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I genuinely think Coppinger is the one keeping him in a job right now. He'd have gone by now. In fact he probably wouldn't be in charge at all.
My glass half-full crystal ball prediction:We have a top 6 budget and have a decent transfer window for once.We sign better players that do fit what DS is trying to do a bit better. We start reasonably strongly. We start to fade when teams work us out pre-game and in-game. We play some pretty stuff at times but come away from a lot of games saying "we didn't deserve to lose". We are then consistently hovering around 9/10/11th. Defenders of Schofield say the process is nearly there but we never seriously threaten and don't quite do poorly enough for the club to justify a change.Repeat.
TBF, not all managers with little or no experience fail. For instance Pep Guardiola, took his first managerial role with the Barcelona B reserve team in 2007. That was his only experience before he took charge of the Barcelona first team in 2008...... and in his first year he led them to win the treble, including La Liga, the Copa Del Rey and the Champions League. OK, it is a weak comparison as PG and DS are managing in different solar systems, but it doesn't necessarily make managers with little experience necessarily bad...Another good example is Steven Gerrard whose first managerial appointment was with Rangers in 2018, having only ever been in charge of the Liverpool U18 Youth team. Rangers were transformed by Gerrand, and in the 2020-2021 season, Rangers were unbeaten for the entire season and won their first Scottish Premiership title in ten years..
My glass half-full crystal ball prediction:We have a top 6 budget and have a decent transfer window for once.We sign better players that do fit what DS is trying to do a bit better. We start reasonably strongly. We start to fade when teams work us out pre-game and in-game. We play some pretty stuff at times but come away from a lot of games saying "we didn't deserve to lose". We are then consistently hovering around 9/10/11th. Defenders of Schofield say the process is nearly there but we never seriously threaten and don't quite do poorly enough for the club to justify a change.Repeat.
If DS is still in charge on Monday the 17th of May then the people in charge will have failed in their duties. If Copps doesn’t agree then he should go to. The worst thing for the club and its supporters is that DS and even Copps are still here at the start of next season. Whatever money TB is putting in extra needs to be spent wisely we have 14 contracted players including Taylor and Griffiths. We need extra quality adding to the squad players that will walk straight into the first team.
Has anyone advanced that as the main argument for ditching DS? I don’t think we’d be talking about inexperience if he were successful. The point is that you don’t appoint anyone to any job BECAUSE they are inexperienced. Using the solar systems analogy emphasises the weakness of the comparators and surely that severely weakens your case. PG was known to and had demonstrated his ability within the Barcelona club. They were the ones taking the calculated risk. Having acknowledged the weakness of the comparison, smoothly moving on to Gerrard is hardly another “good example”! There is surely a direct read-across to Guardiola in that Schofield was Development Coach who was promoted to First Team Manager at Huddersfield where his tenure was cut short due to failure. So Schofield had already fallen short in identical circumstances to PG which ought to have conclusively shown that we should never have hired him.You must question whether Copps, himself a newcomer to a managerial role, failed to look beyond the club whose structure he had studied in preparation for his own leadership role. He obviously got far too close there and his judgement was naive. Why did the Board not examine his choice more objectively?I like Copps, the man, but the club have become utterly insular recently and look where we are.
Quote from: steve@dcfd on April 18, 2023, 01:37:09 pmIf DS is still in charge on Monday the 17th of May then the people in charge will have failed in their duties. If Copps doesn’t agree then he should go to. The worst thing for the club and its supporters is that DS and even Copps are still here at the start of next season. Whatever money TB is putting in extra needs to be spent wisely we have 14 contracted players including Taylor and Griffiths. We need extra quality adding to the squad players that will walk straight into the first team.17th May is a Wed Steve. It’s my birthday. 4th anniversary of that Charlton play off game. 4 yrs where has that gone?
I know it’s only Football and no one has died. Far worse things have happened. I have lost 3 of my Rovers mates in the last 17 months.2 others also who I would describe as acquaintances. So perspective is needed I know. But I am absolutely distraught this morning at what is happening or should I say not happening at the Football club am passionate about. DRFC is not my family I know but it’s almost like a second family.It is a huge part of my life and has been for 47 years and 5 months since my 1st visit to Belle Vue in Nov 75To see the Playing side of the Club on such a downward spiral and nothing being done to arrest this slide is quite staggeringly negligent from the Clubs Chairman.Throwing extra money at the playing budget is not going to change anything at all while we have a Head Coach who is so incompetent.Stubborn, Blinkered, inflexible and yes he must also be extremely arrogant to do what he does with the playing formation and tactical plan game after game after game with the same outcome of failure. He has shown last night once again he is incapable of changing anything or at least making some attempt to change things which just might bring about a positive outcome. How on earth is this man still in the job after 1 win,3 draws, 9 defeats in 13 games. His record before this 13 games was mediocre at best in a desperately average to very poor league.If he had taken over at the beginning of this season we may now be looking at playing in the NL next season. Yet this morning he is still in his job. What the F.CK is going on at our Football Club.We must be and I have now said this 4 times, the only EFL club that would not have sacked the Manager or in our case Head Coach with such an alarmingly dire set of results and also appalling statistics ref chances created, shots attempted, shots on target and goals scored.I am taking my season ticket for next season and my Grandsons ticket back to the ticket office for a refund, unless he is sacked by the day after our last game at Walsall. I am now going to write a letter to David Blunt explaining why I am going to do this.I suggest every single one of us who have purchased a season ticket does likewise. No one is listening to the fans but believe me if they don’t start listening then the consequences for our Football Club are catastrophic.Are we going to allow the demise to continue or are we going to do something about it. We all have to act as one. It is the only way.
I am now going to write a letter to David Blunt explaining why I am going to do this.I suggest every single one of us who have purchased a season ticket does likewise.
I think DS dropped a major bollick when he had a sly pop at the fans in one of his interviews a while back.
Another here that's had enough, 56 years of going to games but will attend not one more until he's gone.