NJ seems to have this rigid ideology where the system is king - which is fine, if there is a team of players each fully adapted to it.
But surely otherwise, you need to find a gameplan that best uses the abilities of individual players that you do have?
All season some players have struggled to fit into the system and have looked ineffective, yet they signed here with good reputations at previous clubs.
He’s completely shifted away from his preferred system a couple of times this season though and yesterday we played about 4 different formations. He got outdone by Evans and the players got outfought yesterday but he wasn’t rigid yesterday at all
In desperation though and our players were still chasing shadows. And really, despite the tinkering it's still the same core system.
But my point was there are several players in the squad who cannot seem to replicate their form at their previous clubs. And maybe constraining Leaburn and TC also?
Leaburn and TC (especially) are playing some of the best football we’ve seen them play. TC is a real threat now and doesn’t look lightweight at all.
I’d argue yesterday we actually went away from how we’ve been playing for the last month or so and went back to the beginning of the season. Tactically we’ve been very different for about a month or so, it’s been very different at its core and that’s why yesterday stood out so much
Rotherham looked decent and we looked bad. But I do feel and see signs that we are heading in a direction that we can eventually be happy with our team and club.(not based on today’s game tho! )
Is it the worst thing we don’t go up this season? This squad still needs more moulding and engineering to become a competitive championship side. If we did go up this season I would be full of dread all summer waiting to start a season of getting battered week in week out.
we are a team that should be better than league 1, but we have been mismanaged and uncared for by numerous ownerships for years now. We need to build a team, and that will take time. Consistency with the manager, SMT and ultimately the team will allow us to become a stable club that will give the fan base what they want.
Still lots of work to do and lots to change both on and off the field. Especially to get a club that has the potential we do to the place it should be.
This is a circular argument. The reason we won't go up is because we are not good enough. It is not a reason we should not want to go up. Rotherham and now Wycombe's recent fortunes are no doubt frustrating to their fans, but they are stronger because they have been in the Championship recently.
The problem with a sixth consecutive season in League One is that each season is weakening the supporter base. Although we have been in L1 before (post 1972) , for up to three seasons, I would struggle to pick out a season in those earlier spells when we weren't competing for promotion, other than 1973/74. We have now had four on the bounce, unless there is a remarkable transformation in the second half of the season. This is unprecedented.
Consistency with the manager and the SMT is desirable but not at the expense of competence. I am not in favour of sacking Nathan Jones, but I question the competence of the SMT based on their performance. There seems to be a level of distraction activity which I suspect is aimed at another audience. There isn't much evidence of success. There is no evidence to support the previous claim that they can reduce the operating loss to £1-2m, which was Methven's own measure of competence given in the Telegraph.
Sticking to the football, what were the expectations of the SMT for this season, last season and, if you like, the January transfer window in 2022/23, when they were obviously pulling strings behind the scenes? To what extent were those expectations fulfilled? Clearly they did not expect to finish 16th in 2023/24. Since he is the one person whose role is narrowly defined as football, what has Andy Scott in particular contributed when we are already in the fifth transfer window in which he has been involved? I would say on balance his record has been overwhelmingly negative, unless the sole criterion used is reducing immediate player cost, which is difficult to assess.
What evidence is there that the club is benefiting from its extraordinary payroll of executives? If the club is not progressing substantially on and, especially off, the pitch as a result of this comparatively large complement for L1, wouldn't you conclude that they are poor value for money?
Another season in L1 comes with a price tag, probably between £6m-£10, without the opportunity of competing for a place in Premier League, which is the carrot. In the short term, winning a place in the Championship will increase the resale value of the club, such as it is. Remaining in L1 for another year shortens the options on The Valley, which also strengthens Duchatelet's hand.
If we had lost the 2018/19 play-off final we would have likely been in this division for 10 years next season. We went straight back down, by a very narrow margin and as a result of failing to strengthen with the additional central income, but does anyone here really think that would have been better or that we can simply rely on this or previous SMTs to do better next time? How has that been working out?
Something didn’t look right for me yesterday. We were very poor from the off. The body language didn’t look good. We just look like an established mid table League one club with little chance of getting promoted. I don’t understand why the current owners bought us. We have very few assets and huge running costs.
We have a goalkeeper that is non athletic, wooden, not mobile,acrobatic. How Terry Taylor doesn't get in the squad, most intelligent midfielder in the club,most lightly will be let go because Jones doesn't like footballers. Alan Campbell say no more, yesterday was like watching 11 Alan Campbells playing ,chickens with no heads.
