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JUST SIGN SOME PLAYERS THAT ARE GOOD AT PLAYING FOOTBALL.Fairly easy solution to it all.
I would borrow the approach taken by Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum with English men's cricket team. At least for the rest of this season take the result out of the equation. We shouldn't get relegated and the way we're going at the moment we won't be any where near promotion. So send the players out to entertain the crowd and enjoy themselves. We might get a few beatings but we might get a few big wins too. Either way it's got to be better than the shite we're being served up at the moment.
The cheap option manager appointments, the procrastinating transfer window in summer 21 are aligned in my opinion with other signs like the flimsy pamphlet type programme, awful material of the away kit, lack of kiosks being open in the ground, all tangible indications of significant lack of proper investment by the owners in the club despite all the rhetoric to the contrary. It's clear we have been downsizing both on and off the pitch since pre pandemic which probably facilitated the owners in a desire to cut the cloth accordingly.. only this cutting of cloth accordingly is simply transparent on the pitch as the death of a thousand cuts with a continuing decline in results and performances. I've read the words austerity and gaslighting.. the last decade almost since 2013 in terms of lack of success and 5 year plans to the championship do now suggest so. Other than the McCann year when he managed to galvanise rhe club and got rid of the soft centre (apparent with the number of yellow and red cards), we haven't looked like matching previous achievements. Now we look more likely of falling through the trapdoor back to the conference. I did hope Coppinger could generate some magic off the field to be reflected on it but right now it looks way off. Our rapid decline is hard to take, is it a coincidence it has happened following the sad loss of Rovers fan Dick Watson, and before that JRs departure, a step process of decline linked to reduction in financial support, despite the rhetoric to the contrary. That said we have witnessed a real horror show of performances including by experienced pros over the last two years and there is absolutely no excuses for the clear lack of application in.the away defeats this season at Hartlepool, Colchester, Carlisle, Tranmere amongst others.. absolute horror shows with hardly a shot in anger in three of these absolutely shocking and unacceptable performances (first half at Colchester excluded). So the current crop of players and both managers this season are also culpable too.
Quote from: GazLaz on December 27, 2022, 08:39:56 amJUST SIGN SOME PLAYERS THAT ARE GOOD AT PLAYING FOOTBALL.Fairly easy solution to it all. As daft as it sounds I think if we went out and got 2 good cm's , got Olowu fit we could easily make the playoffs. That's how bad most of the teams are in this division.Ben Whiteman is a prime example of what can be achieved if we are prepared to spend a bit of money.
As the board took the regrettable decision in 2016 to stop disclosing the income and expenditure for Doncaster Rovers, we only have quite dated figures to work from - but we can see that in the last disclosed figures which related to the 2014/15 season in League One under Dickov, we spent £3.7m on player salaries. If you compare that with Rotherham United who got promoted from League One in 2019/20 season, they spent £5.1m. Given increased EPL and TV distributions over this six season period, those two budgets are pretty much the same. I make this point only to show that if a club like Rotherham United which is certainly no bigger than us or with better infrastructure than us, and is not in a more economically advantaged area than us, and arguably don’t have the financial stability we have, then it does go to show how poorly we have made footballing decisions.
Please give us the details, something I've missed
This is going to be an unpopular posting because it incudes an unpalletable observation about a club legend. It is my view that the problem lies at the top. A fish rots from the head. We have onwers who care little for the fans or for the football performance, they are not RTID in the mould of, say, JR but savvy business people who are focussed primarily on sustainability. We have a very competent and highly rewarded CEO who does the owners bidding and has done an excellent job of spin doctor in convincing the supporters about playing budgets etc. Who can blame him for taking his fat salary and doing the job he is paid for? But, when a well heeled fan offers to sponsor a young overseas player with massive potential to transform team performance and make a fortune for the club in sell on fees but neither our CEO or club legend can even be bothered or summon the courtesy to respond to the offer there is summat wrong. Yes this happened. Only a few months back. It is shocking. It is indicative of the attitude that has led us into these doldrums and will lead us back into non league if it does not change.
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your view) we have as club owners and directors who we have, it's not going to change anytime soon. I think many on this board have an inkling that the issue is at the level just below the owner, but TB is not going to make any changes there because of fan pressure.So pointless even speculating.It looks like the people on the professional footballing side need to make the difference, so we are talking JC and DS, to me it looks like DS is carrying out the remit he was tasked to produce ie, an attractive football playing side to play attacking football but he has major issues with the personnel, if they can't or won't conform to the managements program then it's pretty obvious what needs to happen.JC and DS are not going to produce all the extra loaves and fish to satisfy us as things stand, they need their own players and that will require more than this window.Its a massively disheartening watch just now, that performance yesterday was abject but we all know what's required.Will the majority of the fanbase give them the time they need? surly its only right to give them the tools to perform the task in hand.I also think its a big ask to expect DS to temper his playing setup to conform to the players he has, that way only leads to players being allowed to wallow in their comfort zones with no overall team progression, if the principle is correct and the outcome can be produced (a la SOD) then its imperative that he holds his nerve and sticks to his playing plan. Sometimes you have to take some steps back to be able to make the big leap forward.
What he says to the press and what he really thinks are probably two very different things.
I think we need to sign players who have an inner steel and strength, the current bunch will never have it, alternatively have had it but have lost the fire in their bellies with age. There's no Russ Wicox, John Doolan, Paul Green, Rob Jones, Ben Whiteman; players who can stand up and drag the rest of the team through kicking and screaming. No substance.
As John Ryan says in the dfp. The club needs a top to bottom shake up. I said it at the time, but the appointment of JC I believe was a cameo attempt at placating the fans into thinking real change was soon the horizon. Unless I’m missing something, nothing has changed since he arrived. I know to many this will be controversial, but his appointment is wasted money imo. Jobs for the boys. Which I suspect was engineered by himself, for himself. Abject performances. Inconsistency. No obvious leadership on and off the pitch. No clear playing style. A loss of identity and reputation as a football playing team.A loss of support.I’ll be going to the Orient game fully expecting rovers to be given a footballing lesson. Happy to be proved wrong.