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Anyone who believes you can just write a season off and plan for the next one is living in cloud cuckoo land. What about ST sales?Also, no matter what players DS signs, they'll never be able to implement his way of playing in League 2.Of course, I sincerely hope I'm wrong, and will hold my hand up on here if I am.
Quote from: scawsby steve on March 20, 2023, 06:19:05 pmAnyone who believes you can just write a season off and plan for the next one is living in cloud cuckoo land. What about ST sales?Also, no matter what players DS signs, they'll never be able to implement his way of playing in League 2.Of course, I sincerely hope I'm wrong, and will hold my hand up on here if I am. I’m not saying he completely wrote the season off, I’m just saying it’s more of a long term process with DS and Copps, said it on here several times it was never going to be a case of DS coming in with a complete different style of play to McSheffrey and it clicking straight away. He needs time to bring in his own signings. Majority of the fan base were saying when he was appointed that he needs to be given time but now because we have had a few bad performances he needs to go. Let him bring in his own players in the summer and see where we are by September/October.
If he doesn’t sign a physical striker for George Miller to play off by the end of the summer window I will be very worried.
Quote from: ncRover on March 20, 2023, 07:02:36 pmIf he doesn’t sign a physical striker for George Miller to play off by the end of the summer window I will be very worried.Id go and get Matt Smith from Salford for this. Can we compete wages wise though with them?
Quote from: Bailey Vickerage on March 20, 2023, 06:47:51 pmQuote from: scawsby steve on March 20, 2023, 06:19:05 pmAnyone who believes you can just write a season off and plan for the next one is living in cloud cuckoo land. What about ST sales?Also, no matter what players DS signs, they'll never be able to implement his way of playing in League 2.Of course, I sincerely hope I'm wrong, and will hold my hand up on here if I am. I’m not saying he completely wrote the season off, I’m just saying it’s more of a long term process with DS and Copps, said it on here several times it was never going to be a case of DS coming in with a complete different style of play to McSheffrey and it clicking straight away. He needs time to bring in his own signings. Majority of the fan base were saying when he was appointed that he needs to be given time but now because we have had a few bad performances he needs to go. Let him bring in his own players in the summer and see where we are by September/October. he’s brought in 5 of his own players already and we’ve got even worse!!!! I don’t buy this “he needs a pre season”, “ he needs his own players” blah blah blah. Are we saying every new manager can only work with a whole new team of his own players? This to me shows serious flaws in a managers ability if so. Any manager worth his salt should be able to improve the side with the players available if our hierarchy strongly believe he is a better manager than GM.
Quote from: Padge_DRFC on March 20, 2023, 07:15:59 pmQuote from: ncRover on March 20, 2023, 07:02:36 pmIf he doesn’t sign a physical striker for George Miller to play off by the end of the summer window I will be very worried.Id go and get Matt Smith from Salford for this. Can we compete wages wise though with them?There will be better than him available for free in the summer. Jamie Proctor, Joe Ironside and Ryan Bowman all available and have helped teams to L2 promotion in recent seasons (must be something in that).Schofield needs to accept that it is about mixing it up. Like someone said earlier today ; Get the ball in to the box, the defenders will make mistakes in this league.
Wait a minute. Let's not get too carried away with this 'his' team. The HoF will be looking at the bigger picture and whilst Schofield has influence in the decision making on signings, I would imagine the targets will be filtered through Copps to find the right ones for the time. Depending on a number of factors, there'll be a mix of long term potential, short term risks, loans, the lot. Clearly the Summer window is the better time to be acquiring high priority targets who they've already tracked. The head coach, whoever that may be, needs to match the overall vision of the HoF and bring it all together on the pitch. One of the main reasons we've gone down the HoF route is to avoid chucking everything in the bin and starting again when there's a change of head coach.
Very true. The league will be tougher next season. We therefore need to make statement signings and some with experience of success at this level. That means no players that other league 2 teams didn’t want, such as James Brown and Lavery.Hopefully there was some truth to Maxwell’s 4-4-2 comments.
