Those early Championship Manager games were ace
Quote from: Toronto Villa on May 10, 2021, 06:47:16 PMThose early Championship Manager games were aceI had 97/98. Bought Robert Pires and some guy called Bakayoko to play as the 10. Almost unstoppable. I was pretty addicted to that game!
Quote from: ChicagoLion on May 10, 2021, 04:21:26 PMQuote from: Drummond on May 10, 2021, 12:53:52 PMMartinez has done better this season than last.Cash is doing better all the time- agree Konsa is way better than last season -agree and becoming a great playerMings is getting far more consistent- disagree still making too many stupid mistakes that cost goalsTargett is arguably the most improved player in the division- agreedMcGinn doesn't appear as good as he did because he isn't the stand-out player that he was.- he gets a pass from me as he is carrying the midfield Luiz is getting better yet is still prone to the odd mistake. But he gets stuck in. Has been pretty poor lately and can’t tackle- lots of room for improvement Grealish is better this season than last. Disagree he kept us up last seasonAEG is better and more consistent, and scoring goals. Not good enough and if he does not score he makes little contribution Traore has improved as the season has progressed in my view, still needs to work on his defensive skills mind. We can afford one luxury player, unfortunately with Barkley Smith is playing 2Watkins seems to be on a steep trajectory. Agree Super playerTrez was being lauded earlier this season, had a dip then came again and unfortunately got injured. Davis has scored a goal and provided an assist in relatively low minutes on the pitch and people would like him to play- Should have played more not been used properly by SmithRamsay is doing better all the time. -Should be playing ahead of Barkley.We've other youngsters coming through too.So yes, I think Smith is doing a good job. We've just hit a patch, without one of the world's best players, where it's not going our way. On our day though, we're a match for anyone.Smith gets a C based on the above. Needs to do better to match the clubs ambition.Clearly the club ambition is to be a constant top 4 club, qualifying for CL each season. What we don’t know is the timescale that has been set for Smith to achieve it. That timescale could well be three seasons away, maybe sooner. Whatever the timescale, promotion to PL survival to mid possible top half finish with an improving squad is real progress and better than a C
Quote from: Drummond on May 10, 2021, 12:53:52 PMMartinez has done better this season than last.Cash is doing better all the time- agree Konsa is way better than last season -agree and becoming a great playerMings is getting far more consistent- disagree still making too many stupid mistakes that cost goalsTargett is arguably the most improved player in the division- agreedMcGinn doesn't appear as good as he did because he isn't the stand-out player that he was.- he gets a pass from me as he is carrying the midfield Luiz is getting better yet is still prone to the odd mistake. But he gets stuck in. Has been pretty poor lately and can’t tackle- lots of room for improvement Grealish is better this season than last. Disagree he kept us up last seasonAEG is better and more consistent, and scoring goals. Not good enough and if he does not score he makes little contribution Traore has improved as the season has progressed in my view, still needs to work on his defensive skills mind. We can afford one luxury player, unfortunately with Barkley Smith is playing 2Watkins seems to be on a steep trajectory. Agree Super playerTrez was being lauded earlier this season, had a dip then came again and unfortunately got injured. Davis has scored a goal and provided an assist in relatively low minutes on the pitch and people would like him to play- Should have played more not been used properly by SmithRamsay is doing better all the time. -Should be playing ahead of Barkley.We've other youngsters coming through too.So yes, I think Smith is doing a good job. We've just hit a patch, without one of the world's best players, where it's not going our way. On our day though, we're a match for anyone.Smith gets a C based on the above. Needs to do better to match the clubs ambition.
Martinez has done better this season than last.Cash is doing better all the time- agree Konsa is way better than last season -agree and becoming a great playerMings is getting far more consistent- disagree still making too many stupid mistakes that cost goalsTargett is arguably the most improved player in the division- agreedMcGinn doesn't appear as good as he did because he isn't the stand-out player that he was.- he gets a pass from me as he is carrying the midfield Luiz is getting better yet is still prone to the odd mistake. But he gets stuck in. Has been pretty poor lately and can’t tackle- lots of room for improvement Grealish is better this season than last. Disagree he kept us up last seasonAEG is better and more consistent, and scoring goals. Not good enough and if he does not score he makes little contribution Traore has improved as the season has progressed in my view, still needs to work on his defensive skills mind. We can afford one luxury player, unfortunately with Barkley Smith is playing 2Watkins seems to be on a steep trajectory. Agree Super playerTrez was being lauded earlier this season, had a dip then came again and unfortunately got injured. Davis has scored a goal and provided an assist in relatively low minutes on the pitch and people would like him to play- Should have played more not been used properly by SmithRamsay is doing better all the time. -Should be playing ahead of Barkley.We've other youngsters coming through too.So yes, I think Smith is doing a good job. We've just hit a patch, without one of the world's best players, where it's not going our way. On our day though, we're a match for anyone.
