Allardyce: Stick or twist?
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- BromleyHammer
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Clean out and start again? Please, are you serious? How many times have i heard that over the years? How many times do we have to do that! The fact is, we have no strikers who are capable of scoring a goal between them. Thats its, bottom line. Its not the manager, he is working with what he has, which on the base of it, is a pretty good team, atleast on paper.
- giantsteps
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Probably a good idea to stay off here tonight.
Jesus Christ. I don't know any manager that could come in now and magically get anything out of Carlton Cole and Petric. We have no attack. We have A LOT of injuries
The Daves have to carry the can for this
Jesus Christ. I don't know any manager that could come in now and magically get anything out of Carlton Cole and Petric. We have no attack. We have A LOT of injuries
The Daves have to carry the can for this
- Billy_Boy
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So by you're reckoning, he should have started Diame because 'he destroyed Chelsea last year' but not have Maiga play even though he scored a worldy against them last term.JibHammer wrote:May might be too late.
Explain these decisions then:
- Leaving Diame out, then bringing him on as a wide player (he destroyed Chelsea last year)
- Bringing Maiga on, he shouldn't be playing in this league (Carlton also run Chelski ragged last year)
- Not playing a striker for so long, even taking a punt on a youngster
- Never subbing Nolan, or dropping him when he is being a complete passenger
Which youngster should he have taken a punt on? The reality is that perhaps none are currently good enough.
Dropping last season's top scorer and club captain seems counterproductive at a time when we need goals and on-pitch direction.
I'm not saying the 4-6-0 formation will revolutionise the beautiful game but WHL will live long in the memory. In fact, if Mourinho had done it, there would be a media wankfest about how he managed to score 3 away from home despite not having any forwards. I see our current form as a blip rather than a downward spiral.
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Re: Message To The Board
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Re: Message To The Board
- Downing our only improvement to attack in the summer, a winger suited to a target man.
- our only decent striker injured without a return date, and not exactly prolific before that.
- No plan B, evident from the previous season, I said we needed a different type of striker as well as a target man, one to get in behind.
But no, FFP and second fiddle to Carroll, was the message.
False economy, we looked ****ed, where are the goals going to come from. OS on the horizon. Nice one Daves.
Don't give me the **** about the Carroll money that was spent, said it before, it was money that should have been invested last season. I also don't care what other teams have spent, we needed a massive overhaul, it comes at a price, we tried to do it on the cheap, welcome to our current predicament.
- our only decent striker injured without a return date, and not exactly prolific before that.
- No plan B, evident from the previous season, I said we needed a different type of striker as well as a target man, one to get in behind.
But no, FFP and second fiddle to Carroll, was the message.
False economy, we looked ****ed, where are the goals going to come from. OS on the horizon. Nice one Daves.
Don't give me the **** about the Carroll money that was spent, said it before, it was money that should have been invested last season. I also don't care what other teams have spent, we needed a massive overhaul, it comes at a price, we tried to do it on the cheap, welcome to our current predicament.
- smuts
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Downing for five million was a bargain......they were the ones who decided to implement FFP early when the rest of the Prem ignored it.
- vapourtrail
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Let's sack Sam and bring in a manager who has to work with a team that is only built for the type of football Sam prefers.
You won't get a Pocchettino with this type of owners, so why calling for the managers head if you would get f.e. Iain Dowie?
Keep the faith
You won't get a Pocchettino with this type of owners, so why calling for the managers head if you would get f.e. Iain Dowie?
Keep the faith
- giantsteps
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Cole and Maiga, lol.JibHammer wrote:I forgot the board plays a false number 9 week after week. We do have strikers, just need to use them.
About as much use as Laurel and Hardy
- 61dicksey
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McLeish lovers and he is out and about looking for workvapourtrail wrote:Let's sack Sam and bring in a manager who has to work with a team that is only built for the type of football Sam prefers.
You won't get a Pocchettino with this type of owners, so why calling for the managers head if you would get f.e. Iain Dowie?
Keep the faith
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See what happens in January. I like the fact it feels like we won't knee jerk sack. Couple of wins and there will be a different tune.
Re: Allardyce out
Maiga has been **** this season, every time he has played, Diame has not.
Elliott Lee, why not play him against Norwich, see how he gets on?
What has Nolan done this season?
In a relegation fight, not a goal in us, I think we need to have a rejig.
Elliott Lee, why not play him against Norwich, see how he gets on?
What has Nolan done this season?
In a relegation fight, not a goal in us, I think we need to have a rejig.
- westham,eggyandchips
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Re: Allardyce out
Suicide to get rid of Sam for two reasons:
1) What better manager could we realistically get?
2) Team is built around an injured striker with no return date
How can a new manager change it around, we literally don't have the personnel.
and if you believe the Daves, we can't spend anyway because of financial ****ing fair play that no one is bothered about. So we can't change it around much in January anyway.
If I was a decent manager, I wouldn't touch the job with a barge pole
1) What better manager could we realistically get?
2) Team is built around an injured striker with no return date
How can a new manager change it around, we literally don't have the personnel.
and if you believe the Daves, we can't spend anyway because of financial ****ing fair play that no one is bothered about. So we can't change it around much in January anyway.
If I was a decent manager, I wouldn't touch the job with a barge pole
Re: Message To The Board
You do realise, I was talking about when we came up from the championship.James P wrote:"We need a complete overhaul"
:lol:
Re: Allardyce out
Exactly.westham,eggyandchips wrote:For the first time since he took over, I thought he lost the plot ( a bit).