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- Wed May 22, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Aye, and has been said, Buckingham didn't do consistently flawless, so I'm not sure there's much point in favouring one position over t'other. ...and McKenna won 1 in 8 mid season with Ipswich. He then won 8 in a row. ...and Evatt was 2 points adrift with 3 games in hand, and lost out by 5 points -...
- Wed May 22, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Everyone in key positions at the club has to be behind whatever choice is made, or it is more likely to fail. If Evatt doesn't have that support get someone who does. If he does, back him. I've been in a football club where people sat on the fence and held things back from a manager in case they ne...
- Wed May 22, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Aye, and has been said, Buckingham didn't do consistently flawless, so I'm not sure there's much point in favouring one position over t'other.Dave Sutton's barnet wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:53 pmHow did it work out for Sunderland when they sacked their manager this season?
These things can go either way.
- Wed May 22, 2024 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
The idea you stick with Evatt for a whole season unless it’s ‘disastrous’ doesn’t make sense. Sunderland sacked Johnson, think they were third and went up. Buckingham came in December and went up. There are loads of examples of changing managers mid way through. Evatt imo should be gone by now. But...
- Wed May 22, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Not for me 12-15 games, that was this year - I'll be reacting before then. I'm sure. If the board feel the same way they should ask him to go now. Oh I'm sure they don't care much what my view is - their pick to make. Just saying from my perspective, he doesn't have 12-15 games next season. :-)
- Wed May 22, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
I do think the points required will be less next year. It's not like last season where there were 3 outstanding teams, then a decent group and then the dregs. There will be 8 or do teams who will genuinely think they can win it and will all take points off each other, and then those decent teams an...
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
For some reason, I find this quite funny!GhostoftheBok wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 1:12 pmMansfield Town has signed Keanu Baccus.
Can't say I saw that coming. Impressive one for them.
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Job very not suited for him in that it’s been a very unstable club - revolving managerial door, boardroom chaos, entitled fans. Is he at more risk there than he would be here? A week ago yes. I'd suggest not now. You could probably add to the reasons to consider it side - honeymoon period, promise ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Other Footy
- Topic: Your England XI
- Replies: 602
- Views: 258197
Re: Your England XI
Surely we can find someone at an England level who can play LCB, LB and LWB? I mean it stands to reason!
Glad Traff got a nod.
Not hopeful (for the first time in a while) - feels like another SF at best.
Glad Traff got a nod.
Not hopeful (for the first time in a while) - feels like another SF at best.
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Worth saying that JDB is a player I really liked on a number of levels. He added loads when he first arrived and bar injuries I think would have continued to do so. He just was unlucky with injuries. One of the good guys. And will be missed I think. Yeah - nice words from him on exit, too. Sorry to...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Tangent - IE is currently 7/2 third favourite for the Birmingham job...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Yep. Pep might well have made a change. Upsetting for the subbed lad(s) but it’s a team game. The not-so-secret secret with Pep is he doesn't do it alone. People like Dunn have a huge influence on how City set up game to game and what they target. Does Evatt have those people around him? We can see...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Yep. Pep might well have made a change. Upsetting for the subbed lad(s) but it’s a team game. The not-so-secret secret with Pep is he doesn't do it alone. People like Dunn have a huge influence on how City set up game to game and what they target. Does Evatt have those people around him? We can see...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Indeed, which is why (like I said) we need balance in both formation and personnel. Last two seasons we’ve moved the dial from “good defence but attack not good enough” to “(intermittently) good attack but defence not good enough”. Does a back four fix that? Might depend who’s in it. Any formation ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
On another topic du jour - I would not be confident of top two if our RWB options are Cogz, Matheson, Jones. If we go back four, maybe (although we’d need a tall LB as none of those are grrrrrreat in the air). Iredale Yep, decent for that, but then that’s four “defenders” rather than three. Say we ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
The problem is not that our press is more ineffective than Oxfords' - as Ghost says over the season, it's not - our Opta PPDA still has us as top, Oxford 4th bottom. But that's where the lies, damned lies and statistics come into play. In a one-off game, or even across the play-off, they might have...
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
On another topic du jour - I would not be confident of top two if our RWB options are Cogz, Matheson, Jones. If we go back four, maybe (although we’d need a tall LB as none of those are grrrrrreat in the air). Iredale Yep, decent for that, but then that’s four “defenders” rather than three. Say we ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Nobody associated with the football club is happy right now. I wouldn’t expect them to be. That’s not in doubt and I suspect the board are saying we simply have to go up. Financially last season promotion really was imperative and in not doing it next season becomes massively pressurised from the o...
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 316
- Views: 6693
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Why is our press much more ineffective than oxfords It's not. At the start of the season we were far and away the best pressing outfit. Where that fell down was when we lost Dion and Vic. None of the replacements could do the work. Without one key pressing player it worked, without both it didn't. ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 4111
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Looking across at ours and WW's polls. I think the tally whilst strongly against, as you'd expect maybe, after Saturday has absolutely narrowed but is still roughly 50/50. 115 for go and 114 stay, across the two. The arguments for and against are pretty similar, probably as you'd expect, but I just ...