution with players wholly unsuited to his dreams. It was a disaster. Wrong man; wrong time. But because so many fans adopt the blind follow-our-leader approach, it takes them ages to see when a genuine wrong direction has been taken. It isn't until they are teetering on the edge of the cliff they wake up and call for their glorious leader to be forced onto his own sword! Stop it!
If Jack Lester saves this club from relegation he will have deserved our undying gratitude. It would be enough to earn my support in his current job for quite a few seasons! BUT if we do go down I'll certainly continue to support him as manager, because he has taken on a huge task in terrible circumstances and shown signs that in more favourable conditions he could really be a winner!
What if we lose 0-4 to Forest Green? Does the bubble burst? Jack might pick the wrong team. Alex Ferguson sold Paul Pogba for a handful of beans and a giant grew at the top of an Italian beanstalk that it cost Man Utd a king's ransom to chop down ...... Managers get it wrong. Stuff happens. They also get it right. I won't trust Jack Lester blindly. I'll criticise what he gets wrong and probably some of what he gets right too. I wanted him in this job and I want him to keep it. But I've got my own brain and my own opinions too and I think he'd expect that!
I feel full of praise for Jack because he is getting results I'd have thought impossible with these players. I was and am willing to stick by him even if were to lose touch with the rest of the division by the January window, because the legacy he inherited was so poor.
I wouldn't have done many of the things he's done so far and I certainly wouldn't be selecting the side that defeated Exeter, but I always feel like that about managers. Managers make mistakes like the rest of us and they win all the time with a team on the field few of the fans would think optimum. So what, if they do win; it's only an issue when they do a Caldwell and end up 3 wins to the wind.
The whole trouble with the worship of managers is that it gives fans no basis upon which to handle even a temporary lack of success. They go from a love affair with the manager who has them challenging for promotion to calling for his head the next season when they are just above the relegation zone in October.
In our own case it led us to change from a manager who had already once saved us from relegation once, to a new man who not only wanted to save us, but also create a playing revolution with players wholly unsuited to his dreams. It was a disaster. Wrong man; wrong time. But because so many fans adopt the blind follow-our-leader approach, it takes them ages to see when a genuine wrong direction has been taken. It isn't until they are teetering on the edge of the cliff they wake up and call for their glorious leader to be forced onto his own sword! Stop it!
If Jack Lester saves this club from relegation he will have deserved our undying gratitude. It would be enough to earn my support in his current job for quite a few seasons! BUT if we do go down I'll certainly continue to support him as manager, because he has taken on a huge task in terrible circumstances and shown signs that in more favourable conditions he could really be a winner!
What if we lose 0-4 to Forest Green? Does the bubble burst? Jack might pick the wrong team. Alex Ferguson sold Paul Pogba for a handful of beans and a giant grew at the top of an Italian beanstalk that it cost Man Utd a king's ransom to chop down ...... Managers get it wrong. Stuff happens. They also get it right. I won't trust Jack Lester blindly. I'll criticise what he gets wrong and probably some of what he gets right too. I wanted him in this job and I want him to keep it. But I've got my own brain and my own opinions too and I think he'd expect that!