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We made a lot of calls right until about 2 years ago. Ultimately Moore left us in the absolute shit but we had us right in contention for promotion and had a defined strategy - basically working only with EPL loans as he wasn’t able to work with a squad only of League One players. He was no long term visionary coach but he had us in contention until the last month or two when he basically sacked it off. I’m not defending him but if the criteria is being top end League One contenders, he had us there. Since then, pretty every single decision we have made in terms of manager and player recruitment has been a total disaster. You name it, we f**ked it up, with just a few very isolated exceptions. So you can date it all back to March 2021. Something happened then and decision-making has been a total disaster zone ever since.
Quote from: Chris Black come back on May 03, 2023, 07:40:23 pmWe made a lot of calls right until about 2 years ago. Ultimately Moore left us in the absolute shit but we had us right in contention for promotion and had a defined strategy - basically working only with EPL loans as he wasn’t able to work with a squad only of League One players. He was no long term visionary coach but he had us in contention until the last month or two when he basically sacked it off. I’m not defending him but if the criteria is being top end League One contenders, he had us there. Since then, pretty every single decision we have made in terms of manager and player recruitment has been a total disaster. You name it, we f**ked it up, with just a few very isolated exceptions. So you can date it all back to March 2021. Something happened then and decision-making has been a total disaster zone ever since. Would broadly agree with most of that. Don't forget we were really unlucky with the curtailed season too. The Bolton and Wigan affairs. Having Jacob Ramsey, Kieron Sadlier, Fejiri, Devante Cole etc, all contributing to us being a great attacking force with 3 games to come against those teams. That season was Rotherhams fortune and our misfortune. Both the play off season and the curtailed season could easily have gone in our favour. We can't blame the board for those mishaps! Just a reminder of the form we were coming into.https://youtu.be/fJ4vRoVlzu4
Quote from: DonnyBazR0ver on May 03, 2023, 07:59:07 pmQuote from: Chris Black come back on May 03, 2023, 07:40:23 pmWe made a lot of calls right until about 2 years ago. Ultimately Moore left us in the absolute shit but we had us right in contention for promotion and had a defined strategy - basically working only with EPL loans as he wasn’t able to work with a squad only of League One players. He was no long term visionary coach but he had us in contention until the last month or two when he basically sacked it off. I’m not defending him but if the criteria is being top end League One contenders, he had us there. Since then, pretty every single decision we have made in terms of manager and player recruitment has been a total disaster. You name it, we f**ked it up, with just a few very isolated exceptions. So you can date it all back to March 2021. Something happened then and decision-making has been a total disaster zone ever since. Would broadly agree with most of that. Don't forget we were really unlucky with the curtailed season too. The Bolton and Wigan affairs. Having Jacob Ramsey, Kieron Sadlier, Fejiri, Devante Cole etc, all contributing to us being a great attacking force with 3 games to come against those teams. That season was Rotherhams fortune and our misfortune. Both the play off season and the curtailed season could easily have gone in our favour. We can't blame the board for those mishaps! Just a reminder of the form we were coming into.https://youtu.be/fJ4vRoVlzu4Agree with almost all of that but is Devante Cole a typo?! I don’t remember him doing a single thing of note for us!
The mystery is Wellens. Forget about what he did after, he had beforehand taken up Swindon Town. He had won at Wembley with Salford. He was a winner who had huge goodwill behind him as a former player. What a total disaster it turned out to be. It’s probably the most baffling tenure in our recent history. What on earth happened? Ok the budget might have been modest but we were so absolutely terrible that there was surely more to it than that. Total disaster.
Quote from: Chris Black come back on May 03, 2023, 09:10:15 pmThe mystery is Wellens. Forget about what he did after, he had beforehand taken up Swindon Town. He had won at Wembley with Salford. He was a winner who had huge goodwill behind him as a former player. What a total disaster it turned out to be. It’s probably the most baffling tenure in our recent history. What on earth happened? Ok the budget might have been modest but we were so absolutely terrible that there was surely more to it than that. Total disaster. He's shown himself to be a fairly decent manager but I think it was just poor recruitment and wasting large portions of the budget on lesser players.
Quote from: DonnyOsmond on May 03, 2023, 09:35:58 pmQuote from: Chris Black come back on May 03, 2023, 09:10:15 pmThe mystery is Wellens. Forget about what he did after, he had beforehand taken up Swindon Town. He had won at Wembley with Salford. He was a winner who had huge goodwill behind him as a former player. What a total disaster it turned out to be. It’s probably the most baffling tenure in our recent history. What on earth happened? Ok the budget might have been modest but we were so absolutely terrible that there was surely more to it than that. Total disaster. He's shown himself to be a fairly decent manager but I think it was just poor recruitment and wasting large portions of the budget on lesser players.It’s very obvious that Welles’s man management was poor when here, like all good managers he’s learnt by his mistakes and achieved success.
Been watching footage on Twitter. Matt Taylor gave a rousing speech in the dressing room after the game and singled out Richard Wood for his professionalism. Could be hanging up his boots listening to that.