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Post by Pugsley on May 9, 2023 15:17:22 GMT
We are lucky to have our owners They just need to place their trust in competent people, the next few months will tell us if they've managed that this time. Managed or get lucky? They've appointed a bang average manager who has appointed his mate as the technical director. Lazy, arrogant, complacent are a few words that spring to my mind.
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Post by Pugsley on May 9, 2023 11:25:20 GMT
Zero
Poor manager in a poorly run football club. What could go wrong?????
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Post by Pugsley on May 9, 2023 11:18:26 GMT
Sunderland or Boro.
Both will highlight what a massive issue we have with Manager recruitment.
Think it might be Sunderland as they have all the momentum.
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Post by Pugsley on May 8, 2023 21:03:06 GMT
To answer the original question - no one in their right mind.
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Post by Pugsley on May 8, 2023 20:42:35 GMT
Personally I’m right behind him. I think I know where he wants the team to be and the players he is looking for. I like how he talks. He is very knowledgeable and thinks a lot about the game, the club and the fans. He’s proven he is capable. This season has been transitional but this time that transition is in the right direction in my view. Would rather remember it for Coventry away than Coventry at home. I believe he will buy well and I believe him when he says he will sort it. He’s a canny clever bloke and doesn’t show his hand. He knows what he wants and I believe he knows how to get it as well. We’ll see I suppose. I have a gut feeling we’ll be pushing for the playoffs next season. Keep the faith and positivity if you can. Chopping managers hasn’t worked for us. We have a proven manager with a plan and who knows what he wants. It’s a cliche, but give him more time would be my plea to the doubters. He's not proven he's capable at all. He's been garbage. We should have got Mowbray in, a far better manager who would have come for the opportunity and not the pay packet. What a shitshow.
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Post by Pugsley on May 2, 2023 15:00:46 GMT
Pulis sounded out by Leeds according to 'sources'. Obviously bottled it. TP has retired. Like Roy Hodgson and Neil Warnock...
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Post by Pugsley on May 2, 2023 14:09:17 GMT
Some good points and when you see how the old school manager Warnock can galvanise a worse group of players it is a concern. A bit unfair to compare to Warnock. He's a relegation battle specialist, and never works out in the long run. I sure as hell don't want that. He's the type of manager you employ on a short term contract when you're really desperate, not the kind of manager to rebuild a club. AN should have done better, but he's done the bare minumum required of him - keep us here until the rebuild can begin this summer, free of the worst of the FFP shackles. And Corberan and Carricks squads are way better than ours. We can barely play a competitive first 11, which we all see the second we need to use a sub or someone's suspended or out injured. I'd also argue both Rowett and Jones/Edwards have a deep-rooted club culture and style of play that isn't all shit like ours, hence they do better. He's a promotion specialist. Isn't that what we need? Not that I want him anywhere near SCFC
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Post by Pugsley on May 2, 2023 11:50:55 GMT
Or if we’d kept Hughes until the end of that season imo We’ll never know Or if we’d reappointed TP. No one will ever know. Pulis sounded out by Leeds according to 'sources'. Obviously bottled it.
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Post by Pugsley on May 1, 2023 11:33:01 GMT
At what point next season will apathy turn into anger and we see some really ugly scenes? Hopefully it doesn't get to that stage but if we pick up next season where we left this one, it's going to happen isn't it? This could be another Rowett relegation season scenario where we spend an absolute fortune, fuck it up and fuck ourselves over for another 3 years minimum...Surely we have learned from our previous experience. Also, Rowet's splurge only aggravated the problem that we already had with long term overpaid players who didn't want to play in the Championship. MON has solved all those problems for AN. 3 years ago we had lots of players that we couldn't afford and couldn't get rid of. Today we can decide who we want to keep. Which situation would you prefer to have if you were the manager? When have these owners proved they are capable of learning anything?
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Post by Pugsley on May 1, 2023 11:30:34 GMT
I’m surprised so many people have unequivocally decided next season is going to be shit. It’s the most 50/50 scenario we’ve had since relegation, isn’t it? It certainly could be shit - not hard to see a situation where we repeat the mistakes of the Rowett window, or that Neil’s blindness when it comes to introducing what we clearly need to improve at home continues. Equally it could be good - Neil seems to be the first manager we’ve had since the early, good Hughes days to actually know the type of player he wants for the system he intends to play - and when it clicks, as it did for that brief time away, it can be electric. Either is as likely imo. I suspect we’ll see a significant improvement (and if we don’t he’ll surely have to go) but not necessarily a promotion push straight away. Championship is unpredictable for sure. I expect to see an improvement but somehow I can't see it going into the last game of the season. We can only hope the manager and the recruitment team gets it right during the close season. It's pretty depressing that we're thinking it could be 50/50 next season whether we do half decent or not with wealthy owners who want to spend and a new manager.
