Ernie Brand
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So he gets the sack at the end of the season. He will not get us out of league to either.
Managers show their true ability when under pressure, whether that be chasing promotion or in adverse situations such as ours.
Powell has done nothing to convince me and many others that he has the tactical nous to adapt to the situation we are in with regard injuries. He and his assistants are responsible for identifying how to counteract our woes and setup a team with a system to be hard to beat, and steal points wherever possible. Every week he overhauls the formation and line up, even on the odd occasion where we win a point, and if this confuses the fans, it sure as hell will confuse the players. That would appear to be the case as they look like headless chickens every week.
Furthermore, when the chips are down you want to see a manager and his team motivating his players - nine times out of ten, one looks over to dugout, and Powell is nowhere to be seen - head down, hands in pockets and seemingly wanting the ground to swallow him whole.
I know we’re all hurting and there are specific criticisms people have, but if the club stick by Chris then we need to as well. It’s in all our interests that we stay up and if Chris is here for that journey we need to do our bit as fans to try to lift the atmosphere - at games and away from them. We need to try to trust and believe.
Not all of us put the same credence on whether or not a manager is going apoplectic on the touchline. In fact, when I was playing and I saw our manager static, looking cheesed off and hands in pockets, I knew we were in trouble at half or full time.
That's what YOU want to see... which is fair enough. But it doesn't mean it's always effective and SCP just isn't that sort of manager.
What has he done that inspires any confidence?? He still has a half decent squad to choose from and the guy has only made us worse and worse every week.Some sense and reason from Ron Martin there. The thing that I am surprised about is just how many of our own fans think that the injury situation is somehow something to be ignored and that anyone else is suddenly going to turn our team into a winning one.
The injured players are coming back, we have enough time. Can we therefore now stop all these "Powell Out" posts until the end of the season please and focus all the energy on supporting the mighty Blues.
Not all of us put the same credence on whether or not a manager is going apoplectic on the touchline. In fact, when I was playing and I saw our manager static, looking cheesed off and hands in pockets, I knew we were in trouble at half or full time.
That's what YOU want to see... which is fair enough. But it doesn't mean it's always effective and SCP just isn't that sort of manager.
Which players are back to fitness in the next 8 games? The players that were on the pitch yesterday and were ****ing dreadful? Only Humphrys due back imminently.
Some sense and reason from Ron Martin there. The thing that I am surprised about is just how many of our own fans think that the injury situation is somehow something to be ignored and that anyone else is suddenly going to turn our team into a winning one.
The injured players are coming back, we have enough time. Can we therefore now stop all these "Powell Out" posts until the end of the season please and focus all the energy on supporting the mighty Blues.
Will still cost me £72 in tickets for 2 adults and 2 teenagers!! As some have suggested may have been better offering half price tickets??Be interesting to see with the offer of free coach travel the uptake of supporters now going.
Personally I was going anyway and driving.
This, exactly this. Just shouting and screaming doesn't make or break success. There is a lot more to it than that
The underlying reason for Martin's decision must be he simply cannot afford to pay up. He trots out the injuries alibi but there's probably a VAT bill looming and looking at Companies House info there's an unfair dismissal bill of nearly £19k to pay as well.
Consult who?