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They had to stick with Dean once they took over from Hilton. It’s worked on and off, and we should have won this league, I don’t think sacking him when we first started slipping back would have been right and I understand why the board stuck with him, they don’t want to be another Swann sacking managers every 5 minutes. Yes a different manager 3 months ago could have done better, but if they didn’t then the club would be criticised for binning Dean.
Now as we limp into the playoffs (and I think mathematically we could still limp out of them !?) I think Dean needs to get promotion for his own sake or he will have being the manager that couldn’t do it with this squad on his managerial cv.1 user thanked author for this post.
I don’t think any of the other 23 clubs expected Tamworth to over achieve.
We’ve had some appalling luck and some poor refereeing decisions to add to lacklustre performances. So I’m not sure that it is solely down to underachievement.
But, yes! Jimmy has been found out at this level. Would we have won the league with a more experienced manager at the helm?
We’ll never know!
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I see Spennymoor paid for their efforts against The Iron losing 2-0 to South Shields. If memory serves this has happened plenty this season, Rene has time on his hands so maybe he can be bothered to check.
I’ll have a check later.
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It’s been a frustrating watch since the New Year and this squad has massively underachieved in the last three months, clearly the manager has to take a lot of the responsibility but the players have been way off it aswell, a joint failure IMO.
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I watched several times the KL players walking back into position whilst we fannied around at the back. I think Butterfield gets so pissed off that he just doesn’t want to pass to anybody anymore / Pugh – lose the ball, Denton – lose the ball, Whitehall – fall over, Cluinan – back we go, Ogle penetrating run, poor end product out of position, Boyce – whoosh, repeat
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When you think about it JD must be the worst manager the club has had.We are playing two divisions lower than the football league and he is struggling to get us into second place with,perhaps the best squad.I have been a season ticket holder for many years,now I don’t care whether I go or not.I just don’t enjoy watching a team selected play so poorly because of the tactics JD insists are the best
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‘That being said, I also think it can’t be ignored that Hilton persuaded a bunch of players to drop down a division or two presumably in return for a hefty wage, so you wonder what that says about some of those players?’
Doesn’t say any more to me other than that it’s a short career and they took an opportunity to get paid a very good wage while they could. Not like they’re mercenaries moving to Saudi. They were also presumably sold Hilton’s BS, as many were.
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That’s true. Not limited to footballers either. I did wonder who was advising some of them at the time but shelved it.
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Not sure if anyone else noticed this but Stockport announced losses of £4.5 million for last season IN LEAGUE TWO! Absolute madness. Clearly Paddy Madden still doesn’t come cheap! I don’t know how this sort of thing is allowed, both for the competitiveness of the league and the viability of clubs. It’s completely ridiculous that clubs can run at this sort of debt at any level, let alone the fourth tier. I hope their fans enjoy buying the title this season but you would have thought that after all they have been through in the last decade they would be a bit more prudent these days.
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I won’t pretend to fully understand but I believe numbers in brackets are bad ?
Looks very similar to Scunthorpe Uniteds accounts.1 user thanked author for this post.
Big difference being County’s owner really does have deep pockets and isn’t a fraudster. Problem will be if and when he decides to stop bankrolling them and what financial state the club may be left in. Swann anyone?
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there will,no doubt ,be county fans pointing out that it’s unsustainable ,they will get abused as “it’s his money” sounds familiar?
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Owners only have deep pockets till the day they say no more funding.
The supposedly best run club in the country Accrington their owner wants out they’ve gone into debt, Cods under big bad Fenty make profit 3 years running, under Stockdale first season a promotion one at that make a near £1 million pound loss and there into him with £1.5 million of loans “we’ve got or club back” really. Lets not get away from the fact mostlower league clubs are hanging on a knife edge2 users thanked author for this post.
There’s a couple of good accounts on Twitter with a focus on lower league finances. Ben Pearson- a darlo fan- is one I’ve recently followed.
Some of the accounts are frightening- nearly every one is posting losses in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions with fan bases smaller than ours.
For example, South Shields lost 1.1m last year in the Northern Premier League. Subsequently their main investor is now looking to sell.
As Awayswego said, it’s all well and good until the plug is pulled out as we found out.
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Absolutely. Which makes it all the more baffling why awaywego previously and often advocates that club owners need to spend beyond the club’s means to get on. Or have I missed something awaywego?
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