shrimper wrote:While we shouldn't coast to the end of the season and neither should we merely write this one off as a blip, I'd like to see us planning now for next season.
There are good players about who we know are out of contract in the summer and I hope we are working behind the scenes to approach them now with a view to securing their services for 2011/12.
I don't like leaving it all until close-season, although I am aware that a lot of players will mess about and see what other offers come in.
There are, though, a lot of occasions when well-prepared clubs plan ahead and pick up players earlier than we tend to.
We also need to secure the likes of Parrish and Fleming and make sure we're on the ball with Hurst (if we really rate them).
ezz wrote:Definately need to re-contract our most valuble players, Parrish, Wilson, Fleming, sign up hurst, Carlton??, Roche (for life). If were going to improve we need better players, one criticism of our club is we don't scout enough and just take 'agents' word of mouth as gospel. Obviously crying out for a prolific quick striker, and with Stanley going a new center mid.
ezz wrote:Definately need to re-contract our most valuble players, Parrish, Wilson, Fleming, sign up hurst, Carlton??, Roche (for life). If were going to improve we need better players, one criticism of our club is we don't scout enough and just take 'agents' word of mouth as gospel. Obviously crying out for a prolific quick striker, and with Stanley going a new center mid.
ezz wrote:So glad they chose to keep cool heads and keep Sammy at the club even when he handed his notice in. Said it at the time and I'll say it again, getting rid of him wouldn't have helped. We've had a bad season, but it looks likely that were close to safety now even though its not over yet.
Sammy has been man enough to admit the new season in a new stadium hasn't been what everyone thought it would, I think the stadium was more dissappointing to most people on here. At least its getting better and they have listened to what the fans suggested in terms of poor food service etc.
Glad Sammy has recovered whats been a very poor season, but whatever he decides to do in Summer if he leaves at least it'l be with pride intact and fond memories, if he stays (hopefully he does) then I hope we wake up from this bad year and do what we did in the conference, build the squad and resources up (maybe some sort of youth system) and continue our development of the club!
Only fair Sammy gets some praise for the huge win at Barnet, as I'm sure he'd have many knives in his back if we had lost.....
marky wrote:ezz wrote:Only fair Sammy gets some praise for the huge win at Barnet, as I'm sure he'd have many knives in his back if we had lost.....
In which case, I presume it's only fair Sammy takes his share of the blame for tonight's defeat? Can't have it both ways Ezz... He should have gone back in November when a new guy would have had enough time to turn things round. As it is, we've been hovering around the lower reaches of the league all season and one utterly awful side in Stockport and a very ordinary one in Barnet are the main reason we're not facing up relegation. Praise for Saturday, criticism for tonight. I trust the next time we battle our way to victory you won't go quite as OTT.
ezz wrote:The whole squad, staff and manager take the blame and priase for every performance. Sometimes a manager sets his stall perfect and players on the pitch let him down. Sometimes the manager gets tactcis wrong but players bail him out. Works both ways, but you've NEVER had a good thing to say about Sammy.
This is a manager who up until this season bettered his results year after year, that can only happen for so long. I saw a bad season coming a mile off because no way were we ever going to beat last seasons 4th, but if were still in the football league next season then what does it matter. We dont have the resources to go up, so if were not going down it doesn't matter where we finish as long as its not bottom 2. Infact the end to this season has been more exciting than most, now we have something to lose.
But even when we finished 4th you barely had a good word to say about Sammy, you let your personal issues with him cloud the fact that he's been the best manager at our club in recent history!
Pobble wrote:ezz wrote:The whole squad, staff and manager take the blame and priase for every performance. Sometimes a manager sets his stall perfect and players on the pitch let him down. Sometimes the manager gets tactcis wrong but players bail him out. Works both ways, but you've NEVER had a good thing to say about Sammy.
This is a manager who up until this season bettered his results year after year, that can only happen for so long. I saw a bad season coming a mile off because no way were we ever going to beat last seasons 4th, but if were still in the football league next season then what does it matter. We dont have the resources to go up, so if were not going down it doesn't matter where we finish as long as its not bottom 2. Infact the end to this season has been more exciting than most, now we have something to lose.
But even when we finished 4th you barely had a good word to say about Sammy, you let your personal issues with him cloud the fact that he's been the best manager at our club in recent history!
Unbelievable rubbish, he is the worst Manager and tactitian I have seen in football in the last few decades.
Who takes a striker off straight after he scores.(last night)
Who takes a striker off and replaces with a midfielder five minutes from time when losing 1-0.(against Bradford)
Who makes substitutions three minutes from fulltime when 1-0 down,(against Bury) this is generally accepted as way of running down he clock, of course Irish clocks might be different.
Who brings in a player who Scottish football did not want and in his only game at Leeds was laughed off the pitch.(Guess who ?)
Before the fanatical Sammy gang start, I am just as much a supporter as any of you, Barnet and Chesterfield were fantastic results, my season ticket is renewed each year, whatever happens, but anyone with half a brain can see that the problem at the Globe comes from the top, and if it is not SM who is it?
Some of you should think about it instead of slagging some of us as negative.
Christies Child wrote:No point in talking about what has been....
Morectalk wrote:I don't know why people so blindly back the manager when a season that started so full of anticipation is going to complete rat shit. He has taken the team from promotion candidates to relegation candidates in the space of ten months, yet people still back him. Don't be afraid of change, change is good. We can't go on like this and the buck stops with the manager - not the new stadium, the pies, the gazebos - the manager. He must go now, and he should walk and not hold the club to ransom over what is left of his contact. At least then he will not burn his bridges & he will be welcomed back when he visits & not remembered as a boss who held a gun to the boards collective heads/wallets.
Morectalk wrote:I don't know why people so blindly back the manager when a season that started so full of anticipation is going to complete rat shit. He has taken the team from promotion candidates to relegation candidates in the space of ten months, yet people still back him. Don't be afraid of change, change is good. We can't go on like this and the buck stops with the manager - not the new stadium, the pies, the gazebos - the manager. He must go now, and he should walk and not hold the club to ransom over what is left of his contact. At least then he will not burn his bridges & he will be welcomed back when he visits & not remembered as a boss who held a gun to the boards collective heads/wallets.
ezz wrote: Sammy's done a great job and as long as were safe from relegation then what does it matter if we come 20th or 9th......very little right now.
Morectalk wrote:He must go now, and he should walk and not hold the club to ransom over what is left of his contact. At least then he will not burn his bridges & he will be welcomed back when he visits & not remembered as a boss who held a gun to the boards collective heads/wallets.
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