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Post by stevek192 on May 17, 2024 10:06:47 GMT
Why is there very little good to say about the owners? Perhaps because they know nothing about football and yet are trying to run the thing both on and off the pitch. So far what have they brought us? Slightly bigger stadium with more seats but reduced the crowds significantly by dropping the standard of the football watched and pretty well cut our chances of attacking by selling Collins and not replacing him- that alone makes me doubt their intentions. If they sell Evans that will give them a substantial bit of their money back. Remember as well that Wael brought them in because he could not afford to take us forward. I am yet to be convinced that this new lot wont take us backwards reducing the budget can only lead to tears and if they think you can get to the Championship with lower paid players then pull the other leg. Look at the teams who go up and generally their budget is well above ours.Has Matty Taylor got a son? Perhaps if he has he should bring him in to select the team because that is what the owner has done. A toy for his son but when will he throw the toys out of the pram?
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Post by stevek192 on May 17, 2024 9:13:43 GMT
The best thing ever would be if the rules were not interfered with at all. How many rule changes have ever improved the game? The only thing that needed to change was to bring in goalline technology which all clubs could afford.One referee two linesmen who we have to (and do in the lower divisions) will make human errors-tough!! I dont put the entire blame 0n FIFA or the FA, At the end of the day its down to the pundits who review each incident so many times- this is what has brought VAR more than anything.
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Post by stevek192 on May 13, 2024 10:14:05 GMT
If we had just tinkered in January with what we had then we would have been chasing play offs instead of worrying about relegation. Good young players dont come cheap and good young strikers with a proven record will cost over 1m. As regards bringing in our own youngsters to get any of the best youngsters is at least a five year plan and certainly wont gat you to the Championship in 3 years. Look at City it took them 10 years before they started getting top youngsters and it is only the last three yaers where they have done excellently and that is mainly down to their facilities and being a Championship side.The gap between the two sides now is the widest in my lifetime.
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Post by stevek192 on May 13, 2024 10:04:43 GMT
When he is in the goal he looks nowhere near 6ft let alone 6ft 2.
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Post by stevek192 on May 13, 2024 10:02:23 GMT
How do you know Simkin is 6ft 2?
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Post by stevek192 on May 12, 2024 10:09:55 GMT
I will stick to my guns on the fact that he does not control his defence or give great confidence at corners but this is not surprising at his age and this is why the better teams and even some worse have experienced keepers. If Ward is 6ft 2 then he certainly doesn t look it when he is in the goal but i will concede on others better knowledge.He always struck me as being a physically weak keeper and shorter than 6ft.
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Post by stevek192 on May 12, 2024 7:35:30 GMT
We need a quality keeper as number 1 which Jed Ward is not at the moment and due to his height i have doubts he ever will be. He might b e a good shot stopper but does not control his defence, We need an experienced keeper who can control his area and the defence. Ward always seems lost when crosses come in.
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Post by stevek192 on May 1, 2024 17:27:59 GMT
The first priority is two strikers and an experienced goalkeeper. When have you seen Jed Ward control the defence? All the good keepers are in control of the defenders around them and dominant in the air. Whenever a team has sent in crosses Jed Ward is like a rabbit in headlights. He makes good saves but the days when keepers were great shot stoppers are gone and most goalkeepers now are over 6ft and dominating-we need one of these. The two or even three strikers will define our season. Once these are sorted we need an intake of pace and a couple of full backs. I will also be disappointed with Rossiter if he doesnt agree a contract after the work the club did to get him fit again.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 29, 2024 8:22:17 GMT
DC has still only really proved himself to be a good League 2 Manager and certainly not the answer if we want to be a top League 1 club. Matty Taylor well we would have all loved him to stay when he went to City and still has a better eye for goal than most of our players. Be interesting to see if we even manage to sign a striker any better than Taylor in the summer and we need three of them!!
