goneshrimping wrote:That was the best I've seen us play all season and still should have conceded at least 4 and were only ever restricted to long shots on goal. 4 people contributing is not enough. The whole thing needs to be changed almost from the captain all the way down. McIlroy deserves his chance to sort it as he's taken us so far, but given the last 4 games I've been to all I've seen is Jim marshall the subs and offer support to the back 4 whilst warming up and Lillis contributing from the technical area. I'm worried that he's not got the inclination or fight to sort it out, we need to write off the season, get the squad sorted, finish 12th and be happy with it and have a firm plan for next year.
However I fear that the ship has already sailed and some people in the club are waiting for contracts to be paid up or move in the next window. I hope to be proven wrong.
The worst situation I can envisage is one where we have no decision, which is obviously the wrong decision and we amble into March needing results to stay in this league. You need to be monumentally shit to get relegated from this division, we'd get turned over by at least the top 5 in the conference at the moment, but we are currently hitting all the notes of being that monumentally shit.
mrpotatohead wrote:which striker, doing well anywhere else is going to come here in january
P/T Indie wrote:The Lawrence Wilson signing still baffles me when Chester went down you would have thought Sammy would have been banging on their door for Ryan Lowe and Wilson instead halfway through the summer Wilson asked Dave Artell if he could come for a trial because he still hadn't found a club, why wasn't Sammy onto him earlier. That was the same summer that Mark Hudson came on trial because he asked Danny Adams if he could have a trial you start to wonder what players Sammy actually goes out and scouts and which ones are just done off recomendations of other people.
Posh wrote:P/T Indie wrote:The Lawrence Wilson signing still baffles me when Chester went down you would have thought Sammy would have been banging on their door for Ryan Lowe and Wilson instead halfway through the summer Wilson asked Dave Artell if he could come for a trial because he still hadn't found a club, why wasn't Sammy onto him earlier. That was the same summer that Mark Hudson came on trial because he asked Danny Adams if he could have a trial you start to wonder what players Sammy actually goes out and scouts and which ones are just done off recomendations of other people.
This is a bit confused Phil but I know what you're getting at. Lawrence Wilson was a recommendation from a fan who had badgered the club about him but finally got a hearing when agent and former Morecambe player Neil Sang sent a fax through of available players. He'd never been watched.
Ryan Lowe I was told was disruptive in the dressing room. This was at a time when he had fallen out with Mark Wright, which to be honest should have counted for him.
P/T Indie wrote: you start to wonder what players Sammy actually goes out and scouts and which ones are just done off recomendations of other people.
The Fury wrote:P/T Indie wrote: you start to wonder what players Sammy actually goes out and scouts and which ones are just done off recomendations of other people.
I think it's time to accept that there isn’t even a semblance of a scouting network at the club. Any sensible manager will surely, by the second half of every season, have identified, or at least have an idea of, which areas his team needs strengthening, and whom he is going to get rid of. Sammy simply doesn't think like this. In short: he panics, and this is evident year on year. For example, as the original poster pointed out, we now have a ‘top-heavy’ squad with too much competition for players in one position and not enough in another. The reality is that Sammy doesn’t identify which players he needs; he looks at who is available, whom his contacts can get him (speaking of this why haven’t we exploited his very public long-standing association with Manchester United?), and who possesses Sammy’s sacred buzzword of ‘experience’ in their CV. Honestly, look back at the reports announcing Sammy’s signings on the official website and try and find me more than five instances where he hasn’t uttered the phrase “bring great experience” or a variation thereof. As the original poster pointed it, this policy was all well and good get8ting us to the Football League but 4 seasons later the cracks in the system are beginning to show.
Furthermore, he also offers silly contracts to existing bit-part players (Neil Wainwright, Matthew Blinkhorn anyone) further enhancing the notion that, come April/May, he doesn’t have a clue what he is going to do in the next season. In my view, this is one of the fundamental reasons why we continually start so slowly; Sammy spends the first couple of months of the season fannying about with his formation and line-up trying to work out where his new recruits can fit into the team.
What needs to be change immediately is the scouting network at the football club. It’s simply unacceptable that we can pay the amount we have done for players in agent and signing on fees and not be identifying players that not only can help us progress but whom we can make a profit on in the long-run.
The Fury wrote:P/T Indie wrote: you start to wonder what players Sammy actually goes out and scouts and which ones are just done off recomendations of other people.
I think it's time to accept that there isn’t even a semblance of a scouting network at the club. Any sensible manager will surely, by the second half of every season, have identified, or at least have an idea of, which areas his team needs strengthening, and whom he is going to get rid of. Sammy simply doesn't think like this. In short: he panics, and this is evident year on year. For example, as the original poster pointed out, we now have a ‘top-heavy’ squad with too much competition for players in one position and not enough in another. The reality is that Sammy doesn’t identify which players he needs; he looks at who is available, whom his contacts can get him (speaking of this why haven’t we exploited his very public long-standing association with Manchester United?), and who possesses Sammy’s sacred buzzword of ‘experience’ in their CV. Honestly, look back at the reports announcing Sammy’s signings on the official website and try and find me more than five instances where he hasn’t uttered the phrase “bring great experience” or a variation thereof. As the original poster pointed out, this policy was all well and good get8ting us to the Football League but 4 seasons later the cracks in the system are beginning to show.
Furthermore, he also offers silly contracts to existing bit-part players (Neil Wainwright, Matthew Blinkhorn anyone) further enhancing the notion that, come April/May, he doesn’t have a clue what he is going to do in the next season. In my view, this is one of the fundamental reasons why we continually start so slowly; Sammy spends the first couple of months of the season fannying about with his formation and line-up trying to work out where his new recruits can fit into the team.
What needs to be change immediately is the scouting network at the football club. It’s simply unacceptable that we can pay the amount we have done for players in agent and signing on fees and not be identifying players that not only can help us progress but whom we can make a profit on in the long-run.
P/T Indie wrote:
I couldn't agree more and why we don't pay some of the long standing fans of the club expenses to go and watch non league games and potter round parks on Sundays expense money for petrol and a bovril is a mystery to me.
essex_shrimp wrote:And personally I would play in the next gam
Freez wrote:Barrow wasnt he?
At least Mickey Waller quit!!!
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