Phil_bfc deux
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Shambles from top to bottom
Pressure is on the wrong person though
Ben Mansford is the problem
Pressure is on the wrong person though
Ben Mansford is the problem
He looks like a problem. I'd like to pin the problem on him. But I've no idea if he is the problem. .Shambles from top to bottom
Pressure is on the wrong person though
Ben Mansford is the problem
If mansford did his job and they got rid of the chief scout and let the manager manage. Mansford has brought in lots of revenue streams, I think he is playing CM20. Stick to what he good at.Shambles from top to bottom
Pressure is on the wrong person though
Ben Mansford is the problem
It’s a mystery, maybe the club could explain what going on, I won’t hold my breath though. I hasten add SS is breath of fresh air.Or was it Linton Brown that brought in the revenue streams? Isn't he the chief commercial officer?
He is the CEO, everything stops with him.Why does there always have to be someone who has to be identified as being the problem?
The thread on Mansford on here previously didn't really nail down anything he had done wrong in particular, it was just based on nothing more than some people not liking him.
Or maybe people just keep complaining because everything isn't exactly how they want it, so it moves up the chain; we started with the players, and worked upwards.He is the CEO, everything stops with him.
If the chief scout and the ceo have brought them in and excluded the manager, what does that say. The CEO wanted a coach and not a manager.Just remind me what position Ben Mansford is playing.
The strikers are the problem. Couldn't hit a Barn Door.
We’re making a simple job hard imo Phil. Get a decent manager and let him do his job at this level ffs..
Instead we’re trying to be all ** fancy with Head Coaches and CEO’s trying to fulfil their fantasies.
It started going wrong the moment the board room changes occurred. We then screwed up by not hanging on with Grayson and rushing a decision without a properly considered alternative...
Now after signing loads more players for the Head Coach and seemingly throwing them at him to make a team out of, we’re trying to rectify the decision to recruit him by bringing in someone to do his job for him.
God knows of this will work, but you are exactly right, the giddiness needs to stop... Fuck off the head in the clouds bullshit and get the basics right.
100%We’re making a simple job hard imo Phil. Get a decent manager and let him do his job at this level ffs..
Instead we’re trying to be all ** fancy with Head Coaches and CEO’s trying to fulfil their fantasies.
It started going wrong the moment the board room changes occurred. We then screwed up by not hanging on with Grayson and rushing a decision without a properly considered alternative...
Now after signing loads more players for the Head Coach and seemingly throwing them at him to make a team out of, we’re trying to rectify the decision to recruit him by bringing in someone to do his job for him.
God knows of this will work, but you are exactly right, the giddiness needs to stop... Fuck off the head in the clouds bullshit and get the basics right.
If Sir Jimmy, God bless him, was still around, he & SS would have been an ideal combination.So who would have been a good football man to have had on the board?
I don't really get why Mansford has so many defending him - if this was KOKO he'd be slaughtered.Shambles from top to bottom
Pressure is on the wrong person though
Ben Mansford is the problem
You veered into Colin Hendry territory there. Be careful.The players have to take some of the blame, they have proved they can do it with the performances against Everton pre season of note and a couple of the early league games. Since then they have been gash and just haven’t managed to raise their game. The manager can only do so much in training and speaches, but once they step over the white line there’s no accounting for seeing your most experienced defender get sent off after 56 seconds.
What should we be slaughtering him for?I don't really get why Mansford has so many defending him - if this was KOKO he'd be slaughtered.
I was revisiting the past reading that too. In his minds eye Scaramanga will be volunteering Sasa Ilic to catch babies thrown from burning buildings nextYou veered into Colin Hendry territory there. Be careful.
Spot on BF If it wasn’t for the mess the scum had left behind Ben Mansford might have been able to do the job he was brought in to do with 100% of his time. As it is , with court cases etc, he’s had to waste time sorting that crap as wellWhat should we be slaughtering him for?
Comparing anyone under the new regime to Karl is laughable.
CorrectInsy, you make some fair points.... I’d say two things...
On recruitment... There’s recruiting players and then there’s recruiting a team. I’ve gone on about this before, but under Holloway we saw players being brought in who had very specific attributes that contributed to the team... It’s not just about throwing a load of half decent players together and expecting it to work.
