Nothing that happened last night surprised me. Thankfully I'm miles away from it.
WAKE UP YOU DAFT MANC encapsulates my thoughts.
After seeing Jalal's Shirley-Temple on Boreham Wood's first goal on Saturday he'd be nominated for our worst keeper ever award alongside Anyon and Soderberg. I'd pick Coddington, or Michael Gove for that matter, instead.
I don't see the point of making substitutions when you don't actually have anybody capable of making a difference on the bench (or in contention for it apparently). Sheridan (minor) is hardly a game changer is he? I can understand why we'd send Lee Shaw out on loan, but not if we were going to put FOUR far more incapable players on the bench. Are Amantchi and Rawson dead? Why didn't we sign Joe Bennett when he did well in friendlies? But Sheri knows a Championship player who might come on loan? Is he one of those Chris Wilder is begging to leave. For sure I'd welcome Leon Clarke, but Sheri didn't like him when we had him before even though he topped the scoring charts whilst Sheri (again) was anchoring us to the bottom of a league ..... and surely we can't afford the wages of a Championship player on loan ('n' if we can afford them then how have we ended up with such a cack-handed unteam?)
My personal preference has been to recruit from our own level and below on the cheap. Solihull didn't attract McCallum with a big money offer and a pad on the brummy equivalent of Sandbanks. Boreham Wood had no cash to splash to get Tshimanga. If we'd have even been in for them we would have had a chance of both, but we gave Weir and McKay contracts with nary a thought that with those two and Boden available every team in the National League would have feared us! And the trouble is now that, though we CAN still make signings, bringing those in from lower down the pyramid is so much harder. If they've been part-timers they need to be given the pre-season to get up to pace - sign them now and it'll be several more weeks of defeats before you start to get the best out of them. So Sheridan's broken-down EFL players, if they are fit and ready to go ( the bit they now can go on their zimmers) might even be an intelligent option.
I look at our team and every single team in our league looks better than us (including Notts County now they've signed some back up).
Despite the talk of it being early days, we're looking at being as good as down by the end of August.
WAKE UP YOU DAFT MANC encapsulates my thoughts.
After seeing Jalal's Shirley-Temple on Boreham Wood's first goal on Saturday he'd be nominated for our worst keeper ever award alongside Anyon and Soderberg. I'd pick Coddington, or Michael Gove for that matter, instead.
I don't see the point of making substitutions when you don't actually have anybody capable of making a difference on the bench (or in contention for it apparently). Sheridan (minor) is hardly a game changer is he? I can understand why we'd send Lee Shaw out on loan, but not if we were going to put FOUR far more incapable players on the bench. Are Amantchi and Rawson dead? Why didn't we sign Joe Bennett when he did well in friendlies? But Sheri knows a Championship player who might come on loan? Is he one of those Chris Wilder is begging to leave. For sure I'd welcome Leon Clarke, but Sheri didn't like him when we had him before even though he topped the scoring charts whilst Sheri (again) was anchoring us to the bottom of a league ..... and surely we can't afford the wages of a Championship player on loan ('n' if we can afford them then how have we ended up with such a cack-handed unteam?)
My personal preference has been to recruit from our own level and below on the cheap. Solihull didn't attract McCallum with a big money offer and a pad on the brummy equivalent of Sandbanks. Boreham Wood had no cash to splash to get Tshimanga. If we'd have even been in for them we would have had a chance of both, but we gave Weir and McKay contracts with nary a thought that with those two and Boden available every team in the National League would have feared us! And the trouble is now that, though we CAN still make signings, bringing those in from lower down the pyramid is so much harder. If they've been part-timers they need to be given the pre-season to get up to pace - sign them now and it'll be several more weeks of defeats before you start to get the best out of them. So Sheridan's broken-down EFL players, if they are fit and ready to go ( the bit they now can go on their zimmers) might even be an intelligent option.
I look at our team and every single team in our league looks better than us (including Notts County now they've signed some back up).
Despite the talk of it being early days, we're looking at being as good as down by the end of August.