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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | 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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Reply | Leadership team
at 08:48 22 Feb 2025
I doubt he has an ounce of remorse, but what's also missing is an oùnce of honour. Is that someone the Ogdens want to be in business with?
When they took over last year, they wouldn't have had that picture, but been sold the tale of how he'd rescued the club. As you say, it was the fana and in particular the shareholders who did that by getting rid of Bottomley and his fellow travelers
Do the Ogdens now have the bigger picture? There's signs that they do, with the leadership reorganisation. Gauge needs to go, along with Pockney. It was a tiny percentage of shares that voted against the latter continuing as a director at the last AGM, but many don't really see that bigger picture and probably didn't want to rock the boat with the Ogdens. Things are moving on now and for Dale to succeed both on and off the pitch, further work is needed
McNulty is a Gauge appointment. The Ogden plan is going nowhere with either of them on board [Post edited 22 Feb 8:55]
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Reply | 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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Reply | 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 [Post edited 20 Feb 14:34]
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 12:41 20 Feb 2025
Sadly, that's the only conclusion that can be drawn (an agreement)
How, or why, that could happen, or be allowed to happen, i've no idea, but if i'm wrong - and i've said this before - it'd be grounds on it s own for McNulty's dismissal
At the same time, i can't for the life of me imagine why Hendo would be party to it, at almost certainly the end of a stellar career in Dale terms. If it's not his last season as a pro, lack of deployment would indicate he wouldn't get another year at Dale
Forget Mitchell - until the end of this campaign, no Hendo, No Party |
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