I still think the budget and signings will be key.
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Think our biggest job will be to keep hold-en on to Holden.
Other than that we need to find a hidden gem of a striker, or bring in a veteran who can bang them in at this level for a season or two, a la Rammell/Macken/Mooney/Angell etc
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After what Pomlett said yesterday, Duttonās future is so closely related to any incoming DoF, itās almost futile debating it until we know more. Heāll have to make a judgement on i/ how much ability/potential in general will Dutton have as a head coach,ii/ will he be specifically capable of implementing the intended changes and vision, iii/ does the new DoF think they can work together. We know so little and it wouldnāt be too surprising if whoever it is already intended to bring their own coach in.
Not one person has gone ābefore yesterdayās win I thought he was useless, Iām totally convinced that heās the man for the job after yesterday thoughā. Not one.
Think youāre just struggling to accept that people are open minded and that once they have an opinion it doesnāt mean it canāt change and look at other points to see if thereās maybe positive points to Dutton as a coach that were overlooked because we were (rightly) obsessed with wanting that first win that everything else we ignored. For me thatās a good thing.
Youāre dead set against wanting him as manager? Fine. But donāt let it become so personal that you canāt find it within yourself to give him a bit of credit where itās due and have to slam everyone else for doing just that.
No matter what he does between now and the end of the season
His press comments are weird
His in game management is terrible. So many strange naive calls made in games
Team selection has been erratic players drop from The XI to being out the squad
He has zero pull as a manager to match our zero pull as a club
Everything pointed to this being wrong at the start. It did in the middle and it still does now.
This club needs good will and momentum to head in to next season. A big unbeaten run or really positive performances give us this with Brian
Anything but that and the club are In trouble
But heās here letās see what he does
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You can be as open minded as you like but at some point Pomeltt has a choice to make that we all have to accept luckily Pomeltt is making that decision and not you because even though I think it would be a bad decision I suspect Pomeltt thinks itāll be a good decision and I suspect you will be the Piers Morgan of walsall fans that Will decide to go to whatever the side of the fence Dutton falls in or out.
Unless We win every game More or less from now till the end of the season he wouldnāt have earnt the Job on merit not points wise anyway so heās getting the Job if he does on Pomeltts personal opinion of him thatās fine because thatās Pomeltts job and Pomeltt can take 90% of the blame if it goes tits up .
Points wise come the end of the season I think weāll be in a situation where no current manager of any team in the national league would have done a worse job hopefully Iām proved wrong and that win yesterday might be the monkey off the back, We could lose on Tuesday tho and itās back to square One.
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Okay mate, whatever that means. Piers Morgan of Walsall fans, that hurts.
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He needs to do a lot more than win one game at the 14th attempt to convince me heās the right man. We really need to win at least half of the remaining games and probably lose no more than one to get my support. Although I get the feeling he already has the job in the bag anyway, bar a real disastrous run.
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Can anybody think of a manager throughout the history of football, who failed to win any of their first 13 matches, then went on to be successful?
@milansaddler and @Otiswfc I agree. Needs to do a hell of a lot more. But that wonāt bother Pomlett one bit. If he thinks Dutton is the man heāll keep him there.
He clearly doesnāt mind if it threatens football league status.
The letters and questions from focus meetings are water off a ducks back.
The liklehood of the worst season ticket sales since we moved to Bescot donāt seem to have an impact.
Iāve got a feeling Brian stays.
Mike Duff the closest I can think of - took ten games to get his first win at Cheltenham.
I can say, so far the ownerās gamble paid off. We are probably staying in this league, so time for good decisions now. Will BD be one of these decisions? I donāt know. I know when DC was sacked by Bristol City, BD stayed there for half a season before joining him at WFC. So fifty percent he will stay or go to Vale. I wonāt be surprised if he will join him, again. Iām happy now, relegation is rather unlikely and big thanks to BD for this. Someone else could relegate us lower or would make this season more nervous, than it was.
Youāve gotta be kidding? We was hunting for the play offs before he came manager . Anybody with half a brain cell would have kept us up. thereās been improvements but letās not pretend heās done an amazing job cause itās been a disaster up until the Harrogate game. heās learning on the job and heās made a lot of mistakes but heās improving and Iām happy to see how the next 6 games go but we shouldnāt be thanking anyone.
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Were we though, really? DC had a lucky streak of 4 wins, but look either side of those wins. We were never really challenging, and nor would we have if he stayed IMO.
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I donāt think Clarke would of got us near the playoffs either, but at the same time I donāt consider staying up any sort of achievement. Weāve avoided the worst case scenario, thatās it.
As a club we need to get away from this ālucky just to be hereā mentality. You could make some sort of case for it in League One, even if thatās our historic level, but certainly not in League Two.
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We was 7 points from the play offs and even Dutton himself said he would have failed if he didnāt make them. I aināt saying we should have made them but sure as hell shouldnāt have been fighting relegation. We should never have been in that situation to begin with. We donāt owe Dutton any thanks
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Iām not convinced about that hunting promotion part. Of course thatās my opinion, but after failure of building a team capable of challenging for playoff places, someone had to keep this team in a league. Rest was a cost cutting exercise, so BD deserves some praise. He survived and the team survived too. But ok, Iām awaiting, eagerly can say, what decisions will be made May/June. It will decide the future of the club in the next few years, so better be right this time.
Spot on.
I still think the lack of a decent striker after Adebeyo was sold has made it difficult.
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