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Where has he gone anyway?
The fans - they are also a problem. Too many wanted us to fail and that's created a poisonous at times atmosphere at the very time we should be getting behind them.
Quote from: \"jonnydog\" post=231082Where has he gone anyway?Moved into a new pad with Sam Hird and hasn't had time to get broadband set up yet IIRC.
Quote from: \"donnyroversfc\" post=231086Quote from: \"jonnydog\" post=231082Where has he gone anyway?Moved into a new pad with Sam Hird and hasn't had time to get broadband set up yet IIRC.Dunno but reading your posts droning on and on about the same old subjects - you dont half sound like him, hmmmm
Saunders?Tactically inept, out of his depth & in my opinion needs to leave sooner rather than later. How much are his hands tied though?Does he even pick the team? Sam Hird (i'm not his biggest fan) has been outstanding when he has played but DS doesn't seem to want to play him.The McKay project?Hasn't really worked, maybe a good idea in principle & it's been good to see the likes of EHD in a Rovers shirt, on the flip side I thoughtthe days of the Goulon's putting the shirt on had gone with the demise of the Richardson era.The Players?Some here only briefly do they give a fcuk if we go down? they leave & get a signing fee elsewhere, that said Beye & EHD seem the onlyones to care on occasion.The old guard have been conspicous by there absence many times (Copps looks like he threw the towel in months ago)JR & BoardNot going to blame them for getting rid of S'OD-at the time I thought it was the right decision,looking back maybe not (at least in terms of the footbal played)There's no doubt JR has the best interests of the club at heart but he more than anyone must see the divide in the club.His absense from our TV screens & radios speaks volumes for me.So where do we go from here?We lasted longer in the Championship than I thought & until recently haven't looked out of place, watching th FLS this morning a seeing the togetherness of theTorquay players made me wonder what the coach trips to away games are like at DRFC, we need some of what Torquay have.Personally I'd look at appointing someone like Martin Allen, a proper man manager (& a bit crazy to boot!) get some team spirit back and have a crack at League 1, Allen's Notts County side looked goo at the KM in the cup and won at a canter, he has had success and seemed to improve every team he has managed. He has left clubs for bigger teams and it has bitten him on the arse & he may think twice about doing that in the future.We need the fun back in the club.
I blame madmick50 for not hanging around to offer his expert advice to Deano and JR. I'm sure we would have stayed up if they had been able to tap into his vast business and team building knowledge.
Mick how are you mate? I have taken some of micks advice onboard. Started my own company up. I am going to sell conkers.
Mr Croft.I agree with you pretty much 100%. The rot set in when we lost control of the defensive strengths that we'd had in the first 2 years in this division.Back in 08-09 and 09-10, we had an excellent defensive record. In 08-09, we conceded 1.15 goals per game. Even when we were in dreadful form during the first half of that season, we were still defensively quite tight, conceding around 1.1-1.2 goals per game on average. That is damn good form, and puts you in the top 8-10 of defences in the division. We were a little looser in 09-10, but still had the 11th best defensive record in the division, conceding 1.28 goals per game.By 10-11, things started to get entirely unbalanced. As you say, we'd replaced Mills with Shackell/Ward in 09-10, but we simply didn't address the centre-back and left back holes in the following season. So we started shipping goals big style. Even before the injuries struck and when our overall form was good in the first half of 10-11, we were leaking goals at an alarming rate. Between Aug-Dec 2010, we conceded 35 goals in 21 games - 1.66 goals per game which was the 5th worst record in the division. That was fine as long as Sharp was fit and in form - we scored almost as many as we conceded. (NB: The free-scoring/free-conceding form of that time actually gives the lie to those who say that O'Driscoll's sides were always dull and boring.)But when the injuries struck, we went to pieces. Over the last 25 games of 10-11 we conceded 46 goals and scored only 22.We've carried on at a similar rate this season when Sharp hasn't been available.You hit the nail on the head Mr Croft. I said at the time we signed Sharp that the one and only reason why that could be a sane decision was if we were going to go balls out for a top 6 place.And it came damn-close to working. By early March 2010, we were looking like making a run on the rails for the play-offs. By Nov 11, we were a last-minute equaliser against Swansea away from breaking into the top 5 with 40% of the season gone.But it didn't work. We couldn't hold it together. And with hindsight, it was a gamble. It put all our eggs in one Billy Sharp shaped basket and left us hoping that he (and the meagre cover that we had in other positions) stayed fit. It could have given us the jackpot, but instead it left us with the current predicament. That's life folks. Maybe we could have played it softly-softly. Maybe we could have made do with a decent, honest, unspectacular journeymen throughout the side and aimed for respectable, safe lower table mediocrity. But that would never be Ryan's way. With hindsight, although we maybe didn't even realise it at the time, we shot for the moon and were hobbled by bad luck.We've had the upswing. We saw some wonderful football and lived some wonderful moments. In a not-very-different parallel universe, with a couple fewer injuries and the odd moment of luck, we'd be living the life that Swansea now have.But (unless you are the sort of bell end who wants your football with a guarantee of success) part of the life of a fan is dealing with both directions of the pendulum's swing. If you're a genuine football fan, you now take a big deep breath, deal with your pain.And for fcuk's sake, stop babbying.
Is there any truth in the rumours that madmick's 'business knowledge' stretches only as far as being a self-employed window cleaner/part-time gambler?Also another little rumour i heard is that madmick's 'team building knowledge' was actually just him and his 2 mates going for a weekend at PGL?Can you ask him if he can confirm or deny these rumours please?
Which brings me back to my opening statement, had Shackell shown more respect for us instead of running into Barnsley to cash in his signing-on bonus would we be in this situation? I don't think at the time their was a better chance to sign a better player for that position. I suppose we will never know but I am of the belief that is was that act of greed by not only Shackell but our neighbors Barnsley condemned us to the decline that followed.Another reason to hate the Dingles, and Shackell of course...