I am sorry it really is not baffling. We are not schizophrenic. We are very inconsistent for a reason. In large part we put out a team of children. Take a look at the Millwall squad. They have their youngsters but they have to earn their place competing with senior professionals not walk into the side because there is no one else.
Djiksteel, Page, Fosu, Mavididi, Konsa, Kaikai, Dasilva, Ahearne Grant before this campaign have a barely a full season of starting appearances - BETWEEN THEM.
In recent games we have played Ajose and Zyros Sat - Tues - Sat Tues etc having barely played all season - they have not got the legs. Magennis has been run into the ground all season. He reminds me of a character from "They shoot horses, don't they".
In a physical league to match physicality you have to run your b*****ks off. We have not had the physicality and depth of squad to deliver that game in game out. I doubt we have even now. If we manage to get over the play off line it is going to require a monumental physical effort to rise to the challenge of the play offs.
You cannot simply manufacture match sharpness and consistency in a matter of a few weeks.
In such circumstances we will be consistently inconsistent.
I have no idea which team will turn up at Portsmouth or whether we will have the legs to even last a play off campaign - if we get over line.
It is what drives me to distraction - for the cost of a few extra older head and bodies - promotion, in spite of all the nonsense, was an opportunity to be seized. The problem is when you only spend 1.5% of your time on the club you own, you are too busy to bother with even the fundamentals of the business.
Can there have ever be a greater days insanity in the playing history of the club than the "brain fart day" of August 31, 2017? To leave yourself with one recognised striker on the last day of the window with literally no other options was the definition of stupidity.
Seldom can so much money been frittered away over so many seasons in the search for mediocrity.
That Bowyer and Jackson have lifted spirits again flatters to deceive. I applaud their and the players efforts and hope they can continue to rise to the challenge for a few more games.
If we get to Wembley will there have ever been a more barren club executive representation in the history of the game? you For now we live onto Saturday - "May the odds be ever in our favour".
Bollox!
We have the best academy in the EFL & fourth best in the FAPL... and you would prefer to spend other people's money on older professionals. And yet you would be the first to complain about debt at the club.
Is CAFC barren or has it travelled back to basics?
No parasitic CEO talking nonsense and disrupting the message to the fans.
We are certainly not mediocre for we are challenging. If you wish to celebrate failure that is your effing call but the bigger picture suggests that you are simply attempting to leverage your negative views and your negativity AGAINST our club. Why not take stock of the team, reality and the bookies odds and simply recognise the two things going on right now: We have chances and there is a possible takeover.
As for money frittered away, you are having a laugh! Our club has been losing £5-10M per annum for some ten years now and we are fortunate that somebody is willing to underwrite those losses. You write at great length about trivial failures and yet fail to recognise that there is still a path to Wembley and a great day out. The traditional model which you clearly subscribe to will bankrupt our club. In other words your vision is bankrupt!
You really do post a lot of rubbish.
What the bloody hell has the bookies odds got to do with anything? Next thing you'll be doing is quoting experimental 361.
Let's see where we are at the end of the season and see if we have got promoted to repair our relegation.
Let's see where we are after a sale of the club and see how much debt we have accumulated in the disasterous tenure of Duchatelet.
In a way, you are both right. The problem is that Roland does not understand football. He also has an unnatural belief in youth over experience, coupled with misplaced belief that he is a visionary. He is genuinely mad.
A pity because if he could communicate and behave on a normal level he could have been successful. For instance, I think most football people would look at our side and say we are missing a goal scorer. Rolly would no doubt point to Ajose and say “I bought you one, and you decided not to play him so it is your fault. Stats say he scores 20 goals a season”.
Throughout his tenure he has made decisions, or allowed kids to make decisions, that would have been better left to those best equipped to make them.
Wanting Thurran to play in goal and the email to SCP on how to play 4-4-2 are two further examples of how deep his lack of knowledge is; and shows where he got the ideas from - a kid playing on a computer.
