RIP the fookin spreadsheet up now ffs!

It doesn’t work, full stop. If it did, everybody would be doing it. Fork out for cheap players you more than likely get rubbish, this has now been proven sadly.

 

No - get the right blend is the key.

Lindsey, Pinnock, Potts, McGeehan, McCarthy and Pearson might all turn in to top championship players in 2 or 3 years. The step up was too much too soon for too many.

I actually think credit is due to Potts, Lindsey and Pinnock who have stepped up from non league, league 2 and scotland and not looked out of place. They just couldn’t carry a whole team.

The failures are those who we realistically could have expected to be championship ready - Davies, Fryers, Gardner, Bradshaw, Isgrove (at a push), Mills and Hammill. They have been, for the most part, very poor. We needed those guys to step up even further. Some - Bradshaw, Moncur, Davies and McDonald at the start actually went backwards.

 

It has a virus!

 

I beg to differ on Lindsey and Potts

I’ve no idea how anyone would expect Zeki Fryers to be up to Championship football.

I already knew that Moncur wasn’t

 

Disagree with all of that but I'll just ask why you thought Fryers and Isgrove should be championship ready, given they had almost no experience of it.

 

Disagree. If they were good enough then we wouldn’t look like we’re going down. We’d be safe. They’ve had a season together and still aren’t anywhere near competent at this level. John stones had six months first team and went to the premiership. There’s a young player who was good enough. Shop in the bargain bin and this is what happens.
The last lot who did well were stars in their own team in the league below and we didn’t try to fill a team with them either.

 

Disagree. If they were good enough then we wouldn’t look like we’re going down. We’d be safe. They’ve had a season together and still aren’t anywhere near competent at this level. John stones had six months first team and went to the premiership. There’s a young player who was good enough. Shop in the bargain bin and this is what happens.
The last lot who did well were stars in their own team in the league below and we didn’t try to fill a team with them either.

 

Fair do’s - Isgrove because I thought he was a quality L1 player who may have been able to step up. I was wrong. He had gone backwards.

And Fryers because he had played Premiership football. Having never seen him I hoped that was a good chance. I was wrong.

The whole team - both new signings and old have played relegation football for most of the year.

 

Course it works, it’s when you **** up the contracts and let a fkn massive percentage of your better players leave all at once that’s wrong. The pillock that allowed that to happen wanted fking!

 

Thanks for the response.

I was concerned about both of these players for the same reason - almost 25 years of age and less than 50 career appearances before the start of the season.

 

Disrespectful

 

How? it’s true, if I messed my job up that bad I would have been lucky to hold on to it , it wasn’t rocket science was it. If you mean to PC it wouldn't Have been him that did it

 

Right ok

 

Yes get rid of the spradsheet.. .. after 3... we all dream of a team of matty mills......

 

Maybee if fans like you got off their keyboard and went to games we wouldn't need it as much. Keep it for me I enjoy watching young players develop.

 

If we go down the spreadsheet of fine as it is if we stay up we need a software upgrade to Windows XP.

 

Who is developing this season?

 

Let's be right it was always going to be a big ask for players to jump from league 2 and confrance to the championship would Conor of been able to in his 1st season with us doubt it people on here were slating him then. Took him 2 seasons to develop him to the player he was.
Like I said though matt mills wasn't spreadsheet.

 

I honestly think this "moneyball" style of player recruitment has the potential to be very effective, as shown by the team it produced that got us in the Championship in the face place and took us to within touching distance of the playoffs.

The trouble is, as many have pointed out, is the execution of it. Players it identifies need to be brought in to supplement a settled "finished" team rather than putting 11 players on the pitch that needs to to develop. Also, the contracts need structuring so they don't all run out at the same time, and player sales should only be sanctioned when a "spreadsheet" player has developed to the point of being able to replace said outgoing player.

 

The problem is there has been, so far, no intention to keep anything resembling a finished team