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« Reply #90 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 08:59:06 » |
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They should have got an experienced manager in as a short term measure
Who then? I mean there are loads of experienced out of work managers out there, but there's a very good reason why they're unemployed. My point is, not many experienced managers would've jumped at the chance of temporary employment at a club where they could only deliver perceived failure. |
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« Reply #91 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 09:04:42 » |
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I don't know what the pool of candidates were exactly at the time but I'd like to think as a League One club in 1st place in the table mid-season we'd be able to appoint a manager who'd actually managed a football club full time before.
Paul Bodin Phil Brown Paul Dickov Iain Dowie Gary Megson Kevin Blackwell Terry Butcher Nick Barmby Steve Cotteril Peter Taylor Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Paul Jewell Steve Kean Ritchie Barker Paul Tisdale Paul Buckle Mike Newell Andy Morrell |
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« Reply #92 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 09:05:06 » |
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I'm sure some would have jumped at the chance for a promotion on their CV though.
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« Reply #93 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 09:06:25 » |
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A full pre season under KMac, hopefully woth him being able to build his own squad, is what he should be judged on. Not this clusterfuck of a few months at the end of a season which promised so much but will remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Anything positive that happens this season I'll view as a bonus. Let's see what happens after 10 or 12 games next season. Or we could hang the fucker out to dry now......
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« Reply #94 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 09:07:22 » |
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That list excites me as much as Antiques Roadshow.
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« Reply #95 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 09:44:11 » |
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A full pre season under KMac, hopefully woth him being able to build his own squad, is what he should be judged on. Not this clusterfuck of a few months at the end of a season which promised so much but will remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Anything positive that happens this season I'll view as a bonus. Let's see what happens after 10 or 12 games next season. Or we could hang the fucker out to dry now......
That pretty much sums up my view. |
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« Reply #96 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 09:53:15 » |
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A full pre season under KMac, hopefully woth him being able to build his own squad, is what he should be judged on. Not this clusterfuck of a few months at the end of a season which promised so much but will remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Anything positive that happens this season I'll view as a bonus. Let's see what happens after 10 or 12 games next season. Or we could hang the fucker out to dry now......
Yep, the only valid criticism of MacDonald is tinkering as much as he has with this team. Changing the formation & playing players out if position (like Ferry on the wing). His preferred formation can work well, but you need the right players for it & I don't think we have them currently. |
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« Reply #97 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 09:59:03 » |
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Yep, the only valid criticism of MacDonald is tinkering as much as he has with this team.
Changing the formation & playing players out if position (like Ferry on the wing).
His preferred formation can work well, but you need the right players for it & I don't think we have them currently.
Spot on. To pull off this formation the players need to have footballing intelligence and have a good lone striker and wingers that can defend and also spring into attack. We do not have those at this moment as they were so well drilled at 4-4-2 under Di Canio that they are finding the transition a little difficult. That said....if we had strikers with a better shots on target ratio then we would be promoted already with or without Di Canio as in the main we are creating chances but just not scoring. The players are the same players and would quite possibly still be missfiring with whoever is in charge or whatever tactics we play. |
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« Reply #98 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10:03:48 » |
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A full pre season under KMac, hopefully woth him being able to build his own squad, is what he should be judged on. Not this clusterfuck of a few months at the end of a season which promised so much but will remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Anything positive that happens this season I'll view as a bonus. Let's see what happens after 10 or 12 games next season. Or we could hang the fucker out to dry now......
I've said all along that MacDonald should be judged on next season, and his ability to build a squad to avoid our Div 3/4 yoyoing of recent years. Not going to happen though is it...everything has to be "now, now" in the present climate, and a lot have made their minds up already...it will be very, very difficult for him to turn this around. Quite a few on here wanted Tisdale as manager, and not just fB, but Exeter's end of season implosion has been even more spectacular than ours. |
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« Reply #99 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10:11:45 » |
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With Jed stating on Twitter that their transfer policy will be far different from the previous lot, and Morsehead suggesting that very little funds will be available, I wonder how long it will take for those who slated Wray's 'shit or bust' approach to start saying we are showing no ambition and doing things on the cheap.
I am glad that the majority of Swindon fans have moved away from the 'oh well at least we still have a club' mentality from recent years.
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« Reply #100 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10:17:18 » |
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Has that been announced? I've not read much recently, but last I heard they were aiming to keep the budget roughly the same?
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« Reply #101 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10:25:35 » |
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Has that been announced?
No, it hasn't. There's been no suggestion from anywhere that their are very little funds available, asides from unfounded rumour. |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #102 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10:28:44 » |
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No, it hasn't. There's been no suggestion from anywhere that their are very little funds available, asides from unfounded rumour.
And people who call themselves fans who make up negative Facebook and Twitter posts to put a negative spin on it all to suit their own insecurities without actually stating any fact whatsoever that does the circuit that then suddendly become reality with no foundation. |
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
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We're the famous Town End crew.
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« Reply #103 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10:32:22 » |
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Has that been announced? I've not read much recently, but last I heard they were aiming to keep the budget roughly the same?
Jed has said on Twitter that the approach won't be the same as the previous board and they won't throw money at it like they did - doesn't sound like the same budget to me. We will soon see anyway. |
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Flashheart
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« Reply #104 on: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10:33:44 » |
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Jed has said on Twitter that the approach won't be the same as the previous board and they won't throw money at it like they did - doesn't sound like the same budget to me.
We will soon see anyway.
Are you deliberately ignoring that Jed also said the budget will remain the same? SWINDON Town’s new board will be backed by funds similar in size to those of their predecessors, Jed McCrory has revealed, but the Robins’ new chairman has stressed that financial prudence will be one of the principal traits of his reign. http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10250965.Robins__new_chairman_says_kitty_will_be_handled_with_caution/*While that mentions the funds available and not the actual budget, Jed has said elsewhere that the budget will remain the same. |
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