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A bit of pot calling the kettle CMC but you don’t seem to have improved since he left.
Let’s hope we can turn it around enough to stay in the National League so we can play you again next season.
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Agree Ferrite he is an average musician and a bloody awful singer but he’s written an awful lot of great songs.
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Left sided centre back the top priority and a forward with real pace. An interim manager coach with a positive attitude and a couple of brain cells and we can dream of lower mid table obscurity.
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Rather it was Mrs Swann. Someone in the family must have a clue about football.
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How come Muzzy always survives?
Not sure how long he has been here but it’s a long time since our last good first team keeper.
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Of course I am not privy to exactly what is going on behind the scenes. Let’s face it the club has directors that don’t know exactly what is going on.
It seems obvious that if there really was a plan to do well in the National League this season then 2 things had to happen.
1. We would somehow have to increase crowds after 4 years of decline from the circa 2,000 they had dropped to.
2. We had to recruit almost a full team of players and coach and motivate them to compete in this league.
It would appear that number 1 was the responsibility of Lee Turnbull supported by the club staff and Neil Wright. Very difficult task but 3 games in – job done.
It would appear Keith Hill and his coaching staff have been given full autonomy and the available financial support to achieve number 2. Six games in they have massively under achieved.
The other thing the club was reportedly trying to achieve was new ownership. This was by his own admission the sole responsibility and focus of the current owner. He is to the surprise of no-one also underachieving.
I simply cannot understand why some people wish to blame Turnbull and Wright for anything that is going wrong at the moment. Why should they walk away from the club they demonstrably care about and what would be achieved by their doing so?
Conventional wisdom say a coaching team get 10 games at the start of a season to prove their worth. For many managers 5 straight abject defeats often short circuits that grace period.
I have given up wasting emotional energy on wondering what the owner is up to. Nine years of bullshit does that to me. Only my opinion but for the first time I am calling for the coaching staff to go. I have absolutely no confidence they can do anything about the situation on the pitch.
If they get the full 10 games then if they are still in the relegation places then they must go.
Anything else I would take as proof of the managed liquidation theory.
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With Hill’s managerial record at the Iron it would have been disrespectful to not ask the question.
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You are not telling me it was the players that decided to play 5 at the back against a bottom of the league team who had scored 1 goal in 5 games.
It may have been the midfielders that decided to sit on the toes of the 3 centre backs but if it was I didn’t see Hill or McMahon doing anything to change it in the first half.
It wasn’t the players that decided to start with a 2 man front line at home against the bottom of the league team. Of course we end up hoofing it up to the front 2 and just surrendering the ball to a sh1te team in two thirds of the pitch.
Inept as Halifax were conceding a goal was pretty much inevitable.
Half time he decides we might have to score a goal or two to win a must win game and changes things. Sacrificed Rowe (did he not see Taft) and Butterfield. Well why would you want your most creative player on the field when you are chasing the game?
I have never called for a managers head on Bru but seriously folks this man has not got a fecking clue. The sad thing is that without change of ownership Hill’s departure is unlikely to happen or even have much impact if it did.
Sad and depressing times. I would start to believe the conspiracy theories regarding managed liquidation but I am unable to credit the owner with enough intelligence to make it work.
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5 at the back with the midfield dropping deep. Hoof the ball up to a 2 man forward line including a 17 year old making his first start.
What the feck could go wrong Keith?
Shut the door on your way out.
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Interesting no former League clubs in the National League South. The north south divide applies to football clubs as well?
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If I was a Halifax fan, or player, it manager I would be delighted to be playing Scunthorpe on Monday.
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You are correct WG but that does not excuse anonymous personal abuse on social media.
With very few exceptions football players do not get injured on purpose and there is a fair element of luck involved in the amount and scale of injuries they get.
Having said that both Hallam and Nthle must have doubts they can get fit enough to continue as professional footballers given the repetitive nature of their injuries.
I have sympathy for them both. However, they do have contracts which have to be paid up should they leave so it is not as simple as getting rid of the pair and using the salary for replacements.
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Read again and then check your own advice.
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