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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 10:06:19
Reversion to sterile pointless possession with a collection of players not 'gifted' enough to retain same for long enough ie 95 minutes, moreover the poor ball control, retention and lack of vision for the killer pass mean it is pointless, we are not going to address this unless we swap the 5 worst players out and bring 5 better ones in. |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 11:21:27
Sincerely for you Nick..why talk about players the problems lie way beyond them.
I have been the arch board opponent for 4 years, managers have taken flak, now the players failings are finally being exposed and taking flak, yet it is sleight of hand, the real villains are still here, the real responsibility lies with them.
Look fans no one is going to turn a one footed ultra lightweight negative Redmond into a superstar winger, scrub that a reasonable PL winger, no one can teach positioning and defending to defenders who make the same mistakes game after game, no one is going to turn Charlie into a bulletproof indestructable athlete, nor Gabbi into Van Persie, nor teach Soares to cross, or anyone to take corners bar JWP who brings other problems, no one is going to turn a group of ever changing players into a single harmonised growing up together team..
However, as horrible as that may all be it is like an iceberg what we do not see that is the real issue.
To give the new board and Kat a 'clean sheet' it was important to work the PR and spin the negative on Cortese, one such area was the Staplewood black hole, now the overspend was caused in the main by the relentless pursuit of latest methodologies and technology, even as Staplewood was expanded City and Utd, CFC had cottoned on, I said back in 2013 we could not expect our academy and recruitment 'edge' to not be replicated and improved on...Steve Jobs made an interesting observation the moment something is designed and working it is already redundant, closer to home SAF was always looking at the next goal not his current achievement.
The PL is a constantly evolving model, whatever you spent last year will not be enough, whatever technical, tactical, training advantages you have this year will be superceded the following year...
The PL is an investment 'plus' model, what Kat adopted was doomed the moment it was acted upon, in every aspect SFC who for an all too brief period were media darlings, became such because the club was ahead of the curve, when NC was handed his hat, the baby was effectively thrown out with the bathwater.
If you are in the business of evolution then those that fail to adapt die out and that is what we as supporters are up against.
What should have been was Staplewood 'still' ahead of its time, 3x the money into recruitment of the best youth and academy staffing in Europe (not jobs for mates), a 45.000 stadium, half the sales if that and certainly not to strengthen one club, the retention of MoPo and the project, SFC 'branded' as THE Southern powerhouse...
None of this is dreaming, nor unaffordable (certainly not 210 million) it WAS a basic requirement of keeping pace with change, in 3 years time 7/8 clubs will be circa 55-60k or more capacity, 5 clubs will have increased capacity by over 50%..what have we done?, the top 8 will have doubled commercial revenues in the next 3 years from already serious levels...our corporate is nothing, the stadium still a flatpack, after the fat lady sings what will we have accomplished in comparison to say BHA or Bmuff next year......
The players infuriate because they play for my club but they were chosen by others, the team ethos has been installed by others, the negativity and non ambitious vibe ditto and the appalling re-investment and forward thinking again is way above the players abilities to solve......if we cannot have evolution let us have revolution.
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 09:43:38
Look stop whingeing, we all know that Cortese would have pur us 200 million plus in debt by now, we would have a bigger stadium, better players and passion and have never hired these second rate managers, Reed would only be in charge of recruitment not the brilliant DoF he is so over qualified for...
Don't you realise KL has made herself debt free is that not what we all wanted, the new owner has 210 million of debt and a div 1 team but Kat and Ralph kept their promises on self sustaining, we all thought they meant the club but that's our fault for not understanding Ralph's motivational corporate speak..
Things could be much much worse.....so we have been told, I just keep trying to find out how... |
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Report | Oldham Athletic v Salford City Your Report added at 09:34:26
Saint Brock... Tadic final ball was delivered before the extinction of the dinosaurs, as for Mane is he sponsored by Robertsons jelly because he sure as hell turns into it in one on one 'easy' situations..it's not just the missed opportunities, far worse it heaps additional pressure on the defence as they never have a cushion to work with, the opposition take heart fromit as well... |
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