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 27, 2024 15:49:39 GMT
The reason the young apprentice lads dont get a chance is because they are not good enough. When are people going to accept that our "one of our own" are not good enough and probably not even League 2 and I include Hoole in that though Ward deserves to keep as a number 2 in favour of a new experienced keeper that will control the defence.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 18, 2024 20:26:22 GMT
The only thing that has changed is we have picked up six points and actually managed to score some goals. The rest of my points i stand by at this time. By the gaps on the terracing on Tuesday i think a lot of other fans felt the same way. Sodbury Gas if we all had hindsight there would be no point of a forum. Its very easy to be critical after the event. Perhaps your point would have been more valid if you had posted an alternative before the two games. Anyway i am pleased we got the six points and scored some goals.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 18, 2024 20:19:23 GMT
So after his wonderful speech a couple of months ago where is the owner to reassure fans as to what is happening with the football club? Where does he think we are in relation to his target of Championship in three years? All he has shown IMO is a total lack of knowledge of the game of football . The gaps on the terracing are the visible evidence on what has been and is a total disaster. Is there a team in this division or in fact the entire football league who we could beat or at least score against at the present time? I honestly cannot see any evidence that we will pick up another point this season. The season began with optimism- like or dislike Joey Barton there was a feeling around the fans that this would be our season- a club that was going somewhere. A £1m offer for JCH and that transfer deadline for me was the beginning of the end- a cock up of mighty proportions that began the slippery slope that these owners have brought to my club. We never really heard what JB thought of that decision but looking back I see it as the beginning of the end for JB. To me it was the move that would change the narrow defeats to narrow victories- a player who didnt need others to create goals for him. It was an almost unheard of move for our club-paying out a new transfer record on a player who was the best in the division at what he did-score goals and leading the frontline. Instead we lost one striker and got nobody. We made ourselves a laughing stock and I think at that stage it was the start of players starting to doubt what they had signed into. The decline in AC scoring was partly down to him but more to all our hopes of winning matches being on his shoulders and I feel he had made his mind up then that he would be on his way. JCH would have taken that pressure and relished it instead of totally wasting a season of his career. Peterborough yet again taught us a lesson in how to run a successful football club- by replacing their star striker with two new players on the assumption he would go and then stand by that decision. We on the otherhand ended up with nothing. There is little doubt in my mind that JB was angered by that farce but probably if he had said anything he would have been sacked then instead of further down the road. The sacking of JB could have been handled so much better if the owners had somebody in mind for the job- we will never know how much Wael had in this decision- but i feel very little. It was the new owner flexing his muscle but also showing that he had very little knowledge of running a football club. It took him months before his speech and now the repeated silence has seen us on a downward slope that has just kept getting worse. Does the owner even know that the standard of football being produced is dreadful to the eye? A good business man is not necessarily the right option to run a football club. Even a very rich owner is only as good as the amount of money he is prepared to put in to the football club. How much is he putting into the club and how much is being taken oucan't make accusations because we don't really know . We dont know how much is loans and how much money out of the owners pocket. We have to believe what the owners tell us and that is very little and not very often. We look like a ship that is out of control because the only evidence we as football fans have is what we see on the pitch and that at present is a decline of epic proportion. The new stand is the only visible evidence of anything the owners have put in and the numbers in that stand has gone down with the football produced. Now is the time for the leader to come out and lead before he has no one left to lead. Any update on you can't see us picking up another point when you posted this?. Six points, four goals, lots of chances and some great attacking play whilst also looking solid at the back.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 15, 2024 8:19:33 GMT
I would ideally play a formation with two strikers who pressurise the game and stop opponents walking out with the ball. Many teams play with one up front but have three attackers really because they pressurise the back four. Too often we play with only one player running around up top with no chance of pressuring and winning the ball. Saturday the inclusion of Rossiter allowed both Sinclair and Thomas to play an attacking game instead of having to spend all their time dropping back. When you see Rossiter playing you realise what a great class player he is and how far Conteh has to go to get anywhere near that level. The inclusion of Cox as well made a big difference because he is a better keeper than Ward but is not one of our own. Supporters hounded him out of the team but i think that Taylor should make an experienced keeper who is built strong enough to play in this division to be his first signing but not a loanee.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 15, 2024 8:02:08 GMT
We need more than one decent striker Oldie even if we do keep Martin because you would hope that MT is going to change from the one up front which makes us a very defensive side which certainly is not our strength and hasnt been for years. We know very little about our owners and what financial clout they have or are willing to use. You can have an owner as rich as Lansdown but if he is not prepared to put the money into the club then it is no use and could easily take the club into administration. We will only find out by what happens over the summer and the sort of players we are signing For me an experienced keeper would be a good place to start then to make sure we have a balanced squad and are not overloaded with any particular area. what formation are you hoping we play? We play 1 up top like a lot of teams do now, be it 4-2-3-1, or 4-3-3. It's not the 1 up top that is the problem per se, it's the players filling those 3 or 4 positions
