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Good job Tickle’s “heart wasn’t in it” again tonight!! Some people don’t half talk some drivel on here. 5 clean sheets in 6 home games since Caldwell took over
He dove tonight. Didn’t dive at Reading. Simple as that.
Good job Tickle’s “heart wasn’t in it” again tonight!! Some people don’t half talk some drivel on here. 5 clean sheets in 6 home games since Caldwell took over
Saved us tonight, or could’ve been 3 nil.
Theyre shite. We are where we are for a reason.
Caldwell a brave man leaving Exeter to come to this shambles.
Ive been quite disappointed by Tickle recently as well. I get the feeling his heart isnt in it anymore. Not even diving and at times his positioning is shocking. I know part of it will be down to having the chuckle brothers in front of him.
Its going to be touch and go whether we stat up or not and if we have any more capitualtions at home, we are in big trouble. We only have ourselves to blame, been shite all season and made the managerial change far too late. Owners have taken a gamble that Caldwell will keep u up but its very much up in the air. Pep Guardiola wouldnt have done any better with this shambles of a squad.
Season tickets? Word is prices are going up. Well, good luck with that one.
I thought weeks ago that we are very similar to the 1993 team that got relegated from this level. I still feel the same.
I am not bothered about ANY of these players leaving. They are garbage. They have the fight of a tadpole.
With the news that we are for sale and the shocking way we are playing…its looking like Grimsby and Gullingham away next season. Next thing will be them advertising Season Tidmet renewals and ‘Fans Fund’ membership. More fool anybody who still buys into that shite. It will surely be the lowest season ticket uptake, this summer.
I reckon Asamoah knew the move was in the pipeline and purposely got a red. I think GC has realised he needed shut of him. He has pace, nothing else.
A real pressing matter for me is getting certain players under contract. Specifically Bettoni. If hes allowed to walk away for free in the summer, its an absolute travesty.
Well, I am actually feeling really pleased that Gary has come back.
Even more so that David Perkins has come back as well. Its given me a feel good factor, and Ive not had that for a while. I’m probably going to miss the game in Wednesday as Ive come back from Arsenal absolutely full of a cold.
Speaking of Arsenal, I am one who can appreciate the absolute gap in class from our team to theirs. Sadly, I had to try and explain it all to some of our clowns. Bloody day trippers who haven’t got a clue about football. Getting angry and calling our players rotten. Fact is, their players could drop a football into a barrell from 40 or 50 yards away. Our players would have a go, but probably land about 10 o 20 feet either side. Thats the difference! It comes so easy. That line up they had was basically the one they won 3-1 away at Inter Milan a few weeks back. We could’ve done a lot worse. They were…they are, class. We move on now with 16 cup finals coming up.
Gary is limited to the players we have now. Thats the only down side. We are very limited and hes going to actually have to play players who, all being well, he wouldn’t play. He will have no choice. We will also have Wright, Moxon and Taylor missing the games against their parent clubs.
Gary Caldwell was the best option for us. I didnt fancy any of the others on the list. It says it all with how Gary has left Exeter as well. Going with their best wishes, its amicable on all sides, which is very rare. He left a farewell video in which you could hear his voice breaking. There’s no animosity on either side. I wish them well apart from when they visit us next month.
We might just get something like our old club back.
I will probably look a fool when he is unveiled later, but….
On our way home last night, I saw an interview with Aitcheson of Exeter. He was saying that as far as he knows, he and the rest of the Exeter players are expecting Caldwell to be in and prepping them for their game on Tuesday night. Does this mean its not as cut and dried as we think? Are we in for a shock when Will Still is announced? A manager that will cost no compo fee.
The penny pinching would not surprise me at all. I hope I am wrong. But if GC is coming in, I hope he is fully aware of the task in hand. Because at this moment in time, I can just see us free falling into League 2.
I don’t disagree with any of that. I think we showed them far too much respect.
But then again, to stop them would mean we would have to get near them, and frankly for that first 30 minutes especially, we didn’t get anywhere near them. Arsenal are a class team and its hard to convey just how much better they are than us. They have players who, if they wanted to, could drop a football into a barrel on the centre spot from 40 or 50 yards away. Their vision and ability is THAT good. That team they played against us went to Inter Milan a few weeks back and won 3-1. I’m actually glad they went so strong against us. They tore us a new arsehole that first 30. I was directly inline with the finishing and have to say it was as good as you would expect. Their movement, pace and vision was frightening. We were fearing the worst and thought it could end up eight or even more. They slacked off in the second half and we improved slightly as well, I think, so it stayed at 4.
My thoughts to the Emirates? Nice stadium. But for a relatively modern stadium, the toilets were a joke. Queueing in and about 8 at a time could get in. Joke in such a modern ground.
Arsenal are clearly a very touristy club as well. No real atmosphere inside the stadium. Theyre a really good club, clearly. But being so touristy isn’t for me. We had a debate what’s best, Emirates, or Old Trafford? Old Trafford came out unanimously.
So, out of the cup and we now face 16 cup finals. I’m not sure where we will pick the points up from, but we need to. And fast.
My last thoughts….on London. Deary me, what a filthy, over busy and congested shithole. And to think I moan about traffic in Orrell and Pemberton! Give me up here, any day.
I’ll take Caldwell over the other names in the list. Id consider Rowett, but I think he will be looking for a higher job.
If there were some better Candidates to enter the fray, then Caldwell would slip down my pecking order. I like the thought of Perkins coming back with him, but last time he was manager, I wasn’t keen…from what I can remember, and I think even though he won league one, the first half of the season we were shocking and he was lucky we turned it on in the second half of that season, when Yanic Wildshut came and ripped teams apart.
