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Post by kings hill addick on Nov 21, 2024 11:17:07 GMT
With the caveat that it may all look very different in three months time, in which case I’ll be eating bucket loads of humble pie, I think it’s the recruitment of Nathan Jones that might well prove to be the catastrophic error which will cost Rodwell and Scott their jobs. Under Jones’s influence we’re currently seeing the worst of all possible worlds. The evidence suggests that the investors are happy to build slowly (rightly or wrongly) and a pure version of that strategy might have been reflected in the recruitment of a highly regarded, but young and inexperienced coach and similarly the assembly of a squad of exciting young players with potential. Inexperience, unforced errors, poor game management et al might have meant we’d have missed out this season, but with lots of potential on show. Not ideal, perhaps, but had we gone this route we might now be enjoying some really attractive and exciting football while having genuine room for optimism for next season. Instead, in trying to do I’m not sure what, Jones has taken us backwards with little or no obvious potential. We’ve truly got the worst of all possible worlds. We neither look capable of challenging for the playoffs and nor have we recruited players with potential who might be coached into a promotion winning side. Andy Scott has a lot to answer for (and especially the recruitment of Appleton and Jones), but ironically, one might even say bizarrely, SE7’s recruitment pre Jones (May, L Jones, T Taylor, Coventry, Ramsey and Small) looks a lot more astute and strategic than we’ve seen post Jones’s arrival. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but the recruitment of Berry, A Campbell, Potts and Hylton looks increasingly bizarre. Even the more “solid” signings like A Mitchell and Edwards look nowhere near Championship material while Ahadme has underwhelmed by even our low standards. We might get lucky. This time next season it’s possible that Leaburn, Kanu, Anderson, T Campbell, Z Mitchell, Dixon et al will be League One high flyers. I wouldn’t want to bet on it though and nor I am confident that Jones’s hoofball will get the best out of them. WTF is he doing? It is looking more and more like Jones' time at Luton was the exception, rather than the rule. Even more worrying is that it looks like he knows this, and is trying to replicate it buy, literally, signing the players that he had when things seemed to work. |
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Post by eric on Nov 21, 2024 11:32:33 GMT
With the caveat that it may all look very different in three months time, in which case I’ll be eating bucket loads of humble pie, I think it’s the recruitment of Nathan Jones that might well prove to be the catastrophic error which will cost Rodwell and Scott their jobs. Under Jones’s influence we’re currently seeing the worst of all possible worlds. The evidence suggests that the investors are happy to build slowly (rightly or wrongly) and a pure version of that strategy might have been reflected in the recruitment of a highly regarded, but young and inexperienced coach and similarly the assembly of a squad of exciting young players with potential. Inexperience, unforced errors, poor game management et al might have meant we’d have missed out this season, but with lots of potential on show. Not ideal, perhaps, but had we gone this route we might now be enjoying some really attractive and exciting football while having genuine room for optimism for next season. Instead, in trying to do I’m not sure what, Jones has taken us backwards with little or no obvious potential. We’ve truly got the worst of all possible worlds. We neither look capable of challenging for the playoffs and nor have we recruited players with potential who might be coached into a promotion winning side. Andy Scott has a lot to answer for (and especially the recruitment of Appleton and Jones), but ironically, one might even say bizarrely, SE7’s recruitment pre Jones (May, L Jones, T Taylor, Coventry, Ramsey and Small) looks a lot more astute and strategic than we’ve seen post Jones’s arrival. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but the recruitment of Berry, A Campbell, Potts and Hylton looks increasingly bizarre. Even the more “solid” signings like A Mitchell and Edwards look nowhere near Championship material while Ahadme has underwhelmed by even our low standards. We might get lucky. This time next season it’s possible that Leaburn, Kanu, Anderson, T Campbell, Z Mitchell, Dixon et al will be League One high flyers. I wouldn’t want to bet on it though and nor I am confident that Jones’s hoofball will get the best out of them. WTF is he doing? This is pretty much where I am. I really hope we're wrong and NJ can turn it around (as we don't want to sack another manager!), but I don't have much confidence in that. I actually think we do need to sack another manager , and the sooner the better . I can put up with Jones’s anti-football if we are challenging near the top , but when we’re a struggling bottom half team , and getting worse every week , I think it’s time to get rid . |
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Post by roburwash on Nov 21, 2024 11:52:00 GMT
Football can lift one's spirit and be a break from the real world but Jones' brand of hoofball is as bleak and depressing as the daily news.
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Post by aaronaldo on Nov 21, 2024 13:55:20 GMT
This is pretty much where I am. I really hope we're wrong and NJ can turn it around (as we don't want to sack another manager!), but I don't have much confidence in that. I actually think we do need to sack another manager , and the sooner the better . I can put up with Jones’s anti-football if we are challenging near the top , but when we’re a struggling bottom half team , and getting worse every week , I think it’s time to get rid . Oh I'm not ruling it out if it continues to be the same over the next few weeks. We have to have a plan of who we want in though. I'm not confident we have a solid succession plan in place when you consider the last few appointments. I'm also not sure the SMT will be putting too much pressure on NJ yet. I think they see it as a 2-3 year plan. The fact we're playing the most dire football known to man was probably not on their bingo card. I think we'd really have to drop down the league (which can happen with how we're playing) for them to start to worry. My feeling is that the fans and SMT are quite far apart currently. |
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