(10-08-2019, 11:25 AM)Sniffer Dog Wrote:(10-08-2019, 11:11 AM)Alf Wrote:(10-08-2019, 09:57 AM)Jasper Scarrott Wrote:(10-08-2019, 09:40 AM)Alf Wrote:(10-08-2019, 09:06 AM)Duncan Mckenzie Wrote: It's 2019 Alf. The game has changed.
The two points highlighted above...
1. Never going to happen in this day and age.
2. For owners of football clubs especially the ones in the PL and top half of the Championship it IS all about the PL.
Wilder & Farke would suggest otherwise.
THe latter was just a personal preference, but I still think for a club with our budget building is a better approach than changing things each yaer until something works.
I think what Duncan is trying to get across is that it might be your personal preference but it's not going to happen. 2 years like Farke might happen at a stretch but a few years like Alf mentioned, never going to happen.
Then we're never going up unless the club invests significantly for a string of windows.
That's my whole point. It probably isn't going to happen. And that's why we probably aren't ever gonna go up.
How many years on the spin do we have to do the same thing over & over until we realize that it doesn't work?
7 years out of 7 we've sacked managers mid-season. 7 out of 7 years we've finished lower than where the manager who started the season had us.......
SOD 7th - Mcliesh 13th - Davies 8th
Davies 7th - Brazil 11th
Pearce 12th - Dougie 16th
Dougie 14th - Williams 16th
Monty 20th - Warbs - 21st
Warbs 13th - AK 17th
AK 7th - MON 9th
It's quite frankly unreal that those running the club still think constant change is the answer.
Nothing has worked Alf over the last 20 years, with various owners, various managers, various strategies. Nothing. Not sure why you keep signalling out the present owners for criticism. They have only been here a few months.
1 thing we've never successfully tried is getting a good manager and backing him with both time & money. It's always been get a good manager ala Davies, SOD or AK and pull the rug from under themin some way, or invest plenty in a pipe dream with someone crap like McClaren.
Criticism is directed at the current owners because they are the ones in charge, but I apply that to both previous owners.