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Post by Pugsley on May 1, 2023 9:21:10 GMT
Class above anything we have and a stand out player in the Championship.
Can't keep fit so, unfortunately, we should avoid him unless it's some pay as you play deal which I very much doubt he would sign. Shame for the lad.
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Post by Pugsley on May 1, 2023 7:59:54 GMT
When Wilmot is the player of the year, deep down you know you're fucked.
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Post by Pugsley on May 1, 2023 6:42:49 GMT
Pugsley 100% spot on myth truly exploded move him on next Tuesday is absolutely the right thing to do Who would you have instead, who is obtainable? We demonstrated that money talks and people will come to Stoke. Neil left Sunderland, a bigger club on the up, for Stoke City, a club on the way down.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 30, 2023 17:16:18 GMT
I'm getting the word... R E L E G A T I O N That is just Ridiculous. We've been flirting with it for the past few seasons. Looking at those footballers, our recruitment record and the idiots in charge, do you really believe anything next season other than a struggle is a possibility? Fair play if you do but I can't see it.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 30, 2023 16:50:13 GMT
Assuming those players who's contracts expire don't sign new ones, removing the loan players and not including at this stage any players u21 our current squad for next season is: Blondy Nna Noukeu Ben Wilmot Connor Taylor Lewis Macari Gabriel Adebambo Josh Tymon Tom Edwards Lewis Baker Josh Laurent Jordan Thompson DMargio Wright-Phillips Jacob Brown Tyrese Campbell Dwight Gayle Blondy, Edwards, Macari and Adebambo aren't going to get near the first team. Nor is DWP after 7 sub apps in League 2. That's leaves 9 senior players going into the summer. Wilmot - up in the air with his injury Tymon - not good enough Thompson - not good enough Baker - clear issue between him and AN Gayle - past it. That's leaves Taylor, Laurent, Brown and Campbell as squad options. None hopefully guaranteed starters. So just the 11 first team players to sign this summer. And we think that AN should do that after his winter transfer window? *White Flag* I'm getting the word... R E L E G A T I O N
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 30, 2023 15:14:47 GMT
I have serious doubts to Neil. But I also have serious doubts about any manager that manages us. There is something deep rooted within this club. This is tempered by the knowledge that Neil can cut it at this level. He’s done it before. The summer of 2023 is pivotal in shaping the future of this club and deep down we all know it’s Neil and his team that will be overseeing it. Let’s hope they get it right because right now we are a nothing club. He's done nothing at this level for 8 years. He got Norwich promoted on a flukey run after joining in January 2015. Relegated straight away and left Norwich in 8th position. Then stagnated at Preston for 4 years. I don't get the hype about him being a good Championship manager. Junior got a hard on for him and paid well over the odds to get him to leave Sunderland. John Coates couldn't run a bath, let alone a football club. Imbecile.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 29, 2023 20:11:26 GMT
60 odd grand a week.... christ
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 29, 2023 20:08:42 GMT
Naturally I have a obsessed ex boyfriend interest in this, but do any of you think Neil will get sacked? Feels like your chairman/club made a real play for him and waved a lot of cash under his nose on a 3 year deal. Are they likely to pull the trigger, or will he get the summer window? No he won't get sacked. They'll back him, we'll bring in a lorry load of shit footballers who couldn't care less and we'll have the exact same season as this one. Zero.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 29, 2023 18:25:04 GMT
After the last 4 home performances🤔 Our tactic seems to be to launch it diagonally to either wing back and hope for the best. The summer will be massive and I’d personally get rid of the majority of players and start from scratch I can honestly see him walking soon, he’s walked into the biggest turd of turds with our current idiot son in charge. Not a cat in hells chance he’ll succeed as it’s an entire team he needs in a matter of weeks. Club is a joke He's joined us for money so he won't be walking away.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 26, 2023 15:35:25 GMT
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 26, 2023 11:45:11 GMT
Fuck him off November if we don't look like getting in the playoffs at least.
