I never heard about Map’s death, must have missed that.MApp must be turning in his grave at what’s happened to his team
Awful performance today but talk of sacking the manager is baloney. He’s just signed three new players, two of whom we haven’t seen.
I still maintain our injury luck has been terrible. Three of our best players out for ages - 1 international badly injured before he could even play a game.
As for the ‘shushing’ well if we’d won no one would have cared. Is this really a hanging offence ? Not in my book.
We will end up in mid table.
Bury were relegation fodder. Despite our awfulness we were still the better team.
Well you’ve won me over. When can you start...?! ?
Today was dreadful and there is something very weak and unconvincing about us. We are a footballing side who can’t pass the ball. But the vitriol against Clotet still seems disproportionate. Is it because he seems laid back, cultured, intelligent? I think some of our fans only want a good old boy who will give us a team of hundred per centers, nine Mickey Lewis trier types plus a nippy guy up front. And Eastwood in goal.
Maybe turning in his bed with nightmares about what’s happening at Oxford
Awful performance today but talk of sacking the manager is baloney. He’s just signed three new players, two of whom we haven’t seen.
I still maintain our injury luck has been terrible. Three of our best players out for ages - 1 international badly injured before he could even play a game.
As for the ‘shushing’ well if we’d won no one would have cared. Is this really a hanging offence ? Not in my book.
We will end up in mid table.
Bury were relegation fodder. Despite our awfulness we were still the better team.
Awful performance today but talk of sacking the manager is baloney. He’s just signed three new players, two of whom we haven’t seen.
I still maintain our injury luck has been terrible. Three of our best players out for ages - 1 international badly injured before he could even play a game.
As for the ‘shushing’ well if we’d won no one would have cared. Is this really a hanging offence ? Not in my book.
We will end up in mid table.
Bury were relegation fodder. Despite our awfulness we were still the better team.
He comes as very media trained to me, every interview is the same and he gives away very little. A lot of that may be down to the fact that English is his second language, it must be hard to give post match interviews when you are not completely fluent (it’s a lot better than my Spanish but I don’t think even he would claim to be as comfortable in both), so he is very careful in what he says. It’s quite hard to have any connect with the man because of that, I think some people get frustrated with that especially when the football is as bad as it is at times, and that boils over.
Personality I am not bothered to much by who are manager is as long as the football is watchable and we seem to be heading in the right direction. The football at the moment is barely that, at times it’s like Appleton’s first season of pointless slow side to side passing with very little penetration, the forwards bare the brunt of the abuse but for me they are getting scraps at best, we don’t create chances.
Will it end up like Appleton Mark two with a huge improvement in the second season? Well we improved from March onwards in MAPPs first season and went in to the close season on a high and full of hope, I struggle to see enough happening over the next six weeks to build a side that will give us that belief.
This side isn’t good enough, if Eales believes in Clotet then he needs to let him bring in some more players now, if no more come in then it will just be a battle to get to safety, we will do it but it won’t quick and it won’t be pretty.
I’d have given Tiendalli MOTM until that back pass! But one mistake cost us the game yesterdayDo you not think Tiendalli cost is the first with that awful back pass to Eastwood?
Do you not think Tiendalli cost is the first with that awful back pass to Eastwood?
His post match interviews aren’t the route cause of the problem though. If we were playing fast attractive football and winning he could stand there making chicken noises and I don’t think the majority would care
I very much doubt it.
If he was that bothered about what he was building here he wouldn’t of left for a number 2 role at another club.
MApp did a great job for us and I will always wish him well in his future endeavours... but I also can’t help feeling a little bit pissed at him for leaving us. Or maybe I should be more pissed at DE for not pursuading him to stay.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I am really starting to feel like we were abandoned.
I always try to remain in the positive camp and find the good in most things but I have to say it is becoming a real struggle after yesterdays debacle. I really felt we would show up and put them to the sword and prove we were just too good for all this relegation talk... but in all honesty doubts are creeping in.
The pace that things seem to be unravelling is alarming. If/when Ledson does go and good forbid if Eastwood also exits at the last minute... the writing may well and truly be in the wall.
His post match interviews aren’t the route cause of the problem though. If we were playing fast attractive football and winning he could stand there making chicken noises and I don’t think the majority would care
The worry is next week. Are we to be lambs to the slaughter like our 7-0 demolition at home?
The worry is next week. Are we to be lambs to the slaughter like our 7-0 demolition at home?
After yesterday I can’t see where the points are coming from. We are still short of players and goals, and also have players underperforming.
Seems amazing we are tenth, but we have still lost more than we have won.
A few more defeats and we are looking at a nightmare season, after all th3 goo£ work done by Appleton.
Maybe a vote of confidence from Eales followed by the sack next Saturday