Are the three sides with the youngest teams. http://experimental361.com/2015/11/10/player-usage-in-the-football-league/
Its ****ing crazy what we've done this season. I mean the idea was good but why the **** did we take it to such extremes. I'm becoming more disillusioned by the week with LJ tactically but I still cant help but think he's had his hands tied massively by the ludicrous recruitment policy.
Aren't you suppose to start with a team of experienced players and then gradually introduce young uns into a team? We seem to have started with a schoolboy team and then wonder why they can't compete in a league against seasoned pros'.
He still trains them every day he sets up the tactics and the way we play, then stands on touchline like a tailors dummy. Only time he moves is to argue with opposition bench. Time to get rid he's out of his depth and tactically inept.
Yes, the addition of Hammill has proven that a bit of experience can make some difference. He was the one trying to raise the team telling em to pick the tempo up after we went behind. We need an old head in the back 4 commanding things there and someone to control the midfield..
In Lee Johnson's first full season in charge at Oldham, he signed a staggering 15 players in the summer window, 3 of them loanees, and the vast majority were young players, aged between 18 and 22. He signed 4 experienced players in the January, and over the course of the rest of that season, loaned in another 9 players, most of them being older/experienced (the likes of Stead, Worrall, Harkins, Rachubka). They lost 6 of their first 8 games. However, after their loan signing spree post-January, they ended the season with a 10 game unbeaten run, finishing 15th on 56 points. -------------------- In 2014-15, it seemed that Johnson must have learned from his previous summer as this time he signed a great number of experienced players. Forte, Wilson, Kelly, Jones, Noble, Elokobi etc. They kicked off the season losing just 2 of their first 15 games, including an 11 match unbeaten run. They ended up loaning 12 players in though, and results were hit and miss after Xmas, including a 7-0 hammering at Milton Keynes and a 4-0 defeat against his dads Yeovil side. Not sure what any of that means...
Like I said I've become more disillusioned by the week with LJ. His team selection at times has been awful and his substitutions are baffling and often panicked. I think what shows that LJ has failed more than anything is the fact that he is now setting the side up in a way that goes completely against his philosophy in a desperate attempt to get results.
Then in the summer of 2015 he signs a load of young players again. The Boards influence in this? We'll never know, but it shows his scatter gun yet "Yes" man approach, as he hasn't seemed to have learnt from previous experiences and stood up to the Board, maybe?
Very interesting read. According to that we have the youngest side in the entire football league. Who said you'd never win owt wi' kids? He was right apart from Man united once.
They weren't kids though, average age of that team, that season was 26 years and 137 days. Possibly kids compared to the aging squad they had at the time. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33982195
Many thanks, I didn't know that - I thought they must have had an average age of 22-23 for him to come out with that statement. Maybe they did for that particular match against Villa because he mentions a couple of older players were missing.. That article also states that Tottenham have the youngest squad in the Premier League with an average age a couple of years older than ours. Hence we have the youngest team of the entire 92 professional clubs. No wonder we're bloody struggling, get De Zeeuw, Sheridan and Hendry back.
Having looked back through the pages other stats... We're ****ing **** We're ****ing **** We're ****ing ****
Lets keep Lee Johnson and get beat every game and let him loose on League 2. Then we can let him loose in the Conference. Then everyone will be happy. Whoopy Do!!!!
