Blueprint, on Oct 1 2008, 04:28 PM, said:
And that's the same grimsby who got to the final of the JPT last season.
As i see it BH will get slated by some whenever he goes on holiday. If he went in the summer people would say he's not here when we need to be signing players, or he's taking his eye of the new stadium, If he goes during the season he's not interested in the games. When is it ok for BH to have a holiday? He's entitled to spend time away just like the rest of us. And it's not like we are stuck in the dark ages and the only conact with the club is by telephone.
It could be that he wanted to take his holiday during the summer but needed to be here due to the signing of players and the ground move, and now the seaso has started and the planning permission is passed he now has time to go away, and can be back once we have reached a settled position in the league, say after 10 games, which is a more sensible time.
It was mentioned on here that Port Vale have acted fast to sack their manager so soon into the new season, they have since said that they can't afford to bring a manager in from outside the club, they can't afford to sign any players and are hoping that other clubs do them favours. The board have receiving abuse from sections of the fans for sacking Sinnott, and the board are now appealing for investment as they can't improve things.
PV have bigger gates than us, see themselves as a championship club, and are lower down the table than us. I'd say they are more in a crisis than us as they have done what many people want to happen at this club and find themselves in a worse state.
Given that we can't afford to bring in players how can we afford to sack rico and sellars after a measley 8 games, bring in a new manager outside the club, and strengthen the squad?
I can't see it, not unless the investor is in place soon, but we now that isn't going to happen either as he's gone on holiday too! If rico is sacked i assume people want Sellars to go to? That's two salaries to pay off.
We always struggle without jack, just like many other teams struggle without their best player. Jack is back from injury now, on saturday we have Jamie back too. We are still giving away silly goals (the most frustrating part of rico's reign as manager) but our club captain and the player that really ought to make the difference is back from suspension next week. We have Val to add to the team now he's a new signing that could be what we've been in need of since fletcher left. Lets give rico until 10 games before making a proper decision, we face an easier team this weekend and it'll be the first time for weeks that we'll have our first choice strike pairing available. If we lose to Morecambe it shouldn't be that long before people's wishes come true and Rico is dismissed, but 4 losses on the bounce, from 9 games played, could warrant dissmissal anywhere.
What we need to be sensible about is what we are able to do if rico is sacked at this stage of the season, is a change of face going to be enough to improve our results, cos without any further investment i don't see what a new manager will do. Lets see how we fair against Morecambe on saturday when we have key players back from injury and suspension.
It is true any team would suffer without their best player, but how much they suffer depends on how good or bad the replacement is that comes in to take their place. Our problem is that we haven't had a replacement of any description so we have missed him more than we should have. Having only 2 strikers was always going to be high risk and when it went t.its up there is only one person to blame. We can blame the deficiencies of the squad, lack on money, negative fans and the mistakes at the back etc for our defeats but the main reason we are losing is that we are no threat to the opposition at the kick off in games.
Teams take the initiative immediately as they have no-one to mark, come on to us, score early and then put men behind the ball and we have no answer and no options. It isn't rocket science, you don't need a managers certificate or a coaching manual or to be a master tactician, it's basic common sense.
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