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Anyway see how they get on today. A win and top performance would be great to set up a big game next week.
Only if we arrange a friendly!
Apologies for that but you could be quite right organize a friendly with some new faces would be a start and plan B formation.
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Didn’t bother today, it’s becoming obvious this season will end the same as last season with a few less goals conceded. We desperately need a goalscorer that’s interested.
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A tail off in crowds will be incoming, you can sponsor the shit out of anything but in the end if your product is akin to Ratners you’re going to struggle.
Butler needs to learn and learn quick because missing on promotion is unthinkable.
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Just read these comments and wondered whether anyone has looked at the NLN League Table recently or reflected that until the new board came a year ago the club was dead in the water.
Come on. Why not be positive for once
It would appear that at least one of the wheels has become detached?
But AB has made us fitter and stronger this season, so we can see out games.
Oops!
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The SUFC buzzword ‘Sustainability’ by definition means we are only spending the equivalent of what comes in (or less whilst we clear the debts) which ultimately means it’s the fans and sponsors who are paying the wages of the staff and players. I’ve seen a few comments across social media of fans who feel affronted by the somewhat hasty decision to extend Butlers contract and comments that the fans and sponsors will wind up paying for it, presumably by a pay off to the manager or via enduring the turgid football for another 2 seasons.
Maybe it would have been prudent to take a ‘see how it goes’ approach with the manager and staff, much like we have with the players who have in the most part signed 1 year deals. Extending now in light of the reaction to the Guiseley defeat feels like abit of a ‘stuff you’ to the fans and seems that the board will do what they want regardless of fan opinion. Wasn’t the tag line this time last year ‘it’s OUR club’? Doesn’t feel like it at the moment. The only rational explanation for an extension at this point would be to provide some security to Butler in the hope that the vote of confidence improves his performance. Thats a big risk and does have the feel of ‘jobs for the boys’, handing out contracts to people who are liked rather than for their achievements.
The timing was wrong IMO and has divided the fan base and fanned the flames. First big mistake from Michelle and the board. I’m hoping after getting our fingers burned with Dean’s extension last year that we might have had the foresight to have some performance related break clause. I.e if we do not achieve top 4 this year we are able to cancel the contract in the summer without having to pay him off. But I’m no expert in contract matters so not even sure if that would be legal.
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The contract extension was barely mentioned in the main stand area where I was sat yesterday and as for the fanbase being divided, well maybe the ones on here and some on social media, big deal.
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Don’t see much division on here I-A.
‘Contract extension badly timed/too soon’ and ‘Butlers tactics are questionable’ seem to be pretty standard opinions.5 users thanked author for this post.
I’ll come back with a Deerey on that, you mean the person sat next to you said nothing. I see.
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I’m reckoning a sample size in the several hundreds (ie the total comments across the various social media platforms) is probably more representative than the two people sat next to you at the game IA.
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It’s looking more and more that way.
Same old, same old.Except under Dean last season we acquired nil points from trips to Chester, Curzon and Brackley whereas, as was pointed out in yesterday’s post match interview, under AB we have acquired 7 points from the same group of fixtures this season.
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A post on X yesterday below:
‘Surely any manager worth their salt has their own ideas and playing model? The simplistic approach of just copying the last team to win the league says it all. He doesn’t sound that bright in interviews either. We’ve got a simpleton in charge, should have stuck with Dean.’
Total unnecessary disrespect. And rubbish – Like Dean was some super intelligent guy?!
Just get over it with some grace and dignity.Anyone thinking managers will play experimental tactics in the 2nd tier of non-league is living with their heads in the clouds. You’re not likely to get the next Ralf Rangnick, Johann Cruyff or Pep Guardiola at this level. The football will be based on tried and trusted tactics that suit the abilities of the players at this level.
Jimmy Dean was hardly revolutionary with his tactics and most of that was found wanting in the end, with a much higher budget and bigger squad and losing out in the end. Butler has made some frustrating errors and he might fail, but this overly dramatic rage from some quarters is pathetic. Yes, we can be critical of some recent poor perfomances, and the league position should not have hidden that. However, to then make such snide insults at Butler and for a “Butler out” thread to be created is just kneejerk, unrealistic and irrational. The club are not going to bin Butler off because of a bad run of form when we’re top; there will have to be questions asked when the season ends, depending on where we finish. Some have bemoaned (rightfully, I think) the sack-happy nature of the Swann years, and it must be said that there were many calling for the sack of those Swann did dispose of at the time. We have been through a lot since, but there are some who are still seemingly turning on coaches far too quickly. Butler might not improve, but it’s pointless turning against him when it has been a few months and we are top of the league. To emphasise, I am not saying that to distract from deserved criticism of performances, but to point out that turning against Butler now is an extreme response.
Dean had 18 months and failed his remit. We should give Butler at least until May before reevaluation, unless there’s a catastrophic drop down the table. Thankfully, I think the kneejerk reactions have been constrained to a few, but there are some like the tweeter in question where it does apply.
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