we also have the poorest keeper the club has ever had in 70 years,
Behave!
Doubt if he’s in the top five. Won us two points on Tuesday. Did you forget that?
Funny how people will automatically blame a keeper for conceding too many goals and a CF for not scoring enough. Wasn’t Novak your whipping boy last season?
although we are in dire trouble no action is being taken by top management.
Did you read Peter Swann’s New Year suicide letter the other day? If you did you’ll know why no action has been taken and why it is unlikely that any will be this January.
We ALL know it’s crap. We all know that the club signed a bargain bucket of non-league hopefuls in the summer and then appointed a rookie manager to try and polish the turds.
Given the fact that we are losing £££££s every week, with no prospect of fans being allowed back into the stadium anytime soon, please give us the benefit of your 69 years of support and tell us what the club should do.
No one has drawn more games than Walsall, and no one has drawn fewer than us. No one has lost more than us either, but amazingly Walsall have registered only one more win.
If I was a neutral I’d probably go for a 1-1 draw, but as I’m not stick with a home win!
Had to write the squad down to get my head round this. And after “sending home” the loans we have: –
Rory Watson
Adam Kelsey
Mark Howard
Tom Collins
Jordan Clarke
Harrison McGahey
Manny Onariase
Lewis Butroid
Jai Rowe
Charlie Barks
Mason O’Malley
Jacob Bedeau
Alex Gilliead
Kevin Van Veen
Abobaker Eisa
Ryan Loft
Aaron Jarvis
Lewis Spence
Kenan Dunnwald-Turan
George Hornshaw
Tom Pugh
Finley Shrimpton
Raynner Silva
Junior Brown
Devarn Green
Myles Hippolyte
Andy Dales
Jordan Hallam
Alfie Beestin
Olufela Olomola
Harry Jessop
John McAtee
The first thing that you notice is the four keepers, none of whom are that great (some would say a liability). However the defence doesn’t look too bad, although the addition of another CB would help.
A real mixed bag of midfielders who blow hot and cold (more cold than hot), but with the noticeable absence of any real leadership.
And the forwards? Tell me if you find two!
Can’t disagree with the OP but take those 7/8 out and you’ve still got two dozen hanging around. Okay so some of these are untested youngsters, but there’s still a whole starting XI that leave you thinking “why are they here?”
Last January we were told that the club would have to cut its wage bill. Out with the old and expensive, in with the new and inexpensive. The trouble with cheap produce is that you tend to buy more because it isn’t as good as the decent stuff. And that’s what seems to have happened to our recruitment.
Our bin is overflowing, but will the refuse collectors arrive in the New Year?
Not a normal season by any means so I won’t be too critical. As MM and AWG say there’s less going on down at the SVS, and what is happening is on the website.
In many ways I don’t want any more updates from our illustrious Chairman. They are invariably the same as the last one.
Sooner see action on the pitch rather than noises from the boardroom.
If you read the post properly Northumbiron the whole point of it was about what you stated in your last line.
Duh! Yes, I know, that’s why I wrote it!
But the title of your thread was “has he gone yet?” Which would suggest that you blame Cox for the current malaise.
What I’m saying is that it won’t make tuppence-worth of difference whether we sack him or not as long as Swann is doing the hiring.
See Ferrite’s post above.
AWG it wasn’t a case of people on here wanting Cox, the popular choices were Ian Evatt and Tim Flowers. More he was accepted as a reasonable appointment because we’d tried just about everything else.
But hey! We could have brought in a well known character with Premier League experience. You know, just like that club down the road. That went well didn’t it?
I wish there was a simple fix but I don’t think there is.
So Cox goes along with Lillis (has he been here anyway, or just a cardboard cutout?) and Mussy. Then what?
We’re back to where we were this time last year. Swann will put Wilcox in temporary charge (again) and do the minimum in the transfer window.
Eisa and McAttee will be on the blower to their agent. Will Cygnet will likewise call up a few to see what’s in the bargain bucket and if we’re lucky we may get another Ike Ugbo or George Miller on loan to solve our striker problems.
This will mean we can’t afford to appoint a new manager (we’ll be paying off Cox & Lillis as well as Hurst & Doig) so Russ will stick it out until summer, then Swann will appoint another cheap option who “shares his vision for the club and will be in it for the long term”.
I’m afraid we’re stuck in Groundhog Day until major changes are implemented.
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