StaffsRam

I'm looking forward to the summer when most of the mercenaries will be out of contract. A lot of this is down to how we went about recruitment in the immediate aftermath of the takeover. Granted, a lot of it was through sheer necessity to actually get a squad of players, ANY squad of players, but it's obviously less than ideal.

The only fly in the ointment is the thought of giving Warne another window and a big rebuild. The players HE'S brought in are hardly setting things alight. 

I'm also not thrilled with the transition from the youth teams/academy into the first team. Last night was the perfect example, the chance to play two or three of them. At the very least the chance to bring some of them on in the second half, especially when we should have been trying to desperately chase the game. Instead we brought on Bradley. Comes to something when the best chance these younger players are going to get is to go out on loan rather than being able to force their way into the first team. 

I fully expect to lose Bird and Cashin during the January transfer window. F*** knows who we'll get in to replace them, but I'd wager it'll be older players on last paydays again.

Just now, Chris_Martin said:

i think you mean head not kick🤣

Head? With our crosses? Are you mad? 😆

Just now, Chris_Martin said:

League 2 Crewe Alexandra had 57% of the ball at Pride Park up until they scored their 3rd goal of the evening. Then they just had to sit back and defend it.

Embarassing. 

Embarrassing was when the cameras spotted their Keeper on a deck-chair reading a paper.

Just now, Tamworthram said:

eh?

Do you mean he shouldn't be telling them to cross the balls in too high? Do you think he told them to cross the ball too high?

I just mean that he should probably tell them to do the exact opposite of what he wants and he'll stand a better chance of actually getting what he wants.

24 minutes ago, Andicis said:

I think it's fairly clear at this point that he just isn't the right person to lead us to where we need to be. Ipswich spent a bit longer in League One, but they built up with a good young manager and a good style of football and have adapted well to the league above. I have no data to back this up, but generally the pragmatic sides that get up don't seem to adapt as well. 

It's a good point - what the f*** would actually happen if this squad got promoted.....

Just now, Tamworthram said:

I don't know. I should have added "if he told them to do something different". 

I doubt he did though.

"Kick it in the goal, kick it in the goal, their goal not our goal, kick it in the goal".......

Just now, Tamworthram said:

The thing is though, if there really were a load of 8 foot high crosses is that a failure of execution (the players) rather than the tactic? I can't imagine PW said keep crossing it but make sure they're too high. 🤷‍♀️

It's all in the instructions. He should be telling them to cross the balls in too high, and to pick out their men in the box. Then our crosses would end up at the perfect height and would find our own players every time.

1 minute ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Losing wasn't ideal but they can concentrate on the league.

The only concentration going on tonight was in the half time orange juice.

3 minutes ago, jono said:

Yes Roy. They do. We were beaten by an athletic team with little difference in skill level but they worked harder for longer than we did. Throw whatever you want at the management but for me we were hopelessly casual all evening bar the first 5 minutes of each half. A big chunk of that is down to players and leadership on the pitch. 

We had leadership on the pitch? f*** me, I'd never have guessed......

Just now, Rev said:

Yes.

That wasn't his choice, apparently Mels boots on the ground get to call one sub per game.

If Mel's got boots on the ground still then it's the f****** least he could do to plant at least one of them up Warne's ar*e.

Just now, Rev said:

Not Warnes fault, as he has explained well enough during his interview. Nothing to do with him.

Did he explain bringing on Bradley when we were 1-3 down and needing goals?

1 minute ago, CongletonRam said:

 The owner.

For now.

3 minutes ago, Grumpy Git said:

Warne is about as popular as Suella Braverman and rightly so.

Both overly reliant on the right wing 😂

Just now, Matchday Fred said:

Here’s the summary of the problem. Clowes hires Warne with experience of getting out of L1. Warne only knows one game. We all know how Rotherham played, little skill but lots of hard runners, aggression, height at both ends lending itself to the numbers game of lots of crosses into the box. Fast forward to Derby where Warne inherits someone’s squad put together at speed, full of journeyman who are the least equipped bunch to play the Rotherham way. But Warne still hasn’t spotted that, and has no idea how to set up this team up to get the best out of it. Clowes would not have spotted this cos he isn’t a football man. He just hoped that history would repeat itself, but totally failed to spot the dilemma just described. Warne doesn’t have enough transfer windows open to build a team that can play the Rotherham and doesn’t appear to have the smarts to play another way.

Here’s the problem, we have a good number of players out of contract in the summer, but who trusts Warne with a major squad rebuild at this point? I don’t.

I remember the good old days when we thought Phil Brown and Nigel Pearson were w*nk. Warne makes them look like Alf Ramsey and Bill Shankly.

Unacceptable.

Disgusting performance and Warne clueless to change it.

Just now, Ghost of Clough said:

At least we've brought Bradley on for the final 5 minutes to help us pull back 2 goals.

Bringing on Bradley in ANY game is like Ronnie O’Sullivan playing left handed. Why are we showboating at 1-3 down?! 😳

Just now, oodledoodle said:

Not enough.

I’d rather just let the kids play, at least they try.

How many players do we have out of contract next summer?

I can’t even be ar*ed to rant. Admin season wasn’t this f****** depressing.

Ashamed to say that I’ve only just seen this thread. Like everyone else I’m absolutely gutted by this awful news. Even in our darkest hours (and there’s been plenty of late) B4’s been a constant ray of light that never failed to raise a smile. It was clear from every single post, without fail, that B4 absolutely loved the club, and in turn, who couldn’t love someone like that.

I will miss his unwavering optimism. I will miss him. I really hope the club and fans can do something in B4’s memory. God bless you Daniel.

Hats off to PW, a proper number done on Barnsley there.

So good that I might actually go to bed relatively hate-free tonight! 😄

The stats from yesterday’s match tell you everything you need to know about where are frailties lie. 32 shots, 2 goals, 7 shots conceded, 2 goals. 

We’re nowhere near clinical enough in the final third, and simultaneously we’re too porous in defence.

The tactic for getting the ball to NML so that he can pump near-endless balls into the box doesn’t work because we don’t have the brute of a centre forward that we need on the end of them. If we had Steve Howard, or a striker of that ilk then we’d be fine, but this tactic doesn’t seem to benefit Collins, Washington or Waghorn. We also need to up out shooting practice, the number of scuffed/weak shots we unleashed yesterday…

Defensively, I don’t think I’d play Bradley ever again. We expected a bedrock, instead he just seems to be an agent of chaos, sewing seeds of doubt and sapping confidence from those around him. It’s disappointing that the defence was the priority in the summer and the area that got most attention and yet no one really seems to know what system we should be playing or the personnel we should be using there.

With a few players likely to leave in January, and even more being out of contract in the summer than this summer is looking like another major rebuild. If that’s the case then we’re near enough back to square one, meaning we’ve effectively just wasted a couple of seasons. In that scenario I’m not sure what the value is of giving Warne even more time.

1 minute ago, RoyMac5 said:

Wow, what kind of a bad boy is May?

A mediocre human by all accounts…🫣

Should have had a FK on the edge of the box after we’d made it 2-2. Ref had a good game but fluffed that one. Would have fancied Hourihane from that range as well.