By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions. We in turn value your personal details in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Please log in or register. Registered visitors get fewer ads.
There have been a series of concerns around the meandering nature of aspects of what the Trust do. Not always their own fault, especially when a lot relies on the club, but it’s clear processes and effective, detailed communication remain an issue. The latest postponement in the Fan Engagement schedule, added to a series of delays over the last year, being a perfect (and avoidable) example of this.
The remaining Trust board have to use this time as an opportunity to decide what the future direction is of the Trust and how that fits alongside what is happening at the club.
The AGM is usually held in November, that is also an opportunity for members to have their say too.
We do however have a real problem in midfield in the short term with East the only recognised central midfielder available. Burger did well there last night though, so maybe he can fill in again.
Will have to wait and see how serious Gilmour’s injury is.
Our most professional display of the season so far. Really hope displays like this are remembered after our next defeat.
Yes, the manager has a responsibility to ensure we don’t lapse back into being slow and ineffective. But there’s no doubt we don’t have that as our preferred way of playing. We want to pass quickly into forward areas but we need to try and eliminate falling into the trap of becoming ponderous in our own third.
Ferguson’s presence may be the main influence on this.
He was visibly struggling after a challenge near the touchline. Ankle or foot at a guess.
Burger did well in midfield though after that. Industrious to the point we didn’t have a real problems after the substitution.
We managed the game excellently, especially after the break when they chucked everything at us with little quality. Bided our time and then got the second.
Meeting postponed. Little explanation as to why but the mention of “ working towards a new date and format” stands out.
A format they knew hadn’t worked very well before yet were persisting with. Hopefully this will mean an in person meeting that can be broadcast on YouTube like the forums.
Start a thread about hoof balls. The point is, as seen by the Huddersfield goal and Mitchell’s yesterday, that passing in dangerous situations leads DIRECTLY to a goal. No chance to defend it afterwards.
It’s not a case of demonising retaining the ball at the back, starting every attack from the keeper to a defender or even the age old playing it about slowly between defenders who don’t go forward. It’s doing it under so much pressure that any mistake will inevitably result in a goal.
At the moment that’s been lost in translation. Hopefully now it won’t be.
Looking across the whole game though, there would need to be another generational shift. One which occurred to see this start in the first place.
I’m not against playing the ball about in defence retaining possession rather than a hoof forward, it’s when it’s done with far too much risk attached. It would require that risk being publicised in the way xG/possession percentage etc are on MotD, Super Sunday, Monday Night Football et al.
That’s when there will be a real understanding of what is wrong and why.
It’s not just on here that people have pointed out how trying to avoid avoidable goals - it’s heard on other forms of social media, often with much more vitriol attached. It’s also forgotten how the old days of fans muttering discontent on the terraces and in the bars at the club before and after games is still a thing. It’d be naive to think the club aren’t aware of it.
This thread, whilst obviously being pertinent to Dale, was actually an attempt to illustrate how this is an issue that exists across the entire game and one that is being mystifyingly being ignored despite the substantial impact it is having on results. We can all rightly call out McNulty and his players when we fall foul, but imagine if another manager comes in from the same school of thinking that appears to dominate football across the world at the moment.
Can fans across the country make ‘avoidable goals’ a thing? At some stage, someone has to. And when they do I’ll have already trademarked ‘aG’.
Actually, Chaff and co can have it and distribute all future revenue amongst forum users.
And yet all these managers and new experts on Twitter etc fail to discuss the xG against information when passing unnecessarily around their own penalty areas (see the other thread). They all think they’re cleverer than the normal fan.
If anything, in a lot of cases, the opposite is true.
There isn’t one. So in the absence of that, some examples of clubs everywhere not adhering to the old mantra of “get rid” when under pressure. Feel free to add as the season goes on.
As well as Mitchell’s goal yesterday, here’s one from Huddersfield v Northampton:
Don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned before, but that’s a right sitter Mitchell misses when we are 1-0 up. Fantastic bit of play and he somehow gets it over the bar, if that goes in it’s a totally different game.
For someone who says refs have a hard job and that they’ll make mistakes, he sure does go on about how they fell short today. Hope our fans remember this when we see opposition benches go mad or moan after games.
The sarcastic “best decision he made all game” comment for receiving a yellow for dissent was poor form too.
This isn’t excusing any ref decisions btw, but we can only control ourselves. Much like when it comes to defending after any such decisions.
Couple of mins in so far and it’s refreshing to hear an immediate acknowledgment of how we could have been better for the goals.
Then there’s a referee moan (maybe valid for those who watched), but to follow it up with ‘xG’ talk? Ugh. Modern football is rubbish.
Sassi sounds like he could be out on Tuesday so let’s hope Ferguson can recover from illness and solidify his place for a while.
We’d have less selection “turbulence” to worry about recently if those selections were more consistent, injuries permitting. Still, apart from the constant referring back to ref decisions despite saying he didn’t want to, that was actually one of the better interviews so far.
By all accounts, the ‘possession football’ was not the issue today. We have to stop beating that drum because he will never change the way he wants his sides to play.
Nor will almost any manager who replaced him. The game has changed. I don’t like it, but that’s how it is.
Unless you know a load of managers who play differently, we should hope that ours who recognises that we can be entertaining and effective when playing at pace can solve the other problems mentioned above.
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
