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Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 10:07 2 Mar 2025

Basically turning his players into some kind of "victims of circumstance", typical of the way things are approached in recent times

It's a mentality that needs to change if Dale are to get back.into the EFL, which continues to beg the question of where it arises, despite yesterday's pleasing result
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Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 17:01 1 Mar 2025

Well done Dale

Latics got turned over by Barnet at Boundary Park so perhaps some kind of context, but the playoffs seem more of a long shot now

We'd need to win the FA Trophy to compensate if we miss out in the league
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Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 12:10 26 Feb 2025

As if on cue, an insight into the current generation of footballers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cge17835e3eo
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TAMWORTH
at 08:15 26 Feb 2025

Desperation-stakes subs is a very long way from the fundamental changes needed

Plan Zero, not Plan B, and even then he couldn't up the ante at corners
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TAMWORTH
at 21:59 25 Feb 2025

Snatching that point just about keeps us hanging onto the coat-tails of the playoffs but in reality, tonight seemed like another example of why we're not going to make them

All eyes on Saturday now, and the chance to rescue something from the rubble of what should've been an upswing in our fortunes
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TAMWORTH
at 20:52 25 Feb 2025

All this constant "we need to do this" or "change this" is just as boring as the play itself

It's not going to happen folks! Not on Jim's watch
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New signing but not a manager
at 18:57 25 Feb 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bird_(footballer)
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Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 15:57 25 Feb 2025

I know i shouldn't bite, but...

Nottm Forest

Some people can't see the (Chris) Wood for the trees

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Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 17:40 24 Feb 2025

I've no doubt the Ogden's have skills, or access to skills, in the recruitment business - "for crying out loud"

I'm pretty sure they know how to conduct interviews too - "for crying out loud"

Does Spencer Ogden (company) understand the managerial requirements to return to the EFL? The suggestion they might is laughable... crying out loud optional
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Sack McNulty
at 13:40 24 Feb 2025

Are you saying he'd be tasked with making the decision to terminate JM's contract, if such a decision were to be made?

That's what i'm referring to: who makes the decision?

And if it's Delves, what experience does he have in making a new appointment? None. That's my point

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Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 13:19 24 Feb 2025

To say that "everyone" does is massively overplaying it too

The hard facts are known to many, as is the likelihood that those figures are only going to go one way (downwards) if our current footballing malaise continues into next season
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Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 13:17 24 Feb 2025

I'll ask again (not to you in particular), but:

Who will "find somebody who will" ?

There's no-one at the club with the knowledge or experience to do so. Not counting Gauge, who's acquired 'some' experience but all negative, and wouldn't trust him to catch a cold
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Sack McNulty
at 17:57 23 Feb 2025

We're a football club

If "all the major responsibilities lay elsewhere", who's in charge of overseeing the performance of the manager? It's a question i've asked a couple of times; no-one seems to have any answers as yet

It's pretty useless anyone saying McNulty should "use Plan B" (he hasn't got one), "he should be sacked" (who's going to find his replacement?) or he "should be given more time" - by whom? Who's in charge of the football side of things?

Once we have some kind of answer to that question - THEN, we can start to take the necessary steps to the brighter future the fans deserve, and the Ogdens deserve for their investment and initiatives in non-football matters
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Sack McNulty
at 11:30 23 Feb 2025

And sadly, i think you're right

Apart from anything else - and as i alluded to yesterday - it's not just about sacking the manager, it's having the experience, contacts and understanding of what's required at our level to make an informed choice about a replacement

With Gauge still seemingly involved, he got his fingers burnt twice with managerial choices before plumping for the "in-house" option, and that's where we find ourselves

The Ogdens have no experience in the game, although i dare say they can see as clearly as anyone when something isn't working

In terms of how things are evolving, and which may explain McNulty's current dog's breakfast of tactical incompetence, this is informative:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c20l7lw3ypzo

He's just following trends, but with players who aren't up to it. Clarity of thought on the pitch has gone right out of the window, and my god, does it show!
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Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 18:50 22 Feb 2025

There's a gaping hole in the football decision-making at the club

The Ogdens aren't steeped in the game, and seem to have defaulted the football decisions to the previous regime - who themselves weren't steeped in the game

It showed before, and it's showing now

So, who's going to take that decision? I really don't think the Ogdens would want to take that on - just yet
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Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 17:44 22 Feb 2025

SG might oblige

A three-year contract for an unproven manager is taking the piss
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Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 13:39 22 Feb 2025

The draining of all initiative, spontaneity, JOY from kicking a football for a living

As pros, the players have careers to watch so they're likely to go along with things to a certain extent. Not a single one of them is going to come out and say "i'd rather be playing a different style of football" especially the younger ones who might well've been coached along similar lines since they were kids

It's a bit like the recent "Be Kind" meme, except we're kind to the opposition
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Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 12:58 22 Feb 2025

Nowhere near the amount the manager has mentally taken away from them
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Hughen Riley R.I.P.
at 14:34 20 Feb 2025

That includes a memorable hat-trick in a game against (i think) Brighton, a 3-3 draw

With the loss of Vinnie Leech through injury, he came in and filled that gap, and more

RIP
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Match thread Halifax Town
at 14:30 20 Feb 2025

"Part of the problem is we are tortoise like in transition allowing opponents to easily get back and defend deep in numbers."

It's not part of the problem, it's the key to JM's way of playing, which leads to invariably trying to unlock a massed defence and handing our opponents a huge advantage from every kick-off

I referred to the Yeovil game earlier, where it looked like we'd found the right balance. Setting our forwards free against a retreating (not settled) defence is the surest way to create good chances. That absolutely doesn't mean "hoof ball" - it means using a minimum of effective passes to breach a defence. Jim's going for some kind of maximum, and we're snookered
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