Jesus, is Evans the footballing Einstein, Newton and Sun Tsu rolled into one?
What does our defence depend on? Jones settling the other slightly dodgier defenders. How do you combat that? Unsettle Jones you say, you really are the messiah, you have earned another pie.
Two good finishes from our forwards, otherwise disjointed up front, absent in midfield and calamitous at the back. It's been said before, but I'll say it again, we really shouldn't have got rid of these two:
Is that Brian May?
No, it’s Alfie May.
Is that the joke? It’s supposed to be May and Dobson? Weird.
I've only just got this joke. Thanks all.
(Was worried having seen 40+ lols last night and not recognising the 2 celebs. Should go back and give Stig a lol now.)
Snap. It’s been 35-40 years since Angie & Den though. How the hell did those who got the joke even recognise her?
A 3rd tier game between two mid table teams was won comprehensively by the yo-yo team from South Yorkshire. An ex loan player in Andre Green* scored 1 and 2 assists to push the custard pies into the face of all addicts and no doubt Steve Evans ate the left overs.
However good, bad, or ugly CAFC have been in individual matches this season bizarrely, most score lines have had just 1 goal between them going into the business end of matches. With 35 minutes to go we were 4-1 down and AMB kept the score down 🤷🏻♂️
24 matches gone and we are glued to mid table. The bottom 4 are sinking fast and the top 6 will wave CAFC goodbye If yesterday's omnishambles isn't a one off over the last 22 matches.
A sixth season in League 1 is nearly guaranteed.
* Andre Green who came on loan on the 2nd day of that infamous window when Matthew y'know bullshitter, y'know liar, y'know charlatan Southall, wormed his way into CAFC and poisoned our club so bad that we've had a belly ache ever since. 🤢😤
People blaming the back three, but the ball just kept reaching them far too easily, it was like a knife through hot butter as far as our midfield was concerned... Agree not great from either of Jones, Mitchell or Gillesphey, but if they had an effective midfield in front of them last night, then it wouldn't have been so embarrassingly one sided.
How can a team turn up one game and be chasing, battling, biting ankles, and then turn up the next and show a collective collapse of any desire or concentration.
Is it some kind of emotional contagion where one or two leaders aren't feeling it and it reverberates through the group... Is it something in the preparation that is putting everyone in the wrong mindset? Like the food, coaching, warm-up, training, etc. It can't just be a random occurrence when the game kicks off and every single player looks a mile off the pace.
Surely the answer is worth pursuing, because it would give us a consistency we have not had for season after season.
Two good finishes from our forwards, otherwise disjointed up front, absent in midfield and calamitous at the back. It's been said before, but I'll say it again, we really shouldn't have got rid of these two:
Is that Brian May?
No, it’s Alfie May.
Is that the joke? It’s supposed to be May and Dobson? Weird.
I've only just got this joke. Thanks all.
(Was worried having seen 40+ lols last night and not recognising the 2 celebs. Should go back and give Stig a lol now.)
Snap. It’s been 35-40 years since Angie & Den though. How the hell did those who got the joke even recognise her?
She's quite recognisable I would say. And you do know that are married to one another so are seen together.
Two good finishes from our forwards, otherwise disjointed up front, absent in midfield and calamitous at the back. It's been said before, but I'll say it again, we really shouldn't have got rid of these two:
Is that Brian May?
No, it’s Alfie May.
Is that the joke? It’s supposed to be May and Dobson? Weird.
I've only just got this joke. Thanks all.
(Was worried having seen 40+ lols last night and not recognising the 2 celebs. Should go back and give Stig a lol now.)
Snap. It’s been 35-40 years since Angie & Den though. How the hell did those who got the joke even recognise her?
She's quite recognisable I would say. And you do know that are married to one another so are seen together.
Alfie May is married to George Dobson? Well I never.
Two good finishes from our forwards, otherwise disjointed up front, absent in midfield and calamitous at the back. It's been said before, but I'll say it again, we really shouldn't have got rid of these two:
Is that Brian May?
No, it’s Alfie May.
Is that the joke? It’s supposed to be May and Dobson? Weird.
I've only just got this joke. Thanks all.
(Was worried having seen 40+ lols last night and not recognising the 2 celebs. Should go back and give Stig a lol now.)
Snap. It’s been 35-40 years since Angie & Den though. How the hell did those who got the joke even recognise her?
