solely based on their initial project. They came in with a 5 year plan for building academy etc. The medium/long term goals have not altered. We had planned no promotion so this 'blip' has not taken us away from the initial plan
Quote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 10:08:30 AMsolely based on their initial project. They came in with a 5 year plan for building academy etc. The medium/long term goals have not altered. We had planned no promotion so this 'blip' has not taken us away from the initial planI bet 'The Plan' didn't involve us being in the Championship for 2020/21
I look forward to seeing the outcome of this inquest into the recruitment, and fully expect some major changes to be the result. I’d like to think that we still have the clout (if not the PL status) to go to some proven successes in this field and entice them to come and help get us back up where we want to be. I’m looking at the likes of Dan Ashworth, currently at Brighton; he’s very highly regarded and appears to have done a great job there.
Quote from: Ads on July 10, 2020, 09:13:22 AMQuote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 09:06:57 AMJT and Smith will go after this - regardless of what happens next four matches I think you're right.Issue is. They both know it
Quote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 09:06:57 AMJT and Smith will go after this - regardless of what happens next four matches I think you're right.
JT and Smith will go after this - regardless of what happens next four matches
Personal pride in their performance?
Quote from: Des Little on July 10, 2020, 11:51:41 AMI look forward to seeing the outcome of this inquest into the recruitment, and fully expect some major changes to be the result. I’d like to think that we still have the clout (if not the PL status) to go to some proven successes in this field and entice them to come and help get us back up where we want to be. I’m looking at the likes of Dan Ashworth, currently at Brighton; he’s very highly regarded and appears to have done a great job there. I appreciate I’m probably boring people, and in the minority, with this opinion, but I don’t think you can absolutely hammer people over the recruitment. It absolutely could have gone better, but it’s very easy to say that with the benefit of hindsight. The reality is that the squad that was inherited by the owners and this manager was unbalanced, ageing and nowhere near Premier League standard. We got promoted and had what, two decent standard premier league players and probably 3-4 useful squad players. That’s a hell of a job to then put together a decent squad for this season, never mind the fact that we were hampered by financial fair play restrictions due to our pretty reckless spending under the previous regime.
Quote from: wince on July 10, 2020, 12:13:57 AMYou know what, if smith is sacked he will be the scapegoat. The entire recruitment and coaching staff need to go as it’s a collective clusterfuckTotal over reaction. It was a massive task to rebuild the squad to premiership standard with the money allowed.Yes there have been mistakes but I don’t see major unexpected errors.
You know what, if smith is sacked he will be the scapegoat. The entire recruitment and coaching staff need to go as it’s a collective clusterfuck
It's not boring at all Luke, it's always nice to read reasoned opposite views. I simply don't agree with it though. Yes, it was difficult to put a squad together after all the departures, but I think they could and should have done much better. 99% of people on here said that going into the season with just Wesley as our main striker was a recipe for disaster. That's not said with the benefit of hinsight, it was just a very obvious and monumental fuck up. Then there was the choice to trust Pitarch's recommendations, a man with no experience of English footballers, and whose picks all seem to be rubbish players from the Belgian league.Then when it was apparent in the New Year that we were struggling badly in the league and had lost our main keeper and striker, their business or lack of was again almost criminally bad. We needed pace and goals, so they got the slowest, most unfit midfielder they could find, and another bang average plodder from Belgium. They deserve to go down for the crap way they've run the club this year, it's just a shame that it's we as fans who will suffer because of it. Purslow should be forced to sit in a room with the video of him comparing Villa to Norwich on a loop for 24 hours, the shit, oily, useless bastard.