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- Wed May 29, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Ah well, at least our keeper will just about do........ OK, so just to recap. You expect us to sign - as an absolute minimum to even compete in this league: Top level, captain-ready centre half + 2 x "Karl Henry-esque" midfielders, at least one who has plied their trade a level above + 2 good winge...
- Wed May 29, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
There's loads to be positive about. It's just hard to be so after such a disappointing finish last term. We have a team with loads of goals in it, protected by good contracts and with no players aging out. We've freed up wages and have zero fat. Plenty of managers will envy Evatt's position this su...
- Tue May 28, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
^^The issue with Nlundulu is not that it was a poor transfer. It’s the hubris of Evatt thinking that we can develop him into the next ‘Ivan Toney’ and that as a league one club we can afford to take such risks with limited resources and the idea we don’t need to pour every thing we have into gettin...
- Tue May 28, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 49
- Views: 709
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
I'll step back a little as my arguments are made. I leave you with this quote from "Lord of the Flies"... William Golding, 1983. "The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the...
- Tue May 28, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
^^The issue with Nlundulu is not that it was a poor transfer. It’s the hubris of Evatt thinking that we can develop him into the next ‘Ivan Toney’ and that as a league one club we can afford to take such risks with limited resources and the idea we don’t need to pour every thing we have into gettin...
- Tue May 28, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 49
- Views: 709
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
What exactly are they going to vote for at sixteen that we can't sort out at fifties plus, free mobile phones and x Boxes for all ? ? Bearing in mind also of course that the next generation of soldiers, sailors and air personnel are likely to be our grandchildren and great grand children. Frighteni...
- Tue May 28, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Whether we should or shouldn't be in L1 is immaterial. Ultimately a good manager gets the best out of the players at his disposal. The best managers manage to get more than the sum of the players out of them. Evatt probably comes in at decent. He mostly gets a decent tune out of them, but not consis...
- Mon May 27, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
https://x.com/marciles/status/1794989696365289926?s=46&t=hHZd1wXFVO1bo4TppbHkNQ Gethin Jones “'I have been here now for four years and I can think of only a few times where we have really come up with a performance when the pressure was really on…….And 100 per cent the criticism we have had is fair...
- Mon May 27, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
https://x.com/marciles/status/1794989696365289926?s=46&t=hHZd1wXFVO1bo4TppbHkNQ Gethin Jones “'I have been here now for four years and I can think of only a few times where we have really come up with a performance when the pressure was really on…….And 100 per cent the criticism we have had is fair...
- Sun May 26, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 49
- Views: 709
- Sat May 25, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 49
- Views: 709
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Tango, if younger folk are voting for things like an end to university fees and older folk are voting for triple lock pensions what is the difference? Might not make sense to each other, but they are valid things for each to vote for. I'd vote for different things now than I would 30 years ago, and ...
- Sat May 25, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 49
- Views: 709
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Oh, I forgot...: Starmer thinks sixteen year olds are the answer to our problems...Well, I suppose that's one way to get your voting numbers up....Cor,,, :shock: You pay tax, you should be entitled to say how and who spends it. Exactly the argument I use when I hear folk bemoan young folk voting. I...
- Sat May 25, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 49
- Views: 709
- Fri May 24, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
As long as some bugger is lurking in the background organising some ace signings before Rotherham scoop them all up. Not sure I can cope with a summer of Insano reeling off all the names Rotherham have signed that turns them into Pep's Citeh.
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Our formation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 729
Re: Our formation
I've posted a few times that I think we're trying to do too much and need to simplify. Therefore I'm in agreement. Where I'm in agreement with Insano is that you have to get the basics right. We're clearly not getting the basics right often enough and I think the reason is we're trying to do too muc...
- Wed May 22, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 348
- Views: 8720
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
You've trained him wellGhostoftheBok wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 5:03 pmIt'd make me wonder what our vision for the squad is.
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 348
- Views: 8720
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Would that persuade you to move to Evatt out?
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Herein lies the rub. If Evatt doesn't fly out of the blocks to the top the table and stay there then it'll be "off with his head" from a decent section. However, if the club sticks with him this summer they really need to commit to a season of his leadership - bar a true travesty. This is why we ne...
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 348
- Views: 8720
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Every expert who talks about us (managers, techy pundits, etc) praise Evatt's press. I'm not wasting time on that topic. If you think the whole of football is wrong then I'm hardly going to convince you otherwise. My issue though is all well and good having an ace press, but if half the team is sha...
- Tue May 21, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 392
- Views: 7790
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Not sure anyone, anywhere, ever has said that Evatt should carry on as he is. I've repeatedly said he needs to change. I can't speak for all stay-voters, but I'm confident they all think the same to a greater or lesser extent. There's a serious conversation to be had, and it'd be lovely if it start...