She's quite recognisable I would say. And you do know that are married to one another so are seen together.
Alfie May is married to George Dobson? Well I never.
That would solve a riddle of them both going about the same time, they eloped to Gretna Green..🤔
Many of NJ signing dont make the squad or sit on the bench. The mediocrity of expensive salaried Berry and Docherty make them almost undropable and mean that his many additions to the team don't start.
Time to throw out the bath water and integrate Anderson, Reid, Zach, Dixon and Enslin. Perhaps Bowers. Not necessarily to improve immediate performances, but to build for the future.
How can a team turn up one game and be chasing, battling, biting ankles, and then turn up the next and show a collective collapse of any desire or concentration.
Is it some kind of emotional contagion where one or two leaders aren't feeling it and it reverberates through the group... Is it something in the preparation that is putting everyone in the wrong mindset? Like the food, coaching, warm-up, training, etc. It can't just be a random occurrence when the game kicks off and every single player looks a mile off the pace.
Surely the answer is worth pursuing, because it would give us a consistency we have not had for season after season.
The whole squad had found out during the warm up, that Nathan had shagged every one of their misses, or the younger ones, their mother's! Nope must be another reason.
I watched the matched almost in disbelief. I mean, we've been boring a lot of times this season, and we've been a bit talentless, but this almost looked like they were actively trying to do the opposite of trying. To say they were bystanders would be overstaying their efforts.
I had to keep telling my dad each time there was another feck up, and the messages became a bit repetitive.
I challenge anyone to re-watch the Mitchell pass infield to their striker. It is beyond belief. It makes our Wembley backpass seem like it's something they practice in training. AMB saved a certain goal, with a very good reaction save and even the rebound wasn't closed down.
Jones needs to sit the lot of them down on Monday and make them watch the game in full.
To quote corpral Jones, our lot do not like it up them. When a team turns up with a very high phulysical press our lot go into panic mode. That is what happend yesterday I would guess.
Agree the midfield is mediocre. I just looked at the Assists table and our highest player is 47th. And that's Josh Edwards. Docherty has had maybe two good performances all season. Coventry is competent but plays a rather simple game. Berry has moments but contributes less on the whole. Alan Campbell can't play the role we signed him to play and Karoy has been awful at times.
With the financial restrictions coming in next season, now would be a great time to bring in a standout midfielder. Will they do it? Not holding my breath.
Yesterday was a capitulation across the field, but it's obvious that NJ's insistence on bringing in defensive midfielders to play advanced has been a source of the stagnation this season.
Sticking to the football, what were the expectations of the SMT for this season, last season and, if you like, the January transfer window in 2022/23, when they were obviously pulling strings behind the scenes? To what extent were those expectations fulfilled? Clearly they did not expect to finish 16th in 2023/24. Since he is the one person whose role is narrowly defined as football, what has Andy Scott in particular contributed when we are already in the fifth transfer window in which he has been involved? I would say on balance his record has been overwhelmingly negative, unless the sole criterion used is reducing immediate player cost, which is difficult to assess.
Although I don't necessarily advocate for us cleaning house with our SLT, the main person that does seem to be a target for my personal ire is Andy Scott because recruitment clearly has not been good enough. Scouting doesn't seem to be there and the number of players that he has signed that have either not hit expectation or have left to play at a comparatively lower level. And then for players like Dobson and May who did take a potential upward move, it doesn't feel like we dealt with them very well either.
I put a lot of blame at the door of Scott for results like this when you take a step back and look at things from a strategic level. We're getting too many journeyman footballers that are on the decline and have been for some time. We've seemingly taken a stance against loans (that arguably is decided in combination with NJ) and it feels like signings are being made (or possibly not made) over whether players are seen as cheap investments and bets. A couple may yet pay off (e.g. Ramsay and Small), but even then, I think we'll end up being diddled on deals.
There was a time a few weeks ago I thought Jones was on the precipice, but I think he's working with tools that are poor partially by his own making, but I think more notably by Scott. We're destined to remain where we are until we start continually bringing in better quality players in the right areas, and the identification of those players that can push us forward has been both slow and regularly incorrect.
I don't really know how he's not taken more flack for where we are at, but as I have said elsewhere, I think internal spin regarding this season is that this is yet another transition season and top half is fine. They won't admit to it publicly - if I was bankrolling things, my tolerance for such tepid improvement would not be very high. We could still float towards where we were last season and people like Scott should not be off the hook for this.
