David Artell confirmed as New Manager

Quoted from male private Nale

If you are stating facts, surely you cannot just cherry pick the ones that suit your argument?

He also presided over taking them back down in what was one of their worst ever seasons.

He certainly talks the talk , lets hope he can back it up

Fair enough.

Got Crewe promoted on a small budget, then top half of league 1 with the same restrictions. Think he said he had a budget of 1.4 million and for reference Ipswich had one of 8 million. He outperformed some teams with a much bigger budget, but inevitably, bigger clubs came along and took his best players.

Now he may have been extremely lucky and inherited a particularly talented bunch of players originally that made his job easier, but a good number of them came through the academy that he had been in charge of before becoming manager

No manager is guaranteed to bring success, and he may well fail, which would perhaps please you and a few others, but only time will tell.

Quoted from rancido

I sit in the Upper Young's , close to the half-way line, and you get a totally different perspective of the game as opposed to pitch level. I've thought for a long time that if you had a senior member of the coaching staff ie the assistant manager, on the camera gantry with direct communication to the bench then adjustments to playing style/weaknesses could be corrected immediately.

The club's analyst films from the gantry and is in contact with the bench during the game as well as going down to the dressing room at halftime.

Quoted from arryarryarry

The club's analyst films from the gantry and is in contact with the bench during the game as well as going down to the dressing room at halftime.

Gets there just in time to wheeze "get it forward" before hurrying back

Quoted from rancido

I sit in the Upper Young's , close to the half-way line, and you get a totally different perspective of the game as opposed to pitch level. I've thought for a long time that if you had a senior member of the coaching staff ie the assistant manager, on the camera gantry with direct communication to the bench then adjustments to playing style/weaknesses could be corrected immediately.

This is common practice in the NFL - they have a team of analysts watching the game from above and pumping information to the coaching team on the field. A lot of top level football clubs are doing it as well, you often see someone on the bench with headphones and a lot of managers now have iPads in front of them during the game.

I have often thought that watching a game at pitchside was virtually the worst view you could get, as a spectator I'd rather be higher up to see the game as a whole.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

This is common practice in the NFL - they have a team of analysts watching the game from above and pumping information to the coaching team on the field. A lot of top level football clubs are doing it as well, you often see someone on the bench with headphones and a lot of managers now have iPads in front of them during the game.

I have often thought that watching a game at pitchside was virtually the worst view you could get, as a spectator I'd rather be higher up to see the game as a whole.

I knew that they did it in the NFL but didn't want to bring " grid iron" into the discussion for the possible backlash from those that don't watch or like it.😉

I'll be ready to watch tonight to see what immediate changes, if sny, he makes after watching 1 day of training.

In a training clip seen yesterday, it was interesting to see his promotion of trapping with one foot, then quickly offloading straight away with the other foot. It sounded like he wasn't happy with a couple of the attempts.

Other teams have appeared to control the ball faster than us, with nuch mire accurate passing. A simple task that should be natural to any professional player.

Passes, running, ball control, better set pieces - all things that can be improved in training sessions.

It would be good to see every player selected tonight at least showing that they want to seal their place, giving 100% and displaying desire for a win to the wonderful travelling fans !

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

This is common practice in the NFL - they have a team of analysts watching the game from above and pumping information to the coaching team on the field. A lot of top level football clubs are doing it as well, you often see someone on the bench with headphones and a lot of managers now have iPads in front of them during the game.

I have often thought that watching a game at pitchside was virtually the worst view you could get, as a spectator I'd rather be higher up to see the game as a whole.

You're right. My ST is usually Upper Smiths, and I had to one year go to Lower Smiths first row. You couldn't see the feet of the players on the far side, and passing was only ok front to  back, angle or side passing you just lost all perspective.
I notice that Man U "dug out" must be at mid-Main stand height. It has to be better.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

I have often thought that watching a game at pitchside was virtually the worst view you could get, as a spectator I'd rather be higher up to see the game as a whole.

It’s fine in terms of football but you were bang out of order bringing that double decker bus to our last dogging meet

Quoted from Mariner_09

If you listen to the emergency DN35 pod from last night, the lad from Crewe gives a very balanced answer as to what happened in that season.

Unfortunately no fan gives a ' balanced ' view of what happens as none of them have a real clue as to what actually happened. Only David Artell and the staff at the club will know what happened, the other bits is just guess work. The chairman of Crewe gave David a very good reference and the journalist from BBC Radio Stoke on Sportstalk said we're very lucky to have him so I think that gives you an slight insight into what sort of job he's done.

Be interested to know how many of this seasons games he has seen in some way or another

Sure from what he has seen he has a long list of things to work on / solve / sort out etc