I am very disappointed that they did not follow through with getting an experienced director of football. .
This part of the year was always going to be open season for negativity. Enjoy it while it lasts you miserablists.
"Our performances have merited better than one win in seven games but I said from the start it would be an uphill struggle. We need to stay in the division and if we do we will be stronger next year.
"We gave the fans nothing to cheer about today but I promise them it will get better," Sherwood told BBC Sport."We've stayed in the division but we have a losing mentality. We don't want to be scraping relegation next season."
'I am allowed to sign whoever I want in the summer as long as I can justify it, but I believe even if we didn't make a signing we wouldn't be in this position again,'
We need to stay in the division and if we do we will be stronger next year
I think that's fair comment, TV, but with Sherwood there is the added complicating factor that he talks himself up to be some sort of management god, which is totally at odds with what we see on the pitch.
when hearing what Sherwood said i was also taken aback. Not just because of the bigger picture issue paulie mentions but the negativity. Almost as if it was perfectly Lambert-esque in 'all I can do with these young kids is try and stay up'. Eh? since when? Since when did the club decide that? i think that Sherwood, lerner, or Fox will see the crowd turn really quickly if we're going to have another season of that shite.
Quote from: peter w on September 27, 2015, 12:40:05 AMwhen hearing what Sherwood said i was also taken aback. Not just because of the bigger picture issue paulie mentions but the negativity. Almost as if it was perfectly Lambert-esque in 'all I can do with these young kids is try and stay up'. Eh? since when? Since when did the club decide that? i think that Sherwood, lerner, or Fox will see the crowd turn really quickly if we're going to have another season of that shite.That's absolutely it. The glib assumption that there's always that old chestnut to fall back on if things get bad.The bizarre situation now is that we actually have a pretty strong squad - it isn't a top six one, but it certainly isn't a bottom six one, either. It's also not as if we are failing to score goals, we're doing ok on that front.The problem we have is that the manager is producing significantly less than the sum of the parts of the squad.
Sometimes managers stumble on the right formula accidentally. They don't necessarily have to know their best teams but the lucky managers are those where injuries, suspensions, or poor form results in a team that clicks. I do think the right-players are there and they are good enough. But I'm starting to wonder exactly what the plan was/is with all these players that would be a risk. We've gone full circle and back to a young team that Lambert had crying out for experience in the middle, to a more expensive team of kids crying out for experience in the middle? Was that the plan? Because if so that's Lerner or Fox saying, 'listen Tim you've got the same budget as Paul had and the benteke money. You'll get nothing else so you may as well buy for the future. So this season just stay up'. I'm starting to think we're going for the Lambert plan again but with youngsters from overseas rather than League one.