The fact he likes a back 3 concerns me. Our defence looks all over the place and I think that we need to shore it up with a flat back 4.
I am a bit surprise we don’t seem to be looking at a caretaker manager, someone like Steve Bruce, to see us through to the seasons end, hopefully keep us up, and give us a basis to start again from in the summer with a permanent appointment. I think we would also have a few more potential managers interested of they knew League One was guaranteed next season. That would be my worry now, if I was Hourihane and other potential managers like that. Who wants a relegation on their CV? Come the summer if are still League One, I can almost guaranteed a few more interested parties.
Then again, to bring someone in now, whatever happens with us this season, theres going to have to be so much recruitment work done, and if that work can start now, its probably for the best. For a new manager to come in, in say…June, it would be a massive task to recruit 15 players…at least…in about 8 weeks. And to get them together as a team/squad is something else entirely. But we know, as a club we know its coming. So things have to start being put into place now. Ive never met our head of recruitment, Joe Riley, but I would love to have a chat with him. And that not me being arsed, I would genuinely like to know what’s going on and his thoughts towards the inevitable recruitment that is necessary. It should be probably the busiest summer recruitment we’ve ever had. And we can’t hang about.
I am in favour of Gary Caldwell coming back.
I think he will bring David Perkins with him.
I think its the best we can bring in.
Hell of a job for them though…
Paid £350,000 for Costelloe, rising to £500,000 with add ons. Proof that paying a lot of money doesn’t guarantee good players
On the other hand, we didnt pay it for Ward, Reading did.
And he bossed Saydee.
Always the feeling watching the game last night that Reading were playing below themselves but still enough to come away with 3 points. slightly more intent early on but again undone by dreadful defending and lightweight attacking and looking at the upcoming fixtures I really fear the worst now. Not sure this bunch are up for the fight and I fear league 2 is a very real possibility now. All the fast talk and spin we have had this season doesn’t hide the fact that this is a very very poor bunch of players , league 2 level at best. Loan FC with sticking plaster mentality on the pitch of the like we have not seen since the early 1990s. Shit show of a club
Fully agree. I can’t see where we are going to pick points up from. The similarities with 1993 are very apparent. We have a caretaker boss in and a team full of has beens and never will bes. Absolutely no value in this squad. Even Tickle…be lucky to get a million for him now. And dont be deluded, its going to be a massive rebuild again and it could well be as a League 2 club. Theyve penny pinched and been frugal, and its gonna come back and bite us. If theyd thrown 3 million at it I think we could have signed maybe 5 players at around 500k apiece. That would have given us a backbone and almost guaranteed the play offs. But they didnt.. now theyre going to have to throw some money at it, at least 5 million…maybe more, because we will need about 15 players at least. We can’t do it with freebies and loans. Look where its got us? Absolute shitshow.
Make no mistake, we are in massive trouble here.
I agree with you. Some of our support is badly deluded. Not unti the supporters club coaches are picking up for Barnet and Grimsby away will some people realise how bad things are. Honest opinion as well? They may get even worse. This is a god awful squad and even one of the top coaches in world football would be scratching their heads. Never mind some lower league journeyman or a young manager who learned his trade playing Football Manager PC game. (Is this a bloody reality TV show experiment?l
I thought Tickles positioning was shocking, again.
That Hunt is shocking. but yet Sessegnon was in the U21s this afternoon, along with Asamoah. Why?
what has gone on with Kerr? Seems strange hes straight back in the side after Lowe has gone. Some strange things going on. Its shambolic.
Fact is simple. We ship goals for fun…and we dont score enough. When you do that, no matter if you are Premier League, Isthmian League, Kent County Premier, or Wigan Sunday League, you will only be at the wrong end of the table. Its not scientific, its just basic maths.
Agree with everything, except the last bit.
I think we DO need an experienced manager. One with good links and connections as come the summer, we will need to bring in 15….yes FIFTEEN players. So we need someone with plenty of links, contacts and friends in the game. Baines would be like a rabbit in the headlights at this club. Not saying he’s not a good coach, but not for us at the moment in time.
Wellens? Yes. Coleman? Yes. Even Doolan and Brannan from Accrington. I do not want Karl Robinson from Salford. Going off their Netflix documentary, he could be another Lowe.
It will be very interesting to see who throws their hat in the ring. But whoever gets it will need some backing. To bring 15 players in…and thats no exaggeration, you need a minimum of 25/26 players (ideally about 34) for the season ahead. We will have about 10 contracted players come the summer. We can’t do it all on freebies and loans. We will actually have to spend some money, whether we are in Leage One, or Two.
No way will he leave Newcastle to come here. I don’t blame him either.
I dont want any club linked people. We’ve exhausted that stock. Of anyone whos any good, anyway.
No to Duncan Ferguson. My Everton mate says he’s not cut out for management. No to LeightonBaines either. No experience.
It may be a case of an appointment to the end of the season to see us to safety.vefore we make a permanent appointment. Steve Bruce? And then maybe see if he fancies the role of Director Of Football.
Mick McCarthy? I like him. Very honest. Id have Neil Warnock, but would he come? Not sure. An outside of the box name I will throw in is Damien Duff. Highly rated, did well at Shelbourne and in Ireland set up. Not sure what managers in Scotland are like. And have to remember we are League One and could possibly be League 2…hopefully not.
Id like some ambition from the owners….