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Sometimes I wonder what you’re on about Awaywego!
Anyway back to the ESL debacle. Another funny thing was reading the statements issued by the “Big Six”.
Grovellingly apologetic to their loyal fans. I wonder if we could expect a similar statement from the board of SUFC after the distress caused by this season’s performances?
I won’t hold my breath!
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Please Mr Swann for the sake of our club sort it out.
We’ve been asking him to do that for the last three years. What makes you think he’s going to do anything other than sack Cox and replace like for like?
What makes you think the “committee” will stop signing the Aaron Jarvis and Dunwald-Turan types and go for an Eoin Doyle or a Jamille Matt?
He’ll be too busy sorting out his hotels and casinos for May 17th.
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remember the Cox/Lillis appointment was hailed as the dream team at the the time.
Yes, let’s wind back to last summer. The league had been declared null & void so we were spared the nervous end to season we’ve just witnessed. Wilcox declared that he didn’t want to be first team manager, so the vacancy was there.
I was one of the many who said that it had to be the right appointment as we couldn’t continue as a hiring and firing club. It had been the same the previous year when Hurst was appointed. As ‘tash says Cox & Lillis looked to be the dream team. A young, hungry manager eager to cut his teeth in his first managerial role, and a wily old fox who knows the ins and outs of the game. The bonus being that they were both ex Iron players and, indeed Cox was a Scunny lad!
Fast forward a year and we are still in the same position. So why didn’t it work?
Well it hadn’t worked with McCall, Daws/Dawson or Hurst so should we have expected anything different?Cox has still suffered the same frustrations as previous incumbents. Training ground injuries, players going through mood-swings, players being asked to play out of position, realising in October your keeper isn’t good enough so bringing in someone on a short term contract/loan. Not having an on field leader in the Crozzer/Bish mould. Not having a plan B!
All these things have happened before Cox and Lillis set foot through the door. It’s been a season of more of the same. What had made this season even worse is the quality of players Cox has had to work with. He is responsible for bringing some here, but most were sourced by our erstwhile recruitment “committee”.
I don’t disagree with SS24 or IITB, I just think that whilst the present ownership continue as they have, changing the manager will have minimal effect on our performances. Sack Cox and appoint Wellens, Mourinho or whoever and I’ll stick my neck out and say we’ll be back having the same conversation next Spring.
Peter Swann comes on and talks a good job. We’re restricted by budget, Covid has been terrible, we’ve been unlucky with injuries to our best players etc etc etc. But it’s the same for every club in L2 (and many in L1). Look at Morecambe. Absolute garbage last year, could get automatic promotion this. They’ve done it during a pandemic with no fans in the stadium and a small budget. Accrington Stanley in L1. Harrogate Town FFS!
This malaise has been set in at our club since Chris Lucetti left. I don’t think a sixth manager since we sacked Alexander will do any better, especially if we keep signing too many poor players.
The guys who needs to learn from their mistakes are not just the ones sat in the dugout.
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The Prawn must be seething having to pay wages to these wasters.
Prawn is responsible for bringing them here in the first place!
Get Richie Wellens in and allow him the budget to do what he wants with!
You could get Guardiola in, but with the budget he’d be given the results would be minimal.
There’s no easy fix for this. The rot started three seasons ago and it’ll take another three to sort it out.
Cox is not the main problem.
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Got The Far Corner on my bookshelf! It features Darlington 2, Scunthorpe 1 (Carmichael). January 94.
The Newcastle fans are rubbing their hands in glee, because they think that with those six gone they’ll be in the running for a league title or an FA Cup win!
And they won’t be the only ones.
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side passes virtually non-existent
Now there’s an idea. Forward passes only! A sort of reverse rugby.
Which is fine if you have forwards with strength and a good first touch or pacy wingers who can run onto a through ball.
And you have to know when to make that forward pass, which involves players moving off the ball.
Nothing wrong with side passes if they create space and drag opponents out of position. Better than giving away possession.
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The game was formed by the people for the people to enjoy
Actually it was formed by toffs in public schools.
A lot of water flowed under the Stamford Bridge before it filtered down to the working man.
Football fans worldwide are responsible for creating this monster. Is anyone really shocked by this news?
Hypocrisy by the bucket-load doing the rounds today. And already the vultures are circling over the carcasses.
I shall observe from a nearby perch.
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Well two of them scored today thereby only worsening our GD by one when it could easily have been four.
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maybe next season with different tools things may be different.
I’m sure a different set of tools is being lined up as we speak!
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I blame the podcast boys!
They keep saying we’re safe. I wish they wouldn’t!
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This from the OWS ….
“Ryan Loft misses out again with a groin problem, goalkeeper Mark Howard remains out for three-to-four weeks with a thigh injury, while Manny Onariase has missed the last three games with a hamstring problem. Right-back Jordan Clarke continues to be a doubt after reporting a swollen ankle following the defeat at Carlisle seven days ago.
Left-back Junior Brown is out for a total of five-to-six weeks with a hamstring injury that forced him off against Bradford City and attacker Jordan Hallam is out with the hamstring problem which he suffered against Oldham Athletic in March, while Olufela Olomola’s season looks to be over after he suffered a medial ligament injury.
Striker Aaron Jarvis (hamstring) is set to miss the rest of the season, while midfielder George Hornshaw and goalkeeper Adam Kelsey are both expected to be out for the remainder of the campaign following ankle surgery.”
When I was playing in the 70s & 80s hamstring injuries were rare. I’ve talked about this several times with mates who played at the same time and all were in agreement. Stretched groin and the odd dead-leg, perhaps. Ankle injuries were most likely the result of some horrendous tackle which you rarely see in the professional game these days.
With improved fitness methods and strict diets. Warm ups and warm downs. One would have thought today’s footballer would be stronger than forty years ago, but apparently not!
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Kev has blown hot and cold under several managers, so probably isn’t a good example.
In my book the greatest act of vandalism was the signing of Loft + Jarvis + Mooney + Turan last summer.
No matter how hard I try I just can’t get my head round it.
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