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 14, 2024 10:39:32 GMT
We need more than one decent striker Oldie even if we do keep Martin because you would hope that MT is going to change from the one up front which makes us a very defensive side which certainly is not our strength and hasnt been for years. We know very little about our owners and what financial clout they have or are willing to use. You can have an owner as rich as Lansdown but if he is not prepared to put the money into the club then it is no use and could easily take the club into administration. We will only find out by what happens over the summer and the sort of players we are signing For me an experienced keeper would be a good place to start then to make sure we have a balanced squad and are not overloaded with any particular area.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 10, 2024 9:03:48 GMT
So after his wonderful speech a couple of months ago where is the owner to reassure fans as to what is happening with the football club? Where does he think we are in relation to his target of Championship in three years? All he has shown IMO is a total lack of knowledge of the game of football . The gaps on the terracing are the visible evidence on what has been and is a total disaster. Is there a team in this division or in fact the entire football league who we could beat or at least score against at the present time? I honestly cannot see any evidence that we will pick up another point this season. The season began with optimism- like or dislike Joey Barton there was a feeling around the fans that this would be our season- a club that was going somewhere. A £1m offer for JCH and that transfer deadline for me was the beginning of the end- a cock up of mighty proportions that began the slippery slope that these owners have brought to my club. We never really heard what JB thought of that decision but looking back I see it as the beginning of the end for JB. To me it was the move that would change the narrow defeats to narrow victories- a player who didnt need others to create goals for him. It was an almost unheard of move for our club-paying out a new transfer record on a player who was the best in the division at what he did-score goals and leading the frontline. Instead we lost one striker and got nobody. We made ourselves a laughing stock and I think at that stage it was the start of players starting to doubt what they had signed into. The decline in AC scoring was partly down to him but more to all our hopes of winning matches being on his shoulders and I feel he had made his mind up then that he would be on his way. JCH would have taken that pressure and relished it instead of totally wasting a season of his career. Peterborough yet again taught us a lesson in how to run a successful football club- by replacing their star striker with two new players on the assumption he would go and then stand by that decision. We on the otherhand ended up with nothing. There is little doubt in my mind that JB was angered by that farce but probably if he had said anything he would have been sacked then instead of further down the road. The sacking of JB could have been handled so much better if the owners had somebody in mind for the job- we will never know how much Wael had in this decision- but i feel very little. It was the new owner flexing his muscle but also showing that he had very little knowledge of running a football club. It took him months before his speech and now the repeated silence has seen us on a downward slope that has just kept getting worse. Does the owner even know that the standard of football being produced is dreadful to the eye? A good business man is not necessarily the right option to run a football club. Even a very rich owner is only as good as the amount of money he is prepared to put in to the football club. How much is he putting into the club and how much is being taken oucan't make accusations because we don't really know . We dont know how much is loans and how much money out of the owners pocket. We have to believe what the owners tell us and that is very little and not very often. We look like a ship that is out of control because the only evidence we as football fans have is what we see on the pitch and that at present is a decline of epic proportion. The new stand is the only visible evidence of anything the owners have put in and the numbers in that stand has gone down with the football produced. Now is the time for the leader to come out and lead before he has no one left to lead.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 10, 2024 8:10:35 GMT
The man was a true legend and has never been replaced. Many have tried and failed miserably. You didnt need halftime entertainment because Keith was that. IMO it was a sad day when Keith was replaced.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 8, 2024 12:23:44 GMT
No I dont know best but probably as much as a lot of others. When i say couldnt manage in League 1 or above i mean that although he took us to League 1 and took us to 10th,he did that with the majority of players that he acquired in the non league season. He did not have sufficient knowledge to get players of League 1 standard or better and this showed itself the season after finishing 10th when we were terrible and he should and probably would have been sacked earlier but for his previous achievement with us. I do agree however that although he was in charge when we went down it was John Ward who was clearly to blame for that event.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 7, 2024 19:54:02 GMT
We were not 10th in the season he was sacked in League 1 we were dreadful and were thrashed at home in his last game and he was kept on too long that season and had it not been for his success with us would have been sacked earlier. I stand by my good League 2 Manager but no good any higher. Nice bloke and a true Gashead but not the answer now.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 7, 2024 19:35:41 GMT
The failure to sign JCH was the turning point with this squad and I also think with JB. I believe it was the owners who let us down and sold Joey down the road. They were trying to show that we had cash to spend when we didnt really and they pulled the plug leaving us a striker short (even Loft was better than nothing) and the owners did the same in January getting £800,000 and not signing a striker thereby leaving CM as the only striker. Unfortunately i think we have more chance of League 2 football under these owners than Championship.
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