Giving youth its head may work well in the electronics field where original thought may have a place. CEO of a football club is not one. Not being able to understand something quite so simple is an indication that all is not well brain wise, still thinking it was a great decision when the weight of evidence should tell you it was a mistake is madness. Katy is intelligent so she will no doubt go on to be a success somewhere. I would love to read her book! No doubt RM and KP will be behind some of her better decisions!
We are fortunate that Rolly’s preoccupation with youth coincided with a wealth of talent at our club. He will not understand in anyway their limitations or the protection that these players need. He will not understand that all are not of the same standard or not ready.
We have the best academy in the EFL & fourth best in the FAPL... and you would prefer to spend other people's money on older professionals. And yet you would be the first to complain about debt at the club.
Is CAFC barren or has it travelled back to basics?
No parasitic CEO talking nonsense and disrupting the message to the fans.
We are certainly not mediocre for we are challenging. If you wish to celebrate failure that is your effing call but the bigger picture suggests that you are simply attempting to leverage your negative views and your negativity AGAINST our club. Why not take stock of the team, reality and the bookies odds and simply recognise the two things going on right now: We have chances and there is a possible takeover.
As for money frittered away, you are having a laugh! Our club has been losing £5-10M per annum for some ten years now and we are fortunate that somebody is willing to underwrite those losses. You write at great length about trivial failures and yet fail to recognise that there is still a path to Wembley and a great day out. The traditional model which you clearly subscribe to will bankrupt our club. In other words your vision is bankrupt!
Why do you think money has not been frittered away? Poor recruitment at all levels, poor scouting, and a series of pay-offs to poor managers and players, would you call this money well spent? The result is relegation, a huge drop in support subsidised by selling off our best players. You are the one who is celebrating failure.
In a way, you are both right. The problem is that Roland does not understand football. He also has an unnatural belief in youth over experience, coupled with misplaced belief that he is a visionary. He is genuinely mad.
A pity because if he could communicate and behave on a normal level he could have been successful. For instance, I think most football people would look at our side and say we are missing a goal scorer. Rolly would no doubt point to Ajose and say “I bought you one, and you decided not to play him so it is your fault. Stats say he scores 20 goals a season”.
Throughout his tenure he has made decisions, or allowed kids to make decisions, that would have been better left to those best equipped to make them.
Wanting Thurran to play in goal and the email to SCP on how to play 4-4-2 are two further examples of how deep his lack of knowledge is; and shows where he got the ideas from - a kid playing on a computer.
Giving youth its head may work well in the electronics field where original thought may have a place. CEO of a football club is not one. Not being able to understand something quite so simple is an indication that all is not well brain wise, still thinking it was a great decision when the weight of evidence should tell you it was a mistake is madness. Katy is intelligent so she will no doubt go on to be a success somewhere. I would love to read her book! No doubt RM and KP will be behind some of her better decisions!
We are fortunate that Rolly’s preoccupation with youth coincided with a wealth of talent at our club. He will not understand in anyway their limitations or the protection that these players need. He will not understand that all are not of the same standard or not ready.
In the context of our club we are mediocre. We have some decent players at this level and I would say we have underperformed this season. I think that is a more honest assessment than a negative one. Our big problem has been how easy it is to stop us - largely due to a lack of goal threat - but it may be a good thing that we have to play teams that probably have to be a bit positive.
We have a chance to put things right and I hope the players see the opportunity for what it is. This is what they play football for and they have the ability to make this a season to remember.
I would say about tomorrow - If Fosu and Mav are not fit - it will feel like a kick in the teeth. Please be fit lads - we need you. And despite what some might say, Magennis is key too. COYRs - give us something to be proud of. We desperately need it and want it.
If you are @seriously_red, of sound body and mind, suggesting that we 'are fortunate to have somebody to underwrite losses' and thereby also suggesting that we are fortunate to have Duchatelet involved in our club you can piss off back to the badlands.
The potential of Division 3 playoffs, as meaningfull as it is to all of us who support 'our' club does not mark a rennaissance yet, it is the minimum standard required and all the time, whilst our fuckwit owner remains in charge, the debt rises and the club continues to decline, despite the best efforts of hometown heroes Lee Bowyer and Johnnie Jackson.
