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Hope for the best but plan for the worst would seem to sum it up for me.
I think Marti has improved many aspects of the club, especially some of the players, so he would leave it in a much better condition than he inherited it - on the pitch and in training, at least. Culturally too, although that is extremely hard to quantify.
In theory, that makes it much easier to transition to a similar manager/coach. Smoother to transition if the DoF role was occupied by someone who oversaw the transition, but I don’t think we will see one of those again whilst CN is CEO, so any change is going to be managed by him.
The next issue is player retention and acquisition pre and post change, especially if a new manager/coach requires budget to deliver and wants a say in the policy and the system we should play. It also effects preseason massively if we get the timing wrong.
I’m not sure many good managers would take the job without a lot of reassurances so it would require finding another with potential to fulfil.
I imagine that’s a shortlist at best to begin with because everyone is looking for the same profile - look at some of this seasons Prem recruitment for managers.
Succession really is a massive challenge for any role but given our circumstances and Marti’s relationship with fans, I imagine it’s severely problematic.
Compare and contrast with what Marti inherited for example.
"Some people might wonder why I would spend my time doing this, but to me as a cultural voyeur and at times interloper in the community, it's very interesting and different to what we have in America," he said.
Shifting across from said thread given the title of this one.
If you measure All the results, you are correct over the course of the season.
However, I think I referred to how we play (rather than if we win) but that all comes down to how confident we are and how we can set up to play against teams that expect to beat us. If those teams try and play more openly, e.g. Leeds at the end of last season, we can raise our game.
Given the current form, why not go into those games with the same approach rather than trepidation that the early season will repeat itself.
If we are measuring the results from early this season (rather than recently), granted we were poor against many teams. Whilst the results against the better teams were not good, in the period up to and including Boxing Day, I think we also lost to:
Cardiff, Portsmouth, Derby, Hull and Swansea.
And we could only draw against:
Stoke & Plymouth
I think those were the results that really cost us, rather than losing to the better teams. Just five from the above and we would be in 6th, even with the current GD.
As we now have nothing to lose, I hope that we try to dish out out some bloody noses from the front foot.
I assume Marti thinks along the same lines or the loan players probably wouldn’t be starting and I don't mind if we lose to better teams, just as a long as we give it a go and play with the ambition to beat them.
And if you want to make progress in a playoff, we’ll have to beat two of the better teams above us so why not. We tend to play better against better teams and these are all one off games until the playoffs.
We’ve got some loan players playing ahead of or own players currently, which would indicate that there are still aspirations.
Assuming it would take a major prolapse to get relegated from here, if we are settling for mid table then I would hope we developed internally first and only used loan players as subs.
I would expect that as the season closes, some of the out of contract/never going to renew crew will be deselected too unless there’s no replacement (Paal) or there’s still an outside chance (tonight).
Remember the CUP selection and subs. Might as well go hard at it with every game.
I always think these types of games are really the test of whether or not we have developed this season. Especially when the opposition are fighting against relegation.
Finish them off in style and you get a great start into the run of ‘tougher’ games next month.
First goal critical, second goal the real decider of the scoreline.
Let’s hope Frey leads the line as he did on Friday and we convert most of our chances.
Understood, but is that a good enough reason to play someone who really contributes nada.
It’s not like he’s advertising his highlights from what I’ve seen and maybe bench warming is as good as it gets in this best. millennial version of himself.
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