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It's just frustrating when you see other teams with a plan. Luton probably went up too fast but if they come down they'll be in. better shape for it. There are loads of things you can read on them online about the plan they had to rise up from the conference.
Brentford nipped away for years, went up and stayed up, Bournemouth have stayed up with a tiny stadium etc etc.
Will someone at the club come out and tell us what the **** is going on?
* Plan to introduce more youth players to the first team squad and eventually starting 11 over the next few seasons
* Improve the quality of the first team playing squad over the next 3 transfer windows
* Implement an overall playing identity at the club from grassroots to the first team
* Overhaul of the coaches and scouts
* Tell us why the **** we should care if they don't.
Thousands of people give up their spare time and spend their own money and not one of us has a ****ing clue what is going on at the club, what direction its taking, what the **** its short term and long term goals are? We keep being told Tan pumps in millions (true) and we are just expected to be grateful for it? While the club is seemingly floating around rudderless.. that's the impression I get anyway.
I seem to have missed this, apologies.
That sums up my feelings almost to a tee.
How often do we get players in and terminate their contracts? Far, far too often.
How often do we get young talent in and sell them at a profit? We don't.
How often do academy players seemlessly move into the first team? They don't, because the football is totally different. Even within the club there is no consistency. Who oversees all of this? Does anyone?
How often have players left us and we've thought they were a better player than when they arrived?
You're right about Tan pumping all this money into the club, but this is where he's a complete arse. If I was losing that amount of money, I'd be asking why and learning what I needed to do to help stop this from people in the game who know the game. He doesn't learn, he doesn't want advice as he wants to do it his own way, the way that is killing his wallet, and our club.
As a father yourself, can you imagine doing absolutely **** all for your kid while at the same time telling close family and relatives how wonderful you are because you throw them some CSA? Ok probably a terrible analogy after reading it out once typed..but you get the picture. We are basically an unparented kid running around the big city with daddy's credit card, what could possibly go wrong with no guidance and advice...
I've missed a few decent posts by others as well to be fair, few good points made by older blue and Bob, decent discussion.
The club needs a reset. It doesnt necessary need to involve Tan leaving, but it would be nice if he could start to take a hands on approach and sort this mess out. If he doesnt trust others to oversee, like a DoF, could he at least talk to other club owners? Salman and the car salesman aren't helping us, if anything id start by binning off the pair of them.
With ODowda returning to fitness and Grant available, surely this would be the time to have a left footed winger on the left and a right footed winger on the right?
The fact that Bowler can’t beat a defender surely hasn’t been missed by the coaching staff?
If the reason for playing them, previously was that they were able to cut inside and score from open play, then surely the coaching staff can see that, it hasn’t worked out well so far!
If we do manage to go in front tonight, the nonsense of playing almost everyone behind the ball has to stop as well!
Bulut has got us in the top half, which is an obvious improvement, but can he introduce some excitement into play?
When Wintle comes off the bench, can’t he instruct him to face the Ninian stand or Grandstand, at least that way he’s more likely to make a forward pass
I think Bowlers critisism is unfair on this board - He's a left footed player so has to cut inside which is being defended time after time by the opposition by showing him to the touchline and they often put 2 players on him.
He then reverts to an outside of the foot pass but the opposition already have that space closed down.
It looks bad for Bowler but I don't understand what else he's supposed to do as his natural outlets if played on his unnatural side are camped in the centre circle as we are stuck with 2 DMs every game.
Unless some wheeler dealer or bright young thing comes along and is given big cash then bulut ...ie championship safety .....is as good as it gets ?
Why does it have to be about big cash? Yes, I know teams that come down have parachute payments and that gives them an advantage, but that doesn't automatically rule all the other sides out. In fact, quite often there are sides that come down that struggle, despite the extra money. Ipswich have done remarkably this season in their first season back.
There is still the opportunity for teams that are run well, have a plan etc to do well in the Championship.
you come on these threads and don't really offer any discussion, you linger around hoping to engage with someone. You post the same old things over and over, in some WUM attempt, it goes unnoticed by most but a few have also cottoned on to the tactic.
You are not wet behind the ears, you know exactly what it is you are doing.
My issue with bowler isn't the attacking element of his game but he is a bit of coward off the ball - he doesn't challenge for the ball and doesn't even make a nuisance of himself to make it more difficult - I am fed up of him bottling things and not from a defensive point today view but when he is in the attacking third without the ball - colwill suffers from the same disease but has worked on this but still reverts to type on occasions
I seen on X that we have already beat our points tally from last year and already equalled our goals scored from last year. Considering the embargo over the summer I don’t think that’s to bad.
We won’t fix the amount of youngsters coming thru the ranks until we get a set style of play which is the same right thru from under 10s to senior team.
Also I would like to see the wingers swap over during the match to give the opposition a different problem. Good goal tonight though!
But you all got what you wanted, the goal tonight was playing the right way, most of the squad struggle with the tactic but we moved the ball well tonight. Not Man City but barely Dave Bassett either
It was a very good goal, one of our best of the season. That said, “we moved the ball well tonight” is pushing it a bit -O’Dowda and Colwill improved things a bit when they came on and we were quite impressive in seeing out the six minutes of added time. However, there was still the usual basic errors when it comes to controlling the ball and giving and taking of what should be simple passes. We’ve beaten three sides which could be relegated which is not to be dismissed of course, but our record against the genuine promotion contenders tells us we’ll need a lot more than we’ve shown against Stoke, Bristol City and Huddersfield on Saturday.