Next season - new approach

Quoted from oldun

I think we can expect to see some younger fitter players with more pace. However I hope we can find a few experienced heads for the spine of the team, centre defence, centre mid and up top.

Not really worked out well for us this year has it? Younger, stronger, fitter, quicker centre halves for me. Defensive drills on the training ground with younger players will achieve much more than this season. RS didn't want to coach, hopefully MJ will be prepared to develop players rather than lazily signing up experienced journeymen at the end of their careers..

MJ  will go for young talented players not 30+ year olds,I agree with op that we should sign quality rather than quantity .

Quoted from ginnywings

The only new approach that will work for many is a complete change of leadership and direction.

Just a couple of flaws with that as I see it Ginny

a complete change of leadership    Fenty won't let go no matter what happens

and direction                                   There's only one direction we tend to go under his tenure

Quoted from malkamalka

Thinking onto next season, and referring to something somebody said on a previous thread which was:

"that's what you get when you have 9 strikers on £800 a week instead of 3 on £2,000"

If we were to go down that route, who do people think we should be approaching?

I'll chuck a name in for starters:

Gabby Agbonlahor - who will be a FREE AGENT in the summer.

Comments/Suggestions

Wether it's eight hundred notes or two grand a week it would do them good to be de icing their cars at 4am before a sixteen hour shift for three hundred quid a week.
The girl privates might appreciate how easy a two hour shift on a football pitch actually is and be inclined to try.

Every season we're told that we'll have a smaller squad, but higher on quality. It'd be nice if it was true for once.

The thought of not having a season ticket and not going to home games makes me feel a bit sick. I love going, I’ve been going the vast majority of my life and I’ve swerved loads of other stuff to carry on going.
I like others just struggle to see how I can justify putting my money into the club under this leadership. I know people are putting the protesting and disquiet in the ground on the back burner until the season is decided. What happens when we know whether we are safe or not? How do we push for change? I feel as a priority we need to get answers and firm actions going into preseason.

fenty will not spend any where near the going rate for good players , so we end up with a team like we have now,, and that is not going to change while he is here,, and while there is no chance of a new ground to  finance his loans back nothing is going to change.. We had the players here that imo would have given us a chance to be the other end of the table, and he got rid of them to save a few quid , And he has the nerve to swan around the upper findus  smiling and shaking hands like he is some sort of important person that had done well at the club

Quoted from chrissy

MJ  will go for young talented players not 30+ year olds,I agree with op that we should sign quality rather than quantity .

He can go for them but will they come? A lot will clearly depend on what league we are in Div 2 or National League will make a lot of difference I'm afraid.

I also think which league we are in should to a degree determine who he goes for anyway, young lads aren't going to cut it in Div 2, like it or not some older heads will be needed. If we are going to be stuck down in non-league for the foreseeable future then by all means build a squad of youngsters

Quoted from denni266

fenty will not spend any where near the going rate for good players , so we end up with a team like we have now,, and that is not going to change while he is here,, and while there is no chance of a new ground to  finance his loans back nothing is going to change.. We had the players here that imo would have given us a chance to be the other end of the table, and he got rid of them to save a few quid , And he has the nerve to swan around the upper findus  smiling and shaking hands like he is some sort of important person that had done well at out of the club

Hope you don't mind my little correction to your post denni

Quoted from mariner91

How many times does this need to be stated. HE DOES NOT SPEND MONEY. He hasn't for years. Check the accounts, he has put no money into the club for donkey's years but has cost the club untold millions throughout his tenure.

There is absolutely no reason why a club that gets our gates (even this season's and they're down from last year) cannot be sustainable at this level. There are plenty of well run clubs that have no sugar daddies, get lower gates than we do and are out-performing us in virtually every way. It would need the right people in charge, with an actual plan to how we're going to move forward not just hoping for some "football fortune" and cutting costs at every opportunity. Not to mention that I reckon there'd be a significant increase in attendances in the short term if Fenty left. I know people who won't go whilst he's in charge and I'm sure just about everyone who posts on here does or at least know people who wont' go for much longer with him still pulling the strings.

Oh come off your high horses and tell us something we don't know. It's the easy way out to sit there and snipe and make wish lists every time somebody tries to look just a tiny bit further than the end of our collective noses.

Until there is an alternative on the table we are stuck with what we have and resentment is growing with every day. My concern would be something happening in a great rush that is superficially attractive, i.e. involves Fenty going, which we all would love to see, but which does not have long term viability especially on the park. If that happens we don't go the way of the Accringtons or even the Newports, but the way of the Yorks.

So is there another way? Is there a way that leaves Fenty in place as major shareholder but takes off him those pesky decisions on football club matters that seem to be totally beyond his abilities? Can something be worked out that stops him being the public face of the club? Is there a possibility we could stop talking about his benign loans and shareholdings and just leave them be?

I think there are precedents at the club for this sort of thing from earlier times when the man at the front was not the major shareholder, and worked quite well. The big problem of course is finding someone with ability to be the frontman, but that is perhaps still easier than finding someone with bagfuls of cash or looking for ways that the Trust could come up with a financial package.

Now, I don't know the answers, I'm just musing on the possibilities. Maybe someone else does have alternative suggestions. There are clearly plenty willing to put in their 2 pennorth about lynching the man but can we think a bit beyond the obvious?