12-12-2017, 19:53
Calling them to reach the play-offs sounds pretty silk-purse to me Pooch.
They couldn't buy a win under Caldwell. Now they are one of the division's form sides.
Caldwell put two bottom of the league teams together from two different sets of players, both of which he helped recruit.
And the conclusions you want to draw are Lester is a living deity AND the squad of players Caldwell recruited were pretty decent because a living deity made them into winners.
In simple terms, if the squad was pretty decent in the first place what Jack Lester has managed is an organisational achievement, he's done well, but it's not that special.
I think Dancing, like me, is saying he's looking at this team and he is witnessing a level of over-achievement that he didn't think possible.
Jack's still got a big task. Ideally he'll be recruiting and at the same time he'll have to maintain that spirit and energy he's created in his current team. It isn't easy. He currently has a squad with very little pace or power. This reduces both his attacking and defensive versatility. Yet he is winning. He needs a permanent keeper, young enough to stay with us, but experienced enough not to be a risk, a proper powerful defensive midfielder who can win the ball and push forward too sometimes, he needs a Diego replacement who plays like Diego did when he was 17 and was wanted all over Italy, he needs a pacy winger with an eye for goal .......... and much as I don't like loans I'd be looking at a youngster like maybe Ahmedhodzic at Forest, who is big & can cover across the back or play in deep midfield just to add options. But I keep writing "needs" - so far Jack Lester has taken a team that was so bad it was losing ground at the bottom of the bottom division and has hoiked it out of the relegation zone - and he has needed nothing but what he brought with him.
ACCLAIM!
They couldn't buy a win under Caldwell. Now they are one of the division's form sides.
Caldwell put two bottom of the league teams together from two different sets of players, both of which he helped recruit.
And the conclusions you want to draw are Lester is a living deity AND the squad of players Caldwell recruited were pretty decent because a living deity made them into winners.
In simple terms, if the squad was pretty decent in the first place what Jack Lester has managed is an organisational achievement, he's done well, but it's not that special.
I think Dancing, like me, is saying he's looking at this team and he is witnessing a level of over-achievement that he didn't think possible.
Jack's still got a big task. Ideally he'll be recruiting and at the same time he'll have to maintain that spirit and energy he's created in his current team. It isn't easy. He currently has a squad with very little pace or power. This reduces both his attacking and defensive versatility. Yet he is winning. He needs a permanent keeper, young enough to stay with us, but experienced enough not to be a risk, a proper powerful defensive midfielder who can win the ball and push forward too sometimes, he needs a Diego replacement who plays like Diego did when he was 17 and was wanted all over Italy, he needs a pacy winger with an eye for goal .......... and much as I don't like loans I'd be looking at a youngster like maybe Ahmedhodzic at Forest, who is big & can cover across the back or play in deep midfield just to add options. But I keep writing "needs" - so far Jack Lester has taken a team that was so bad it was losing ground at the bottom of the bottom division and has hoiked it out of the relegation zone - and he has needed nothing but what he brought with him.
ACCLAIM!