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Shouldn’t open the wine early on a Sunday. Apologies Awaywego.
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What a great legacy he left, national Minimum wage, sure start centres, the Belfast agreement, school building programme, the Human rights act, and some will even say rights for gays including the introduction of the civil partnership.
Given the state of the country is probably on par with the state of our football club you don’t really believe that bullshit do you?
I suppose its what happens when you put a fat lying entitled arrogant shit in charge of anything.
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Not sure what Mr Swann gains by not selling the club.
The land is only worth serious money with outline planning permission. Retail was the obvious fit but nobody wants retail space anywhere right now let alone on the edge of Scunthorpe.
Potential light industrial or office space is hardly in big demand.
That only leaves residential and given the hoops he had to go through to get the permission for the apartments and his poor relationship with North Lincs Council I find it hard to believe permission would be forthcoming for a further wedge of apartments or houses.
Nothing wrong with him trying to get the best price he can but as a football club the value must already have dropped since the start of the season given it is now a club in serious danger of being cut adrift in the relegation zone of the National League. The club is already 1,000 down on crowds since the start of the season.
I have no inside information but I believe cash flow is needed to finish the Blackpool hotel so it can start generating revenue. Liquidation followed by planning applications and then a land slade is a very slow way to generate cash.
The club have about a month to take the actions that could allow them to stay in the National League.
If we are heading for NLN then a Phoenix club becomes a cheaper and probably better option.
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I am probably on my own with this but I don’t buy into this view that O’Malley is suddenly incapable of being a left back.
Pre Hill most of us thought he was great going forward but a little naive defensively particularly his positioning.
Despite a management team of ex defenders he has not improved his positioning in fact has probably got worse. I think this is down to a consistent Hill tactic of insisting his full backs are narrow with the centre backs when the team does not have the ball.
For me that can work in a 4-4-2 when there is wide cover to stop the easy balls out to wide men but when used with Hill’s favoured 4-3-3 it simply leaves the opposition with easy out balls to wide men with the nearest defender 30 yards away.
Some have suggested opposition have targeted O’Malley. They actually target the wide free spaces on both sides of the pitch.
When a wide man gets the ball and you are 30 yards away all the options are with him. He has time to control the ball if the pass is not perfect, has time for the early diagonal cross without challenge or can take the late arriving full back on at speed.
Full backs are on a hiding to nothing with these tactics. I think they come from a lack of trust in centre backs. Let the full backs drop to cover the wide men and limit the supply and the centre backs have a much better chance to cope with a lower number of crosses with most of the ones that do get through delivered under challenge.
Hill was a tactical buffoon. Played 4-3-3 because it works for Liverpool and Man City. They have world class defenders that can play out from back and goalkeepers that could play as outfielders. We have centre backs with boots on the wrong feet to quote Nigel.
Get playing 4-4-2. Let the full backs mark their men. Give the defenders forward ball options. Wide midfielders for the measured out ball and 2 front men for when it has to be hoofed.
The final point is are we sure Daniel is better. Early days and am not writing him off but his goal against Yeovil aside he is looking to me like the classic utility player. Can play 3 positions but not actually very good at any of them.
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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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