On Calderwood... I absolutely agree Critchley needs a mentor. That should have been blatantly obvious from day 1. SS is presumably reliant on his appointed reps to recognise the footballing requirements.... To appoint an inexperienced coach without a mentor (league experienced no 2) to assist, was naive and best..... Ot kind of suggest we’re not really thinking things through...
So now we have the Club seeming to react to more fan criticism and a run of poor results by bringing in the experience we needed from the get go. In doing so, it has the appearance of undermining the gaffer and may well upset the apple cart further...
Like I said in another post, hopefully we will learn on the job....
I just feel for Sadler... he’s had no luck so far and I can’t help but think in trying to do his best for the Club he’s not yet got the best people around him.....
CorrectI don't really get why Mansford has so many defending him - if this was KOKO he'd be slaughtered.
Yep its also how it seems to meI feel sorry for SS, he appoints people to do the job and no can only oversee it via Zoom- no off the record chats at the Club with passing office staff, players, whoever. Must be hard to get a proper feeling of where the Club is.
Right, BM. He's employed him and the HoR to oversee the football day to day. BM hired an inexp coach primarily because he has/had visions of being something he's not namely a DoF type on the board. The inexp of NC allows him to do this and the fact that potential targets turned him down in the summer when money wouldn't have been the objection tells a story. His free copy of EA Sports DoF 2021 must have taken some bashing and maybe taking Dorchester Town to the Europa league cup final has gone to his head. This is how it seems to me and I of course could be wrong
On the face of it I'm not overly bothered about his recent record at CambridgeThe Calderwood appointment looks at first glance to make sense...Then you look at his record. Poor as a manager so now he’s a coach who can’t manage and we now have a head coach who can’t manage and two assistant head coaches who can’t manage either.
it’s a worry
I agree with the majority of this and have said before that our recruitment was done arse about face. It is always recommended you build from the back and get the spine sorted out. Our pre season was an unmitigated disaster and I would love to know who thought playing everyone for half a game was a good policy. We played less than half the games pre season that we should have. Think of the advantage Hull and Charlton had when they completed last season and also had a pre season...Wigan would have been the same but the EFL vultures stole all their decent players. Look where Hull and Charlton are in the table and look where "unlucky" Blackpool are.I actually feel for Critchley in all this
The board have been extremely gullible in the appointment of Critchley and haven't given him the real support he needs
The first thing (at second interview stage or whenever it was that the board had this idea of being a league 1 Liverpool with a foreign set up ) the board should have done was say to Critchley you need an experienced back room team
You surround an inexperienced manager or head coach with people who have done it before and can help
You also do everything you can to keep your better players that were already at the club, then you sort out the spine of the team
Centre defence, centre midfield and a proven centre forward
In what other industry would you let a novice with no proven experience manage a multi million pound project?
Cluster fcuk of arrogance and naivety and Mansford is the CEO
He makes the decisions from top to bottom
Its no wonder he doesn't do interviews and was so nervous at the opening of the Armfield club when he spoke
He's a fraud i bet he was shitting himself
Correct mateI agree with the majority of this and have said before that our recruitment was done arse about face. It is always recommended you build from the back and get the spine sorted out. Our pre season was an unmitigated disaster and I would love to know who thought playing everyone for half a game was a good policy. We played less than half the games pre season that we should have. Think of the advantage Hull and Charlton had when they completed last season and also had a pre season...Wigan would have been the same but the EFL vultures stole all their decent players. Look where Hull and Charlton are in the table and look where "unlucky" Blackpool are.
Yes spot onCorrect mate
Pre season is about properly building a squad and working on player fitness and team cohesion and tactics
Fancy friendlies against Liverpool and Everton shouldn't even be on the programme at this stage
Everton gave people false hope and results in pre season games really aren't important
The key word there is “seems”......... you, me and nobody else on this board actually know what is going on behind the scenes. The amount of criticism though is unbelievable without having all the facts to handYep its also how it seems to me
The facts are right infront of us all ..The key word there is “seems”......... you, me and nobody else on this board actually know what is going on behind the scenes. The amount of criticism though is unbelievable without having all the facts to hand
You can only pull together if everyone is on the same page. Up to now they have not been.It's a shame there are so many fans more concerned about being proved right and telling everyone else I told you so than actually focusing on the club and all pulling in the same direction.
You can only pull together if everyone is on the same page. Up to now they have not been.
At least now we have someone in influence who actually has some experience, which is what I , and others were crying out for all summer.
The reasons CC has been brought in are two fold, one is obvious the other less so.