The game is so much faster now and players are a lot fitter
I admire your optimism but there’s a reason why most older players we and other clubs have signed recently suck x
I disagree I think you can get away with it as a CB as long as you have pace next to you
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I’m getting my boots and zimmer frame out my pantry as we speak. Anyone got Jordan’s number?
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As well as being a faster game nowadays and players a lot fitter it’s also true that’s it’s also a more tactical game so much more stats are used on opponents and if players have a weakness it’s exploited. .I’m not saying defenders have to be lightning quick but please not slow
I think there needs to be 3/4 players of real quality to suggest this ‘aggressive’ step change in recruitment and ambition.
I don’t see that… yet…
DJ would be one of those - but I I certainly think we need 3/4 like him to compete.
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Average mid table fodder?
Hussey - played for Stockport last season, they made the play-offs
Stirk - has had a loan with Mansfield, during which they made the play-offs
So neither looks like mid-table fodder, on paper.
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I know I shouldn’t but …
The article that has the interview with Sadler that keeps being mentioned is from over 3 years ago - and before he went into coaching.
He doesn’t seem to have posted anything about his business on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn (didn’t someone suggest we ought to go check his activity on there?
) for over 2 years - and even then it was mainly reposting stuff from the S&P main accounts rather anything from him personally.
The S&P website also looks to be at least a couple of years out of date too, but most of the testimonials appear to refer to client interactions with his partner, Paul Partridge, not Mat himself.
They have a number of staff working at the company office in Colmore Row so the likelihood of Sadler himself being directly involved with the day to day stuff isn’t that high (if it ever was) - it would be (or have been) the attraction of investors not the letting he was involved in.
In the article, and backed up by stuff on the S&P website, their main target clientele is other footballers coming towards the end of their careers and looking to invest in properties for future income (as Mat himself was at the time) - so him being in the same boat as them is likely to be his main worth to their partnership.
Several of their named clients (who are landlords with properties they get an income from) are still either playing or in coaching/management - including John Eustace at Blues. Does owning rental properties managed by S&P staff (like Mat) mean he is too distracted to concentrate fully on his coaching job?
Many other managers/head coaches have had outside business interest going on in parallel to their football commitments - notably Terry Venables and Harry Redknapp. Even Pep Guardiola has an active interest in a Manchester tapas restaurant. It doesn’t seem to have affected them unduly.
So unless there is concrete evidence that Mat is spending more time doing S&P stuff (like showing people round empty properties or collecting rents) than actual coaching when he’s supposed to be at Essington or on match days, then what is point of constantly suggesting it is stopping him from doing his job as our head coach?
Don’t get me wrong - not trying to say he is the best man for the job or that he, or his appointment by Trivela, is above criticism. But at least if you are going to sling mud make it real mud not stuff you just want to be real to support your own peculiar standpoint.
If there is some real (and current) mud - by all means feel free to sling away.
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I’d say Hussey is an above average league 2 player personally.
27 games in 13/14 for Burton, they lost in the play off final.
38 games for Bury in 14/15, promoted.
43 games for Cheltenham when they went up in 20/21.
Stockport really should’ve gone up last season and he played his fair share there.
Another 3-4 signings of Hussey’s calibre in next month and people can be allowed to be cautiously optimistic again.
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I applaud you for posting this but I really don’t think you should have bothered. Anyone with a bit of intelligence can see all the fuss about Sadler’s outside interests is a complete and utter load of bull from someone who doesn’t understand how these things work.
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Yep, mid-table fodder. All day.
Hussey - 35 by the end of the season. If he was that good, why didn’t the mighty Stockport County retain him?
Stirk - Spent last season on loan in the National Conference with the mighty Bromley because nobody in the football league wanted him.
Mid-table fodder.
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Your opinion, I disagree.
Not good enough.
So in that comment about Stirk, you’ve just proved that you don’t know the facts at all. Even a quick glance at the thread will tell you the reason why he ended up there and it wasn’t because he wasn’t wanted elsewhere. And, even if that had been the case, Bromley got to the National League play offs and he was one of their star players and most people will now agree that there’s not much difference between National League and our division
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Mansfield fans wanted him back, he went to Bromley because he was promised game time at blues which fell through, a 22 year old isn’t going to sit In reserves for 6 months is he? He also won player of the month twice during that spell at Bromley, who let’s be honest, would have turned us over last season should we have played them
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I don’t know all the facts, neither do you.
The proof of the pudding will be in the eating.
Hope I am proved wrong. Doubt it though.
I’d get a game for Bromley. Great achievement.
you know absolutely nothing about non league football
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I know more than you.
I respect your opinion but Bromley would have beaten us last season, in fact any team in that national league top 7 would have beaten us
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I’m only messing mate. My lads U11 team would have given us a good game last season pal.
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I think it’s more he needs a “reason” to have a go at someone appointed by Trivela so this is it.
The fact it’s apparently a problem for Sadler but not for Hussey shows it’s nothing to do with the “reason”.
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