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Would like to see a manager who likes to play football. The type of football that is turbo. Football that is nice and football that is really belting. Football that is dreamy and football that doesn’t smell of poo. Football played the Wigan way. Unsmelly and nice to watch. Football that is carefree and exhilarating and splendid. Football that we haven’t seen since Bobby came and changed things and made things a borefest and undreamy and non turbo and simply silly billy football that sent you to sleep. We want our football back. Turbo charged super duper nice carefree football.
Bloody hell marrer the ale in Alston is far too strong for you lol.
Would like to see a manager who likes to play football. The type of football that is turbo. Football that is nice and football that is really belting. Football that is dreamy and football that doesn’t smell of poo. Football played the Wigan way. Unsmelly and nice to watch. Football that is carefree and exhilarating and splendid. Football that we haven’t seen since Bobby came and changed things and made things a borefest and undreamy and non turbo and simply silly billy football that sent you to sleep. We want our football back. Turbo charged super duper nice carefree football.No reason Barrow can’t do this. With the players he will have next season, and we’ve seen glimpses of it these last few games. I’d sooner us give him the job than take a punt on someone from league 2.
TBF to barrow, the football has been more exciting than under caldwell & joyce. However, i personally still do not want him as manager full time. He was afterall not considered to be a success in the 90’s & it wasnt long ago when people on here were writing that if he was appointed, season ticket sales will fall next season. Yet, all of a sudden i’m getting the impression that he is now the new saviour.
Anyway! I’ll throw another name into the hat (along with my personal choice of either alex neil or pearson), that i don’t think has been mentioned yet:
Tim Sherwood.
What i can’t understand Runc is people are saying they dont want Barrow because he wasn’t considered a success in the 90s.
Yet some fans would gladly take Rosler or Caldwell back even though they wasn’t considered a success more recently!
Fuck the EFL
Would like to see a manager who likes to play football. The type of football that is turbo. Football that is nice and football that is really belting. Football that is dreamy and football that doesn’t smell of poo. Football played the Wigan way. Unsmelly and nice to watch. Football that is carefree and exhilarating and splendid. Football that we haven’t seen since Bobby came and changed things and made things a borefest and undreamy and non turbo and simply silly billy football that sent you to sleep. We want our football back. Turbo charged super duper nice carefree football.
Bloody hell marrer the ale in Alston is far too strong for you lol.[/quote]
Ha ha, just having a laugh. Lightening things up a bit.
Would like to see a manager who likes to play football. The type of football that is turbo. Football that is nice and football that is really belting. Football that is dreamy and football that doesn’t smell of poo. Football played the Wigan way. Unsmelly and nice to watch. Football that is carefree and exhilarating and splendid. Football that we haven’t seen since Bobby came and changed things and made things a borefest and undreamy and non turbo and simply silly billy football that sent you to sleep. We want our football back. Turbo charged super duper nice carefree football.Were you sampling the single malts again last night Don?
Barrow gets the job and it will save me a few quid as well! Backwards move in my opinion and like I have said before, a clear out is needed! As for ex players Martinez, Jewell and Caldwell. Martinez was employed when we had reached the Prem, there was a lot more money to play with and we were attracting half decent players. Jewell had the initial injection of cash from Whelan in the master plan that came to fruition courtesy of a couple of decent strikers that cost a few quid and Caldwell had parachute money and not too bad a squad left over from The Championship and so that was a doddle by any manager’s standards in my opinion, even Coyle and McKay could have pulled that one off! No room for sentiment in football, especially when things don’t appear to be hunky dory!
I agree Jewell did enjoy the benefit of Whelan’s cash but others before him had failed with the same cash potential. Martinez was appointed after Whelan had decided he could no longer bankroll the club. He kept us in the Premiership for three seasons, almost a fourth, AND won the FA Cup on the lowest budget of any PL club. Caldwell did not inherit too bad a squad at all – most were cleared out – but had money to build a brand new team for which we didn’t necessarily pay over the odds to assemble. His sacking is still considered by many to have been premature.
On the other hand Coyle and Rosler enjoyed the lion’s share of the parachute payments and still failed. Joyce was just a very bad choice.[/quote]
But Coyle and Rosler were not ex players. My point was the 3 ex players you mentioned that have managed us did have a little help shall we say! Caldwell’s style for me was not working in The Championship and being a sort of protégé of Martinez he had appeared to have developed that certain obstinate nature! His dismantling of a half decent squad was baffling and he was out of his depth in my opinion!
