Nixon says

It doesn't help that we've had so much chopping and changing of coaches, formations and styles of play either. I'd expect it to be far more difficult to develop young players if you're asking something very different of them every 6-9 months.

 

Every team changes head coach. The AVG coach lasts 14 months. Borussia Dortmund has hired 7 head coaches since Klopp at an avg one a season. They haven't changed the focus though or short, medium or long term strategy.

Also saying younger players will struggle with this is extremely false. First and second contract players deal with it the best. 5 and 6th contract players least well..........

 

Yes, you're absolutely right.... our players adapted amazingly well last year, didn't they?

 

All true, ultimately IMO they need to look hard at if developing players works because it’s difficult to see a case for it against the costs and I include the Academy in that.
Personally I want the Academy to stay but maybe it needs changing/freshening up.

 

The same players adapted well the season before.

You are saying that was the only difference when it wasn't. Fitness and confidence very much were bigger issues.

This isn't the opinion of mine solely. It's what experts in football are saying.

I was very interested to hear khaldoon al Mubarak talk a player that is 21 the RIGHT AGE recently.

 

It looks like we may be seeing a large number of academy players being blooded next year, so if a couple do well, our view may evolve. Given the cost of agents fees, transfer fees, signing on fees and even suppressed L1 wages, the academy probably isn't that bad an investment, particularly as we're badging ourselves a community club. Would be sad if we block off a route into football for our local kids.

 

Is anyone really that bothered any more? I've completely lost interest. The delays, the **** ups, the contradicting quotes etc. Can't be arsed.

Let's just appoint Warnock for 12 months, then try and sort something long term when we've beaten Ipswich at Wembley next May.

 

So given we didn't instil the players with confidence or condition them to the right fitness levels, or coach them to the right performance levels and inflicted multiple coaching styles (4 last season alone) and played a myriad of formations.... it's fair to say that a very large amount of our player assets didn't demonstrate any/many signs of positive development last season?

 

And then some !!!!

 

The board says it is in the process of doing that right now.

 

It’s only been 7 weeks ffs. (I’m being sarcastic)

 

Sarcy or not, its getting ridiculous now how this is dragging on.
I knew they wouldn't have somebody in time for the meeting on the 27th, and before the deadline extension 4 days later.
But we're seemingly no nearer to sorting it out yet, on June 9-10.

 

Given the announcement from Hasselbaink yesterday, I actually thought we might have got something agreed with our preferred candidate before the weekend.

 

You could well be right, though I very much hope we're more advanced than we collectively think.

Surely, we can't have a worse managerial hunt than the O'Driscoll, Butcher debacle. That was so bad it was beyond parody.

 

Judge us by our actions...they keep saying

 

I wonder how he would have faired with a statistical approach? Could be a sitcom in the making!

 

And both of those lying gits totally went against what they told us, taking jobs at Bristol City and Hibernian not long afterwards.
And hilariously, both of them were sacked at those clubs less than a year later.

 

I was full of enthusiasm after hearing the new chairman speak that night, and I think we've all been prepared and patient enough to wait a bit longer for the new coach/manager.
But this is just getting ridiculous now, and I think a lot of fans now are just losing interest again, myself included.