Its a pleasant and exciting diversion from the real mess we remain in whilst Duchatelet is in charge.
I am sorry it really is not baffling. We are not schizophrenic. We are very inconsistent for a reason. In large part we put out a team of children. Take a look at the Millwall squad. They have their youngsters but they have to earn their place competing with senior professionals not walk into the side because there is no one else.
Djiksteel, Page, Fosu, Mavididi, Konsa, Kaikai, Dasilva, Ahearne Grant before this campaign have a barely a full season of starting appearances - BETWEEN THEM.
In recent games we have played Ajose and Zyros Sat - Tues - Sat Tues etc having barely played all season - they have not got the legs. Magennis has been run into the ground all season. He reminds me of a character from "They shoot horses, don't they".
In a physical league to match physicality you have to run your b*****ks off. We have not had the physicality and depth of squad to deliver that game in game out. I doubt we have even now. If we manage to get over the play off line it is going to require a monumental physical effort to rise to the challenge of the play offs.
You cannot simply manufacture match sharpness and consistency in a matter of a few weeks.
In such circumstances we will be consistently inconsistent.
I have no idea which team will turn up at Portsmouth or whether we will have the legs to even last a play off campaign - if we get over line.
It is what drives me to distraction - for the cost of a few extra older head and bodies - promotion, in spite of all the nonsense, was an opportunity to be seized. The problem is when you only spend 1.5% of your time on the club you own, you are too busy to bother with even the fundamentals of the business.
Can there have ever be a greater days insanity in the playing history of the club than the "brain fart day" of August 31, 2017? To leave yourself with one recognised striker on the last day of the window with literally no other options was the definition of stupidity.
Seldom can so much money been frittered away over so many seasons in the search for mediocrity.
That Bowyer and Jackson have lifted spirits again flatters to deceive. I applaud their and the players efforts and hope they can continue to rise to the challenge for a few more games.
If we get to Wembley will there have ever been a more barren club executive representation in the history of the game? you For now we live onto Saturday - "May the odds be ever in our favour".
Bollox!
We have the best academy in the EFL & fourth best in the FAPL... and you would prefer to spend other people's money on older professionals. And yet you would be the first to complain about debt at the club.
Is CAFC barren or has it travelled back to basics?
No parasitic CEO talking nonsense and disrupting the message to the fans.
We are certainly not mediocre for we are challenging. If you wish to celebrate failure that is your effing call but the bigger picture suggests that you are simply attempting to leverage your negative views and your negativity AGAINST our club. Why not take stock of the team, reality and the bookies odds and simply recognise the two things going on right now: We have chances and there is a possible takeover.
As for money frittered away, you are having a laugh! Our club has been losing £5-10M per annum for some ten years now and we are fortunate that somebody is willing to underwrite those losses. You write at great length about trivial failures and yet fail to recognise that there is still a path to Wembley and a great day out. The traditional model which you clearly subscribe to will bankrupt our club. In other words your vision is bankrupt!
How's your vision working out Kev? The wonderful CEO leading us to the promised land, if only we'd wait and see?
Pointing out the systemic weaknesses at a club owned by an indifferent and remote businessman, run by nobody is hardly being negative. You can't solve a problem you refuse to define.
And he's absolutely right. Great though it is to see our own coming through, their best chance of development - and our best chance of success - is by them complementing, supplementing senior experienced professionals who can guide them through the inevitable inconsistency that typifies young players.
The fact is that the one thing that's been consistent about our squad is that it's lacked depth, Duchatelet insisting that young players make up the shortfall. It's hardly a gamble to build a squad capable of competing consistently, with the hope one or two young players emerge during the season to give us that extra edge. 101 points tells that story, eh.
At the start of the season I had this squad down for falling just short of the playoffs. We might just improve on that, but challenging for the last place in the playoffs and 'challenging' are two different things. One reason we've not challenged is the inability for our kids to physically compete with the likes of Wigan, Shrewsbury and even Scunthorpe.
