[Devongone]

Apparently ........ but that Guardian article is so surprisingly unquestioning from a journo who is supposed to be a top sports writer that I can't take it seriously. I reckon DA got the wine out for him or is capable of being a very charming man.

DA had every chance to get us to the Championship. He had the Manager and the players. He made it so obvious he would no longer invest that the manager booked an early flight to Pompey and the players were dispersed around the country as he feared. We played in the play-offs with a keeper who hadn't played for two seasons, how much more obvious did it have to made where we weren't going? The plan to take us up that high was flim-flam to bring in the fans. I reckon it came as a terrible shock when Cookie made it look feasible.

[spireitematt]

Apparently ........ but that Guardian article is so surprisingly unquestioning from a journo who is supposed to be a top sports writer that I can't take it seriously. I reckon DA got the wine out for him or is capable of being a very charming man.

DA had every chance to get us to the Championship. He had the Manager and the players. He made it so obvious he would no longer invest that the manager booked an early flight to Pompey and the players were dispersed around the country as he feared. We played in the play-offs with a keeper who hadn't played for two seasons, how much more obvious did it have to made where we weren't going? The plan to take us up that high was flim-flam to bring in the fans. I reckon it came as a terrible shock when Cookie made it look feasible.

Would have cleared the clubs debt if we had gone up in 2015. Also would have made a bit of money from TV rights as well and I reckon most home games the ground would be sold out.

[Devongone]

But if we cleared the club debts we'd no longer be tied to DA would we?

[spireitematt]

But if we cleared the club debts we'd no longer be tied to DA would we?

Well if we had been in the Championship, it would have been easier to sell the club as it would have interest.

Also look at Yeovil, Blackpool, MK Dons they've been to the Championship and fallen straight through to L2 again.

[Devongone]

DA had two opportunities to invest in a bid for the Championship - when Sheridan took us up from Div 2 to Div 1, and when Paul Cook built us a play-off level team. He let 34 goals go from Sheridan's team, invested nothing to replace them and we were relegated, and he obviously made it clear to Paul Cook that there wasn't the cash either to keep players, or to bring in improvements ........

Yeovil couldn't afford the Championship. It is a town of under 40,000 people.

Blackpool were in the Premiership not the Championship. MKD didn't come straight back down from the Championship. They challenged for promotion in between .......... They'll go straight back up next season.

Whether we could be viable as a Championship team is a moot point. The size of the town suggests we couldn't get gates regularly above 10,000. We can imagine other income streams ......... but would DA help us along the way to securing them or would he act as a road-block to prevent his personal power being eroded?

It seems to me we are just an expensive pawn in the games he likes to play. I don't think he intended us to go down again, but I certainly don't think he ever envisaged us as a Championship club either.

[spireitematt]

DA had two opportunities to invest in a bid for the Championship - when Sheridan took us up from Div 2 to Div 1, and when Paul Cook built us a play-off level team. He let 34 goals go from Sheridan's team, invested nothing to replace them and we were relegated, and he obviously made it clear to Paul Cook that there wasn't the cash either to keep players, or to bring in improvements ........

Yeovil couldn't afford the Championship. It is a town of under 40,000 people.

Blackpool were in the Premiership not the Championship. MKD didn't come straight back down from the Championship. They challenged for promotion in between .......... They'll go straight back up next season.

Yeovil couldn't afford it no.

Blackpool were in the Premier League yes but they seemed to be in freefall when they got relegated from the Premier League.

MK Dons went up 2014-15 and came straight back down 2015-16 and then 2016-2017 they finished 12th in L1 and have now been relegated to L2.

[bluepooch]

So it looks like Evo won't be getting then gig after today .It does look like its between Shez,Nicky Law and KD so lets see what happens this week

[Dancingwilldoit]

If the current crop of useless lumps of so called football players wouldn't listen to GC, JL and Evo I can already hear all the aftermatch comments if Shez gets the gig.
In all honesty never before has a rumoured managerial appointment brought a shiver down my spine. I would take anybody and I mean anybody in preference.
Next season is going to be bad enough with the carried over squad without making things even worse.

