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Ramsey was 16 and bad barely played for us. I know people like to kid themselves that we would have won the cup if Ramsey had been on at the start, but they are deluding themselves.
I think he would have been out muscled and kicked out of the game and our midfield overrun.
Far better to bring him on when they were tired.
There are some serious rose tinted glasses about what he did do after coming on too, but that's understandable, we a wanted him to be the player we thought he could become.
I'd love O'Sullivan to make it but if he was that good would be be loaned to a league two team?
Joe Ralls was loaned out to a championship side at least and made his mark.
The difference in quality between league 1 and the championship is huge and the gap to league 2 is even bigger. I don't necessarily think a player doing well in league 2 or at the bottom of league 1 means they're ready for top half of the championship football.
What good would it have done fielding a young team at the end of last season only for them to get hammered? Youth players have to be eased in not thrown to the wolves and humiliated as they were at Macclesfield.
If slade is here in 2 years and has had zero progress fair enough but it seems a harsh stick to beat him with after not even 2 seasons.
I always think the same he was 16 and the Pompey midfield was class! One of their centre midfielders in that game went on to play for AC Milan Ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Edit - Consequently, Nwankwo Kanu played as a lone striker, with support from a five-man midfield of Niko Kranjčar, John Utaka, Pedro Mendes, Lassana Diarra and Sulley Muntari. Sol Campbell, Glen Johnson and David James were the only three English players in the starting line-up, with Campbell and former Arsenal team-mate Kanu both looking to win the FA Cup for the third time (they had won the competition twice with Arsenal).
Good points, I can't believe one of the most popular threads is about getting rid of a manager of one of the best form teams in the league, are we the most fickle fans in the football league?Quote:
Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
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Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
Nobody is saying that he should have played 11 youth players even at the end of last season.
I believe introducing a few youngsters in and around the squad at the end of last season would have been far more beneficial than having the likes of a washed up Danny Gabbidon on the bench.
The same applies to the Shrewsbury game this year. Surely even Tandy who is probably Russell Slade himself can't defend the decision of starting the waste of space Tamas in front of Oshilaja?!
Is that because he isnt capable of sorting out a decent cup run?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tandy
I think results wise he has done much better than I thought he would, genuinely thought we'd be relegation threatened this season. However, everyone has to admit that the Championship has been very poor this season, a few games have occurred that we could have lost in better seasons. I would also like to know how many points we have dropped from winning positions this year?
Does anyone know why we're still not playing an out and out striker? I know we're winning games but we aren't getting all the goals from Immers and Pilkington and we don't seem to have an outlet that can hold up the ball, awaiting help from midfield.
All our strikers are out on loan :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sellers
During Slade's time here Pompey have been debt free and (until the last match) have probably had more season ticket holders and a bigger gate than us. They've also spent the entire time in their traditional colours. Of course there are numerous reasons we have to be more positive than there fans but we shouldn't think ending up like Pompey would be the worst thing in the world.....who was the team where (if my memory serves) the owner put the club into even more debt building a stadium that they could never fill, built it failing safety guidelines so couldn't use part of it and then got relegated to the conference? It's not Doncaster but a similar bowl.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Has Slade done a good job? Yes, if he leaves at the end of this season history will be very kind and he's recently shown he might be deserving of longer. Can we also critique him fairly? Yes.
i) He spent his whole career (about 20 years) watching players like Ashley Williams, Rickie Lambert and Jamie Vardy and the only one he has seen potential in is Doyle.
ii) Any manager that flukes the answer to their problems (such as Pilkington in front of Immers or Coquelin at Arsenal) deserves more criticism for not coming up with a proper solution than credit for finding it
iii) How many of us could see something wrong with Whitts in a middle two and Kenwynne* up front and yet it could took three windows to rectify?
iv) You have to be 22/23 to get a player on his bench as a "youth" player.
*We would have been much closer to relegation without Kenwyne's goals but a) he didn't score for two months and b) ninianboy's assertion that he was a premier league player is laughable. Stoke fans sang "he score goals Odemwingie, he scores goals up front, he scores goals Odemwingie and we swapped him for a useless @!&+$" and Odemwingie was hardly a superstar.
What did he say?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Ninianboy is someone I usually agree with in regard to where Welsh football is concerned but not over this.
Slade has spent peanuts compared to the likes of Derby and Middlesbrough.
He is now working under a transfer embargo. From a distance it seems to me that he has not really been backed by the supporters.
I even recall one poster on here wanting a swap with the dreadful Steve Clarke weeks before the useless Scot got the boot at my club.
In the circs Slade has done a bloody good job and deserves a lot of credit. You are currently two points behind a team that spent millions in the transfer market.I would love to see my club two points off the play offs with everything to play for. This season is one of the most successful in the post war history of Cardiff City. He should be backed to the hilt by the supporters.
