Quote Originally Posted by Croesy Blue View Post
It's just weird to see slade getting exactly the same stick DJ got whatever starts going right he gets blamed for something else.

So far this season I've seen:

Why did he sign O'Keefe
Why did he sign that donkey Immers
We are losing too many games
We aren't winning enough games
Our style of play is boring
We aren't winning back to back games
We can't beat teams above us in the league
We can't beat teams below us in the league
We aren't playing enough youngsters
Slade doesn't make enough subs
He makes too many subs
He makes the wrong subs

The man has done a cracking job and has done about as much with the youth team as the last 4 managers before him did. People just want to moan because he's not fashionable enough for them.

Malky's teams played boring football, contained no youth players and cost more money but people were writing him poems ffs.


THE writing him poems bit made me chuckle.

At the time of Malky I will admit that, at the time I saw his boring football as a means to an end and accepted that it may have been the right way to get our of the division.

I think we need to realise that football is always evolving and what will work at one period of time will be irrelevant in the next.

I believe these shifts are frequent and I believe that Malky's football is seriously outdated now already.

I also believe having witnessed the catastrophe that was our one season in the premier league there are blueprints for more long term success out there.

I believe that Watford, Bournemouth, Swansea etc in establishing a footballing identity throughout the club have given themselves a far better chance of survival in the league above but even if they did come back down this year (in the cases of Watford and Bournemouth) I believe they would have had the vision to keep a squad together which would have gone straight back up.

I believe that our approach is more akin to Newcastle and Villa in that when we enter the transfer market we sign players on a lucky dip basis not with any foresight about how that players will fit into the current squad or system.

I don't just blame Slade for this as it has been the same for as long as I remember.