50 years wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:13 pm
We need to be careful of what we wish for, while personally happy to go with whatever the board decide re management, we can't guarantee a new manager would be any better given the financial position we have.
Yes we can. Martin Gray got us into the top five with a budget not massively removed from TW's this season. And if a manager as limited as Gray could do that, better managers certainly could at the very least make us competitive.
50 years wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:13 pm
While the results and problems on field have depressed a fair few of our fans, we have stayed in this league (assuming that the teams below lose one more game, which I think is likely), with 4 games still to go, and I expect with enough points at the end of the season to have put us safe anyway, (and not reliant on there being 3 worse teams than us), set up and academy to help finances in the future, and I think that TW is learning, (whether fast enough is debateable for sure.
Wright's supporters, like 50 Years and onewayup, seem to think us avoiding relegation is some kind of great success. It isn't. TW has massively underperformed, and we now know this based on what was said at the netcafe. I'm not asking for the earth here. I'm not asking for us to be tearing opposition apart week in, week out. All I want is for us to be competitive, coherent and consistent - and we haven't been that this season.
But this must have been a large learning curve for him and TW), as can be seen in the recruitment of the loans, some who have been excellent.
Even the weakest managers can make good signings. Look at Steve Staunton for example - he brought in Jamie Devitt and Tadhg Purcell who turned out to be very good. Signing a handful of good players doesn't mean you're a good manager.
As for "TW is young and learning", it's a terrible argument. He's on to his third managerial job, and has been a manager for approaching six years now. He's not a novice and some of the errors he's making, he really shouldn't be making. If he's learning, why are we seeing results like the Hereford game, for example?
Personally I would give him time next season, but realise I may be in a minority.
How much time? Because if, after 18 months of him being at the club, you're reluctant to give him a full season, then really you shouldn't be giving him any time whatsoever. If you want to be successful, you don't plan a season based on short-term thinking. Anyone saying "Let's give him 10 games next season and see" really doesn't know what they're talking about. Whoever starts next season in charge, we plan for them being in charge come May 2020.
The season has been a difficult one with injuries, good players leaving due to budget cuts, and clearly some poor decision making at times, but in the main we have just missed a natural goal scorer, (re how we played when we had Nelson for a few games), that one position could well have been the difference between us challenging near the top and near the bottom as we are now imo.
Disagree - as a minimum we're missing a goalkeeper, a left back/wing back, a holding/defensive-minded midfielder (who may be Holness, but I'm not concluding anything based on a couple of games) and a striker. There'll be at least 10 clubs in this division who need a natural goalscorer. There aren't many kicking around.