👏👏👏👏👏 spot on, our fans have short memories. Seem to think we should be a premier league team by default.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
You cannot be serious, attending home matches became a chore. I found myself dropping off in a couple of matches. For the 1st time ever in one match I left my seat at 30 minutes and stood in the concourse for 10 minutes debating whether to continue watching or go home. I stayed but not for the quality of football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
The football has improved over the last 6 or 7 home matches and I am once again getting excited about match days again.
Not sure I'd regard playing the odd cup game as giving youth a chance Bob.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Don't get me wrong I would like to see some of our young players given a chance,but I don't see a vast gulf between Slade and the other three.
Someone asked the name of the the club who had a stadium built they could never fill , and a load of other dodgy stuff.
I think it was fella called George Reynolds at Darlington ?
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Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
You generalise everyone who would rather see Slade replaced as people who think we have a divine right to be in the premier league.
Every argument you have made today has deviated from your original argument and gone off on a different course.
TOBW and myself have both clearly spelled out the concerns we have over Slade's management yet you choose to ignore our statements and presume that we are only against Slade cos he's not a big enough name or cos we think we should be running away with the league.
Neither accusations are true as far as I am concerned and I think it's fickle that people can change their minds from singing " Russell, do the ayatollah" to "sacked in the morning" in the space of 30 minutes.
I am consistent in my views of Slade. I think the football we were playing this time last year was appalling. I can't believe I witnessed us taking rugby style kick offs where three players stood on the right wing and the ball was lofted up I the air towards them.
The football has improved volumes since Trollope has replaced Kevin Nicholson but I do believe that Slade showed his limitations back then.
I 100% believe that if we hadn't sold all our forwards we'd still be playing a rigid 4-4-2.
Malky had a fairly poor record for giving youth players a chance after his first season (returning to giving more criticism than praise for moves which were completely unplanned, Declan John's inclusion was because Malky had stuck with/been loyal to a left-back who was always going to be killed once they worked out he didn't have any pace let alone sought a decent reserve rather than wanting Declan to get games) however a) Nugent was not a "never going to make it" b) in his first year (the year many are comparing this season to) the squad was a mix of youth and experience and c) I couldn't ever have imagined any of the others signing Tamas when we had youth defenders desperate for a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
As Bob has stated to say, none of the others were given the luxury that Slade has been given where fans already disliked him but were desperate for youth to be given a chance, management wanted to rebuild bridges with the fans and there was no real danger of going up or down. Slade had two months of it at the end of the last season and maybe even up until a few weeks ago when we finally looked at making a legitimate push for 6th place.
Thank you! Pompey are still alive and kicking but Darlington moved to a new 25,000 stadium in 2003 which was immediately* restricted to 10,000 and a major factor in them going into administration, built by someone later arrested for money laundering, relegated from conference premier in 2011-2012 and dissolved at the end of that. Pompey had the fans who were willing to save the club whereas Darlington had a much smaller fan-base and City tried it's best to push fans willing to give up their time to save a club away.Quote:
Originally Posted by random in Berks
*it's a more tragic story if it was immediately restricted and I am 80-90% sure that's accurate.
I agree. We have lost only 9 league games this season only 3 teams have lost less. We have scored 51 goals only 6 teams have scored more. Slade has spent basically no money and reduced the squad to 24 from about 40. He has done a great job this season imoQuote:
Originally Posted by GRUMPYS DEN
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Originally Posted by surge
I agree. I think it would have been huge if he introduced one or two youngsters at the end of last season or in the fa cup this year.
Out of interest, of the 10 academy players that Jones and mackay gave debuts to, how many of each have gone on to have a decent career?
You can believe that, I think it's rubbish and conjecture which you've dreamt.Quote:
Originally Posted by thehumblegringo
We were awful when slade came in but it was a dire situation. We've got better and better as the months have gone on.
Anyone saying the football we are playing at the moment must have thought the same under Malky because it's much more exciting than that.
That's not the point though mate. We may as well never ever give anyone a chance then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I firmly believe that unless you give youngsters a chance you'll never know if their ready.
We all know kids who we thought were excellent who were never able to step up to the next level whereas average kids who seemed to step up seamlessly.
I don't believe Ryan Mason would have made an impact at many places like he did at Tottenham.
I believe Pochettino breeds belief in these youngsters enabling them to thrive.
I'm not for a minute saying we should have 11 academy players next season but I would like to see us aiming to at least bring 2 or 3 through in the next 2 to 3 years.
I have seen players like Abbruzzese, Coxe, Humphries, Patten, Tutonda, Matondo, Spence and I think players like this should be given opportunities.
What is this idea of us having a very good squad actually based on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Skinny Pete
Here comes Dumbo again and nothing has changed because we still aren't in the top six despite all your bollux support for Slade.Quote:
Originally Posted by chepstow