Two good finishes from our forwards, otherwise disjointed up front, absent in midfield and calamitous at the back. It's been said before, but I'll say it again, we really shouldn't have got rid of these two:
Came to the game positive yesterday after enjoying the performance against Preston and ended up leaving 15 minutes before the end to get an earlier train. They were the better team by such a long way it was embarrassing. Someone on here mentioned before, we were out thought and out fought. That's exactly what happened. We were never in this match. We succeeded in making Rotherham look like a Premier League side in the second half with their one touch football. Saying that, Rotherham were very good. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they are in the play offs at the end of the season. They did their homework, doubling up on Small and Campbell every time they got the ball leaving them completely isolated. Once those outlets were shutdown we had nothing. They pressed hard across the pitch, exposing how uncomfortable we are on the ball to the point where they bullied us into playing long ball again. The fear is that there is a clear blueprint of how to play against us and all of the momentum of the Christmas period could erode as quickly as it was formed. I'm cautiously optimistic that Tuesday will be better and don't think we should abandon everything on just one result. Wouldn't bee surprised to see Anderson and Ahadme back in the line up though to add a bit of energy in.
Leaving early never done that in my life with Charlton, and Rotherham in play offs you .
Sticking to the football, what were the expectations of the SMT for this season, last season and, if you like, the January transfer window in 2022/23, when they were obviously pulling strings behind the scenes? To what extent were those expectations fulfilled? Clearly they did not expect to finish 16th in 2023/24. Since he is the one person whose role is narrowly defined as football, what has Andy Scott in particular contributed when we are already in the fifth transfer window in which he has been involved? I would say on balance his record has been overwhelmingly negative, unless the sole criterion used is reducing immediate player cost, which is difficult to assess.
Although I don't necessarily advocate for us cleaning house with our SLT, the main person that does seem to be a target for my personal ire is Andy Scott because recruitment clearly has not been good enough. Scouting doesn't seem to be there and the number of players that he has signed that have either not hit expectation or have left to play at a comparatively lower level. And then for players like Dobson and May who did take a potential upward move, it doesn't feel like we dealt with them very well either.
I put a lot of blame at the door of Scott for results like this when you take a step back and look at things from a strategic level. We're getting too many journeyman footballers that are on the decline and have been for some time. We've seemingly taken a stance against loans (that arguably is decided in combination with NJ) and it feels like signings are being made (or possibly not made) over whether players are seen as cheap investments and bets. A couple may yet pay off (e.g. Ramsay and Small), but even then, I think we'll end up being diddled on deals.
There was a time a few weeks ago I thought Jones was on the precipice, but I think he's working with tools that are poor partially by his own making, but I think more notably by Scott. We're destined to remain where we are until we start continually bringing in better quality players in the right areas, and the identification of those players that can push us forward has been both slow and regularly incorrect.
I don't really know how he's not taken more flack for where we are at, but as I have said elsewhere, I think internal spin regarding this season is that this is yet another transition season and top half is fine. They won't admit to it publicly - if I was bankrolling things, my tolerance for such tepid improvement would not be very high. We could still float towards where we were last season and people like Scott should not be off the hook for this.
scott oversees the whole footballing (as opposed to business) operation of the club - he is and has been responsible for it for circa 2 years now - he doesn't seem to communicate with us fans about what he's doing and how its all going, unlike when he first took up the role - too embarrassed to show his face i guess.
Two good finishes from our forwards, otherwise disjointed up front, absent in midfield and calamitous at the back. It's been said before, but I'll say it again, we really shouldn't have got rid of these two:
Sticking to the football, what were the expectations of the SMT for this season, last season and, if you like, the January transfer window in 2022/23, when they were obviously pulling strings behind the scenes? To what extent were those expectations fulfilled? Clearly they did not expect to finish 16th in 2023/24. Since he is the one person whose role is narrowly defined as football, what has Andy Scott in particular contributed when we are already in the fifth transfer window in which he has been involved? I would say on balance his record has been overwhelmingly negative, unless the sole criterion used is reducing immediate player cost, which is difficult to assess.
Although I don't necessarily advocate for us cleaning house with our SLT, the main person that does seem to be a target for my personal ire is Andy Scott because recruitment clearly has not been good enough. Scouting doesn't seem to be there and the number of players that he has signed that have either not hit expectation or have left to play at a comparatively lower level. And then for players like Dobson and May who did take a potential upward move, it doesn't feel like we dealt with them very well either.
