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Youth team are currently well adrift at bottom of NE Alliance league with just 2 points from 6 games, U23's lost every game since being reintroduced and first team are struggling to get results in the league as we all know. Hes not exactly taking hold of the 'playing side' is he really.
I agree with Sammy. DF does not sign players who might challenge him. Yes men to a man.
Quote from: GetDuerdenOn on October 04, 2017, 05:04:13 pmYouth team are currently well adrift at bottom of NE Alliance league with just 2 points from 6 games, U23's lost every game since being reintroduced and first team are struggling to get results in the league as we all know. Hes not exactly taking hold of the 'playing side' is he really.I'd rather we have good players being developed in the youth then just results. We finished 2nd and won the cup a few year ago, now look where the likes of Ball and Meade are.We've also had a couple of the 2nd years out on loan so far this year.
Quote from: Lindy on October 05, 2017, 10:37:59 amI agree with Sammy. DF does not sign players who might challenge him. Yes men to a man.He was very quick to get Rob Jones out wasn't he and had a bust up with Butler in his first season too after a dressing room discussion at half time, resulting in Butler being taken off and left out for a few games when we could have done with him on the pitch.
At that stage of Fergusons tenure Rob Jones would have been a good man to have around helping out.
Men cost money in wages. Question we signed Whiteman, Houghton and Kongolo on loan all young men could we have signed 3 say 26/27 year olds with league one and above experience for the same money ie wages.
Quote from: steve@dcfd on October 05, 2017, 12:14:43 pmMen cost money in wages. Question we signed Whiteman, Houghton and Kongolo on loan all young men could we have signed 3 say 26/27 year olds with league one and above experience for the same money ie wages. No because we don't have the money to do this. Do you really believe that Fergie wouldn't want to sign the best players that he possibly could, whatever their age?? The fact is he is given a budget that he has to stick to and to bring in the number of players we needed the only way to do this is to bring young players in. Pretty sure people on this forum have been crying out for us to sign young up and coming players from leagues above in previous years and moaned that we are signing players past their best.
"Fergie only wants yes men"?There is absolutely no proof of that, a totally baseless statement. People bang on about Jones but where is he in the football world now? Is he a well respected manager or something? Not last time I checked. Butler got dropped for a while two seasons ago but he's started every game this season and was named club captain by Fergie.Fact is we don't know the day-to-day personalities of the players and coaching staff, we don't know what kind of unity and atmosphere there is in training.
Baseless speculation again Hound. You're better than this, come on.The Fergie-bashing on this forum (by no means just referring to you Hound btw) has gotten out of control the last couple of weeks. The realms of silliness were entered ages ago now.
Quote from: RoversAlias on October 05, 2017, 01:28:35 pmBaseless speculation again Hound. You're better than this, come on.The Fergie-bashing on this forum (by no means just referring to you Hound btw) has gotten out of control the last couple of weeks. The realms of silliness were entered ages ago now.Baseless, yes i agree.Speculation is all it was.However RA, i am not sure that DF bashing is out of control.There hasn't been much in the way of abuse towards him, just concern about his methods and the place that the team is in right now.I agree about the club on the whole being of sound bearing but in reality the feeling of well being amongst the fans revolves, in the main, around the results of the first team.
As a supporter, there is nothing i would like more than for us to win on Saturday and go on a run, soaring up the table.