The Plan

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  1. DEETEE

    DEETEE Well-Known Member

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    Was devised by the board.

    The plan was to recruit younger hungry players to develop and sell at a profit to ensure the club was self sustainable.

    The plan under Cryne was successful as the club identified and recruited young U25 players who had games in their legs along with players with potential.

    The plan came to fruition with the signing of more experienced players, leaders who helped the squad along..

    Long, White and of course Hammill. We had a squad who if kept together was a very good bet to reach the play offs.

    Then came the first fire sale, the spine of the team ripped out inside the space of a month, however the board had the back done to retain the services of both Scowen and Watkins meaning enough was maintained to cross the line.

    Even the signings in Heckys last summer maintained this profile, a mixture of younger players with games under their belt augmented with young players with potential to develop further.

    Although, we were relegated, mostly through the appointment of an inept manager the club managed to maintain the squad for the following season barring two major signings, Dougall and Woodrow.

    The new board/owners wanted to maintain the plan as they brought into and liked the basics of the plan.

    The summer was spent developing this further looking at the brand of football they want the club to play and which managers fulfilled this criteria.

    Stendel was identified and was recruited.

    Somehow, without any investment in the January transfer window barring Jordan Green the club managed to achieve promotion.

    In hindsight the warning signs were there in January. Two players out for well over £2m one player in for about a third of that.

    So what has gone wrong in summer 2019?

    As fans we all knew the kind of player that was going to be recruited. However, I think we were expecting these new signings to have a good number of games in their legs in lower leagues and being able to make the step up.

    However, this has not come to fruition, the recruitment has been decidedly average at best.

    The return of George Miller... Who will never play in the 1st team again. money wasted.

    The lack of cover at fullback. The 1st choice left back is half blind and the second choice has potential but is impetuous.

    Selling Moore who by all accounts would have stayed until January as soon as they saw the £££ signs and not signing a replacement

    Utterly avoiding any player who is over 25. Avoiding signing players with experience even though they offered to play for monies below their normal requirement.

    Signing Brad Collins as 1st choice..

    Signing Conor Chaplin.

    Signing half of Leeds U23 team. two of which have little 1st team experience.

    No midfield cover.

    The signing of Schmidt. .. who we had tracked since May who we need to track again as he's vanished from sight.

    The parameters on the plan have been adjusted so badly the owners are going to be in a bit of a muddle when very few if any of this summers recruits sell for profit.

    Outside of Bambo I dont envisage a long queue.

    The board have wasted money on this extreme version of The Plan. And long term it will continue to affect the club on and off the field for the foreseeable future.

    The argument that Stendel had final say on the signings is correct. Its highly likely he did. But it will have been player X or nothing on the overwhelming majority.


    The board wanted the team to play a certain style of football and should have signed players to fit this strategy.

    They have failed to do so.

    The board and the recruitment team were unable to provide a replacement for Moore meaning that Stendel cannot play a more defensive game as there isnt a striker on the books who can play with their back to goal.

    Stendels bemoaned the lack of experience. Its not just him who has suggested this, its the same through out the coaching staff at the club by all accounts.

    Now he has been dismissed for telling the truth and pointing out what everyone barring the board can see.

    the statement issued by the board is nothing short of contemptuous and suggests they are beyond reproach or criticism.

    Well thats incorrect, the buck stops solely with them. they had the opportunity to invest correctly and develop over the long term a capable squad with a bit of nous which they can layer up over time and increase albeit slowly their returns.

    When in reality, its appearing to be all about the short term gain rather than the long term.
     
  2. Sta

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    I take it you're not keen then?

    But seriously, what a great summary. In 51 years I can't remember a time when the club hierarchy and the fans were so far apart. It's so very very sad.
     
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    I like the plan. Well version one anyway.

    I can see how the benefits outweight the negatives.

    I dont like version two.

    Its a clusterfuck.
     
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    Unlike most successful plans, it lacks flexibility, spontaneity and malleability. It's like a bloke in a delivery van who continues driving along a river bed until his engine gets waterlogged, just because his sat nav tells him to.
     
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    I have to say this might be the lowest I’ve ever felt about our club and that includes Spackman, the Icelandic era the bottom of league one administration era all of them. If I had the choice between a youth development business yoyoing league one and championship or a genuine small budget side trying its hardest to get to the top by loans and veterans and local kids but falling to league two by trying well I think I would go the latter, at least we would be having a go. It’s utterly tedious just watching this endless conveyor belt of players and staff sold or walking out knowing we will never hold enough of a team together capable of taking us back to the top tier or even competing in the top half of the championship.
     
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    As an American cop once said to a perplexed Jeremy Clarkson..."Sir. You don't need to use common sense when you have rules"
     
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    I'll settle just to compete at this stage.
     
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    Best post I've seen on the subject, respect.
     
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    DEETEE Well-Known Member

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    I have moments of genius. Cheers.
     
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    As a further addition to this.

    The clubs mantra seems to be young and resalable no experience required.

    Looking towards this time next season based on how things are currently going, whoever remains at the club come the summer will be utterly shot through in terms of confidence.

    Next summer regardless of division, the squad is going to need an overhaul, this being a number of new additions, i would estimate in or around the double figure mark which is going to hit the coffers to make the team competitive.

    Secondly, the board will have to no matter what invest in experience on the field, leaders who can cajole, encourage, defend and organise this kids and rebuild their confidence.
     
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    Fair old post that. The only thing I disagree on was that we signed Radlinger to be number 1 didn't we, not Collins?

    Apart from that spot on.
     
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    DEETEE Well-Known Member

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    As i understand it Collins was number one until Stendel managed to get Radlinger signed up.
     
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    Fair enough - can't fault the post at all then!
     
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    There is having an ethos & there is having a kind of religious zeal to follow a "plan" just for te sake of it.

    No one is really against the principle of largely buying & developing young players, but to ONLY sign such players is madness. One step beyond...
     
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    Seems de rigeur at the mo doesn't it?
     
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    John Peachy Well-Known Member

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    Yes, wasn't going to bring up the other "subject".
     
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    I think the financial climate of football has obviously changed over the past 20 or so years and the likes of us have been hit hard by that. We have effectively been replaced by teams such as Bournemouth, Swansea, Cardiff etc who have thrown vast amounts of money at it to get where they are. When clubs do that, naturally anyone who doesn't follow suit gets shunted down the pecking order. Just as the likes of Fleetwood, Forest Green and Salford have shunted the Hartlepools and Tranmeres out.

    The bottom six is probably where we ought to be when we look at spending power and add to that a refusal to cheat the system (which I like) then in reality it makes the task of staying in the second tier difficult.

    I would love to go back to the Dennis days, bringing in players of all ages - it saddens me that the likes of Hendrie or Wilkinson etc wouldn't get a look in now if they were in the twilight of their careers. I'd rather be in league 1 or 2 and wheeling and dealing than be getting spanked week in, week out with this existing, soulless policy. We have the funds to sign some older players but it is clear the board is solely interested in profit.
     
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