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Either that or KVV looking to spend the money he earned from his days as a plasterer*
*Assumption based on how much the last plasterer I used charged me.
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It’s a much easier game from a few rows back.
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Hope you are right and not just taking the piss.
I know its early for doom and gloom but if we don’t win 2 or 3 games before January the we are well and truly trussed.
This looks the easiest opportunity.
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Swann has had some decent managers in place. Some with very decent records both before they got here and after they left.
Suspect they had the audacity to think they knew more about football than a certain other figure at the club.
Alexander perhaps the biggest conundrum. Always seems to get sacked when his teams are in a reasonable position. Oh to be the position he left us in.
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I think we have 4 areas where we don’t have the right calibre of player cover.
We don’t have a goalkeeper suitable for the situation the team has been in for the last 4 seasons. It is OK for comfortably mid table sides to risk a young inexperienced keeper but not if you are continually at the bottom of the league.
We don’t have a credible centre half to fill in injuries or suspensions for the two we have – that assumes giving Taft the benefit of the doubt.
We have no forwards to cover Nuttall and Lavery. We also have to accept Lavery has done nothing since scoring a very good goal on his debut.
We have no wide players which means we rarely get decent supply to the front 2 and pretty much stops us playing 4-4-2 which at this level gives struggling sides the best chance of a clean sheet.
We have 3 left backs although in the cup game we decided to play neither of them in that position.
In midfield we have Butterfield supported by about 10 others none of whom have shown yet that they are good enough.
When Nuttall and Apter go in January I cannot see us getting another point let alone a win or a clean sheet.
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Are you referring to it’s more sporadic frequency of appearances NI?
If you are I feel you are being a bit harsh as it still appears far more frequently than Jordan.
I don’t blame the lads for not doing one every week. There is only so many things you can say about the shitshow that is our once proud club.
Perhaps we could invite a music critic and a food critic on to rate the pre-match experience. More interesting than the football these days.
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It is a very deep barrel that we are scraping the bottom of.
Still, maximum points in the prediction league for that one.
Don’t even feel frustrated or angry anymore. Just resignation and sadness.
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They threw caution to the wind at half time and defenders pushed forward into midfield. Beeston and Butterfield understandably chasing shadows.
Made worse by our wing backs becoming full backs. We were pretty much 5-2-3 for that first 20 minutes of the first half.
Made worse by the isolated front 3 switching to half hearted mode in their closing down.
All these things were blatantly obvious from the stands but we were desperately hanging on to a point by the time Pugh was moved into midfield to help stem the flow.
It was obvious Lavery was gone physically 10 minutes into the second half but took another 20 minutes to get Wilson on.
The players got the blame from Tony for the second half but I think he and Nelson have to shoulder some of the responsibility.
They made the right kind of changes but much too late.
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Not often I come to Mr Swann’s defence but he was promised the land free or virtually free by the council and the first developer. I don’t know if there was a contract in place (you would hope so) but the developer went bust. The council then found a new developer and they then jointly expected Swann to pay for the land and a big chunk of supporting infrastructure.
This made the new stadium financially not viable. That series of events is the only thing in the last 9 years that I have sympathy with Swann for.
Probably explains why the council leader does not get a Christmas card from the Swann’s.
Also to be fair your design and detailed plans have to be presented as part of a planning application so those costs were inevitable.
I want new owners as much as anyone and in my opinion the club has been run spectacularly badly for 5 years.
I hold Mr Swann totally responsible for that and the current nightmare situation the club is in but it seems to me he was not responsible for the failure of the new stadium project.
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There have been 4 or 5 interested groups so far depending who you believe. I think Swann has referenced 4 of them but of course that is no guarantee of truth.
For a club hanging on at the arse end of full time professional football that seems a high number and definitely suggests the interest is certainly there.
It is only my opinion but it also suggests the asking price is too high or that the strings attached too onerous.
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