The Elephant in the room !

[RugbyRover]

And so is the monkey.  Anyone expecting a team with three new signings and two other changes to produce immediate results knows nothing about football and is just on here to show how stupid he can be.

McCann must have expected it to get a result? No?

[Jonathan]

What do the ‘elephant in the room’ smart arses suggest we do? Go out and get yet another manager?! Come on, how can anyone be that stupid.

We have an excellent manager but the problems continue. It’ll take time to fix. Dare I say patience and intelligence too, which it’s clear some people are lacking.

[In the box]

And so is the monkey.  Anyone expecting a team with three new signings and two other changes to produce immediate results knows nothing about football and is just on here to show how stupid he can be.

So why pick them if you aren’t expecting things to improve ?

[In the box]

What do the ‘elephant in the room’ smart arses suggest we do? Go out and get yet another manager?! Come on, how can anyone be that stupid.

We have an excellent manager but the problems continue. It’ll take time to fix. Dare I say patience and intelligence too, which it’s clear some people are lacking.

My Elephant is tactics , too slow in the build up and often with too many players just not competing to hurt the opponent where it matters in their half of the pitch .
Poor goals conceded tells you that we aren’t fighting hard enough in the right areas of the pitch .? McCann has to take responsibility for this entire season as they’re nearly ALL his choices both tactically and player selection.

[i_ateallthepies]

And so is the monkey.  Anyone expecting a team with three new signings and two other changes to produce immediate results knows nothing about football and is just on here to show how stupid he can be.

So why pick them if you aren’t expecting things to improve ?

The point is you expecting IMMEDIATE results.  Two of the three debutants yesterday put in performances better than we have been getting with the personnel they replaced.  The team created a handful of goal chances and were just plain unlucky that not even one got past the keeper.

[ravenrover]

Has anyone said why so many others apart from Faal were missing from the squad yesterday?

[BigH]

Still leadership, or lack of.

January is a notoriously difficult month to try and fix things so I’m not particularly hopeful. Managers roll the dice but it still requires a lot of luck for changes to be effective.

The best January I can recall was in the mid-2000s when we took on Kevin Horlock. To that point we were flirting with relegation from L1 but Horlock brought some bite to the midfield, protected the defence and gave confidence to the team generally. We knew we wouldn’t get rolled over. I think we need someone similar now but they’d be very difficult to get hold of given our position and limitations.

[In the box]

And so is the monkey.  Anyone expecting a team with three new signings and two other changes to produce immediate results knows nothing about football and is just on here to show how stupid he can be.

So why pick them if you aren’t expecting things to improve ?

The point is you expecting IMMEDIATE results.  Two of the three debutants yesterday put in performances better than we have been getting with the personnel they replaced.  The team created a handful of goal chances and were just plain unlucky that not even one got past the keeper.

Your probably right but we still lost from a comfortable position where a point was well earned . If you can’t win don’t loose !!

[Lesonthewest]

What do the ‘elephant in the room’ smart arses suggest we do? Go out and get yet another manager?! Come on, how can anyone be that stupid.

We have an excellent manager but the problems continue. It’ll take time to fix. Dare I say patience and intelligence too, which it’s clear some people are lacking.
Sounds a bit condescending, but these 'smart arses' may have a genuine concern for our league status. I for one, as are many many others fully behind Grant & his staff,  this is a slow process that he will get right, of that I'm sure. He has brought in some good young players, & a few not so good. What he needs to do in this moment in time is steady the ship,  set the team up to get results to stave away the threat, & a real threat it is, of relegation. If this means parking the bus instead of playing expansive football & still losing at home, to Newport, then so be it. While I will back him to the hilt, he needs to get a few results, & quickly. The 'Elephant in the room' is still there.

So rather than what