| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? 13:39 - Feb 16 with 1420 views | BryanPlug |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:43 - Feb 16 with 1380 views | homer_123 |
Nothing guarantees promotion.
We can do things to improve our chances.....many of which are patently obvious. |  |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:46 - Feb 16 with 1346 views | mrshallisfit |
Get the right manager in is your first step. Something Evans has struggled at a little bit in the past 13 years. |  | | |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:47 - Feb 16 with 1341 views | Herbivore |
You would spend £30m as a League 1 club poaching Championship players on big wages? Excuse me for a moment whilst I hop into my ROFLcopter. |  |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:48 - Feb 16 with 1338 views | Radlett_blue |
Evans lost his ambition years ago, after Keane & Jewell wasted so much money. After that, the sums you had to be prepared to lose to have a good chance of promotion to the PL became much higher than Evans was prepared to risk. By taking us into the play offs, Mick unfortunately proved that you might just get up without losing £ms. I think Evans now just want to minimise his annual losses owning Town, but he's unwilling to sell at a big loss so we're stuck with each other, like a couple in an unhappy marriage who can't afford a divorce. |  |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:52 - Feb 16 with 1318 views | hype313 |
A decent management structure is the first thing needed, get that right and it is a domino affect with more fan engagement, therefore more fans in the ground etc.
Not sure Evans has the appetite to loan Championship players on huge money. |  |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:55 - Feb 16 with 1304 views | Basuco |
It took Sheffield Utd 6 years six years, 5 managers, and investment from a Saudi Prince, H.R.H. Prince Abdullah bin Mosa'ad bin Abdulaziz Al Sa'ud in 2013, to get where they are today. |  | | |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:56 - Feb 16 with 1298 views | RegencyBlue |
Nothing will guarantee promotion but the club needs a complete reset from top to bottom to start with.
Evans time here is done, he’s had thirteen years and appears to still be as clueless now about how to run a football club as he was on day one. He has so much history of poor decision making and downright ineptitude that he’s never going to regain any credibility in my view. We need new ownership desperately., everything else flows from that.
People who know the club and the game need to be brought in to turn it around. Promotion can be a longer term aim but I genuinely feel the first priority is to stabilise the club which, if it carries on as it is, will be looking at Division Four football sooner rather than later. |  | | |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:02 - Feb 16 with 1275 views | BlueForYou |
Evans needs to finally relent & give some of our own a chance to make it work. What if we had Dyer & Butcher, with Holland doing something, & Burley/Milton overseeing everything football related? What if he gave them 18 months to have a go? If it worked then great, if it failed then the fans cant call for their homegrown favourites ever again & it closes that door once & for all. At least it would answer a lot of questions! [Post edited 16 Feb 2021 14:04]
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:04 - Feb 16 with 1252 views | Sarge |
I have no manager experience and have hardly even played football manager but the first and most critical step is to sack the fraud in charge currently. And then do the following:
1) Find a style of play that suits the players at our disposal. Much more than a formation, determine how players play in their positions, the patterns of play they will look to establish. Find the best 11 to play in that system and ensure subs & reserves are well trained and rehearsed in it for when they are needed. And they will be needed, frequently, because we have an appalling injury record which is entirely our fault. Stop chopping and changing and stop playing players who are underperforming.
2) Conduct meticulous research on the opposition. Whether it be Northampton or Sunderland. This is a big thing amongst enthusiasts now, with plenty of twitter accounts offering tactical analysis as a hobby. ITFCAnalytics is a good one. Understand how the opposition plays, their formation, their style and how they react when going a goal up, goal down etc. Then determine if our system and players can overcome it (and in League One we really ought to be able to). If not, create plans B & C to fall back on for each and every game.
3) Embrace sports science. Proper warm ups, cool downs, metrics. Monitor and manage player health and fitness in training and matches. Whatever we’re doing in this department clearly isn’t working and hasn’t been working for years.
4) Go out and play football. At the end of the day, we have a large group of professionals, many of whom can and have played at higher levels. Sometimes I think we’d still be in the upper echelons of this division with no manager at all, and just letting 11 professional footballers go and play. The quality in this division is atrocious, and yet we can’t overcome it because we can’t do any of the above correctly.
We really don’t need any additional players, what we have (especially with the loans) should be plenty good enough for League One. | | | |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:05 - Feb 16 with 1246 views | Metal_Hacker |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:55 - Feb 16 by Basuco |
It took Sheffield Utd 6 years six years, 5 managers, and investment from a Saudi Prince, H.R.H. Prince Abdullah bin Mosa'ad bin Abdulaziz Al Sa'ud in 2013, to get where they are today. |
That's easy for you to say |  |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:11 - Feb 16 with 1209 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:04 - Feb 16 by Sarge |
I have no manager experience and have hardly even played football manager but the first and most critical step is to sack the fraud in charge currently. And then do the following:
1) Find a style of play that suits the players at our disposal. Much more than a formation, determine how players play in their positions, the patterns of play they will look to establish. Find the best 11 to play in that system and ensure subs & reserves are well trained and rehearsed in it for when they are needed. And they will be needed, frequently, because we have an appalling injury record which is entirely our fault. Stop chopping and changing and stop playing players who are underperforming.