Quote from: SoccerHQ on May 10, 2021, 02:27:50 PMI can't remember too many people tipping Leeds to go up in June 2018. They'd just finished 13th so just to finish in play offs was a very good effort from them.I think the state of the defence when Smith came in is the huge mitigating factor, Bruce had completely fucked the squad balance up and left us in an awful position. Aside from that even if the team from the previous season was all still there I specifically said Bielsa had HIS squad. Very few managers would go into any team in the world and not want to add a few of their own players to put their identity on the team, that's why I'm not a fan of sacking managers with less than 3 transfer windows, that's the point where they have their own squad to work with in my opinion.Quote from: SoccerHQ on May 10, 2021, 01:48:24 PMWould you give him a new deal out of interest Paul?If Trez wasn't out for a long time I'd probably have looked to cash in on AEG this window, I like him and think he's a very useful backup option but I don't think either of them are good enough to be the 3rd choice wide player at a top 6 club. With Trez out it's harder to know what to do. I think I'd still consider letting him go to bring in someone with a higher ceiling, would mean we might need to rely on JPB on the bench at times but I'm ok with that.
I can't remember too many people tipping Leeds to go up in June 2018. They'd just finished 13th so just to finish in play offs was a very good effort from them.
Would you give him a new deal out of interest Paul?
Quote from: Allan C on May 10, 2021, 06:19:03 PMQuote from: ChicagoLion on May 10, 2021, 04:21:26 PMQuote from: Drummond on May 10, 2021, 12:53:52 PMMartinez has done better this season than last.Cash is doing better all the time- agree Konsa is way better than last season -agree and becoming a great playerMings is getting far more consistent- disagree still making too many stupid mistakes that cost goalsTargett is arguably the most improved player in the division- agreedMcGinn doesn't appear as good as he did because he isn't the stand-out player that he was.- he gets a pass from me as he is carrying the midfield Luiz is getting better yet is still prone to the odd mistake. But he gets stuck in. Has been pretty poor lately and can’t tackle- lots of room for improvement Grealish is better this season than last. Disagree he kept us up last seasonAEG is better and more consistent, and scoring goals. Not good enough and if he does not score he makes little contribution Traore has improved as the season has progressed in my view, still needs to work on his defensive skills mind. We can afford one luxury player, unfortunately with Barkley Smith is playing 2Watkins seems to be on a steep trajectory. Agree Super playerTrez was being lauded earlier this season, had a dip then came again and unfortunately got injured. Davis has scored a goal and provided an assist in relatively low minutes on the pitch and people would like him to play- Should have played more not been used properly by SmithRamsay is doing better all the time. -Should be playing ahead of Barkley.We've other youngsters coming through too.So yes, I think Smith is doing a good job. We've just hit a patch, without one of the world's best players, where it's not going our way. On our day though, we're a match for anyone.Smith gets a C based on the above. Needs to do better to match the clubs ambition.Clearly the club ambition is to be a constant top 4 club, qualifying for CL each season. What we don’t know is the timescale that has been set for Smith to achieve it. That timescale could well be three seasons away, maybe sooner. Whatever the timescale, promotion to PL survival to mid possible top half finish with an improving squad is real progress and better than a Cyou can give him a C+ then.I have never even seen championship manager.
Quote from: paul_e on May 10, 2021, 02:52:22 PMQuote from: SoccerHQ on May 10, 2021, 02:27:50 PMI can't remember too many people tipping Leeds to go up in June 2018. They'd just finished 13th so just to finish in play offs was a very good effort from them.I think the state of the defence when Smith came in is the huge mitigating factor, Bruce had completely fucked the squad balance up and left us in an awful position. Aside from that even if the team from the previous season was all still there I specifically said Bielsa had HIS squad. Very few managers would go into any team in the world and not want to add a few of their own players to put their identity on the team, that's why I'm not a fan of sacking managers with less than 3 transfer windows, that's the point where they have their own squad to work with in my opinion.Quote from: SoccerHQ on May 10, 2021, 01:48:24 PMWould you give him a new deal out of interest Paul?If Trez wasn't out for a long time I'd probably have looked to cash in on AEG this window, I like him and think he's a very useful backup option but I don't think either of them are good enough to be the 3rd choice wide player at a top 6 club. With Trez out it's harder to know what to do. I think I'd still consider letting him go to bring in someone with a higher ceiling, would mean we might need to rely on JPB on the bench at times but I'm ok with that.Oh I agree on defence, playing Jedi there was simply not acceptable and Chester was playing on one leg at that point aswell which was a disgrace by Bruce and something Chessie has diplomatically stayed quiet on (I'm sure he'll have his say when his career is done).However:This was the table after two months of DS and a patched up defence:https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46395329Two points off 6th and we'd been unbeaten for about 7 games at that point. I'm fairly sure the mood on here at the time was going all in for top 2 so we shouldn't have been in position where we had to win 10 straight just to get into play offs although of course it made the promotion all the more special in the end.
I've seen a statistic that Fulham are the 17th team to be relegated after winning the Play Offs, a failure rate of 59%.