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MuddyWaters
November 13, 2017, 4:58pm
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Our best striking option (Sam Jones) was signed by another manager and came as a Number 10 - that says all you need to know about Slade's recruitment. Some of his signings, although in the first team squad (Woolford, Rose, Clarke, Dixon, Matt & Hooper) are, at best, no better than what we had and the fact that others (Kelly, Cardwell) often don't make the bench is not a ringing endorsement.

Whatever the plan was, it was a excrement one.
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I think you have missed the point or maybe I haven't phrased it correctly. If he had , for example, £440,000 budget on wages available for new players ( I think I read somewhere that the average wage in League 2 is 40k a year) then instead of signing 11 average players he could have signed 6 quality players on 73k. If these kind of players weren't available at the time then why just sign make weights for the sake of it? It's just a waste of a playing budget. If he needed cover then why not put some faith in in the youngsters coming through. Instead he brought in bench warmers and some not even doing that.
If he is supposed to be building for the future then why have a regular back four consisting of three players whose total age is in excess of 100yrs and a left back who is a liability. If we don't get promoted this season ( which on current performances is highly unlikely ) then he is going to have to replace at least two of the geriatrics at the back and then we start the defensive re-building process again with the possibility of another season without a promotion. Unfortunately JF will not get rid of Slade, unless we really nosedive down the league, because it would be an admission that he got it completely wrong in getting rid of MB prematurely. I know MB seemed a bit of a maverick and certainly some of his team selections were baffling but at least he should have been given a summer close season to strengthen the squad to how he wanted it to look and then maybe some of his decisions may have made more sense. I'll stick my neck out here and predict that MB will achieve a promotion before Slade does. OK so he is managing at a lower level than us but didn't Slade manage at that level with Scarborough and didn't get them promoted?


Fair comments, maybe it's the contract side of things, according to Sam Hirds dad at the time he didn't join because the club wouldn't give him £50 a week petrol money to commute. That's the difference between getting a player who went on to play in the Championship and bringing in a Heywood or Hope.


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November 13, 2017, 7:54pm

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Fair comments, maybe it's the contract side of things, according to Sam Hirds dad at the time he didn't join because the club wouldn't give him £50 a week petrol money to commute. That's the difference between getting a player who went on to play in the Championship and bringing in a Heywood or Hope.


That's probably also the difference between running a successful fish business, and an unsuccessful Football Club  


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I jokingly remarked  'I don't know whether to spend it watching porn or watching football'
'you may as well spend it watching porn' she replied
That's understanding darling what makes you say that? I asked

She said 'Well you already know how to play football'  
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Does the board pick the team,does the board decide what tactics to use.


No, but they/he picks the team that do!
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