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Quote from: dickos1 on May 28, 2012, 07:52:59 pmNo but what evidence is there that he wanted to build from within? This season we've given more contracts out and longer contracts than ever before. Certainly over the last ten yearsSOD did want some young players coming through and was instrumental in recruiting paul wilson from scunny but you need time to bring through young players and usually they come along in groups as they seem to encourage each other
No but what evidence is there that he wanted to build from within? This season we've given more contracts out and longer contracts than ever before. Certainly over the last ten years
Deeper shit than EVER??? Really? Were you not around in 97/98????
Okay Whisky, help me with my lost sense of perception. List the positives to be drawn from our current predicament. Over budget, in contravention of FFP rules and facing the possibility of sanctions. Pre-season games start in barely 6 weeks time.This ‘massive OTT reaction’ dickos1 is not because of relegation, it is to the manner of how it was brought about and the inevitable aftermath that surrounds catastrophic managerial and policy decisions. Please do tell me on what factual basis you can possibly state categorically that we will be competitive next year and finish in the top half?And furthermore dickos1, I do not cascade Saunders. I castigate. Cascade is defined as: ‘a series that once initiated continues to the end, each step being triggered by the preceding one, sometimes with cumulative effect’ and I would suggest that is what the Chairman instigated back in September resulting in relegation.Please don’t feel sorry for Saunders. He wasn’t forced to come here and he arrived with his eyes wide open like a kiddy in a sweetshop. He had the final say on every player we recruited. He hasn’t actually bought a player, as you say, but had the January transfer window to buy and sell in. He clearly chose not to. He could sign out of contract players and players without clubs at any time on permanent deals. He chose not to.As for the evidence that he wanted to build from within? Read the Free Press Archives where SOD categorically stated to JR that the current model was unsustainable and we should be a selling club, nurturing and developing talent.The players Saunders inherited had been pushing for a play-off place barely 6 months previous. Saunders arrived when players like Billy were coming back into contention following injuries. Unfortunately they were deemed by this Conference monkey to be not good enough, sidelined, alienated and kept out of the shop window thus diminishing any residual value they had. It’s a tough job for any agent to tout round a player who wasn’t deemed good enough to get into the worst TEAM in the Championship by a mile last season. Hence their worth has capitulated.Donnyroversfc stated, ‘i don't know why donnybob is saying the club was too ambitious and carried away... It was the total opposite to that.’ Afraid I have to disagree there. JR told the media he hadn’t given up on the play-offs this season after recruiting Willie appointing Saunders and that he fully expected the club to be pushing for promotion to the Premiership the following season. Considering where we are now and what is happening with the squad I put it to you his enthusiasm was a tad over-ambitious, wouldn’t you agree?As ctay suggests, if DS turns things around he’ll be the first to admit he was wrong. I’ll be second, too, if we bounce straight back to the Championship but I fear there’s more chance of me having a period than that!Oh to be in Crewe or Crawley's shoes now...
Ooooh, touchy, eh?Some of us are equally sick of the worth a punt, we should nick this or that guy when the truth is we can't go for anyone until the mess that's been created is resolved. There is no long term plan. Fact is we've a shit manager appointed in haste by a knee-jerk board and all we've got to look forward to right now is waiting for good players to walk away.