Has grant mcann ran out of credit ?

[DMnumber4]

Strange one. Is Grant actually in a stronger position if we get relegated? Who else would you want to build a promotion chasing team than someone who built a L2 title winning side last season?

[Rupee92ONLY]

Strange one. Is Grant actually in a stronger position if we get relegated? Who else would you want to build a promotion chasing team than someone who built a L2 title winning side last season?

He will probably stay even if we are relegated and this would be the reasoning but i’d argue against that. He has told us himself publicly that he knows L1 better than L2. Next summer would/will be a very big one, recruitment wise. We’ll need a lot of quality through the door. Has he shown enough to be trusted on that front? Absolutely not imo. 

[Bills view]

From watching it feels like we are a lower bottom half team. The impression I got at the start of the season from McCann and the club is that we would be better than we currently are.

Something has gone wrong.

Loads of similar quality players, maybe the January recruits will make a bigger difference.

There definitely needs to be a comprehensive lessons learned session done so if McCann stays we have a different, hopefully better approach before next season.

[mpc123]

I dont get this part of not recruited well.

Just because every player hasn't blown the world apart.

It's like you all expect each player to play to the top of their form every game and we then win promotion.

We have made great strides on and off the pitch, we are building. It might be slightly disappointing that a hope of mid table ish may not happen, but I dont think we are that far from it.

We have had great cup days / runs and 1 game from Wembley.

I dont know what people want from a club where nobody can be arsed to turn up from the city.
Fans that over moan and get on at the players in some case in a rather disgusting way.

For me our fanbase is one of our major downfalls.

More positive vibe, support of the players, a city that turns up and I think you wont be far off all getting what you want.

Is it really the clubs fault? Personally I think the club is let down from the support of the city, which would give revenues, I think supporters dont understand the flux and building stage we are in.... just players play brilliant football or you are rubbish mentality.

They are already losing millions trying to sustain the position and give to the fans and struggling to get the support from football manager wanna be.

Going through the days of not knowing if the club was going to be here at all was probably an eye opener and a growing up moment for me, years ago.

And before anyone replies with its a forum, you can still talk about football without just ever saying all the players are rubbish.

Mccann stays, keep building, its a silly conversation. Further success will come in time with our current regime.

[NickDRFC]

I dont get this part of not recruited well.

Just because every player hasn't blown the world apart.

It's like you all expect each player to play to the top of their form every game and we then win promotion.

For me it’s really hard to argue with the fact recruitment hasn’t been good enough and you’re presenting a non-existent argument (for the most part, there are always some who are totally unrealistic) about expectations for promotion. In the summer we signed:

- Hanlan, who has consistently been a L1 player but struggles to get a game and when he has played, hasn’t looked like fitting in. He won’t be cheap given the level he’s previously played at
- Pearson, again signed as a reasonably high profile player but clearly not fancied despite how bad we’ve been defensively
- Crew - sent back in January
- Ajayi - sent back in January
- Olusanya - not sure if he was sent back or just loan expired but either way he was nowhere near good enough
- Grehan - doesn’t look ready but still trusted with a reasonable amount of game time
- Middleton - doesn’t look a bad player necessarily but clearly a bad fit
- O’Riordan - very good
- Gotts - very good lately, but inexplicably took 5 months to find a position for him to get that level of performance
- TLT - despite his Huddersfield heroics you’d struggle to argue this has been a success. He’s cost us a lot of points over the season and we replaced him as number 1 in January

So out of 10 signings, only 2 I’d say have been successful. I don’t think any of the rest have even been average so for me 8 out of 10 have been poor. It’s really clear to me (and hopefully the club!) that we recruited badly in the summer.

The January signings immediately look better but it’s still too early to judge, and even if they all turn out to be decent it’s still not a great record for the full season.

[dickos1]

Do you mean league 1 player for hanlan?

Crew, TLT, both excellent signings, that every supporter celebrated.
The fact they haven’t worked out this time as well as the first time is surely down to the player.
We know they’re both very good players who will no doubt play at a higher level than this.
Crew especially seemed to turn up here with a poor attitude this season,
It’s too early to suggest grehan is a bad signing for me, and I think Middleton, Gotts, o Riordan have been good signings, add to that haks, Clark, Byrne, Lee, Robinson I can’t see how this years recruitment can be described as poorly as people seem to be making out

[NickDRFC]

Do you mean league 1 player for hanlan?

Crew, TLT, both excellent signings, that every supporter celebrated.
The fact they haven’t worked out this time as well as the first time is surely down to the player.
We know they’re both very good players who will no doubt play at a higher level than this.
Crew especially seemed to turn up here with a poor attitude this season,
It’s too early to suggest grehan is a bad signing for me, and I think Middleton, Gotts, o Riordan have been good signings, add to that haks, Clark, Byrne, Lee, Robinson I can’t see how this years recruitment can be described as poorly as people seem to be making out

I did mean that with Hanlan thanks, have corrected now.

What supporters thought about Crew and TLT is totally irrelevant, they’ve proved to be poor signings and some of the responsibility of that has to sit with the people who signed them.

The fact you say Middleton has been a good signing just shows that we see things completely differently. He’s hasn’t played much and when he has he has barely contributed. It’s not as though he’s being kept on the bench by someone playing out of their skin either, for the most part he’s been competing with an underwhelming Gibson. For me it’s mad to call him a “good signing”.

[dickos1]

Not every signing is going to be our best player, it’s obvious the plan this season was to have two good players for every position. To help with injuries, loss of form etc, to get into a position like that means your signing players to cover positions so not every single one is going to be a star player.
Can’t recall us ever having a squad this good with as much cover