Paxman II
Well-Known Member
Once again Slade seems to be on another planet with team selection and tactics. Since he came in bringing over Bevon he created a type of football associated with hoof when we had a squad of players used to playing it on the ground and passing.
He gets the Yakubu as we desperately need goals and then leaves him on the bench.
Tudgay will score two all season if we are lucky, no pace.
Jones left on the bench when in previous games he has come on and scored or made a goal?
Then players so called unfit can't still be injured so badly they can't be risked for the cause? Stevenson among others.
Slade had the whole week after a win to figure out Yakubu in the side, add pace in Jones, get behind the players, work out a way to win together and yet he fails to even appear like any improvement was made?
Full of platitudes he is, which we have seen before, but what's obvious to me is he has not been able to motivate or get the players to adjust to his game plans. He has persisted with his 'vision' when obvious change was needed and we continue to look rudderless and falling through the trap door.
We could not afford to lose this game today and we are now all but certain to go down. The players are good enough, at least for survival but we just have a nightmare management team from top to bottom where all hope has been eroded and confidence dissipated from the team and the club in general.
We fluked a trip to Wembley but as I said before I won't be going to Wembley...we have already lost the plot. That final of this competition is just a reminder of how far the club has fallen, it means nothing to me. I feel sorry for the players who have no figure head to turn to other than clueless people in charge. What a sad, sad time for this football club. Where will it all end?
He gets the Yakubu as we desperately need goals and then leaves him on the bench.
Tudgay will score two all season if we are lucky, no pace.
Jones left on the bench when in previous games he has come on and scored or made a goal?
Then players so called unfit can't still be injured so badly they can't be risked for the cause? Stevenson among others.
Slade had the whole week after a win to figure out Yakubu in the side, add pace in Jones, get behind the players, work out a way to win together and yet he fails to even appear like any improvement was made?
Full of platitudes he is, which we have seen before, but what's obvious to me is he has not been able to motivate or get the players to adjust to his game plans. He has persisted with his 'vision' when obvious change was needed and we continue to look rudderless and falling through the trap door.
We could not afford to lose this game today and we are now all but certain to go down. The players are good enough, at least for survival but we just have a nightmare management team from top to bottom where all hope has been eroded and confidence dissipated from the team and the club in general.
We fluked a trip to Wembley but as I said before I won't be going to Wembley...we have already lost the plot. That final of this competition is just a reminder of how far the club has fallen, it means nothing to me. I feel sorry for the players who have no figure head to turn to other than clueless people in charge. What a sad, sad time for this football club. Where will it all end?
