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Certain managers HAVEN’T been the problem at this club its the people above but yet again the managers are the easy blame for people who fail to see the bigger picture behind.
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I’ve thought long and hard about this but it is time. He’s out of his depth and our league existence is under threat. Time to go i am afraid. This squad is his in the majority and still they make decisions that are against his instructions according to Cox. If that’s the case he’s lost the dressing room. Cox out, even though i like the guy.
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Who’s going to want to replace him under the present regime?
We need a strong character with a reputation for getting a squad fired up and competing.
a) It there anyone with those credentials available.
b) How long would he last before he ruffled a few of those white feathers?
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He has brought in players, characters, that have bought in to the way he wants to play the game – or so we are told! However it appears, now they are here, they have their own ideas of how to play the game and have little interest in Cox’s ideas. Can’t entirely blame them but that’s not really how it should work is it?
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Cox has placed the blame on the players a few too many times. Of course they were not blameless for what went on last year, but not good to hear the same from Cox after the first match of the season.
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Can we say MANAGEMENT ?
This is the responsibility of the collective.
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I see no difference so far from last season, when we had players here that were not Cox/Will Swann choices. The team is now Cox’s/W Swann junior and still we hear the same soundbites and blather blaming the players not listening etc. If they aren’t listening it’s down to the manager and ergo management. I like Cox as stated but how long can wr stumble on with the same rhetoric week in week out?
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He inherited a team of players in the last years of their contracts, who were simply not interested last year. Subsequently they were all released and Cox was allowed to bring in his own men, as long as they didn’t cost anything. The problem isn’t Cox, it is the asset stripping Furher who is blaming the players, the manager, the staff and the fans. Everybody is to blame except the one who is (and has been) totally responsible.
To summarise. I have lost count of how many managers have been fired in the last fifteen years. A knee jerk reaction that solves absolutely nothing.
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To summarise. I have lost count of how many managers have been fired in the last fifteen years.
Fifteen years ago (2006/07) we were champions of L1.
Ten years ago we had only just lost our Championship status.
It’s only in the last eight years that the hiring and firing of both managers and players has been a problem.
Not sure what that coincides with but I’m sure someone can point it out.
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Semantics (lol).
I still think that to sack the manager again will solve nothing. The fault lies with Peter Swann, and only his removal and the recovery of the assets he has taken will even scratch the surface.
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I agree problem is with Swann at the head of the club, still it doesn’t change the fact that Cox isn’t a good enough manager.
Never been convinced by him.
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But I bet his favourite phrase is “yes boss!”
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A week ago posters were bigging up the team’s togetherness and battling qualities and praising Cox for this.
For whatever reason he drops two players who had performed well last time out and replaces them with two loans who had only just entered the building.
So I’m wondering if this had a destabilising effect on the lineup?
Got the team selection and tactics wrong yesterday IMO.
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“Got the team selection and tactics wrong yesterday IMO”.
It’s not just a problem with yesterday’s tactics is it. Losing count of the number of games when we have 0 or 1 shot on target and when we have much less percentage of the ball than the opposition.
Hard to win many matches with that approach. It’s not as if we are a clinical team on the break is it? No decent wide players or nippy strikers (Green clearly doesn’t have even the basics of footballing skills).
I get that he can only work with what we’ve got, but it must be hard for the players and not much fun when the main tactic seems to be to not concede.
Managed to scrape a few points from the first few matches. But the defenders are under so much pressure every game. It is very difficult to hang on in every match when there is so little intent to attack.
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his comments last night summed it up, we have looked at Northampton twice and know what they are going to do in the first 20 minutes and we set up to counteract it, if we were a good side we would be set up for them to counteract us rather than worry about the opposition all the time, can’t remember how many times since Neil has been here we haven’t had a shot on target but it must near or into double figures, when was the last time anyone got sent off against us when it mattered, the last one was nearly 2 years ago in the last minute of injury time v Port Vale.
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