Bowyer is getting the most out of this squad undoubtedly, but is still inconsistent. The common denominator is the squad. Suggesting otherwise or digging out fellow fans for having a different view is just noise, as a jester once said.
Probably should add, getting us back to where we were when he took over the club is hardly success. Look at the empty stadium. The huge debt on the club. He's probably lost us a generation of support, taking us back 30 years. And produced the sort of fan you spend your time with these days, those who can't wait to dig out other supporters because of individuals who they've grown to dislike.
Yeah, what luck we have Duchatelet - I pinch myself regularly to make sure I'm not dreaming.
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What the bloody hell has the bookies odds got to do with anything? Next thing you'll be doing is quoting experimental 361.
Let's see where we are at the end of the season and see if we have got promoted to repair our relegation.
Let's see where we are after a sale of the club and see how much debt we have accumulated in the disasterous tenure of Duchatelet.
You crack on with overlooking the failure.
A pity because if he could communicate and behave on a normal level he could have been successful. For instance, I think most football people would look at our side and say we are missing a goal scorer. Rolly would no doubt point to Ajose and say “I bought you one, and you decided not to play him so it is your fault. Stats say he scores 20 goals a season”.
Throughout his tenure he has made decisions, or allowed kids to make decisions, that would have been better left to those best equipped to make them.
Wanting Thurran to play in goal and the email to SCP on how to play 4-4-2 are two further examples of how deep his lack of knowledge is; and shows where he got the ideas from - a kid playing on a computer.
Giving youth its head may work well in the electronics field where original thought may have a place. CEO of a football club is not one. Not being able to understand something quite so simple is an indication that all is not well brain wise, still thinking it was a great decision when the weight of evidence should tell you it was a mistake is madness. Katy is intelligent so she will no doubt go on to be a success somewhere. I would love to read her book! No doubt RM and KP will be behind some of her better decisions!
We are fortunate that Rolly’s preoccupation with youth coincided with a wealth of talent at our club. He will not understand in anyway their limitations or the protection that these players need. He will not understand that all are not of the same standard or not ready.
He is mad, he has to go.
We have a chance to put things right and I hope the players see the opportunity for what it is. This is what they play football for and they have the ability to make this a season to remember.
I would say about tomorrow - If Fosu and Mav are not fit - it will feel like a kick in the teeth. Please be fit lads - we need you. And despite what some might say, Magennis is key too. COYRs - give us something to be proud of. We desperately need it and want it.
The potential of Division 3 playoffs, as meaningfull as it is to all of us who support 'our' club does not mark a rennaissance yet, it is the minimum standard required and all the time, whilst our fuckwit owner remains in charge, the debt rises and the club continues to decline, despite the best efforts of hometown heroes Lee Bowyer and Johnnie Jackson.
Its a pleasant and exciting diversion from the real mess we remain in whilst Duchatelet is in charge.
Pointing out the systemic weaknesses at a club owned by an indifferent and remote businessman, run by nobody is hardly being negative. You can't solve a problem you refuse to define.
And he's absolutely right. Great though it is to see our own coming through, their best chance of development - and our best chance of success - is by them complementing, supplementing senior experienced professionals who can guide them through the inevitable inconsistency that typifies young players.
The fact is that the one thing that's been consistent about our squad is that it's lacked depth, Duchatelet insisting that young players make up the shortfall. It's hardly a gamble to build a squad capable of competing consistently, with the hope one or two young players emerge during the season to give us that extra edge. 101 points tells that story, eh.
At the start of the season I had this squad down for falling just short of the playoffs. We might just improve on that, but challenging for the last place in the playoffs and 'challenging' are two different things. One reason we've not challenged is the inability for our kids to physically compete with the likes of Wigan, Shrewsbury and even Scunthorpe.
Bowyer is getting the most out of this squad undoubtedly, but is still inconsistent. The common denominator is the squad. Suggesting otherwise or digging out fellow fans for having a different view is just noise, as a jester once said.
Yeah, what luck we have Duchatelet - I pinch myself regularly to make sure I'm not dreaming.
Let's see where we are later today.