Strange indeed. Which completely reduced midfield so we couldn't still create. Later reverted back to 1 up front at which point caused the ridiculous passing around until it reached our keeper. Winnall and smith please in a 2. How ****ing hard is it.... As much as I'm cheesed at the minute we can only say what we see. And I thought he couldn't do much worse. Them he proves me wrong by bringing that lump on. But. Do I blame LJ. No. Because yet again we have a manager who picks strange formations. Strange selections (you can hear everyone saying the same things) All too familiar. Most of our problems in my eyes are not the managers (christ some we have shut of are doing really well). It leaves the same constants in place to question. I'd like to see how we fair with a complete change of board and structure. Let's face it it's the only thing that hasn't been tried......
Strange selections and experiments are par for the course for managers that are feeling the heat. Soon as I saw the line up tonight I commented to the old man it was reminiscent of the dying embers of past managers reigns. Maybe there's something in what you say, maybe 'the board' are forthright in letting the incumbent know when they're on borrowed time. Careful what you wish for though. 'The board' includes the owner that funds the club, and I've yet to hear any viable suggestion as to how we get round that.
I don't buy it in terms of funds. It has been pointed out by our own board we have the 4th or 5th highest income/budget. We have rid of the high earners (and have been since relegation). Filled with loans and lower league signings. Younger players. (Absolutely no way are we paying anywhere near what we were. We can't be) Holgate money. Where's it all gone. I'm nowhere near convinced we need this million or 2 or whatever it is that PC is still supposedly funding. Nowhere near. it was pointed out on radio Sheffield by a chesterfield fan on the way to the ground. Accountants can make books say what they want. (Not saying we are mind) but it made me think anyway. Thoroughly dejected tonight and it's highly likely 4 season tickets will remain in the drawer on Saturday. Finish off digging up our taties. We are truly reaching a can't be bothered to attend scenario and we are fed up of going home disappointed. What a sad state we are in
Hows about only spending what we earn. Many other clubs in our division do it on attendances much smaller than ours. Most of them have much better teams too.
Totally agree that should be the objective, but that doesn't get round the reliance on the current owner. Whilever he's here, he's going to be a big part of the board, because he has an investment to protect. And rightly so in my opinion, I just wish he had some proper football expertise to support him. I thought that's what Watkins was meant to bring to the table. To replace the owner, you either need a new one with the funds and desire to buy him out, or you need a business plan that convinces him to take a loss and hand it over for the good of the club. In both cases, even if the plan is to break even, there needs to be someone with a lot of brass involved - not just to get it off the ground but as insurance/guarantee against most of what the football club does. Doesn't answer your question as to why everyone else seems to be able to manage it and not us like.
I've yet to hear a satisfactory explanation of why this isn't yet happening. I would have thought it was in everyone's interest to see the club standing on its own two feet, and it's about time it did. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Funding nowt to do with where we are. Totally agree with Jay on this. Yet again, we seem to have landed a manager who is all over the place. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I'm not disputing any of that. I'm not saying "Patrick Cryne Out". It's his club, no one can dismiss him. And I'm not in a position to buy him out, nor do I know any individual or group that can. But it is my opinion that it's the poor decisions at board level over the years that are now coming home to roost, rather than the fault of a manager who has been in charge only 8 months. It is also my opinion that a club with a fanbase as large as ours does not need funding in order to compete in this division.
Then we're in agreement, 100%, but I started down this line of replies in response to Nez saying he'd like to see a change in the board structure. I do too, but I can't see a practical way for that to change in the short or medium term, and until there is a viable solution (such as an individual or group to replace PC, or PC delegating the running of the club to someone else), then the solution isn't to change the board or structure, it's for the same board and structure to do things differently.
