Conor It Is Then

Collins and Clarke attempted mid game at times to switch things around but didn't have the players to influence the games. Players are brought in by the DOF but rarely improve things. It's been blatantly obvious that we needed a striker yet in January we sold the keeper and weakened that position instead. I like many wanted to see a strong appointment of a coach who had a style that he and the DOF would recruit to. Collins and Houriane have no managerial experience at this level to recruit to and Clarke was hung out with a bloated squad that he couldn't shape into a effective unit, plus from Houriane returning he was looking at his replacement. On the day we sacked Clarke Sormez stated we would appoint a coach to play quick high press entertaining football yet we appoint a guy who has no managerial experience, no CV and no known tactical preference as a manager. I won't bang on about the massive changes needed again but the one change needed is get rid of the DOF.

 

Where did they support Clarke, I think I must have missed that lol.
Do you mean with Keillor Dunn, that's just one good quality player though, over the whole season.
And the fact that they basically refused to support him in January, during our best form of the season. And more or less said he's got to do better with what he's already got!.
Effectively then just peeing away all the hard work up to that point, when we'd moved up to 5th.
What a dreadful and inept way, to own/run this club.

 

I'm just really, really confused by this appointment. We were told that there were some really good candidates that were interested, but not available until the summer. We then, somewhat randomly decide to offer the job on a permanent basis to CH on the back of one win out of 7... Which is worse form than DC had when he was sacked.

There may have been a little improvement at times recently, but we've been playing some dog toffee opposition the last few weeks and looked lost.

I'm not saying I'm against CH getting the job full time, but he had to earn it, or at least be given the remaining games to show how much improvement he could bring to performances.

This was either the cheap option, or a panic 'tying down' after one good performance.

It's not inspired me to renew my season ticket though... That'll be done on the back of our summer signings.

 

I must admit the more i think about our club the more it both confuses me and frustrates me. I said earlier i would have been ok with CH if there was a proper footballing DOF with experience to support. Its the opposite we have someone who has as much hands on experience as us on the forum.

Taking the emotional bit for CH out, the logic doesn’t make sense unless its based on potential they see (they being the people who have already made numerous poor footballing decisions) or its based on cost ( i think its likely to be this). Either one of these tells me that we therefore have to give him time, in fact 2 years rain or shine. Something we have not given others and hence adds to my confusion.

The evidence is overwhelming that he hasn't been given the job based on current performance or track record. Therefore its definitely a huge risk and arguably a big mistake.

Having said all that, we need to back him as fans because i fear the club wont back him with the right players. In fact my worry is even more about survival next season than success. If some appointments are branded as ‘statement’ signings’ then our recent series of footballing appointments have very much been statement signings - just that the statement isn't a positive one and tells me we have no ambition, belief or money to compete in this league.

 

We've conceed 68 goals, only four teams have conceded more and three of them are in the relegation places.
Abject.

 

Trying really hard to finish 19th

 

shhh they might think 58 this stage next season is a celebration of improvement.

 

There was supposed to be an interview with Connor on Ifollow on Friday about taking the job but can't find it. Does anyone have a link?

 

Just highlights how confused our owners with an overcomplicated strategy, they said conor was on the list but not the front runner, they said they'd wait until the summer, both of these statements were either a load of s**te and misleading or we've been turned down by targets which wouldn't suprise me and we've gone for someone we stated a few weeks ago wasn't a front runner.
Can't trust a word these owners come out with, contradictions left,right and centre.

 

or Conor has convinced them he is the best candidate. If we waited until close season to appoint again imagine the meltdown, left it too late to influence window, pre season etc etc

 

Yep if this appointment backfires I think it finally nails home they haven’t got a clue how to run a club,

I honestly don’t think any other club appoints the assistant head coach that’s been part of a management team that’s deemed not to be pulling up trees then puts him in interim charge where he returns worse results than the guy we sacked and then gives him a two year deal.

The other bit as alluded to above is the saying one thing and then doing another - again. It now shows they have learnt nothing from all these customer relations excercises etc FAB looks to have turned out the exact waste of time that the numerous meetings at the club where they have promised to change and get better and then not do anything that appears to show anything like joined up thinking and reactive to the whim of whoever really runs the thing.
Anyway wasted enough time caring this season so going to park it for this season and hopefully come back with a better team next season.

 

Doesn't make sense though 1 win in 7 games doesn't strengthen that argument, considering in their eyes he was the rank outsider.
This is not a pop at Conor BTW, im merely highlighting how we keep delivering mixed messages of confusion.

 

You are spot on, when they took over in the summer of 2022 they recognised how far out of alignment they were and promised to build bridges with the fan base saying judge us by our actions.

 

Said it before and I’ll ask it again.
Who is actually in charge of running the club on a day to day basis?
We have three senior figures running their departments in Flatman, Sormaz & Zuk which pretty much covers the entire business but who is managing them,who is ensuring that what all 3 of them are plugged into the same picture, is one of them the person in charge overall or is it the Chairman doing it from afar?

 

remember when our amazing director of football said in the summer that we didn’t need to strengthen the defence as it was the strongest area in the squad?!

 

Did he really say this? If so I hope some journo can question him re it. Oh, wait a minute, he doesn't do difficult interviews does he.

 

I don’t recall that.

I do remember Darrell saying he had five top centre halves, when we won a few games in January.

 

In chronicle at end of May
“We think, when you look at the core of the team, when everyone’s fit, defence is really strong.

“We obviously need a new left back/left wing-back. “