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Good win.
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I’m struggling to explain what is going on.
Hope this hypothesis is not too bizarre.Let’s consider psychological manipulation as a possibility. We are all placed into a state of deep concern by the lack of activity.
Things finally happen and some players come in.
We are all so relieved, we barely notice that they are hardly a single notch above adequate.No.
In spite of everything – we are still a division higher. Only if we swap places at the end of the season …1 user thanked author for this post.
Have to agree.
It does rather seem like the actions of a club looking to bring in a clutch of players, though. Otherwise, it is surely pointless.
Are we to assume that he will be registered and required to maintain fitness to a high level so as to be usable if required? (And with our history of player injuries …)On a slightly different tack – are there coaches out there who possess a reputation for having fewer injuries to their charges than the norm and a lot fewer than what we seem to have? Coz if that applies to McMahon – I’d find that to be appealing thinking after our recent history.
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It seems tragic that the club could not have issued a simple statement.
“We have some interesting/positive/good/worthy/experienced (PYO) signings in the pipeline.”
If you do have you announce it.
If you don’t, you have to keep stumm.Anything from deep concern to panic is the inevitable consequence.
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And the season after that …?
The problem is that the club knows exactly what the fans are thinking and has done a grand total of nothing to allay reasoned fears and suspicions.
I am thinking that this must mean that either they are unable to do so or (less likely) they will announce a sudden bevy of signings with a mighty fanfare of trumpets in such a manner as to undermine the realists on this site.
The trouble with the second thought is that there is damage being caused in the delay which will have lost many more supporters.I am moving slowly and inexorably towards Alcazar’s camp as events unfold – or rather don’t unfold.
As one who has always tried to give the leadership of the club the benefit of the doubt over years, for me this is a mega shift in stance.
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We haven’t been told that current contracts run up to the 30th of June – yet.
We haven’t been told that the requisite signings are on holiday at present.
We haven’t been told … anything.
The communication with the fans is now worse than it has ever been – and that is saying rather a lot, innit?Do they even want to sell season tickets?
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Good reputations can take years to build and can be destroyed in a matter of seconds.
With The Iron, I suspect that our reputation amongst players around the country may not be quite what it once was.
We are no longer regarded as a positive outfit – the result of several poor years and recent dreadful ones.It may well not be wages on offer which are the principal reason why players are no longer queuing up to sign for us. As Alcazar has strongly hinted – who wants to sign up for what looks like an inevitable relegation scrap?
What we now need is a couple of decent signings to demonstrate intent – and PDQ!
That would make us appear a better prospect all round to the middling players we can surely afford but apparently cannot attract.I have stated more than once that we need a number of players of exactly this type to stop the appalling slide which has been allowed to happen.
Caring signings with guts will bring the best out of the plodders and the continuity players.
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Yeah.
I knew Jack very well. As a teenager he gave me lifts to the OSG from Burton for a good few years. His wife was delightful.
As I understand, he contracted dementia. Tragic!
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