Changed what up? It’s like playing snooker with a rope.
Sack him and buy a tombola to choose the team.
Don’t think anyone would notice a difference.
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You have just answered your own question.
No we wouldn’t because it wasn’t the norm, to be so reactionary towards every single event.
And it wasn’t the norm for a very good reason.
Exactly it’s about ourselves first and foremost.
No question that Dutton is a decent bloke and he’s definitely someone who we should try and keep on the coaching side of things, but as a first team manager I’m not sure he’s exactly what we need right now.
I’d like us to go down the young manager route, but we need one with contacts to bring in players. One that can also bring in young players from local clubs and actually give them a chance and one that doesn’t feel the need to criticise younger players and leave them out to dry, like Whitney did with Candlin and like Clarke has done with the likes of Mollet.
This season has well and truly petered out, so as long as we can get over the line and then Pomlett needs to have a real look for next season.
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I would have loved to hear the mock interview that inspired LP to give Dutton the job, i think he should set up a business to sell sand to the Arabs.
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Unfortunately we are currently the wrong job for any football manager. Squad with some structural flaws, weeks till new transfer window and possibly funds are not great either (not because rent, but because covid and not that rich owner, as we would hope). I hope BD will find his winning formula sooner, than later. Now staying in this league is crucial, new manager probably won’t help.
Now i believe you are correct.
Perhaps he could sell the club to them instead.
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At any point during my now pretty considerable number of years watching Walsall, when we’ve come into the bottom tier to me its a thing I just want ended, get us out of here ASAP no matter how. Right now for the first time ever I would actually settle for us being a decent fourth division club. One that tries to entertain, tries to have cup runs, and generally hovers in and around the right end of the table. We are literally a million miles away from our traditional occupancy of well respected mid-table third division club with a solid fan base with genuine pretentions of being in the second tier. Its gone, for now.
We are far more likely in the next phase of our history to tread the downwards journey of the likes of Luton, Oxford. Wrexham, Stockport, Mansfield, Grimsby, Lincoln etc etc etc.
Selling Adebayo was the correct decision in the circumstances, but we must have known for many days or even weeks that he was likely to leave. His replacements arn’t up to it, and that’s rank management. Good management in a circumstance where you receive 350k and lose say a grand off the wage bill, is to use that resource wisely. For that you need a good manager that knows what he’s doing and what he needs when a step backwards occurs to take two steps forwards. That’s what the likes of Artell did and is doing at Crewe…two words Chris Porter 37 years old, added to home grown players that by 21/22 had played 100 games.
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He is in a pretty impossible position - but we need someone with experience right now, not someone having their first chance. We are in a relegation fight now
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I’m not blaming Dutts for the squad he’s inherited, but something has to change.
He’s worked all week with the players and we get 1 shot (off-target) in the 1st 75 minutes.
He picked the team, he chooses the tactics, he works with them on the training pitch!
It isn’t too difficult to play pretty football in your own half. Roberts, White, Scarr, Sadler, Bates, C-Mollet could pass it between themselves all afternoon.
The basic truth is, if you don’t attack and score goals the best you can hope for is 0-0.
Where are we going to pick up any points in the remaining games of the season playing like that!
Either Pomlett has to bring in an experienced assistant to help Dutton, or Dutton has to go to Pomlett and ask for help. And this has to happen now, not next weekend when another 6 points have gone.
We are going down unless something changes.
Another difference is that Smith was in charge of the youth team. He was the main man. He did the coaching, he picked the team, he did the team talk, he made the changes.
Dutton was #2 and in a Clarke environment that probably meant throwing in an idea, working on set plays and defence setup. Being #1 is completely different. Some people are just meant to be assistants.
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Our use of the loan market has been very disjointed, almost desperate at times in the last couple of seasons - Holden, Nurse and Pring being the exceptions since DC arrived.
You are right about lack of experience, however experience costs money. Money I assume we don’t do.
I very confident be won’t be dragged into a genuine relegation battle this season.
My big concern is next season. As things stand, I can well imagine season tickets sales being well down on this season. Just imagine the state we would be in if that were the case!
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Some sobering reading:
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Those are my thoughts exactly. A very well articulated piece and indeed sobering stuff.
I just wonder how long Pomlett will continue with his sermons to the fans?
It’s all starting to wear a little thin.
Meet the new boss…
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“How have we come to accept this?”
I’d suggest by not listening to the people that were saying “hold on lads, somethings not right here” at the time.
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It’s clear Pomlett has lost the supporters