[Devongone]

DA had two opportunities to invest in a bid for the Championship - when Sheridan took us up from Div 2 to Div 1, and when Paul Cook built us a play-off level team. He let 34 goals go from Sheridan's team, invested nothing to replace them and we were relegated, and he obviously made it clear to Paul Cook that there wasn't the cash either to keep players, or to bring in improvements ........

Yeovil couldn't afford the Championship. It is a town of under 40,000 people.

Blackpool were in the Premiership not the Championship. MKD didn't come straight back down from the Championship. They challenged for promotion in between .......... They'll go straight back up next season.

Yeovil couldn't afford it no.

Blackpool were in the Premier League yes but they seemed to be in freefall when they got relegated from the Premier League.

MK Dons went up 2014-15 and came straight back down 2015-16 and then 2016-2017 they finished 12th in L1 and have now been relegated to L2.

So Blackpool and MKD were very different from Yeovil. I thought MKD actually survived a season in the Championship .... like Burton. Obviously memory wrong again.

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If the current crop of useless lumps of so called football players wouldn't listen to GC, JL and Evo I can already hear all the aftermatch comments if Shez gets the gig.
In all honesty never before has a rumoured managerial appointment brought a shiver down my spine. I would take anybody and I mean anybody in preference.
Next season is going to be bad enough with the carried over squad without making things even worse.

I just don't think these players have what it takes to become a team. Dennis scores goals ....... but the attack as a whole struggles to score goals. Take Reed out of our midfield and we seem even more ordinary and uncreative than ever ........ and remain pretty incapable of shielding the defence. Every forced alteration to the defence seems like a step backwards and Anyon in goal isn't going to help any defence.

Losing 3-0 to the next worse side in the country has finished Evo and proved that not only is this team far below the level required, but it also lacks the fight which keeps many teams' heads above water.

Of Pooch's front runners:-
Kev's solution at Southport was to dump ten of the first eleven he was left with. He built a good team that took Southport from the relegation zone to the fringes of the play-offs, but once the run was stopped, promotion became a dream and they went on a losing run. They were however many points above the relegation zone and totally safe when he was sacked.
Nicky Law knows non-league and had Alfreton punching above their weight, but Boreham Wood is one of many instances of clubs with no more weight that have been more impressive. Law was okay at Chesterfield but we had cheated our way to a far higher standard team than our opponents..
Sheridan's biggest question marks are an unpleasant character and inexperience in non-league.

None of them inspire me that much ....... though I feel very sorry for Kev who did the job he was employed to do at Southport and was sacked because he gave them a momentary glimpse of promotion from an impossible position.

I'm wondering how Sam Ricketts will fare at Wrexham. On paper they should have reached the play-offs and they might have done had it not been for Walsall. I do however wonder at their seemingly inexhaustible eleven-year capacity to make wrong decisions. Why grab Simon Ainge, Harrogate's pretty unstoppable top scorer, and then barely give him a start? Every season they find ways to fail. Is Ricketts another or will his experience of success at Wolves carry them through next season despite his lack of non-league background?

[bluepooch]

Shez has just gone 4/11 with Skybet .KD is 9/2 and Nicky is 8/1.
Can it work with Shez again ? I'm not so sure ,I know we had some great times ,the JPT final and he did build a decent team that won the league but there were bad times as well .When he first came in we were poor and his signings were terrible ,Conlon etc . Also he left under a cloud with us sitting near the bottom of league 2 having been relegated from league 1 and rumours of him falling out with DA.Since then his career hasn't gone forward ,having mixed results ,doing well at some clubs and not so well at others .He has become a journeyman manager but we arent really in a position to be too fussy are we .Having said that he may be just the man to get us out of this league .Who knows !