Football Report - Ben Mansford

Don't know how many are listeners in here or not but I quite like listening to the show!

Anyway that aside I find it really annoying the BM chooses to finally break his silence after back to back wins and us no longer bottom of the table! So with that in mind I really hope the people at the show don't suck up to him too much and still ask him some more interrogating questions that a lot of us fans want to know! For example:

Why have we reverted back to so many loans when you said we'd stop that?
Why has the recruitment for the best part still been poor?
How can you excuse such an unbalanced squad going into a new season?
Why do you say we are aiming for a playoff place to sell tickets me then tell the fans you never said that when we're bottom of league?
Why is match day pricing still too high?
Why did we go with absolutely no experience?
Why did we miss out on signings such as kelly/Dempsey ect?
What does he have to say about underperforming players? Smith/wilkinson/Mawson/Townsend/Rothwell
Does he still think a head coach is better than a manager?
Why since he has come into the club have we gone from an established championship club to a league one relegation favourite?

 

Because we always do.

To sell tickets.

Because matchday supporters are 100% better so must pay 100% more.

Lost a lot of games.

 

Are we favorites to go down? Gna stick 500 on us stopping up if so

 

What can he say about under performing players he isn't the head coach? Thank **** 3 of them aren't our players. And you included Mawson (fair enough) but missed out nytanga

 

Yes very strange he has appeared after a couple of wins....not. Believe him at your peril.

Hth

 

Our transfer dealings so far have been diabolical, i dont hold out much hope whether we'l see an improvement during this transfer window. Get simon davey in as chief scout

 

Not so much that hes broken his silence after 2 wins, been trying for weeks to get him on. With the transfer window open we feel its a good time to get him on. Glad to know people are listening!!

 

He always asks questions put to him so I urge anyone who wants to ask anything (within reason lol) drop a message here and we will most definately ask him! And weve got Conor on the show aswell, always speaks well so should be a good listen for the first show of 2016!

 

He takes 15 minutes to answer questions though, he's not daft.

He's also not the villain he's portrayed as by some on here.

 

Definately not, always seemed approachable in our opinion on the show. Can only go on what ive seen when met him and hes been sound

 

Maybe not an out and out villian but underhand in my own and others' experience, as was his gaffer.

Don't believe the spin.

 

Ask Ben if he thinks Thereev is an Internet Comedy Sensation or a Knob. We need to sort this out once and for all and at least give a chance to BM to respond to his insightful observations.

 

I understand the bit about bringing in RS to commentate on Player but I thought this was all clear and above board. Have I missed something?

 

Nothing clear and above board about it. We were well and truly shafted. Take my word for it.

 

To be fair on BM , both him and LJ went to a Q&A in deepest darkest Athersley during our LLLLLLLosing streak. You could give BM stick for a few other reasons but 'hiding' when the chips are down isn't one of them.

 

I'd also like to know why we continue to spend money on the academy & then waste the prime development years of most of our academy prospects.

All of Rose, Clark, Noble-Lazarus and now Digby & Abbott have spent too long in the reserves playing academy football aged 18-20.

Why are we so keen to use the loan market to develop other clubs kids but not our own?

 

I take your word on that, obviously. And I will always agree that you were screwed over.

But in the limited time I've spent in his company I've found him a decent lad. Most of what he says is spin, but that's his job in essence. If he'd have come out with "well reds fans, we're skint and haemorrhaging money without Patrick's input and so we're having to sign lads on the cheap in the hope that they come good for us and we can sell them on at a profit because we now - in the modern footballing landscape - have to pretty much copy Crewe's old strategy and the idea of us even being a solid second tier club again is quite fanciful I'm afraid" then he'd be hammered for that n all.

 

Aye. But it's the truth innit pal.

 

Truth, truth?....how dare you suggest someone at the club tells the fans the truth.

What a preposterous suggestion.

On the other hand, why bother listening if we all know its a croque a *****?

Hth

 

This is true maybe it was time to.move rnl on but only winnall and Connor horahine have scored more in our squad this season than danny rose we shouldn't have let danny go. Although I think we have a group of good youngster's coming through bree Templeton smith ect.
And can't really causing of hiding like the other poster says going into a Barnsley council estate to answer questions when we were on our biggest losing run for years hardly hiding.