Today was a glimpse into next season

Allmodcons

Allmodcons

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I've not known Bloomers so quiet for such a long time.

Awful football, a complete lack of creativity and inability to pass the ball to another tangerine shirt.

Aside from the last 25 minutes when Dembele came on, we were treated to insipid football devoid of any meaningful chances. Wycombe weren't great but squandered at least 3 nailed on goal scoring opportunities.

What an absolute borefest and sadly I think it will get worse rather than better if we persevere with this coach who is completely devoid of any ideas. He has lost the squad and now the fans and needs to go sooner rather than later.
 
Whilst I agree yesterday was awful, this was unfortunately a continuing theme. We are so bad to watch at the moment, there is no entertainment whatsoever. If it was a one off or occasionally like this I could accept it, but it's every week. The attendance yesterday was officially £10k+, but we could all see it was nowhere near that. If this continues then the attendances next season will be significantly reduced. That will result in less revenue and less money to invest in the squad. Surely someone in a position of being able to do something about this can see that this level of performance week in week out is not sustainable. We all pay good money to support the team we love and I will continue to do so. But for those who have to make tough financial decisions it will be easy to walk away. This is not anti Critchley, but something has to change soon. And if not next season will be even worse in terms of league position, atmosphere and entertainment.
Rant over
 
It's going to be a busy summer. We are a distance away from a promotion team now, once the loans, out of contract players and those surplus to requirements are farmed out, I suspect we'll need 10 top L1 level players to be competitive. Over to you Mr Sadler!
 
Promotion next season will not be easy with three down from the Championship, Wrexham and Stockport, three from Lincoln, Posh, Barnsley and Bolton/Derby, plus Charlton with Nathan Jones. And Wigan getting stronger.

If we do get promoted we are then playing clubs with much bigger budgets every week. Rock or a hard place innit? What do you do when the prize for winning a series of fights at one weight is to move up a weight and get punched by bigger opponents every week?

Defeatist attitude I guess, but unless you can find more money it's a near impossible task surely?

Of course, you can briefly buck the system by gathering together a team of people that creates a surge by building something greater than it's individual parts, but it will get picked apart. We are getting to the point where the 3 teams that get promoted to the EPL each season are likely to come straight back down. And Sheff Wed and Plymouth are both in the bottom 4. Ipswich defying gravity by staying top into April. New owners and sell out 29k crowds both a big factor.

What would you do if you were SS and putting 5m in every season? What would your strategy be?
 
voyeur said:
Promotion next season will not be easy with three down from the Championship, Wrexham and Stockport, three from Lincoln, Posh, Barnsley and Bolton/Derby, plus Charlton with Nathan Jones. And Wigan getting stronger.

If we do get promoted we are then playing clubs with much bigger budgets every week. Rock or a hard place innit? What do you do when the prize for winning a series of fights at one weight is to move up a weight and get punched by bigger opponents every week?

Defeatist attitude I guess, but unless you can find more money it's a near impossible task surely?

Of course, you can briefly buck the system by gathering together a team of people that creates a surge by building something greater than it's individual parts, but it will get picked apart. We are getting to the point where the 3 teams that get promoted to the EPL each season are likely to come straight back down. And Sheff Wed and Plymouth are both in the bottom 4. Ipswich defying gravity by staying top into April. New owners and sell out 29k crowds both a big factor.

What would you do if you were SS and putting 5m in every season? What would your strategy be?
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Find another investor. Not like he won't have connections.

SS does the infrastructure side and the investor the footy part. Profits shared.
 
Allmodcons said:
I've not known Bloomers so quiet for such a long time.

Awful football, a complete lack of creativity and inability to pass the ball to another tangerine shirt.

Aside from the last 25 minutes when Dembele came on, we were treated to insipid football devoid of any meaningful chances. Wycombe weren't great but squandered at least 3 nailed on goal scoring opportunities.

What an absolute borefest and sadly I think it will get worse rather than better if we persevere with this coach who is completely devoid of any ideas. He has lost the squad and now the fans and needs to go sooner rather than later.
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We have a ton of issues that need addressing. Atmosphere is on its arse, stadium could do with an uplift, training ground/east stand is dead as far as I’m aware, players out of contract in the summer so will most likely see a high turnover of players which means blooding them into the club (which takes time…). Then the manager - I’ll happily admit that I thought the reappointment was the best one at the time to bring stability and focus back after an appallingly bad season in the Championship. The problem is the stubbornness not to change things. There have been games where we’ve looked genuinely good and the system has worked, but these teams that sit in and soak up the pressure are absolutely killing us, and the fact we have no plan B is disturbing to say the least. I’m not sure what more he needs to see to realise this. I’m very much predicting a similar season, possibly slightly worse, next season. Oh and one final thing - if it’s true we paid 7 figures for Kyle Joseph, then it’s fair to say we’ve been had over a barrel there. For that money in league one I’d be expecting 20 goals minimum. I don’t actually know what his role is or what he brings to the team.

I think it’s fair to say we won’t be back in the championship for a while.
 
It doesn't matter what team is assembled next season,.it's going to be coached in exactly the same way.... There will be no progress, and we will most likely finish bottom half of league 1 a few places away from relegation next season. NC needs to resign at the end of this season, he said it himself, he's tried everything and he's run out of.ideas, the team still plays like a bunch of strangers and looks disorganised, sorry Neil it's time to move on!!
 
Good grief it’s doom and gloom on here we didn’t need endless cash when we wen to the premier league just a manager that understood the club and a basic knowledge of team building we missed a trick when not appointing Dobbie, ok we might not of made the playoffs but we’d of been more entertaining and most of us would be more invested. As it is we are stuck with Neil it’s what most of you wanted and what we’ll have to suffer a little longer
 
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