I put a lot of blame at the door of Scott for results like this when you take a step back and look at things from a strategic level. We're getting too many journeyman footballers that are on the decline and have been for some time. We've seemingly taken a stance against loans (that arguably is decided in combination with NJ) and it feels like signings are being made (or possibly not made) over whether players are seen as cheap investments and bets. A couple may yet pay off (e.g. Ramsay and Small), but even then, I think we'll end up being diddled on deals.
There was a time a few weeks ago I thought Jones was on the precipice, but I think he's working with tools that are poor partially by his own making, but I think more notably by Scott. We're destined to remain where we are until we start continually bringing in better quality players in the right areas, and the identification of those players that can push us forward has been both slow and regularly incorrect.
I don't really know how he's not taken more flack for where we are at, but as I have said elsewhere, I think internal spin regarding this season is that this is yet another transition season and top half is fine. They won't admit to it publicly - if I was bankrolling things, my tolerance for such tepid improvement would not be very high. We could still float towards where we were last season and people like Scott should not be off the hook for this.
They like to repeat the line of "we have given Jones the players he wants". Hmmmm, I'd like to know how many they have said no to before he gets a yes.
Oh how we missed Dobson at Rotherham, he would surely have led by example and put some gumption and determination into our very very poor powder puff midfield performance. How on earth did we let him get away….madness.😠
Oh how we missed Dobson at Rotherham, he would surely have led by example and put some gumption and determination into our very very poor midfield performance. How on earth did we let him get away….madness.😠
Seems to be out of favour at Wrexham currently.....
Something didn’t look right for me yesterday. We were very poor from the off. The body language didn’t look good. We just look like an established mid table League one club with little chance of getting promoted. I don’t understand why the current owners bought us. We have very few assets and huge running costs.
Me neither, guess charlie boy is a grade A bullshit artist who needed a wage for him & his mates ?
Reading a few comments on players being "tired", and in fairness we hear this on the TV about footballers in all divisions, from the Premiership down. I think it's a very lame excuse to be honest. They are young men, whose sole job is to play football. The higher up the tree, the less distractions they have. Being athletic enough to run for 90 minutes twice a week is all that is asked of them fitness wise (fairly often just once a week). Far thinner squads used to see players who were ever present year in year out, there are still players who want to - and do - play in every match. If, at 25 years old they are not physically capable of performing at their best for 3 hours out of 168, they are in the wrong game.
I think much of the possible tiredness could be down to sitting on a coach travelling up and down the country from London to Preston and back then back up to Rotherham in the space of a few days.
Personally, I feel inexplicably tired after a 3 or 4 hour coach journey.
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I’d argue yesterday we actually went away from how we’ve been playing for the last month or so and went back to the beginning of the season. Tactically we’ve been very different for about a month or so, it’s been very different at its core and that’s why yesterday stood out so much
The problem with a sixth consecutive season in League One is that each season is weakening the supporter base. Although we have been in L1 before (post 1972) , for up to three seasons, I would struggle to pick out a season in those earlier spells when we weren't competing for promotion, other than 1973/74. We have now had four on the bounce, unless there is a remarkable transformation in the second half of the season. This is unprecedented.
Consistency with the manager and the SMT is desirable but not at the expense of competence. I am not in favour of sacking Nathan Jones, but I question the competence of the SMT based on their performance. There seems to be a level of distraction activity which I suspect is aimed at another audience. There isn't much evidence of success. There is no evidence to support the previous claim that they can reduce the operating loss to £1-2m, which was Methven's own measure of competence given in the Telegraph.
Sticking to the football, what were the expectations of the SMT for this season, last season and, if you like, the January transfer window in 2022/23, when they were obviously pulling strings behind the scenes? To what extent were those expectations fulfilled? Clearly they did not expect to finish 16th in 2023/24. Since he is the one person whose role is narrowly defined as football, what has Andy Scott in particular contributed when we are already in the fifth transfer window in which he has been involved? I would say on balance his record has been overwhelmingly negative, unless the sole criterion used is reducing immediate player cost, which is difficult to assess.
What evidence is there that the club is benefiting from its extraordinary payroll of executives? If the club is not progressing substantially on and, especially off, the pitch as a result of this comparatively large complement for L1, wouldn't you conclude that they are poor value for money?
Another season in L1 comes with a price tag, probably between £6m-£10, without the opportunity of competing for a place in Premier League, which is the carrot. In the short term, winning a place in the Championship will increase the resale value of the club, such as it is. Remaining in L1 for another year shortens the options on The Valley, which also strengthens Duchatelet's hand.
