Michael Duff nailing his interview again

But we will NEVER get stability because successful managers/ head coaches are poached as soon as they start being successful with little or no attempt made to keep them at the club and unsuccessful ones are used as scapegoats and binned as soon as the board start getting stick from the fans. Unless there are big changes in personel or attitude to investment in the club at board level we will only ever be one season wonders because good coaches and players will always go.

 

I get what your saying but it isn't the first time michaels come out post match talking about players making basic errors and not sticking to the gameplan.

 

The only time a manager is going to go through a season without veing annoyed with the way his team plays now and again is if they don't lose matches. I think Arsene Wenger managed it once.
On what planet did folk expect we wouldn't have some bad performances this season? The irony is that it's probably the same people who predicted we were going to slide through the leagues into the Conference.

 

Overall though, he's done a great job so far. The defence, in particular, has mostly performed better than the sum of its parts, and that's because of the excellent organisation by Duff, which has resulted in our having a really impressive goals against column away from home.

 

Duff is successful and gets Barnsley promoted: He'll be an obvious target for other clubs who can pay him more and offer him much better resources to work with.

Duff doesn't get Barnsley promoted from League 1: Meh. Barnsley got promoted first time of asking time last they came down. They're a big club in this division but he couldn't meet the objective. Wouldn't imagine he'd be on the radar of many clubs for just keeping Barnsley in this division.

And if we do get promoted and manage to keep him, I don't think we're ready. I don't think we're anywhere near ready. I think we'll crash and burn and there'll be undue pressure on him and we'll end up sacking a good manager because we don't have the necessary resources. And we'll release good players who are not quite ready for The Championship but will be later in their careers. We've done both in the past, as have almost all other clubs.

I could be completely wrong, often am, and and he could nail it in The Championship if we get promoted and manage to keep hold of him. In which case his stature will grow further, and we'll lose him to the first Championship club who sack their manager.

But if we remain in this division, there'll not be a lot of clubs after our manager or our players. Another year in this division will allow us to compliment what we already have with the 3 or 4 signings we need to have a chance in the Championship, and provide the necessary experience to the young players we already have so they're ready for the championship when we get there. And strengthen the bond between the manager and the club, so that he wants to stay, wants to take us as far as he can, and doesn't jump ship at the first decent offer. Because he will know, if we go up with this squad this season, with our finances, we'll get mullered. Why would he want that if he's offered a route out.

They don't want to go up! No, at the moment I don't.

 

It's because our players aren't good enough. We go behind and have a losing mentally. We are only in the top six because of Duff, we've over achieved. We are a mid table side. Just compare this side to Hecky's or Stendels to realise where we are.

 

And stop giving penalties away or get our lot to dive a bit better

 

Maybe the damage those two clowns made last year is much deeper than we thought?

 

I accept he came to a club that had problems and a losing mentality, he’s done a great job getting us into a playoff spot but we’ve gone off the boil on the pitch and on the touch line .The manager has look at his own performance as well as the players

 

Off the boil? We've had 2 crap results. One being where we played without our best player for 80 minutes down to 10 men, dodgy referee. I don't disagree we need more players in and need to turn it around, but to suggest we've gone off the boil is well off the mark

 

It's been 2 games

One of those we were down to 10 men within 10 minutes

 

Although wanting to stay in this division any longer than we have to feels very counter-intuitive, objectively I think you're absolutely right. If we stay down I'm pretty sure Mads will be sold in the summer to balance the books, but other than that I don't see offers being tabled for many of our players.

 

To be fair it's often difficult to decipher whether many of those on Facebook are even writing in English.

 

Feast or Famine when we win he's the bees knees.
We lose 2 and he needs to get a grip.
Maybe it's fickle fans that need to get a grip.
I was looking at mid table finish.
Now we're looking at play offs.
Can you make a silk purse out of a pigs ear ?
He's making a good ******* go of it.

 

Agree with this to a degree. We’re no where near ready for the Championship as we are. However, given the poor state of the club’s finances we have to give going up a good go. The additional £7m or so it means to income is massive for the immediate future of the club.
If I’m honest though, without another 2 or 3 players coming in I think we’ll drop out of the play off places anyway.
Keeping Duff is paramount though, anyone thinking differently is bonkers.

 

Yeah, I get that Marc. A crap performance is a crap performance. I don't get the blame Duff approach though. These players have limitations. That's why they're league one players. Just because they're told what to do doesn't mean they're capable of doing it week in week out.
if we go on a sustained bad run then, fair enough, start questioning the manager. We have, in my opinion, already done just about enough to guarantee a realistic pre season target of mid table barring a losing streak of Schopp/Asbaghi proportions. With a couple of tweaks we can make the play offs.

 

I agree' not knocking duff at all but instead of coming out post game and saying we didn't stick to the gameplan etc he needs to put his size 10s up their arses and make sure they do stick to the gameplan. we need 1 or 2 strikers desperately because yesterday we were absolutely toothless no threat whatsoever.

 

So you haven’t seen a notable down turn in effort over last two games , I have and as I said the manager needs to look at himself as well as the players

 

Struggling to understand calls for Duff to be sacked to be honest. This is a team that managed the sum total of 30 points in 46 games in the Championship last season, and replaced the best striker and centre half with Norwood and Cundy.

From the little I've seen, it looks like we are light in pretty much every area. Up front has been discussed to death, but our midfield is still inexperienced, and relying on a 21 year old to make us tick from the middle of the three and the fact that putting Benson at RWB has been seen as a better option than using the centre half on the bench shows how light on numbers we are there.

I think we still need an experienced midfielder to play alongside Connell in a 352 with Phillips or a 343, a Centre back or RWB and move Williams into the back 3 and another forward.

On a slight tangent, Cadden will never score and we need to retire the #7 shirt, since Brittain jinxed it.