He just has to deliver a team that can compete and not capitulate, can win at home and look a serious promotion threat. Anything else is failure.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 24, 2023 21:51:10 GMT
Sacking an interim manager, ..bizarre. Give it a few weeks, they may get down to the kit-man. Giving him the job in the first place was even more bizarre.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 24, 2023 21:28:50 GMT
Let's hope so the corrupt fuckers. And they won't get the kind of money for Mount they might have expected 12 months ago. Loftus Cheek deserves a fresh start somewhere else. Mount is such an overrated player. I don’t see how he’d improve any of the top 4/5 teams. The one of the home grown talent I rate is Gallagher. Good player. Funny how people see things differently. Gallagher looks totally out of place in the Chelsea team but looked good in a bang average Palace team. Mount, I think, is a good footballer. Needs to play.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 19, 2023 11:22:20 GMT
Surely though it's not in the club's interests to ban reporters from the city's main radio station (or newspaper in the case of the Sentinel). That will only create an 'us and them' situation, and both media would go to town on the club's dire performances and rile up supporter discontent even more. In the Premier League, weren't the club obligated to take questions from the media? Don't know if that applies to the EPL too. You mention Fergie and for sure, the Premier League should never have allowed him to ban press or refuse to speak to the BBC. So long as questions aren't aggressive, I think it's reasonable asking leading questions such as: "After the highs of results against Blackburn and Coventry, how do you explain performances over these past three games?" "There were some players out there tonight staking a claim for a place in the first team. How do you rate their chances after that performance?" And seriously what would you expect him to say in answer to those questions?….Do you honestly think he would then throw players under the bus? He’d be an appalling manager or even worse man manager if he replies to that question with “they now have no more chances as they were shit” I mean cmon They have plenty of media training, he needn't throw anyone under a bus. Journalists should ask questions that reflect views of the fanbase. Those two questions above are perfectly reasonable and certainly reflects my feelings about last night, although they could be worded less aggressively.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 19, 2023 8:31:57 GMT
I get back in the car very very angry after what can only be described as utterly woeful performance to hear cutting edge journalism at its best😡It’s probably one of the worst performances I’ve witnessed in many a year from a set of uninterested/unmotivated players and management and all our intrepid friend can come out with is that question😳 The manager needed challenging as to why yet again the performance was so bad at home against a team that were utter dross.Everyone of those players tonight( with the exception of Taylor) should donate their match fee/wages to charity and I also include the management who were equally as bad. So so bad😡 Did he say he was?
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 17, 2023 13:08:18 GMT
Our home form is Won 6, Drawn 5, Lost 10. Only bottom placed Wigan have won fewer home games. It's been some stunt that's for sure. Fair play to everyone involved, but lets not do it again. Anyone else old enough to remember 'Yes, but can they do it on a cold rainy Tuesday night in Stoke?'? Just turning 3 of those 10 into wins would have us in for a strong chance of the playoffs. Another season thrown away.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 17, 2023 13:05:52 GMT
Bet Lee Blakeman is relieved? Even though he seems to of been more respectful in recent interviews. Darryl Clarke interviews were full on cringe worthy for his patronising remarks towards Lee. Sounds like from the radio reports I hear each week after attending Stoke, the vale owners have shout themselves in the foot, trying to keep to a very small budget. As much as I’d love Nathan Jones to go there and bury the club, he would think Vale is too far beneath him. To be fair, the Vale job is beneath ANY respecting football manager.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 14, 2023 17:52:18 GMT
No one can have any clue what could happen. Normally you can and like with MON at the start of this season, it was pretty obvious it was going to be shit. But the reality here is we don't know who half of the squad will be. We don't know how AN will use them. There's just nothing to go on to make any form of solid prediction. Like you say predictions are difficult. I do however EXPECT us to be in the top six.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 12, 2023 11:02:24 GMT
Bar a little success at MK Dons early in his managerial career Ince's record is abysmal.
He's a poor manager getting jobs on off his playing reputation. I'd be apoplectic if we appointed him as manager.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 7, 2023 19:16:10 GMT
Baker is playing like a man who doesn't want to be here. Needs to be sold if we can find a buyer. Celina is a show pony. Looks like he has something, but there's no end product. Story of his career. I don't get it
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