lancer wrote:Honest reply
Not tried to hide his frustration and knows what needs doing
oldweststander wrote:We were always going to struggle with such a small squad.
GC signed too many players on two year deals, only Maris and Clarke have proved worthy.
It may be that Benning has refused a deal extention hence Nigel not starting him, what has a player got to do to displace McLaughlin?
Rawson is Conference standard, too many fouls and misplaced headers, Sweeney has proved very inconsistant this season, maybe his time is up too and a new challenge awaits him somewhere else?
arsene wengers coat wrote:Nigel has to work incredibly hard to get anything out of them. In this instance the phrase is 'the juice isn't worth the squeeze.'
The run was a fluke. What we're seeing at the moment is the natural level of performance for the majority of these wasters.
Nigel can't trust them to self manage their performance. Sad fact, but true.
bobbystagsfan wrote:oldweststander wrote:We were always going to struggle with such a small squad.
GC signed too many players on two year deals, only Maris and Clarke have proved worthy.
It may be that Benning has refused a deal extention hence Nigel not starting him, what has a player got to do to displace McLaughlin?
Rawson is Conference standard, too many fouls and misplaced headers, Sweeney has proved very inconsistant this season, maybe his time is up too and a new challenge awaits him somewhere else?
Don't agree Rawson is conference standard, he was part of FGR that were always challenging for promotion/play offs. He hasn't become a bad player over night. I think it's a confidence think again. Rawson looked great on that 5 game winning run, but has looked shaky on the past few games.
Sweeney has been disappointing since Flitcroft left, he looked a good signing that would take us into league one, or at least a sellable assett but he's not improved much whilst he's been here.
That's why a manager needs at least four transfer windows to create his own team.yorkshire stag wrote:but how many of these superstars are sitting pretty on two year deals ?
not as easy to bin with 12 mths still to run
James wrote:We've got the best manager we've had for 30 odd years. He can get as many transfer windows as he wants for me.
yorkshire stag wrote:James wrote:We've got the best manager we've had for 30 odd years. He can get as many transfer windows as he wants for me.
time is not a thing gifted to many football managers at league two level youth, i fear even young Cloughie won’t get that many windows
MTFCMusings wrote:arsene wengers coat wrote:Nigel has to work incredibly hard to get anything out of them. In this instance the phrase is 'the juice isn't worth the squeeze.'
The run was a fluke. What we're seeing at the moment is the natural level of performance for the majority of these wasters.
Nigel can't trust them to self manage their performance. Sad fact, but true.
I don’t agree that the run was a fluke. The numbers back that up.
The fact is for most of the season, goalkeepers or defenders have made silly errors leading to goals, and attackers have consistently failed to convert good chances. Once we got in the run, confidence grew and for a sustained run of games we took our chances and made fewer errors.
Last night was the first time in a long time we have looked really poor for large spells of a game. In the previous four games we have either created good chances and not taken them or been hamstrung by defensive errors.
The starting line up needs freshening up, particularly the back five and the front three. There are options within the squad to allow this to happen. Clough should ensure this happens on Saturday.
yorkshire stag wrote:but how many of these superstars are sitting pretty on two year deals ?
not as easy to bin with 12 mths still to run
oldweststander wrote:yorkshire stag wrote:but how many of these superstars are sitting pretty on two year deals ?
not as easy to bin with 12 mths still to run
From memory:- On two year deals.
Rawson,
Menayese,
Ollie Clarke,
Maris,
Bowery,
Stech
no idea re Reid.
Of that bunch I would keep Clarke, Maris, Bowery and Reid as back up, the others would be free to leave of go out on loan.
I understand Knowles and Sinclair are tied for another season and I am grateful for that.
George Lapslie, Gordon and Charsley have recently signed new contracts.
The rest, unless someone knows different, are all free to leave at season's end.
arsene wengers coat wrote:MTFCMusings wrote:arsene wengers coat wrote:Nigel has to work incredibly hard to get anything out of them. In this instance the phrase is 'the juice isn't worth the squeeze.'
The run was a fluke. What we're seeing at the moment is the natural level of performance for the majority of these wasters.
Nigel can't trust them to self manage their performance. Sad fact, but true.
I don’t agree that the run was a fluke. The numbers back that up.
The fact is for most of the season, goalkeepers or defenders have made silly errors leading to goals, and attackers have consistently failed to convert good chances. Once we got in the run, confidence grew and for a sustained run of games we took our chances and made fewer errors.
Last night was the first time in a long time we have looked really poor for large spells of a game. In the previous four games we have either created good chances and not taken them or been hamstrung by defensive errors.
The starting line up needs freshening up, particularly the back five and the front three. There are options within the squad to allow this to happen. Clough should ensure this happens on Saturday.
Ok, Mr 'numbers back that up', maybe fluke wasn't the right word but it certainly bucked the trend. the 5 game winning run that was curtailed accounts for almost 50% of our points this season. We have played 29 games.
We may not have fluked the victories in the games, but the fact we pulled off 5 wins from 5 games when we had previously only won 2 out of our first 20 games shows it was an anomaly, and maybe we have reverted to type, as Clough says.
The problem here is they need continued micromanaging because all that was good before has evaporated because they can't be trusted to do their basic jobs without being relentlessly reminded and mollycoddled - in my opinion.
We don't go to work and get reminded and trained on how to read and type. There is an expectation that simple jobs will be undertaken to fulfill a greater objective. Seems these lot need the basics hammering home endlessly. And that is why I think he sounded exasperated in the interview.
He also says we came in off the back of 2 decent away games. Draws at Walsall and Colchester, personally I thought we should have won both those games.
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