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The Get Gone Swann Trophy?
Where is Alcy?
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As a supposed expert in marketing, your continued failure to accept that ALL the issues raised in this thread and over the past 5 years ARE relevant to the demise of this club is unbelievable.
The failure to maximise every income stream, to treat the supporters with respect are contributory factors. I also believe they are important to the retention and recruitment of players.
It is no surprise that the clubs who work the hardest on all the other stuff to create a great atmosphere around the place tend to perform better on the pitch.
Why do you think a manager like Klopp puts so much effort into getting the fans behind the team if the job is only about buying, picking players and deciding what formation to play?
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Scunthorpe 14v13 Worcester City.
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Wish we had an “apart from scoring, what else does he do?” striker!
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He’d prefer it if they swapped the defibrillator for a wheelbarrow to dump them outside the ground for collection.
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Whatever happened to old fashioned goal hangers.
Denis Law said that the majority of his goals were from standing in or moving into a rectangle from the six yard lines up to a line across the penalty spot and the goal line. Billy Sharp, not blessed with the greatest pace, is still scoring goals mostly within this same area.
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“Maybe we’d now be an established championship team” 😂
Unlikely given our fan base. But no reason to lose 50% of our fan base as Swann has achieved since that day.
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It was Wigan who played the weakened side. We had a great day playing Sheffield United off the park at Brammall Lane. They were so bad Adkins got the sack.
We were very good, how times have changed no thanks to Swann.
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Looks like his nappy has leaked!
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Entirely agree, IF he is guilty.
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“I bet the hourly rate is higher than a solicitor!”
Should have signed him on a no win no fee contract, or better still no play no fee.
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The new moderator has the initials PS?
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Thanks for the explanation. The Wharton period gave us Sharp, Keogh, Hooper, Hayes, Beckford, Murphy in a team full of experienced players.
I understand the complaint of not holding on to players, but I think it is true that it’s difficult to hold on to players who are performing well and ambitious. Agents see to that and hard to hold on to them because of the wages they could get by moving.
Hooper was scoring more than Carroll, yet Carroll was sold for over £30 million. So we could be criticised for not holding out for a higher fee.
If we had been better run over these last few years there should have been no reason why we couldn’t carry on competing with yoyo teams like Rotherham, Barnsley, Peterborough and Donny.
That second half of the season fall and playoff loss to Millwall started the slide and not getting enough or anything at all when the better players left that team.
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Alcy, thanks for posting this. The Cod is spot on. This is not a dig at you, but a few days ago you posted that you fell out with Wharton because he lacked ambition. A poster listed Wharton’s achievements against the lack of achievements by Swann.
The above article explains where we are due to being over ambitious, yet Wharton achieved without us tumbling down the league after relegation from the Championship.
Confused!!
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That’s about right assuming O’Malley is injured and Beestin is not fully fit. Lewis has earned a go in his preferred position so 442 is another option if/When O’Malley is fit.
Also Burns deserves to stay in and see how he goes with some support up front, so could start with Pyke on the bench.
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Of course players from before would still have the ability to play at the top level and would respond to modern training methods. Cut out the 6 pints the night before the match and the fags at half time and they would cope.
Many of these players got their skills from street football rather than coaching from the age of six. They were blessed with natural ability.
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Green didn’t have the basic footballing skills to be good enough.
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