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Nomally i would say we're only 4 games in and the team needs timel to gel so too early to panic,,BUT I have to agree.
We dont look a good side..we got beaten today by another poor side imo. We give away too may silly goals and dont really seem to have much of a goal threat ourselves.
We let a number of players go in the summer with the supposed idea we were going to bring better players in and improver the team. I dont see it. I dont think this team is as good as last years or the team we had in the Conference the previous season. Clarke better than Pearson ?? Rose better than Diz?
Dixon is no better than say Gregor Robertson was..Kelly hasnt done much yet. Hooper scored a good goal today but I am not convinced by him . Cardwell puts himself about but is another who lacks much 1st team experience.
Dembele is an exciting player to watch but with little help around him ends up trying to do too much. Jaiseyimi in his cameo today showed a couple of nice touches. But both are young and inexperienced..this is their first taste of pro football. A bit unfiar that we are pinning our hopes on them
Ok we have a couple of injuries (and seem to be missing Jamie Osborne). All of a sudden Berrett (who to be fair i think is a decent honest pro) is one of our main players. Will Asante's eventual return make a difference ...again we dont know as he is another with little/no league experience.
I feel a bit sorry for Slade as he doesnt seem to have been given much backing and the signings smack of bargain basement. That said I would at least like to see Town play something resembling football. Far too much back to front long ball.
As the OP says so far on this evidence we are going to be nearer the bottom of the league than the top and we cant even contemplate what another relegation to the Conference would mean. It would destroy us (look at York City....that could be our future) The board need to act. We have only used a fraction of the Bogle transfer fee and now have the sell on fee following his move to Cardiff. They need to use a bit of this before its too late.
Good post!
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I really don't feel Slade has used his budget wisely, there are definitely clubs with smaller budgets than us in this league who seem to set up competitively.
Now if we really were to throw big money at it in January would we really trust him to spend it well?
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If I was being really strict with the budget, I wouldn't have too many players out of this squad that I think are fit for purpose..
Dembele Osborne Osbourne Mills Asante Jaiyesimi Rose M Rose A Jones Clements
That's about it.
What we keep doing is signing relegated players who are not rated by their own fans and also recently turned old slow journeyman players looking for a final pay day. Talk about Div 4 cliche signings.
What we need to sign is young, strong, quick, eager to learn players Then our coaches should do what they're paid to do, coach and develop them. At least they'll have the basic physical requirements half of our squad clearly lack.
Works for clubs like Accrington who haven't got half the income we have..
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Maybe we need an inspirational manager who can inspire good players to come in the first place? I liked PH and I think his players generally did too, he gave the impression he was going places. Slade has had a few bad experiences recently, he's not exactly got many successes on his cv and coming here, if you are young and hoping to get noticed, and playing for his teams might not be as attractive as somewhere like Lincoln with a dynamic young manager.
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If I was being really strict with the budget, I wouldn't have too many players out of this squad that I think are fit for purpose..
Dembele - Yes Osborne - Yes Osbourne - How do you know based on what we have seen? Cameos and a game versus Winterton Mills - Learning weekly Asante - Definite potential but I think it might be a Hearn situation at best Jaiyesimi - Have you really seen enough of him? Rose M - Agree Rose A - What? How can you tell? No time in senior football and a few games in the reserves Jones - Agree Clements - All being well.
That's about it.
What we keep doing is signing relegated players who are not rated by their own fans and also recently turned old slow journeyman players looking for a final pay day. Talk about Div 4 cliche signings.
What we need to sign is young, strong, quick, eager to learn players Then our coaches should do what they're paid to do, coach and develop them. At least they'll have the basic physical requirements half of our squad clearly lack.
Works for clubs like Accrington who haven't got half the income we have..
I get the theme but see above re players........ Also regarding "eager to learn" actually if you look at us when we lose it's usually to aides with experienced and "smart" players who know how to win games, not always by fair measures but efficient all the same. From the outside looking in the Bignot legacy appears to have taken the club from play offs to p1ssed off and drained the Omar money............Who appointed him? The same person who appointed a string of poor managers, he did appoint a manager with an excellent record of success once but sacked him after 6 games.....you never know he might do it again. I have defended Fenty on a number of occasions as his money has bailed us out but his small club/small town dictatorship will see us disappear off the radar if we are not careful .
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Maybe we need an inspirational manager who can inspire good players to come in the first place? I liked PH and I think his players generally did too, he gave the impression he was going places. Slade has had a few bad experiences recently, he's not exactly got many successes on his cv and coming here, if you are young and hoping to get noticed, and playing for his teams might not be as attractive as somewhere like Lincoln with a dynamic young manager.
A classic case of Manager on the rise versus manager on the decline. Then again for a while we where all taken in by the up and coming Marcus Bignot.
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If I was being really strict with the budget, I wouldn't have too many players out of this squad that I think are fit for purpose..
Dembele Osborne Osbourne Mills Asante Jaiyesimi Rose M Rose A Jones Clements
That's about it.
What we keep doing is signing relegated players who are not rated by their own fans and also recently turned old slow journeyman players looking for a final pay day. Talk about Div 4 cliche signings.
What we need to sign is young, strong, quick, eager to learn players Then our coaches should do what they're paid to do, coach and develop them. At least they'll have the basic physical requirements half of our squad clearly lack.
Works for clubs like Accrington who haven't got half the income we have..
We were saying this today. Summerfield, Berrett, Hooper, Kelly and Clarke all have recent relegations on their CV.
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Dynamic young manager? We had one of those and he got run out of town labelled a clueless gobshite. Yes I accept he was a bit manic and the results inconsistent, but we don't appear any better off having given Slade carte blanche to remake the team in his image.
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We were saying this today. Summerfield, Berrett, Hooper, Kelly and Clarke all have recent relegations on their CV.
And Dixon
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We were saying this today. Summerfield, Berrett, Hooper, Kelly and Clarke all have recent relegations on their CV.
And Rose was seconds away from relegation with Newport last season.
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