So you’re saying the players aren’t good enough to adapt to playing different formations (as any player always should be) and some are playing out their top dollar contracts but you also think Butler / Schofield are the problem? All bases covered there. There’s a desperation to aportion blame for this terrible form and performances but I doubt anyone really knows how to fix it. But that doesn’t stop the supposed certainty of many claims.
One of the main problems why this has got to the stage it has is poor communication. Between the club and the supporters and Butler and the supporters.
The club clearly stated before this season that the aim was promotion and they thought we had the squad to do it. People bought season tickets on the back of this and are fully behind supporting the team to win the league. Promotion from this league is winning it, there’s no point talking about the playoffs as that is a lottery which currently more than half the teams in the league could feasibly end up in the playoff final and have a chance.
The club also got rid of Dean and appointed Butler and he said quite clearly that he understood the remit was promotion, we were going to be the fittest team in the league etc. Then suddenly Turnbull is sacked with a terse statement to inform us, we’ve got no idea what that was really about.
Nobody is under any illusion, after last season, that this league is shite and we’re going to see some horrible games and even lose some but with some half decent players and supposedly full time supreme fitness, I think we all expected to watch the team have a good crack at winning every game and be good enough defensively to prevent most other teams from scoring. Instead we’re either watching dozens of missed chances followed by horrendous defensive mistakes or squaring up for 98 minutes of head tennis with teams like Alfreton.
