The next 10 games are surely crucial. We had a great run where it suddenly seemed to click, but it’s starting to look a bit disjointed again now.
We need to see a consistently higher level to give us a sign that he’s the man to lead a promotion charge next year (if we can’t sneak into the playoffs this year).
Regardless of play offs ( or relegation) this is the time of the season to see the true character and desire this squad has .lots of teams we meet will be scrapping for either one of the above .We should be aiming to finish as high in the league as possible and to do that we have to go head to toe with everyone.it will also tell us a lot about Sadler and his ability to motivate just that .
Already honestly!!
Another basket case club, their words not mine. Who will want to go there, even their own fans are ridiculing the goings on there.
Mmmmm bet there’s a bloke in Newport licking his lips hoping for a phone call from Yorkshire, thinking about the possibility of working for a few months then picking up a pay off!!
Dino Marmaria probably or someone similar lol
Another " name" manager who’s been touted on here along with Appleton and others, just shows there’s no magic formula for choosing a new manager.
I really like what MK Dons did with Mike Williamson. Experience lower down and a lot of success, so give him a chance. Same as Notts County.
Hopefully Sadler just succeeds, but if he doesn’t then somebody like Andy Peaks from Tamworth would be my preference. I’m no expert though, just my opinion.
In all honesty he would probably have just as much chance of being successful as anyone.
A few years ago you could have made a case for Russell Penn and Jim O’Connor at Kidderminster but that’s gone pear shaped now.
I really think a lot of it is just being in the right place at the right time having a bit of luck and get a bit of momentum going , which would explain why when some managers leave clubs where they’ve been successful quite often it doesn’t work out when they move.
Obviously there are some basics required , man management, tactics, scouting , etc.
Anyone? lol
If that is true (A friend who is a Bratfud fan has doubts) then Alexander will have been sacked by two clubs with two thirds of the season gone!
He had 16 games in charge at MK Dons according to his Wiki page, must be a very similar figure at Bradford.
As someone mentioned above, at the moment i’m neither Sadler in or out. If he gets the sack, fine. If he stays, also fine.
That run we had in December has probably earnt him the right to continue until the end of the season at least.
Am i in the camp of giving him until the end of next season? Not at all.
What i dont want to see is another horrendous run, followed by a “job saving” one. I want consistency. Im not expecting to win every game but i expect a team to give there all, put trust in each other and the management team and a coach that shows sense in what hes doing.
Yeh, MS is a relatively young manager and is bound to make mistakes, but i honestly thought he’d of corrected some of the mistakes (i.e lack of subs) by now. We saw Taylor get the sack after his inability/stubborness to change things up if/when needed.
Its not negative but as i said about a week ago, will we get to roughly 76 points and get in the play-offs, with X amount of games left? Extremely doubtful. Answering that again after the Sutton game? Not a chance.
I’ll back him for now, but i wouldnt be committing to another 18 months of “this”, at this stage.
I don’t think he’ll survive another bad run this season. Boycott did point to the fact that we had some positive signs but didn’t build on them.
I think the important thing here regarding Sadler is we don’t appear to have a clown as an owner .its Bens ambitions for Walsall that count .if we’re not making the progress at the pace he wants .then Sadler’s job would be at risk .as a football manager he’s constantly being accessed. day by day. week by week ,
I’m probably repeating myself but when he was appointed It left me completely underwhelmed.
Initially I thought give him until mid November but he’s slowly turned things around.
We went on a decent run and what at one stage looked like a relegation battle would be the order of the day faded away.
The talk of making the playoffs is in my opinion unlikely. If that was a real possibility teams like Sutton need to be put to the sword.
To be fair to MS he has earned the right to see out the season because mid table at this stage is just about what I expected.
If we can finish inside the top ten this season I’d be happy for now but it’s important that we recruit the right players after this season finishes, then there can be no excuses in August. We can’t keep changing managers every five minutes but in fairness like the majority of fans I’m absolutely sick to death of this mediocrity we’ve drifted into.
Do I trust Trivela , yes because although things are moving slowly they are moving in the right direction.
How about a bit of perspective with this?
Since the start of December our league form is W5 L2 D1, 2 point per game.
This is despite what seems for some to have been a terrible January, 3 league games only, W1 L1 D1.
The January form is 1.33 points per game, keep that up we’ll be on around 62 points, by some margin our best season at this level. And yet some still don’t rate Sadler.
We would need 2 points per game to get to 75 and the usual play-off total. Whilst not convinced we’ll make it it’s achievable if we play as we have for the last 8 games.
February is going to be the clincher. We have 7 games, 4 of which are at home. 4 of the 7 are against the 4 teams currently immediately above us, 2 against the teams immediately below us (I’m ignoring Swindon over whom we have 2 games in hand) and the other is against Mansfield, who we can drag back into the play-off battle.
So effectively they’re all 6 pointers, if we can go W4 L1 D2 we’ll be right in the mix, 2 points per game on 51 points, around 9th with 12 to go. Obviously better would be better, but also W4 L3 D0 would be a good month, 1.71 per game and 49 points on the board and hopefully around 10th with 12 games to go.
Oh and I’d add a game in hand over everyone above us bar Crawley and Wrexham.
Why not?
If 1 team is coming from nowhere on a play off charge, it’s Harrogate. They’re only 1 point adrift of the play offs as it stands winning at Sutton currently
Sadler has the best team we have had at this level Aswell
He should be doing better than the others
That should be noted
Only thing he doesn’t have his a class striker like when we had adebayo
Our form is about the same as theirs.
Win the game in hand and beat them in Feb and we’re level…
Oh its more than possible as said above what’s baffling me every game that comes along I keep hearing “ this is a bad time to be playing these “ as of Sutton Saturday 