Black as ink strong 3 sugars should do it
Said on another thread that the timing of early bird finishing will be a killer, would expect apart from clowns like me uptake will have been slower than anticipated when it was announced and after yesterday there will be no rush to pay the higher price.
Suspect they will anounce an extension when they know where we are.
That will definitely put a nail in the coffin.
Matt Sadler sits in his office with a blank piece of paper the day before the game.
Simkin is going so might as well play Hornby.
And the picks the spine of the team, Okagbue, Stirk and Matt.
That is a weakened start straight away.
Dave at fault for first goal, don’t keep giving cheap throw ins away.
Stirk is going backwards.
Matt is not a strong forward.
He has Harry Williams (player of the season for me) and DD available and picks Dave?
George Hall available and picks Stirk?
Uncle Albert has sadly lost his mojo.
Sadler out before Barrow
Phil thats never going to happen , not in million years.
The Americans love Sadler.
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Great point that is. You think the squad is just too big? Too many disenting voices when 30% of them arent in the matchday squad?
Im all for Sadz too keep going. What i would do is support him in his learning… change his no2 who maybe has some different ideas than Waddock.
The 3-5-2 works when were fit and fast. When we attack through all 4 avenues; RWB LWB RCM LCM; but like that 2nd half showed on Sat - its fkin dreadful when its not used.
Jeff had the bollocks to jettison O’Driscoll for a better record over 17 games
But Trivela are not men of action. They won’t have planned our next management step they didn’t plan our striking options !
Trivela also have to much going on elsewhere to sort us out properly
I would be over the moon if he went. He has one plan. It isn’t going to get us promoted by the looks of it. Some of us knew this. Others did not.
There was a point where I thought it was impossible to fail. Even Mike Bassett would have got us over the line with a team written out on the back of a cigarette packet.
Then I feared a little that the title wasn’t in the bag but no way we could mess up top 3, I would have been happy with that.
Then the doubts started to creep in just a little, but we will be fine.
The Cheltenham disaster woke me up. I felt that was a critical moment and from then on have been really worried. And nothing much I have seen since has changed my mind and we are where we are now.
Whatever the preseason expectations were and what ever anyone else thinks, in my mind I think it is actually being under played what a cock up this is if we don’t get top 3. An unthinkable disaster.
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Barrow are a much improved side they outplayed vale and beat them on their own turf just a few weeks ago not an easy game at all.
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I agree its not an easy game, but they didn’t outplay Vale, Vale rotated and went 1-0 down. When Moore brought the first string on at half time they got battered and somehow hung on for a 1-0 win, Vale hit the woodwork 4 times! They are another team that like us don’t like posession of the football, and their recent results have been better away than at home hitting teams on the break.
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So what is the connection between the previous ownership and the Yanks?
People are actually feeding the gloating trolls now, who are now talking about how great Bonser was.
Right. Thats enough of this nonsense for a while.
Absolutely crackers.
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I think the Newcastle example is the only one that comes close. They were 12 points ahead with 15 games to go and ended up 4 points behind.
In terms of collapsing and falling down the table, Tranmere’s 2012-13 in League One was quite something as they were top on 19 January, 7 points ahead of 3rd and 13 points ahead of 7th. They got just 11 points from their last 17 matches and ended up finishing 11th.
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Because they had their abysmal run from November to January. 2 wins in 10, 4 in 16.
Our run has evened it out, after we we went from 3pts behind them 14 pts ahead over about 5 weeks from Dec to Jan.
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Nothing will happen until our fate is decided, if we go up he stays, if we miss out then I cannot come up with any justification to keep him in charge. Said before that if we had been mid table on this run he would be gone.
Pointless changing now in my humble opinion, but if we miss out then it will be a catastrophic capitulation that no Manager/Head coach could or should really survive, I would be gone in my line of work for anything mildly looking like this.
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I respectfully disagree. Sadler is incredibly highly thought of within the Trivela Group and the mantra has very much been incremental improvement. Taken on the season as a whole whatever happens from here there has been improvement from last season, although the dire second half form has been alarming I think Trivela will as ever be looking at the bigger picture. That said if we miss pout and start next season poorly the pressure from the stands may well force Trivelas hand in making a change.
If that really is how Trivela see things then am sorry but I will have to completely disagree, whilst I see your point what has happened since February is not progress at all incremental or otherwise. had we have been mid table and ended up here then had a blip I could possibly deal with it, butt where we were to now I just cannot accept as incremental progress.
It is a matter of opinion I suppose.
The discontent is bubbling in the background. Considering the total shitshow since January, I genuinely think Sadler has got off lightly. Mainly cos I think most people thought we would still get top 3.
This collapse can’t be shrugged off with “It’s progress” and it won’t be. If we do fail to get over the line, the fans won’t forgive Sadler in the same way they never forgave Whitney for the Barnsley playoffs, even though he revived our season when he took over from O’Driscoll.
They may not sack him right away, but his days will be numbered unless we fly out of the gates next season and even then, how can we forget this season?
I am still clinging on to the hope we crawl over the line.
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Or what about divison 3 (efl1 for the young ones). The team top on goal difference on 22 jan with 35 points from 20 games. The weather had been particularly bad since early december They ended the season getting 18 points from the next 26 games and stayed up on goal difference.
That team of couse being Walsall.
Infact if I remember correctly Newport beat Swindon in a game after the final Saturday which kept us up
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Dean Smith went 17 games without a win and still didn’t get the sack
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Agree totally, I hope he is still in charge for next season, but the only way that is viable for me based on where we have been is promotion.
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