14-02-2016, 13:20
I'm assuming we must be recruiting a player/s this week or we really have made the daftest decision of all time.
I imagine we must think Novak and SEB are coming back immediately and have sufficient goals in them and that we sent out Harrison to create space in our tiny budget for an incoming midfielder or defender.
Otherwise we let a forward to whom we have never really given a chance in a whole calendar year, who has been scoring in every reserve game, go out to a club where he immediately scored two in a game ........ the day after we were proving ourselves completely impotent in attack. Personally I'd try loaning out Chapman, maybe Mani too and gamble on not having a keeper on the bench in order to get more outfield players.
I've been trying to tell you the aim for the season was just 51/52 points to avoid relegation. Colchester would need a miracle to avoid the drop, Crewe are going well, but have ground to make up, Oldham, their fate depends on Mr Sheridan - luckily he seems to be following the same pattern as he did for us and trying to defend and draw his way out of trouble, which won't work for them either. At the moment it looks as though someone wants us to go down (and it certainly won't be Danny). Bad luck is part of it, but at the moment our decision-making takes some explaining beyond a death-wish.
The simple way to avoid relegation is to win games. To do that we have to score goals. It doesn't matter if we lose a game 2-4 if we win the next one 2-1. You don't get anything for losing 1-0 in the 93rd minute to a wicked deflection, and if you miraculously hold out for an heroic 0-0 it's a measly point.
Of the teams currently around us for the last relegation spot, without Evatt and Raglan we look the worst. Any team that reaches the outskirts of success and then lets more than half of its team and its manager go without drafting in adequate replacements is dicing with death. We are getting what we deserve. I'm sad that a good man like Danny Wilson might be dragged down with us, but he's a battler and our best hope in the current predicament. Beating Colchester and Crewe would indeed shrink the mountain we have to climb, and if we save ourselves then long-term policies under a manager who actually cares about the club could see us rise from the ashes.
I imagine we must think Novak and SEB are coming back immediately and have sufficient goals in them and that we sent out Harrison to create space in our tiny budget for an incoming midfielder or defender.
Otherwise we let a forward to whom we have never really given a chance in a whole calendar year, who has been scoring in every reserve game, go out to a club where he immediately scored two in a game ........ the day after we were proving ourselves completely impotent in attack. Personally I'd try loaning out Chapman, maybe Mani too and gamble on not having a keeper on the bench in order to get more outfield players.
I've been trying to tell you the aim for the season was just 51/52 points to avoid relegation. Colchester would need a miracle to avoid the drop, Crewe are going well, but have ground to make up, Oldham, their fate depends on Mr Sheridan - luckily he seems to be following the same pattern as he did for us and trying to defend and draw his way out of trouble, which won't work for them either. At the moment it looks as though someone wants us to go down (and it certainly won't be Danny). Bad luck is part of it, but at the moment our decision-making takes some explaining beyond a death-wish.
The simple way to avoid relegation is to win games. To do that we have to score goals. It doesn't matter if we lose a game 2-4 if we win the next one 2-1. You don't get anything for losing 1-0 in the 93rd minute to a wicked deflection, and if you miraculously hold out for an heroic 0-0 it's a measly point.
Of the teams currently around us for the last relegation spot, without Evatt and Raglan we look the worst. Any team that reaches the outskirts of success and then lets more than half of its team and its manager go without drafting in adequate replacements is dicing with death. We are getting what we deserve. I'm sad that a good man like Danny Wilson might be dragged down with us, but he's a battler and our best hope in the current predicament. Beating Colchester and Crewe would indeed shrink the mountain we have to climb, and if we save ourselves then long-term policies under a manager who actually cares about the club could see us rise from the ashes.