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I am V interested in people's thoughts on this as both DF and GS have been trotting out this message over the last couple of weeks.I think we have in some ways as we now are harder to beat as a rule.We have a good striker in Marquis who just needs the right partner to get him another 20plus goals next season.We have greatly reduced the average age of the team.I also think he has far less cash to spend than any of his recent predecessorsThat's about it though for me. I'm not a DF fan and never wanted him as manager. I think alot of his signings are more miss than hit. I think his style of football is one dimensional and quite boring. I also think he's failed in developing the younger players from the youth team into potential 1st teamers.Some positives, some negatives. What do I expect for next season?I'd like to see a playoff push, more exciting football with energy and passion from the team. progression from the youth team. I don't think that is too much to ask
Quote from: godlike1 on April 21, 2018, 09:55:08 pmI am V interested in people's thoughts on this as both DF and GS have been trotting out this message over the last couple of weeks.I think we have in some ways as we now are harder to beat as a rule.We have a good striker in Marquis who just needs the right partner to get him another 20plus goals next season.We have greatly reduced the average age of the team.I also think he has far less cash to spend than any of his recent predecessorsThat's about it though for me. I'm not a DF fan and never wanted him as manager. I think alot of his signings are more miss than hit. I think his style of football is one dimensional and quite boring. I also think he's failed in developing the younger players from the youth team into potential 1st teamers.Some positives, some negatives. What do I expect for next season?I'd like to see a playoff push, more exciting football with energy and passion from the team. progression from the youth team. I don't think that is too much to askThe bit in bold is ridiculous. What do you expect him to do with the youth team in 2 years? The U18 now have been there since before he started and potentially before Dickov or even Saunders started, it's a bit hard to instantly turn an average player youth player into a League One player. You probably will see progression over the next year or two from the youth team but that isn't all down to DF, it's down to the last 10 years of progression. I think theres an problem with football fans in their obsession with short termism, wanting everything now, they want the nice football and the results. The manager slowly starts putting that together but if the results aren't working then the fans start calling for the sack, so the manager makes the team harder to beat and grinding out win, then the fans aren't happy with the football on display and want him sacked, it's catch 22. Like with Ferguson last season he got us an exciting attacking team and results, this season due to us getting promoted we have to change our style to get more points out of the team, next season, budget depending we sign the right players and we get back to attacking teams and picking up the results.
I too am not a DF fan. Poor when he first came and used the excuse 'their not my players!'.Always said 'judge me when I have my own players'. Marquis was outstanding last season playing at that level, but certainly doesn't seem to have found his feet in this league. I know we have had injury issues but strange formations and key players dropped doesn't inspire me with confidence. Not sure what the future holds?
There's been this argument all season and there's very little in the way of middle ground on the opinions of most of our fans.It's either one extreme or the other. For me, I'm very much on the fence this season. Yes I'd have liked to have seen more but as soon as we won promotion then a season of consolidation was what I was expecting. Especially after what happened the season before at this level.In terms of developing youngsters. We have Mason who he's had since he was 18/19 who is now, in the right position, one of our more consistent players and Beestin who is fast becoming one of our most important players. Not specifically 'from our youth team' but if we sell them on for bigger money then I couldn't care where they came from initially.Overall, I'm waiting for next season. As a club we've taken a step back recently but the 'not my players' excuse alluded to above was valid in that first season to an extent. If you look at it objectively. Despite losing the title, last season was very much 'Job done'. Safe this season so for me, again, this is 'Job Done'.Now we are back where we started. Yes DF has to take some blame for the relegation but I think we can all accept there was more to it than just him. Since then he's got the job done so far to get back to where we were. It was disappointing that we didn't win the league, granted, but we were up so I'm happy with that.Next season is where I will fully judge DF. We should be kicking on next season and that's what DF and the club have already alluded to so for me, it's going to be an interesting summer.Long winded answer to the question but for me, we are making progress, we just started making progress after taking an initial one step back.