well well well

yes I did just juba bit fed up like I said I would love to be proven wrong and he gets us promoted UTG

He was made captain today but manager said he is unlikely to play in last 4 Games!

Hopefully not, seems lots of changes will take place over the summer if the hospitality jungle drums last week are true. Left the ground on our 2.5hr journey back to Devon feeling as distant and underwhelmed with the club as I ever have done

I don’t think we were battered, 🤔 we just weren’t very good ! 🙃💙

I think he’ll be given around the same support in terms of league 1 football as the likes of Barton , Coughlan and DC were given which in my opinion is probably around a mid table budget.
Not a lot has changed since they were here to be fair so I don’t see why our budget in relation to the rest of the league would be that different?
I get that the ones who are saying “ enough is enough “ are frustrated that it’s been so long since we were a championship side that it feels like a distant memory and they want more and they think I’m setting my sights too low with my posts but we just simply are not a big club in league 1 and it’ll take giving a manager time to build something great to achieve promotion but it’s unlikely in our current situation anyway.
The Mem holds around 11,000 not that big and we’ve got very little in the way of non match day income which pales in comparison to many other other sides in league 1 every season.
If you’re only bringing in money once a fortnight as opposed to everyday then that’s a massive disadvantage against your big hitting opponents.
This season we’ve only looked likely to make the top 6 at one point and that was shortly after Taylor took charge we went on a bit of a run and had two home games vs opposition coming up that we all would have thought we’d pick up at least 3 points probably 4 maybe even 6 but we lost both and our seasons become a dead rubber ever since.
But it’s been so much worse in very recent history.
Garner sent us South very quickly and if the season hadn’t been postponed early we may well have gone down, Tisdale was awful and Barton took over in similar circumstances as Taylor and we finished bottom of league 1 without any fight whatsoever.
When Barton was sacked and the overhaul began if could have easily gone south again very quickly and ended up in another relegation and I’m quite satisfied with mid table considering the turbulent season we’ve had with changes at the top right down through the club in management , staff and add to that the massively unbalanced injury prone squad lacking in pace that was built in the summer.
Taylor may be just another Garner or Tisdale or he might be special , the board might support him or they might not but right now I’m biting anyone’s hand off for mid table cos this seasons been a colossal mess and that usually means relegation.
On to the summer and next season it’s the hope that kills us.

Maybe not the most inspiring thing to say in public, but it shows he understands the problems with this team across this season so far. 


Up to the Leyton Orient game we'd played 35 league games and scored at least one goal in 31 of them. That level of goalscoring consistency would normally put you in at least the top six, Portsmouth had only scored in 28 games, Derby 31, Bolton 30 - that's the kind of level we were scoring at. But then clean sheets - we kept only 5 in that same period. 


Up to that same point (Leyton Orient at the beginning of March) we only had five clean sheets in the league. By January every team in the top six was already in double figures for clean sheets. 


With our early season goalscoring record pretty much every clean sheet would have guaranteed extra points - if you keep a clean sheet you can't lose, and if you score whilst keeping one you win. So whilst it's not the greatest thing to celebrate, it does suggest he understands both the strengths and the weaknesses of this current squad.

...and I was being serious. Clean sheets win points.

That is a very tough definition of success.

Historians, please correct me if I'm wrong here but these are the promotions we have had to division 2:

1952/53 (stayed up for 10 seasons)
1973/74 (stayed up for 7 seasons)
1989/90 (stayed up for 3 seasons)

The fans that are viewing any managers success by getting us promoted are saying we have only had three successful managers at the club.

Seems like a tough ask.

Not sure many on here are judging managers success by getting us promoted, I think firstly we'd like to see us winning games (scoring goals helps!!), secondly playing attractive football, thirdly pushing for a top 10 finish with an outside chance of a top 6 finish, given the playing budget over the last couple seasons seems to have been sufficient to make all 3 possible I doubt think fans are asking for too much? 

As far as promotion if that is beyond the owners means they should say so instead of suggesting the Premiership was a possibility under their ownership. Would fans really not renew their season tickets if the ALS stated that establishing the club as a top 10 side was the aim over the next couple of seasons, when your figures suggest that we're use to life in L1!!  
attractive foo