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To be honest- I don't care.
I just want to see my team play well and they did today, as they have done for most of the past 4 months.
Also Slade has gone and it really doesn't matter what he did. I thought many fans were unfair to him, but Warnock is a proven winner and has improved us so much since he's been here that I'm really looking forward to next season now and also enjoying most games again and Happy that we have a manager who can motivate players
This ^^^
Looking forward to next season and happy that we are still picking up points. We are now safe (all bar Blackburn winning last 5 games) so I believe now is the time to bring in the youngsters but we do have a moral duty to other clubs in this division, however we have earned that right to now tinker
Despite me risking like I'm copying off Bob, Bluebirdman of Alcathays hits the nail right on the head.
There has been sweeping changes through the academy that prove to me that Warnock is very much interested in the future of our club.
I learned only yesterday about sone more releases of players who were thought to be promising but haven't pushed on to the next level.
The difference is that we had players under Slade in their early 20s who were just stagnating and were signing new contracts.
Under Warnock, all these players have now been moved on and we have a bunch of 17 year old playing at u23 level and a bunch of 15 year olds playing at u18 level.
If you want to know more about Warnock's desire and vision for the whole club not just the first team then listen to his pre match press conference before on Friday where he answers a lot of these questions.
By the way, i watched the u18s (or should i say u16s) yesterday and it was a highly entertaining 4-4 draw against Forest.
bought mine last week. some of the comments here are dispicable. plastics.
There's still 5 games left.
I think NW probably wanted to get the points on the board against a decent Brentford side. Playing youngsters is something we all want to see but webalso want to be ending the season in the top half of the table so we still need the points. It wasn't until this weekend that we were mathematically safe.
He has done OK at playing the youngsters but now we are safe I think we will see some more
Always a funny time of the season though
In the words of the Carpenters, "We've only just begun....."
Ffs warnock is using these last few games experimenting to see who is good enough who can play with whom etc etc why waste these games, at this moment he knows along with bellamy what youngsters are ready to be given the chance to step up, plenty of time to blood youngsters, he is preparing for next season, what is the matter with some fans can't you see what he is trying to do?
Not renewing ST for next season because Warnock didn't play a few kids? (not even sure exactly what kids are on the verge at the moment anyway?)
Is 90 your IQ?
I'm not renewing because I am skint. I am not going again this season because the matches are dead rubbers and Slade is not prepared to give youth a chance. Sorry, I meant Warnock, both men are similar, but one wins more games and finishes higher up the table.
Warnock's won thirteen games out of thirty, Slade won seventeen out of forty six last season - even someone with the IQ you accuse jnc90 of having should know which one of the two has the better win rate. If the season had started on the day of Warnock's first game, City would be ninth in the table, so you're right, Slade's team of last season were one place higher than that, but Warnock's team has a better points per game record than Slade's and have got more points than Slade's did after thirty games. Warnock also has given a locally produced youngster a debut in Mark Harris a debut - our current manager has done this in six months, whereas Slade never managed to do it in more than times that long in charge, but then why let the facts get in the way when you've got to defend the fishing expedition you embarked on after the Brentford game?
Whatever my IQ I'm not sure I could have possibly guessed from your original post that money was the reason you weren't renewing. If that is the case, then fair enough, however in your post you implied that it was due to Warnock not giving the yongsters any game time.
As mentioned above, if you really think Slade was a bigger success here than Warnock has been so far, then I would guess that you can only dream of an IQ of 90.
I'm not entirely sure if people like Tandy quite understood my beef with the way we were being run under Slade in the first place.
As well as having players like O'Sullivan, John, Wharton etc who we could have at least got nominal fees for if they had championship football player on their cv, and playing players like Gabbidon who was about to retire, it was the fact that the club had no long term vision whatsoever. We had someone in Ken Choo with so little football experience deriving and implementing our footballing future with no help or interjection from Slade (who has a wealth of experience).
Slade was just here to keep his job week by week and the long term future of our club was inevitably eroding.
Now we have better systems in place in my opinion. We have real football people in key positions at the club.
Warnock hasn't been threatened by the presence of Craig Bellamy nurturing the youngsters and he ha also been hands on in the restructuring of the youth system.
I truly believe like Warnock that players like O'Sullivan and Wharton were just stagnating at the club and their development as footballers and people was being hindered by just leaving them in their comfort zone. It's like kids who stay on in the 6th form with now intention of doing any work but not wanting to got out into the big bad world.
The wage structure was a mess, the fees for agents have been ridiculous for far too long and player recruitment has been an embarrassment since our promotion year.
I'm far happier with the signings of Hoilett and Bamba than i have been with any other player in the last 3 seasons (apart from Zohore which looked like another disaster for a long time) and these players were signed when the window was shut!
Anybody who was truly happier when Slade was here than they are now needs to get their head read in my opinion.
I'm going back next season.