| McKenna and the club 10:37 - Feb 22 with 4936 views | Nutkins_Return |
I can be guilty of letting a bad result ruin a weekend etc but I try to keep some balance and as someone else said in the champ the next game to put it right comes fast.
What I hated yesterday and recently is the reactionary anti McKenna stuff that has crept in as well as some of the normal nonsense player scapegoats etc. I'm not talking about when people can have a balanced criticism of the manager or the team. It's the "he's got to go", "two years of failure", "mcKenna out - he lucked out and it was all Cook's work that got the promotions" - a favourite
I don't want us just to be another club jumping from Manager to Manager. McKenna is a class manager and also a class human being who has helped transform this club. He has invested himself into the club completely, he's brought a fantastic culture and mentality to the football club. As a football club I honestly think we have moved forward every season (infrastructure, youths, squad etc) albeit being in a different league brings a massive challenge for him to keep things cohesive.
This guy has done so much for us and brought so much happiness to the club (my kids couldn't have enjoyed those promotions more! And they got to see us have fantastic memories after years of bland nothing really). He works harder then anyone and that is hard work he's doing for us. The table adjusted for games we are realistically 3rd. With almost a new team. It's hardly outright disaster. We can still make autos. If not playoffs and if ultimately we don't go up whilst disappointing we have a first opportunity to build on a more settled team (Like Cov, Like Boro and like Sunderland did). We have a team to enjoy going into games as favourites regularly. Whilst not always clicking it's a team that play football the right way.
Let's try and manage our frustrations a bit better. Let's find a bit more respect in our club and it's people and each other. Let's get behind this team again and let's pick them up and then let them pick us up. It's a fantastic football club. Our fans did help pick it up and let's do it again FFS! |  |
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| McKenna and the club on 23:23 - Feb 23 with 154 views | jasondozzell |
| McKenna and the club on 23:22 - Feb 23 by Bigalhunter |
I’m generally intrigued to know why you keep pushing this narrative that ‘we’re likely to be promoted this season’?
I’d argue strongly that we ‘might be promoted’ but, based on what I’ve seen, I just can’t make that leap to likely.
I’d love to know what it is you’re seeing that I’m not? |
The league table.
Plus the best manager and very strong squad.
Everyone has lost the plot post Gamechanger.
We're a handful of points off Boro with games in hand and we play them here. Just enjoy it!
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| McKenna and the club on 06:28 - Feb 24 with 82 views | Blue_Heath |
| McKenna and the club on 12:06 - Feb 22 by grow_our_own |
But you'd expect big-signing hit rate to be higher than 60%. Let's say > 5m ones since summer 2024:
Hits:
Clarke,
Jaden,
Delap
Matusiwa
O'Shea
Misses (so far at least):
Egeli,
McAteer,
Greaves,
Muric,
Ogbene
Szmodics
I'm excluding Hutchinson bc he was a fee-free loanee initially. Known quantity and no-brainer when we splashed out to sign him.
Could argue we were slightly unlucky with Ogbene suffering a top-flight career-ending injury, but that's a 45% hit rate for big new signings. Pretty woeful. We're not a club-size that can afford to waste treasure. [Post edited 22 Feb 12:16]
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Being ultra critical I love Clarke, but only starting every week due to Jaiden's injury though thank God we have him. But O'Shea a hit? not for me, the money spent on the misses is astonishing and is why we must go up otherwise those losses are gonna kill us financially. Sell our two best assets Jaiden and Clarke and we are bang average.
Not sure whether it's Ashton, McKenna, Scouts but our recruitment over the last two years has been shocking, Egeli may come good, McAteer maybe but way over inflated fees paid.
We are in a situation where we need to go up for the money but will come straight back down with a whimper (again) due to how it's been wasted. As much as I like Matusiwa Clarke, Nunez are they gonna do it in the prem? | |
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| McKenna and the club on 07:49 - Feb 24 with 27 views | jasondozzell |
| McKenna and the club on 23:23 - Feb 23 by FrimleyBlue |
JD where are you getting likely from?
We are all extremely hopeful. But no its not likely. |
It's very likely. Look at the current odds!
We've got the best manager in the league. That will count for a lot over this run in. | | | |
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