If we had lost the 2018/19 play-off final we would have likely been in this division for 10 years next season. We went straight back down, by a very narrow margin and as a result of failing to strengthen with the additional central income, but does anyone here really think that would have been better or that we can simply rely on this or previous SMTs to do better next time? How has that been working out?
It’s been 35-40 years since Angie & Den though. How the hell did those who got the joke even recognise her?
An ex loan player in Andre Green* scored 1 and 2 assists to push the custard pies into the face of all addicts and no doubt Steve Evans ate the left overs.
However good, bad, or ugly CAFC have been in individual matches this season bizarrely, most score lines have had just 1 goal between them going into the business end of matches.
With 35 minutes to go we were 4-1 down and AMB kept the score down 🤷🏻♂️
24 matches gone and we are glued to mid table. The bottom 4 are sinking fast and the top 6 will wave CAFC goodbye If yesterday's omnishambles isn't a one off over the last 22 matches.
A sixth season in League 1 is nearly guaranteed.
* Andre Green who came on loan on the 2nd day of that infamous window when Matthew y'know bullshitter, y'know liar, y'know charlatan Southall, wormed his way into CAFC and poisoned our club so bad that we've had a belly ache ever since. 🤢😤
Agree not great from either of Jones, Mitchell or Gillesphey, but if they had an effective midfield in front of them last night, then it wouldn't have been so embarrassingly one sided.
Is it some kind of emotional contagion where one or two leaders aren't feeling it and it reverberates through the group... Is it something in the preparation that is putting everyone in the wrong mindset? Like the food, coaching, warm-up, training, etc. It can't just be a random occurrence when the game kicks off and every single player looks a mile off the pace.
Surely the answer is worth pursuing, because it would give us a consistency we have not had for season after season.
Time to throw out the bath water and integrate Anderson, Reid, Zach, Dixon and Enslin. Perhaps Bowers. Not necessarily to improve immediate performances, but to build for the future.
I watched the matched almost in disbelief. I mean, we've been boring a lot of times this season, and we've been a bit talentless, but this almost looked like they were actively trying to do the opposite of trying. To say they were bystanders would be overstaying their efforts.
I had to keep telling my dad each time there was another feck up, and the messages became a bit repetitive.
I challenge anyone to re-watch the Mitchell pass infield to their striker. It is beyond belief. It makes our Wembley backpass seem like it's something they practice in training. AMB saved a certain goal, with a very good reaction save and even the rebound wasn't closed down.
Jones needs to sit the lot of them down on Monday and make them watch the game in full.
That is what happend yesterday I would guess.
Bollocks from NJ.
With the financial restrictions coming in next season, now would be a great time to bring in a standout midfielder. Will they do it? Not holding my breath.
Yesterday was a capitulation across the field, but it's obvious that NJ's insistence on bringing in defensive midfielders to play advanced has been a source of the stagnation this season.
So if next season our owners put in £75M of equity they could use £30M to buy The Valley and the other £45M could be spent on players.
Exciting times around the corner. 🤣
I put a lot of blame at the door of Scott for results like this when you take a step back and look at things from a strategic level. We're getting too many journeyman footballers that are on the decline and have been for some time. We've seemingly taken a stance against loans (that arguably is decided in combination with NJ) and it feels like signings are being made (or possibly not made) over whether players are seen as cheap investments and bets. A couple may yet pay off (e.g. Ramsay and Small), but even then, I think we'll end up being diddled on deals.
There was a time a few weeks ago I thought Jones was on the precipice, but I think he's working with tools that are poor partially by his own making, but I think more notably by Scott. We're destined to remain where we are until we start continually bringing in better quality players in the right areas, and the identification of those players that can push us forward has been both slow and regularly incorrect.
I don't really know how he's not taken more flack for where we are at, but as I have said elsewhere, I think internal spin regarding this season is that this is yet another transition season and top half is fine. They won't admit to it publicly - if I was bankrolling things, my tolerance for such tepid improvement would not be very high. We could still float towards where we were last season and people like Scott should not be off the hook for this.
Lol
Yus M'Lady...🙄
They like to repeat the line of "we have given Jones the players he wants". Hmmmm, I'd like to know how many they have said no to before he gets a yes.
How on earth did we let him get away….madness.😠
Personally, I feel inexplicably tired after a 3 or 4 hour coach journey.