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[WEBBERhyde]

I said to a friend yesterday that Lindsey gives me similar vibes to Sheridan.
He seems a bit tactically inept, does lots of shouting and comes across like he doesn’t expect to be questioned and I have a feeling players don’t want to play for him, so the likes of Jephcott or FBT will leave when they can.

I am probably way off but it’s the vibe I’m getting.

Funny, I’ve been thinking about parallels with Sherridan after yesterday too. To be clear, SL doesn’t seem to be a bad bloke at all, we really want him to do well, but it’s just not happening for him.

What I do see, looking back over the season so far, considering our league position, which has been mostly built on early season form (remember how we were all surprised how we went unbeaten for such a long period?! Feels a long time ago now) is things seemingly getting worse the more time the group of players are coached into “the system”. I feel a lot of those earlier results came during earlyish days where players were still finding their feet and relying on instinct rather than on coached “auto-pilot”.

To a more extreme effect, I remember players coming into the Sheridan set up looking genuinely superb in the first few games (Twine and Dom Thompson really stand out in the memory) before being ground down by the Sheridan system and any kind of spark about them extinguished to fit into the anemic, turgid, attrition that was Shez-ball.

It’s a horrible comparison to make, but the more I see, the less I think the SL system has a chance of coming good. The only reservation I have on that is just how much the Sandro spreadsheet has to answer for this. I wasn’t convinced by the talk of the money ball system during the summer. I just think league two football is too shit/chaotic for a pure numbers based approach to work consistently (that isn’t the attritional hoof-fest that so many teams have relied on to get out of the league so often before). Again, I’m not seeing anything that’s going to change my mind on that any time soon. We’re just left with a hodge-podge of a team and system with no redeeming features at all at the moment, even on the more agricultural but effective side of things, there’s none of that either!

I’m fucking sick of it.

[DV]

And who was that?

One of the women’s team, supposedly, so I was told. Allegedly. Maybe.

[Batch]

I'm not using it as a 'hide behind', but injuries really haven't helped. Certainly limits options.

The only thing is, I don't have the 'it'll be fine when X is back'.

Clayton - will we revert to a back 4
jephcott - will we stick him up front alone and drop wakeling back
khan - who does he fit in instead of? Darcy? Reed?  Reed is just coming into form

[DV]

I can see why people are getting Sheridan vibes but I’m not quite there.
Maybe based on the actual footballing aspects then yeah I can totally get that.
…but…Lindsey feels more like a good bloke doing his best but just not being up to the job rather than someone who couldn’t give a fuck and probably wanted the sack for the pay off & didn’t give a shit about the job he was doing.

[Nemo]

I can see why people are getting Sheridan vibes but I’m not quite there.
Maybe based on the actual footballing aspects then yeah I can totally get that.
…but…Lindsey feels more like a good bloke doing his best but just not being up to the job rather than someone who couldn’t give a fuck and probably wanted the sack for the pay off & didn’t give a shit about the job he was doing.

I think for people of our age at least these are known as "Iffy Onuora vibes"

God I wanted Iffy to work.

[Batch]

yeah me too. poor old Iffy.

still, the mauling at Forest is still one of my favourite shit games. It was a laugh with proper gallows humour. We are shit, let's just have a laugh.

think that was an Iffy managed game

[No Longer Posh Red]

yeah me too. poor old Iffy.

still, the mauling at Forest is still one of my favourite shit games. It was a laugh with proper gallows humour. We are shit, let's just have a laugh.

think that was an Iffy managed game

The celebrations when Benjamin scored were hilarious & the Forest fans looked rather bemused

[Batch]

I'm 99% sure he was offside too

[DV]

I think for people of our age at least these are known as "Iffy Onuora vibes"

God I wanted Iffy to work.

Yeah, spot on. Kinda

I always felt Iffy did the best job he could with a shit hand.
I feel Lindsey is doing a poor job with a decent hand.

Similar sentiments though admittedly

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

I don't see Lindsey lasting if we sign Charlie.

He's not lasting either way, is he? He's out of his depth and its been painfully obvious all season.

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

Yeah, Iffy was on a hiding to nothing. Lindsey has had it way easier. I see the Sheridan comparisons, he just isn't a cunt like him.

[Frigby Daser]

I’d take Ryan Manning. It hasn’t gone right for him this year, but he’s young, hungry, has a point to prove, and did very well last year and in his managerial spells before that. He’s not dissimilar to Garner in that respect. And right now, he comes cheap, he’ll buy into the club’s philosophy, and unlike Lindsey, may just deliver it.

I think we need some decisiveness and strength now from the Board. As has been said above though, I fear we’ll allow this borefest to continue until the point at which the decision to get rid is obvious, rather than when it can actually make a difference to our season. Waiting for us to finish 10th to sack him, when our trajectory is there to see, would be an failure of leadership in my view. Lindsey will not get us promoted. So let’s give it a go this year with a new man, or at the very least, give a new man half a season in charge to assess the squad and build for next year, just as Wellens did at Orient.

[Peter Venkman]

Would happily take Joe Tomlinson back, even if we keep FBT.

[Peter Venkman]

I’d take Ryan Manning. It hasn’t gone right for him this year, but he’s young, hungry, has a point to prove, and did very well last year and in his managerial spells before that. He’s not dissimilar to Garner in that respect. And right now, he comes cheap, he’ll buy into the club’s philosophy, and unlike Lindsey, may just deliver it.

I think we need some decisiveness and strength now from the Board. As has been said above though, I fear we’ll allow this borefest to continue until the point at which the decision to get rid is obvious, rather than when it can actually make a difference to our season. Waiting for us to finish 10th to sack him, when our trajectory is there to see, would be an failure of leadership in my view. Lindsey will not get us promoted. So let’s give it a go this year with a new man, or at the very least, give a new man half a season in charge to assess the squad and build for next year, just as Wellens did at Orient.

Who is Ryan Manning?

[Batch]

I don't think he means Ryan Manning?!

he's currently playing against reading