To the Owners (merged)

Apparently PH was told lose at Donny and get sacked.

We lost to a penalty

The rest is history. I hope JS learns from it.

Quoted from MarinerMal

Three or four of those players have gone on to Championship teams but not set the world alight. It seems a stretch to suggest any DA success was only because he had good youth players. I mean, we are not talking Man Utd class of '92 here are we.

But they didn't need to be the class of 92 did they? They weren't competing against Alan Shearer and Patrick Vieira, they were competing against Scunthorpe and Forest Green.

Three of those players are playing in the Championship currently. Two are playing for teams in the top 6 of League 1 (although Lowery isn't playing much due to injury). And two are playing for third and fourth place in this division currently. For context that would be like having four/five players who are roughly the standard of McAtee plus two others who are clearly very solid players at this level (Charlie Kirk and James Jones). How much better do you think we might be performing this season if we had four or five players even close to McAtee's standard plus a couple of others who are good?

Personally I don’t think McAtee contributed much last season

Quoted from mariner91

But they didn't need to be the class of 92 did they? They weren't competing against Alan Shearer and Patrick Vieira, they were competing against Scunthorpe and Forest Green.

Three of those players are playing in the Championship currently. Two are playing for teams in the top 6 of League 1 (although Lowery isn't playing much due to injury). And two are playing for third and fourth place in this division currently. For context that would be like having four/five players who are roughly the standard of McAtee plus two others who are clearly very solid players at this level (Charlie Kirk and James Jones). How much better do you think we might be performing this season if we had four or five players even close to McAtee's standard plus a couple of others who are good?

I agree, the manager would probably be doing better if he had better players.

Quoted from MarinerMal

It is the very definition of cherry-picking. You just select the stats that you want prove your point.

To compare him to Russell Slade's career is unfair given that DA has only had one job, previously. But in that job he has already achieved something I don't think RS ever did and that was achieve a promotion.

If you are discounting data just because it doesn't fit your narrative, that is being too simplistic.

Basically people are making the point that more recent data should carry greater weight than older data. This is a pretty simple concept and is not cherry  picking. Cherry picking would be picking some random sequence out of context.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Personally I don’t think McAtee contributed much last season

He didn't have his best season but I'd kill for two or three players with his ability and his effort right now.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Apparently PH was told lose at Donny and get sacked.

We lost to a penalty

The rest is history. I hope JS learns from it.

Were did you hear that.

Quoted from The Yard Dog

Were did you hear that.

Probably on the fishy

Quoted from Poojah

If he loses at Morecambe, he won't get FGR.

I really hope your right and I thought that 2 points over Colchester a d Donny would be enough for the owners, but the fact the game is harder now I worry that a point or even a narrow defeat may be interpreted by them as he is turning it around. I hope I'm wrong and it is considered a must win game but I'm beginning to doubt that from JS tweet

Jeez if they consider a narrow defeat turning it around I think I'll be done. In truth I know I won't but you know what I mean