History is a study of past events. I’ve seen more poor times than good, but whow the good times outway the bad, and if next year we are non league then the 38 games won’t have been the most important in our history will they.
listened to Swann and the take away’s were;
COVID only affecting him
the fans wanted it
the bloke is on a different planet, the ego is taking us down.
So much talk is complete drivel, complaining about the number of managers, still thinking the players he picked are anywhere near good enough. Pathetic
I think we wanted a younger team, but we wanted league 2 experienced younger players not Southern League or lower, we also need players playing in their normal positions and no strange formations.
To be brutally honest, this is 100% Swann’s fault. I struggle to comprehend how he can’t see it.
To say Covid isn’t exactly helpful is a huge understatement but it wasn’t covid who sacked the scouting team and decided to sign a rag tag squad of kids and then to further take the piss… appointed a perma crock as captain.
Swann’s in denial…it’s him deciding to play real life football manager with the club that’s the big reason for our club being on the way crumbling away.
Oh, then he decides to appoint a 1st time manager who’s then supposed to get a tune out of an already chosen squad of players, with 80% of the signed players not even fit for purpose.
I wonder this why Wilcox turned down the job when he knew the direction Swann wanted to take ?
Hurst kicked off when he felt the goal posts were moved…he more than likely discovered this crazy route Swann wanted to take, kicked off and then was sacked.
To have a chairman who picks the direction to go down with recruitment is one thing but to then have him go out, sign the players and pre appoint a perma crock captain is another thing entirely.
It’s absolute madness.
Swann’s legendary meddling again is well and truly rearing it’s ugly head.
Somebody needs to have some balls and come out and say this to him because it’s needed, he really needs to wake up and get in the real world.
I agree that the midfield is the biggest problem at the moment but I don’t know how to go about settling that issue.
Maybe Bedeau could make a difference in midfield? I’ve not been impressed with him at centre back but he can play a bit and he could give us a bit of bite in there.
I don’t think playing yet another player out of position is the answer.
Better than signing another player or sacking another manager which seem to be the other options being suggested?
Also, it gets him out of centre back where he’s not been great. Sometimes a player’s given position is not his best position.
Personally I don’t care what age the players are. As long as they can perform at an acceptable level. Plenty of good tunes played on an old fiddle. UTWI
WG makes good points even if his ‘100%’ does seem a tad OTT
Ok, factoring in covid and the injuries to Van Veen and McGahey….I’ll settle for 80% at fault, either way, he’s the real reason why this club is the way it is.
Chairmen should deal with financial side of things and leave the football side of things to football people.
But who would have as sacked Lawsy when we were going nowhere WG,most were more than happy after the embarrassment of losing to the non league cods,and then go into win promotion, manager with new world record, league 2 manager of the year and Winnall with the golden boot,and then to realize the next year he wasn’t up to managing in league 1 and get rid Wilcox as well.Chairmen have to be involved in all aspects of running a club to think owt else is naive.
Chariman do have to hire and fire managers – usually as a function of results, not always; but very few chairman, if any, become so wrapped up in their own self importance as to undertake actions that destroy the very thing they hold stewardship over – I cannot recall any chairman deciding, with his closed shop family boardroom to pick and buy a whole squad of players without any footballing input. Maybe the odd player (as Rob mentioned) but 10-15 players – shit players at that – it goes beyond the pale. Now 3-5 of those players could develop if allowed to learn alongside experienced pro’s but not at this club. If we wait until January we’ll have sunk
I still think that promotion in 2014 was under rated not least because Wilcox had to pick up Laws’ mess and cope with a huge number of new signings. Yes he had some good players and in Winnall we had a really reliable goalscorer but we had 14 players in and 10 players out that season, coming on the back of a terrible relegation season. It was a big achievement to get us up, no matter how it was done.
But it set a pattern for just continuously signing more players. How many youth team prospects have become first teamers in Swann’s time? Adelakun, you could argue, though he came through before Swann I think. Anyone else I’m missing? There must be someone!
It was only just over a year ago that Bucksiron was telling us that Swann would have us bouncing straight back up to league one and before we knew it the Championship with the eyes on the prize of doing a Bournemouth to the Prem. How naive that sounded at the time and how wrong could that prediction be?
`Of course were in a downward spiral NI but that’s not exclusive to us it’s just what happens in football, surely we all understand that, Cox knew the tools he got to work with when he took the job on now it’s up to him to manage and get the best out of them, ya know go out and try to win games instead of worrying about the opposition. Does Swanny make mistakes, course he does, we can all highlight which we think they are,but at the end of it he as the best interests of scunny at the heart of it.
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