Quote from: DonnyBazR0ver on March 20, 2023, 10:33:43 pmWait a minute. Let's not get too carried away with this 'his' team. The HoF will be looking at the bigger picture and whilst Schofield has influence in the decision making on signings, I would imagine the targets will be filtered through Copps to find the right ones for the time. Depending on a number of factors, there'll be a mix of long term potential, short term risks, loans, the lot. Clearly the Summer window is the better time to be acquiring high priority targets who they've already tracked. The head coach, whoever that may be, needs to match the overall vision of the HoF and bring it all together on the pitch. One of the main reasons we've gone down the HoF route is to avoid chucking everything in the bin and starting again when there's a change of head coach.Agree with that DBR. But was Copps vision to play football on the back foot. Create 2/3 chances on ave per match and only have an ave of 2 shots on target per match. Was it his vision to bore the pants off our long suffering supporters? Yes Rome wasn’t built in a day but quite honestly whether we have the squad at present that DS or Copps want, do you see any progress being made as this season has progressed. We throw in one 45 min decent performance every 3 games at best. It simply isn’t good enough.
Quote from: ncRover on March 21, 2023, 07:41:20 amVery true. The league will be tougher next season. We therefore need to make statement signings and some with experience of success at this level. That means no players that other league 2 teams didn’t want, such as James Brown and Lavery.Hopefully there was some truth to Maxwell’s 4-4-2 comments.statement signings?remind me of our last statement signing? Not going to happen.
Quote from: Cramby10 on March 20, 2023, 07:01:18 pmQuote from: Bailey Vickerage on March 20, 2023, 06:47:51 pmQuote from: scawsby steve on March 20, 2023, 06:19:05 pmAnyone who believes you can just write a season off and plan for the next one is living in cloud cuckoo land. What about ST sales?Also, no matter what players DS signs, they'll never be able to implement his way of playing in League 2.Of course, I sincerely hope I'm wrong, and will hold my hand up on here if I am. I’m not saying he completely wrote the season off, I’m just saying it’s more of a long term process with DS and Copps, said it on here several times it was never going to be a case of DS coming in with a complete different style of play to McSheffrey and it clicking straight away. He needs time to bring in his own signings. Majority of the fan base were saying when he was appointed that he needs to be given time but now because we have had a few bad performances he needs to go. Let him bring in his own players in the summer and see where we are by September/October. he’s brought in 5 of his own players already and we’ve got even worse!!!! I don’t buy this “he needs a pre season”, “ he needs his own players” blah blah blah. Are we saying every new manager can only work with a whole new team of his own players? This to me shows serious flaws in a managers ability if so. Any manager worth his salt should be able to improve the side with the players available if our hierarchy strongly believe he is a better manager than GM.Would you expect Klopp to be able to work with a full back like Gary Neville? He wouldn't fit his style and it'd make more sense to just go out and find someone that does instead of wasting time trying to make a player play a way that's unnatural to them.
Was listening to a league 2 Twitter space earlier and they came onto donny and the host (Bradford fan) made a very good point saying that Schofield and the club will have had one eye on next season so think Schofield especially now the season is basically over he will be telling the board and Copps what players he wants to keep and who he doesn’t so we’re ready for next season. No point changing from what he wants to do with the system and style of play, he needs a summer and a pre season with his own players. He has only had 1 january window where 4 of his 5 signings were loans so he is playing a completely different style of play to before with players that were brought in by McSheffrey/Wellens. We can’t keep sacking managers every 4/5 months, we saw in January that he’s not afraid to move players on who don’t want to be here (Knoyles case) or players that don’t fit the way he wants to play (Clayton) so we need to see what he can do for the first few months of next season with his own squad. He’s also started to show who he wants to keep with new contracts for Anderson, Hurst and now Olowu. The host also said it’s a similar process to what Bradford went through last year when Hughes was appointed, completely different style of play to Derek Adams but wasn’t quite working because he was trying to play the style of football with Adams’ players so wasn’t really working and they finished that season 14th. He brought in his own players in the summer and they’ve improved massively (I think they will go up this season whether that’s play offs or Autos). If anyone wants to listen to the chat about us the link is below, they do a space every Sunday at 7pm which is always a review of league over the weekend with fans going on to talk about their teams game (sometimes on a Wednesday if there’s a full set of midweek fixtures).https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1nAKEreAvDXGLDonny chat starts at 1:23:30