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kevinhectoring

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  1. Give the team the best support we can - however they play - and enjoy it whilst the team selection and football is good But not be persuaded that staying down is anything less than failure.
  2. Clever stuff from warne : Anything can happen in div 1 and our wonderful fans should just have fun, enjoy the ride etc … No, No, no it’s too far a cry from what he said beginning of the season: failure to achieve promotion in this div this season with this squad is … failure.
  3. Good to hear our coaching staff are now criticising him in the media. That’ll do some good
  4. I was wondering whether Cashin was struggling for form in and after Jan, because he was so focused on the Jan window and ultimately disappointed by it. Anyway, I think he’ll contribute massively now in the run in
  5. Said it before. In a wider ranging midfield role Sibley can look good on the ball but is too often awol because he doesn’t take up the right positions, whether we’re in or out of possession. So when we’re in possession he doesn’t get the ball and when we’re out of position he flies around chasing the ball and often conceding fouls. But stick him on the wing and it’s easier for him to be in the right place : his role is clearer and more obvious (just to pick a word), so it suits him better. The other place he tends to find good positions is in the oppo’s box
  6. Yes fortress 3 at the back is good so long as the others have intelligence and energy. Ward and Sibley fit in nicely even if Ward not at his best today. Was glad to see Barks start. Question is whether we can make it work against stronger sides.
  7. If our lack of consistency continues, we miss the automatics. And it doesn’t bode well for the playoffs
  8. I know. I think the question of whether and how to use Sibley - if at all - is one of the hardest conundrums facing our manager. End of last season his starts ultimately proved a mistake (but I think playing close to Didzy is probably hard unless telepathy is your thing). Tbh Warne has used him more frequently than I thought he would, I was thinking he might be sold cheaply in Jan. There are players who read a game and find their best was to impose themselves. I don’t think he does that well at all so he’s often underwhelming esp when in midfield
  9. Don’t blame you for not reading my posts ( I should thank you for not having me on ignore.) But if you’d seen my posts you’d see I’ve been saying for ages Ward should be used more (including after the two dropped bollicks). Most recent was a recent reply to ghostofclough who was saying the same thing in the Charlton match day thread. I like Nyambe and yes team selection is difficult because we’ve got a good squad now. But that’s exacerbated by the flip flop approach to formation which imo is difficult for the players. The price we’ve paid is that we’re not going into the last stretch with an established set up and the ability to play consistently good football. And possibly we’ve paid in points as well but who knows. I fear team selection rests too much on issues of personality and not enough on good analysis of football- based criteria. Indeed Warne has in the past boasted that his recruitment follows the same approach
  10. there was nothing veiled about my criticism of Warne. IMO, if we want to watch decent effective football, Ward should be in or close to the starting XI. And his defensive frailties need not be exposed if he is given the right role, especially now we have Adams. Been saying it for many weeks.
  11. In front of goal he’s got poise and killer instinct
  12. You only need to look at the guy on the ball to see his quality, and that’s not new. But he’s been on the naughty step and we’ve paid the price
  13. I think there are better ways to make the fans believe their voices are heard. On a related point, it’d be interesting if DC were to devise a scheme for transfer of 49% of the club to supporters who want to invest. Would be complicated but now’s the time to do it (rather than when the club is in crisis)
  14. For various reasons I think Warne is more likely to get 100% buy in and effort from a Rotherham dressing room than from ours
  15. Having described our bench 6 games ago as the strongest the division has seen in its history
  16. Drawing pretty pictures on an overhead projector is one thing. It’s quite another to ask players frequently to adjust to different roles in different systems whilst there are players coming on and off, the oppo is throwing everything at you and you’re knackered. We’re good enough to win most of the time in this hapless div by playing the system that most suits us and one the players are accustomed to
  17. Was surprised to hear Warne say in his post match interview that it wasn’t a tactical game in any sense. I thought all games had a tactical element
  18. Exactly. NML being run into the ground and no sign of Barks or Ward. It’s not intelligent selection And yes, we probably get best value out of Sibley at LB.
  19. NML gets knackered and loses his touch and control if he’s overplayed. Which he has been. He should be coming off at 70 mins regularly. Next thing is he’ll get injured. Just as happened to Fozzy when he was required to do teenage sprints up and down the left touchline week in week out. I think Warne, as a trim little fellow who keeps himself in annoyingly good shape, has no idea what impact old FatherTime has on the soft tissues of normal sized men
  20. He’s our best keeper when at his best. but his head is in completely the wrong place. He clearly won’t be with us much longer We have a habit of losing our best players
  21. In assessing the manager there is one question and only one: is he getting the players at his disposal performing to their potential ? A different question is: if he doesn’t, will the chairman sack him ? I don’t think he gets the best out of this team. And I don’t think he’ll be sacked any time soon
  22. Every other club adopted the same approach tho’. And given the mess we got ourselves into, only a lunatic club would now change its policy. So the effect of the ‘policy’ decision was likely to ensure a common approach going forward. (I know that by its terms the LAP decision allows different approaches, but the effect of the decision and surrounding circumstances is to discourage anyone from changing) You’ll know better than I do, but I’m thinking ICAEW review certainly does not constitute their sign off on every technical point that underpins an audit. Or indeed on any technical point … I like ‘having been able to determine’. The IDC knows that on appeal, evidence is not reconsidered so comments like that are included to reduce the likelihood their judgement is successfully appealed. (No one likes being overturned.) Did we put forward evidence we had in fact carried out the determination in a consistent manner? ‘also’ ! It’s true I may have misremembered. But make no mistake, our legal team are the only people who know why we called no expert. If our expert was wobbling, for example , we would hardly put that forward as a reason for not calling him
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