2) Conduct meticulous research on the opposition. Whether it be Northampton or Sunderland. This is a big thing amongst enthusiasts now, with plenty of twitter accounts offering tactical analysis as a hobby. ITFCAnalytics is a good one. Understand how the opposition plays, their formation, their style and how they react when going a goal up, goal down etc. Then determine if our system and players can overcome it (and in League One we really ought to be able to). If not, create plans B & C to fall back on for each and every game.
3) Embrace sports science. Proper warm ups, cool downs, metrics. Monitor and manage player health and fitness in training and matches. Whatever we’re doing in this department clearly isn’t working and hasn’t been working for years.
4) Go out and play football. At the end of the day, we have a large group of professionals, many of whom can and have played at higher levels. Sometimes I think we’d still be in the upper echelons of this division with no manager at all, and just letting 11 professional footballers go and play. The quality in this division is atrocious, and yet we can’t overcome it because we can’t do any of the above correctly.
We really don’t need any additional players, what we have (especially with the loans) should be plenty good enough for League One. |
The first steps must be to get it right off the pitch.
That involves:
1 Getting fitness right in terms of preventing and treating injuries. Whilst warm-ups, cool downs, etc should be looked at, go further and get in a sports science team with expertise in this area to evaluate our practises and advise on how to improve. Then pay to get them back in on a regular basis to continue to improve them.
2 Employ a proper tactician either as manager or as advisor to the manager.
3 Start running the club off the pitch like a top half Championship club - clean the place up, etc.
4 Trim the playing squad (this will take time) but whoever is manager must be on the remit to have a first team squad of no more than 26 players. There should be a clear playing style (plus a plan B and C) that these players fit in with. There should be a bias towards players under the age of 25. There should be a clear link to the academy and bringing players through.
5 Reconnect with the fans and take the FA Cup seriously. Aim for an actual cup run to at least the 3rd/4th round. |  |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:13 - Feb 16 with 1203 views | ElderGrizzly |
Having Lee O'Neill as Head of the Academy with pretty much zero qualifications would not be the best start i'd suggest.
Even with the salary cap gone, we can only spend a certain % of our revenue on wages (60% next season), so throwing £30m at it isn't feasible. |  | | |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:18 - Feb 16 with 1168 views | Herbivore |
More crucial than throwing £30m at signings (lolz) is getting the right structure in place. We just don't have that. We're already throwing a ton of money at the squad relative to this level of football and it's not taking us anywhere.
A new manager is the most crucial thing but we also need more help around the club generally. Lee O'Neil is doing about 3 jobs and much as he seems a decent guy, one man can't do 3 jobs well. Evans isn't hands on enough, so he needs to delegate the running of the club to someone else. We need to develop more of a club ethos and persist with that regardless of who is manager and any manager coming in needs to continue that ethos.
At present we give managers too much scope to change things and every time we get rid of a manager we end up starting from scratch. There's no vision or strategy in place at all. We've got to find that from somewhere otherwise it'll be the same depressing 18 month cycles of failure and disappointment that have characterised most of ME's time here.
And some investment in infrastructure, particularly focusing on reducing playing time lost to injuries, wouldn't go amiss either. No point having a big, expensive squad if half of them are never fit to play. | |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:21 - Feb 16 with 1158 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:55 - Feb 16 by Basuco |
It took Sheffield Utd 6 years six years, 5 managers, and investment from a Saudi Prince, H.R.H. Prince Abdullah bin Mosa'ad bin Abdulaziz Al Sa'ud in 2013, to get where they are today. |
Appointing a competent manager being the key - they didn't stick with a patent dud for two seasons. | | | |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:28 - Feb 16 with 1121 views | PJH |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 13:43 - Feb 16 by homer_123 |
Nothing guarantees promotion.
We can do things to improve our chances.....many of which are patently obvious. |
Getting more points than at least 22 other clubs would be a help though. |  | | |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:30 - Feb 16 with 1104 views | StokieBlue |
I know we all need some beer protection before tonight's probable farce but you've started a few hours too early.
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:31 - Feb 16 with 1101 views | IpswichKnight |
There are many things we could do!
1) sack the fraud and get someone competent
2) employ someone like Delia does to run the club on a daily basis and tell them they only need to refer back to ME if they want to sack the manager and before any transfer window to discuss budgets
3) get a decent sports science unit running
4) use the ex player network properly ( think it’s Thetis who is now a scout in and around Marseille)
5) a proper scouting network set up so that we can identify players we need and do proper due diligence on them | | | |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:32 - Feb 16 with 1096 views | Illinoisblue |
| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 14:13 - Feb 16 by ElderGrizzly |
Having Lee O'Neill as Head of the Academy with pretty much zero qualifications would not be the best start i'd suggest.
Even with the salary cap gone, we can only spend a certain % of our revenue on wages (60% next season), so throwing £30m at it isn't feasible. |
LON himself said recently his remit involves U9 up to the first team. Which is as stupid and ridiculous and absurd as it could ever be. |  |
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| Realistically, what would it take to guarantee promotion? on 17:12 - Feb 16 with 962 views | BlueBadger |
LOL |  |
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