The ‘doubters’ are probably the away fans who were singing, ‘Top of the league and you fudged it up!’
I did hear a bit on Talk Sport this morning about Leeds United and Gabby Agbonlahor played that Joy Division parody: “Leeds are falling apart again.”
I forced a wry smile…
Or the Walsall fans that were singing it!
I don’t mind either way if it has the desired effect.
Nothing wrong in developing a siege mentality as long as everyone buys into it, the players still seem to be tight knit group imho
It’s typical Walsall though, things start to go wrong and the pesky fans start questioning things (rightly, and without it being as bad as it could be thanks to the false position we’re in!) and it becomes a them vs us attitude.
Not sure it actually ever recovers from that.
Probably should have ‘proved all of us who thought we would go up with a mossiv lead’ right, maybe?
Remarks like those really do my head in.
We are not ‘doubters’, we are observers.
And stakeholders! The support, home and away, this season has been excellent. The club can’t blame the fans. We aren’t the ones who’ve bottled it on the pitch or recruited badly in the January transfer window when 2 or 3 solid signings were needed. According to Sadler, we had “agents banging our door down” in January. Surely we could have signed the quality, experienced players that would have seen promotion achieved by now! I hope there is a siege mentality developing amongst the players and staff: we’ve got 5 cup finals to play - we need to win at least 3 of them!!
Paying ones, at that.
You think we should have paid the £250,000 asked by Lincoln for Freddie Draper after they renaged on the previously accepted offer of £100,000?
Sadler has had a couple of thinly veiled swipes at the supporters of late. He should look a lot closer to home for a “blame game” .. he is paid to coach and motivate a squad of players, we pay to observe the outputs of his week long focus/preparation. The blind loyalty where’s thin after such a horrific return of results, such a rinse and repeat set of responses form the manager to try and explain the free fall from “unassailable lead” to relegation form and probable play off also rans. We are in this together BUT the reality check Sadler needs to swallow is that the players performance manifesting from his so called leadership needs to spark the passionate support that is dwindling when faced with the potential catastrophic implosion from the best position we have been in since returning to the EFL basement.
No, I don’t think Draper is worth £250k - but why was he seemingly the only target? What other options were available? What about adding some quality in midfield? Other teams strengthened in January - we didn’t!
I thought that Lincoln had decided that they weren’t willing to sell him?
I understood that they increased the price and wanted £250,000
I do sometimes wonder how much effort we put into retaining Hutch last season I now he had a release clause which he chose to exercise but Hutch was the ideal player to have built a promotion squad around he could very well have been the creative player we’ve really lacked that could have easily seen us over the line .Did Ben and Sadler not see this. a very lucrative offer for 12 months might have well paid off handsomely for all parties .or was the fee to attractive to refuse .
Seems to be a lot of getting upset by reading too much into what Sadler said. Taking offence at perceived insults.
Too much looking for things to take offence at and paranoia.
I get that some people don’t like the manager and/or never wanted him. But there’s really nothing there.
It’s all gone a bit: “he looked at me funny”, “he wobbled his head” again.
Just to add fuel to the fire, wasn’t the manager who signed Isaac for Bristol Rovers last summer, Matt Taylor (the average player but good manager, rather than Solihull’s current gaffer)?
Is he still out of work?
EDIT: this was posted 8 days ago: an interesting read, in terms of wider perspective:
Flynn signed Hutchinson.
I was just pointing out what he said, I’m not offended.
Although I don’t know Sadler personally, he does come across as a bit of a dick at times. The kind that can’t/won’t say anything directly but drops little comments which could be taken in different ways.
I don’t really give a shiny, if he get’s us promoted though.
Any manager who’s winning games is the messiah as soon as they start to lose a few they suddenly become a dick.. thats football
No, no you explained why he is talking absolute shit again, so you must be offended 