Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. 19:26 - Apr 25 with 1751 views | R442D | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17824027 Just watched that and it was intresting to see Chesterfeild fan's views on to why they have come to the position they are in now. Most blame not replacing player's before or during pre-season, which lead to the situation of relegation that they're in now. However, I know we have many reasons to why we're now relegated, but I wondered if could you put your finger on only ONE reason or rather what you feel was the 'main reason' (like the Chesterfeild fans did) to why we have had such a terrible season and are now relegated, what would it be? Lack of player recruitment? Wrong manager? Or something totally diffrent? Now, remember no arguing, everyone is entitled to their own opinion! | | | | |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 19:32 - Apr 25 with 1729 views | isitme | The players have not been good enough. We started the season with a squad that was light on numbers and quality in key positions. The succession of loan signings brought in numbers but did not address the quality issue. In fact only Long, Ball in his first spell and to a certain extent Darby have been a good use of the loan market. That is why it is imperative that we start next season with a settled squad of our own players. | | | |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 21:49 - Apr 25 with 1601 views | TalkingSutty |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 19:32 - Apr 25 by isitme | The players have not been good enough. We started the season with a squad that was light on numbers and quality in key positions. The succession of loan signings brought in numbers but did not address the quality issue. In fact only Long, Ball in his first spell and to a certain extent Darby have been a good use of the loan market. That is why it is imperative that we start next season with a settled squad of our own players. |
Pretty much agree with that. Its difficult to foster a great team spirit when half the team are loan players and the loan door is constantly revolving. The other down sound to that policy is we end up with no saleable players to help balance the books further down the line. Its false economy. | | | |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 08:16 - Apr 26 with 1488 views | dingdangblue | Too much upheaval in such a short space of time - losing Hill,Flicker,Dawson,O'Grady,Wiseman,Done and not signing a keeper. Whoever we got as manager was always going to find it an impossible task following on from our best ever manager/team - never mind a man with no previous managerial experience. | |
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Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 09:03 - Apr 26 with 1465 views | irisaln | All that was required was a good goalkeeper. Not one of our own or on loan were good enough. If we had a good goalkeeping coach he would tell them to stop standing on the six yard line! | | | |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 10:58 - Apr 26 with 1398 views | steofthedale | Relegation was always on the cards (and may have been difficult to avoid even had Hillcroft stayed.) Dawson's contributions at both ends of the pitch were always going to be a massive loss. O'Grady was irreplaceable. Dale did not play to the few strengths we had. For too much of the first half of the season, one glaring error was not starting with (my player of the season) Kennedy. | |
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Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 11:21 - Apr 26 with 1373 views | D_Alien |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 10:58 - Apr 26 by steofthedale | Relegation was always on the cards (and may have been difficult to avoid even had Hillcroft stayed.) Dawson's contributions at both ends of the pitch were always going to be a massive loss. O'Grady was irreplaceable. Dale did not play to the few strengths we had. For too much of the first half of the season, one glaring error was not starting with (my player of the season) Kennedy. |
Agree with all of the above. I think at best, we'd have been lower mid-table even with Hillcroft in charge. It's imperative that everyone involved with the club stops looking backwards, and I suspect that just as Hilly used to get annoyed with people referring to our history, so Coleman must be pretty pissed off with people moaning about this season. Its gone. We all know what's happened, and pretty much why. Its fine if fans want to continue chewing the fat but in the main, its time to move on. [Post edited 1 Jan 1970 1:00]
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Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 13:37 - Apr 26 with 1284 views | Doolan_Is_God | Failure to replace key players has got to be the answer here. I reckon Eyre could have kept us up with Dawson, O'Grady, Dagnall and Wiseman in the squad and I don't think Hillcroft could have kept us up with the squad we had this season. Of course it's possible that if Hillcroft had stayed on we wouldn't have lost those players or they'd have been adequately replaced. | | | |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 13:47 - Apr 26 with 1273 views | rochedale |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 13:37 - Apr 26 by Doolan_Is_God | Failure to replace key players has got to be the answer here. I reckon Eyre could have kept us up with Dawson, O'Grady, Dagnall and Wiseman in the squad and I don't think Hillcroft could have kept us up with the squad we had this season. Of course it's possible that if Hillcroft had stayed on we wouldn't have lost those players or they'd have been adequately replaced. |
Completely agree. You can't polish a turd. But KH did often roll a turd in glitter to make it look better, look at holness, Dawson was Bobs glitter. | |
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Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 14:26 - Apr 26 with 1249 views | dingdangblue |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 13:47 - Apr 26 by rochedale | Completely agree. You can't polish a turd. But KH did often roll a turd in glitter to make it look better, look at holness, Dawson was Bobs glitter. |
Hilly left at the right time for his cv, he knew just how good Dawson was and what a massive influence he had on our promotion and lge 1 seasons - you just dont get future England centre halves playing at our level every day of the week. It was an impossible task to keep on replacing those players we sold and Hill probably knew that I imagine. | |
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Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 14:57 - Apr 26 with 1220 views | SFD | Hill left a bad taste the way he lied when leaving, however I firmly believe with the additions of the already lined up Perkins, Mcnulty and Davies we would have been in the play off positions now, this div has been awful this season. | | | |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 17:48 - Apr 26 with 1120 views | debbiesfella |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 13:37 - Apr 26 by Doolan_Is_God | Failure to replace key players has got to be the answer here. I reckon Eyre could have kept us up with Dawson, O'Grady, Dagnall and Wiseman in the squad and I don't think Hillcroft could have kept us up with the squad we had this season. Of course it's possible that if Hillcroft had stayed on we wouldn't have lost those players or they'd have been adequately replaced. |
Dagnall left while Hill was manager. | | | |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 18:00 - Apr 26 with 1104 views | SaxonDale |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 14:57 - Apr 26 by SFD | Hill left a bad taste the way he lied when leaving, however I firmly believe with the additions of the already lined up Perkins, Mcnulty and Davies we would have been in the play off positions now, this div has been awful this season. |
Agree with that completely. Also I would question whether the players fitness levels have been as high as they were during Hill's reign. The fact that we haven't won many back to back fixtures this season surely suggests a lack of fitness in the camp. If Eyre's backroom staff recruitment was as bad as his playing staff recruitment then I seriously wonder if the new fitness coach, scout, goalkeeping coach etc have let down the manager in failing to prepare this team adequately for League 1 football. | | | |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 23:54 - Apr 26 with 961 views | Shun |
Chesterfeild and the Reason for Their (Attempting) Great Escape. on 14:57 - Apr 26 by SFD | Hill left a bad taste the way he lied when leaving, however I firmly believe with the additions of the already lined up Perkins, Mcnulty and Davies we would have been in the play off positions now, this div has been awful this season. |
Agree with this. | | | |
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