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Either way more fans will decide to stay away if this rubbish is carried on. Perfect time now to get rid as we have a good amount of time until the next match. Enough is enough now as it’s clear Butler is a lost cause.
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I think that’s a more reasoned post than your previous one. I don’t agree it’s the ‘perfect time’ though or that we ‘have a good amount of time’ with 11 days. Irrelevant anyway because it’s not happening. If it was going to, he’d have already been relieved of duties.
Agreed. He’ll be given until New Year ..4 to 6 games. If we’re slipping down and supporters are increasingly vocal then he will be vulnerable. I believe there is plenty of talent in the squad. A crucial few weeks.
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Delay til the New Year would finish off this season, once and for all – against a backcloth of plummeting gates.
The only thing that will/can change this is if the board tell AB and his chum to play four at the back – or else! (And he agrees or resigns in a sulk.)2 users thanked author for this post.
reality is the players (Roberts apart & gone in Jan) and the management team are all average. Caused by years of poor leadership, management and poor signings. Just because we have the biggest crowd doesn’t entitle us to win. We need a way of using the crowd to our advantage not inspiring to the opponents. Sadly the dull crap Butler has decided on sends us to sleep or keeps us away. Hoping to get a 1-0 worked for Tamworth it doesn’t work for us. We need to impose a threat that teams cant stop and gets our crowd driving us forward. Teams are not scared of us, rightly so on Butlers current approach. Until he realises we wont defend ourselves out of the league we will be here next season.
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I don’t buy that they are all average/poor for this level, sorry not buying it. I will however say the balance of the squad is off a cliff and needs rectifying A.S.A.P
For instance a flat back four with denton and Barrows as full backs with boyce and Max isn’t bad, especially with fitz in goal.
a midfield 3 of Brogan, Beestin and Clunan isn’t poor at this level
A front 3 of Roberts one side, carlton the other with either whitehall or Beck through the middle isn’t bad.
The lack of balance throughout the squad doesn’t accommodate 4/4/2 formation but there are enough good players for this level to play an effective 4/3/3. The kicker is we need an experienced manager who knows what he’s doing to be able to mould them into a unit. As said above though, we’ll definitely need to sort out the squad balance as soon as can.
I guarantee you that if we had a capable manager and assistant manager in charge we’d have somewhat of a cohesive unit. It’s no coincidence we’ve had Butler and Schofield in charge and we’ve only had 3 complete performances all season, one of which was against Farsley who look absolutely terrible and will go down come the end of the season.
The squad does need work but most of this is down to Butler and Schofield who are both simply awful.
Deerey. I do agree that board interference is no good way to go, generally, but – desperate times, desperate measures.
The board made a mistake where the contracts were concerned. No real blame on them – but the football had already fallen away somewhat at that point and so they are not totally beyond criticism.
We are now in the middle of making the best of a pretty bad job.
I firmly believe that the evidence is stacked high that we must now abandon 5 at the back with this particular squad. The two do not go together.
If board interference is the only way to achieve that – then so be it.We need a way of using the crowd to our advantage not inspiring to the opponents. Sadly the dull crap Butler has decided on sends us to sleep or keeps us away. Hoping to get a 1-0 worked for Tamworth it doesn’t work for us.
Spot on. Our manager has used Tamworth as the Blueprint, without considering the squad at his disposal or the fan base. So much so he even recruited specifically for the long throw. Surprised we haven’t found ourselves in a copyright lawsuit he’s done such a copy and paste job on their team. Grinding out 1-0 wins playing hoofball in front of their 800 fans at home, might have worked for a part-time Tamworth punching above their weight. But it doesn’t work here as a full-time outfit, with the highest budget in the league, playing in front of 3500 (and falling) fans who want to see some football being played.
Not sure I agree with our players being average though. Most NLN managers would be creaming their pants with our squad. We watched 10 out of 11 of our regular starters play last year under Dean, possession based football, with the ball on the ground. They were criticised for being too ‘tippy tappy’. Imagine that! Granted we lost the best footballer in the league who was probably more instrumental than many realised in getting the ball on the deck, calming play down and getting us passing, but that decision again, was seemingly part of Butlers master plan to turn us into Tamworth Mark 2.
It’s dreadful to watch and without action from the board any hope of promotion will be long gone, crowds will continue to drop like a stone and the ‘togetherness’ of last season will be but a distant memory, no matter how many ‘unity’ tag lines the club put out. At the moment the criticism is being reserved for the management but if the board allow this to continue much longer the goodwill will evaporate and the spotlight will turn to their decision making. Sad but true. Football is a fickle results-based business with little room for sentiment.
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Board interference is a big red line that should not be crossed; we’ve seen how that pans out before and completely undermines any present/future manager.
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Can we afford not to would be my question.
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you don’t need a ticket office it can all be done on line nowadays
It can be, like with most things now in the digital domain.
Doesn’t mean it should be.
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