After today’s team selection and substitutions, I’ve changed my mind about Barrow.
Team today wasn’t the right one. To keep Sam Morsy sat on his backside, it baffles me. He clearly doesn’t rate Morsy, for whatever reason, yet selected Tunnicliffe and Hanson. Truly, truly baffling.I didn’t have much of a proble with Burn pushed up for the last ten, but I thought bringing Bruce on was a waste of his last sub. Out of that team today, I think Perkins and, saddens me to say, Warnock a are past it and should be freed.
Barrow won’t be the manager, one of the reasons we have gone down is that the midfield is shot shy and very defensive,
Barrow won’t be the manager, one of the reasons we have gone down is that the midfield is shot shy and very defensive,When you have a problem with a lack of strikers, as we have most of the season, you need other players to be stepping up and contributing with goals. This squad is terrible. We hardly have any efforts on goal, never really test goalkeepers, and very rarely threaten at set pieces and corners. Considering we have a 6’7 centre back on the field, I find this remarkable. I am also staggered that we have given Morgan a new 2 year contract as well.
Apart from Morsy, our central midfielders don’t have a crack on goal. How often do we score with a drive from outside the box? We don’t. How many decent crosses do we get in from the flanks? Not many. And if we do there’s nobody getting in the box!
We are absolutely dire to watch.
Barrow gets the job and it will save me a few quid as well! Backwards move in my opinion and like I have said before, a clear out is needed! As for ex players Martinez, Jewell and Caldwell. Martinez was employed when we had reached the Prem, there was a lot more money to play with and we were attracting half decent players. Jewell had the initial injection of cash from Whelan in the master plan that came to fruition courtesy of a couple of decent strikers that cost a few quid and Caldwell had parachute money and not too bad a squad left over from The Championship and so that was a doddle by any manager’s standards in my opinion, even Coyle and McKay could have pulled that one off! No room for sentiment in football, especially when things don’t appear to be hunky dory!
I agree Jewell did enjoy the benefit of Whelan’s cash but others before him had failed with the same cash potential. Martinez was appointed after Whelan had decided he could no longer bankroll the club. He kept us in the Premiership for three seasons, almost a fourth, AND won the FA Cup on the lowest budget of any PL club. Caldwell did not inherit too bad a squad at all – most were cleared out – but had money to build a brand new team for which we didn’t necessarily pay over the odds to assemble. His sacking is still considered by many to have been premature.
On the other hand Coyle and Rosler enjoyed the lion’s share of the parachute payments and still failed. Joyce was just a very bad choice.[/quote]
But Coyle and Rosler were not ex players. My point was the 3 ex players you mentioned that have managed us did have a little help shall we say! Caldwell’s style for me was not working in The Championship and being a sort of protégé of Martinez he had appeared to have developed that certain obstinate nature! His dismantling of a half decent squad was baffling and he was out of his depth in my opinion![/quote]
I’ll put it a different way then by saying ALL managers under Whelan had money to spend. Those that had success by winning something were predominately former players. The exceptions being Barrow first time around (although he can be credited for steering the club away from the threat of relegation after Swain’s departure) and Greenall who was never officially appointed and never had money to spend. The only exceptions from the non ex players are Deehan, who won promotion, and Mathias who won the Football League Trophy.
When you have a problem with a lack of strikers, as we have most of the season, you need other players to be stepping up and contributing with goals. This squad is terrible. We hardly have any efforts on goal, never really test goalkeepers, and very rarely threaten at set pieces and corners.
Apart from Morsy, our central midfielders don’t have a crack on goal. How often do we score with a drive from outside the box? We don’t. How many decent crosses do we get in from the flanks? Not many. And if we do there’s nobody getting in the box!
We are absolutely dire to watch.
The worst thing is the unimportance that we have placed on strikers all season by not having enough at the club or playing wingers/midfielders in that role rather than a striker. The left side of midfield has been weakened all season with at first Yanic played up top on his own and now his replacement. The rest of the midfield too have given little or no support to the one up top with no service or by chipping in enough with their own efforts.
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