Post by bhamgull on Aug 21, 2008 8:51:50 GMT
Aug 20, 2008 11:46:02 GMT @daveshaw said:
Definitely no. I didn't understand why he was let go at all. At first i thought Bucks must have a real gem coming as a replacement, then he signed a crocked player from Oxford. Who,i might add, he has left on the bench nursing his disabilities ever since. Bucks has made mistakes throughout the team.1. Failed to replace the 35 goals we have lost from our forward line. In fact not even come close.
2. Failed to address our defensive problems. This is the most glaring fault because it was so obvious last season.
3. Failed to improve our midfield. Erm, actually what's the point in having a midfield if you don't intend to use it? But let's sign a shitload of them anyway!
He's failed so far in all departments.
Let me take issue with this post:"A crocked player from Oxford"............ Matt Green was signed from Cardiff, it was the Oxford manager who had him on loan and having failed to sign him permanently then petulantly claimed the player had a problem with his knees.................which beggars the question, just why was HE trying to sign him then, and just why was HE so disappointed not to have secured his signature?
"Failed to replace the 35 goals we have lost from our forward line".............what, after three games?
"Failed to address our defensive problems"................is trying the more constructive Hargreaves at centre back not trying to address the problem? Is trying a different player at left back not attempting that also? Is securing the goalkeeper everyone wanted to see here not an attempt at solving the defensive problems?
"Failed to improve our midfield" Only a few weeks ago people were lauding the arrivals of Wroe, Thompson, Brough, Carayol whilst for much of last season certain people were deriding Mansell's midfield efforts as all huff and no guile. Now you claim no "improvement" has been made when NO midfield can reasonably be expected to gel just like that.
More the modern day idiom of demanding "instant" success, judging the whole season by half time of the very first home game of the season; and ridiculing the manager mainly through frustration at failing to get over the finishing line last season.
I know I've grown old when I no longer have the stomach to be amongst so much negativity and down right stupidity on the Plainmoor terraces. When such an endless barrage of nonsense dulls the enthusiasm I should be feeling right now just to "pop down the road " to Crawley on Saturday to the extent that if I DO go, I'll be sitting as far away from the rapidly disintegrating Yellow Army as I can.
What is the "crime" this manager and his team have committed? Surely it's not that they have yet to gel into a cohesive unit after only three games is it?
thank you merse, i was going to say it all again but i couldn't be bothered. agree entirely with the post.