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Lets face the facts-2 points from 30 tells us we are as good as relegated.I for one will not be dissapointed to go back to a proper league.What I will be dissapointed with is if we dont change the manager.
The players put in a good shift last night but some of them are just not good enough for the PL.Collectively as a team I think we could have stood a chance at staying up with a different gaffer.We have some quality players.Broja, Edwards, Hannibal, Humphries,Dobravka and Walker are all good enough for the PL.The rest though are Championship at best.The recruitment has been terrible-bringing back players like JBL that were not good enough the first time around and others that barely shone in the Championship like Anthony,Flemming and Laurent.
Josh Cullen being named as Captain is hardly an inspirational decision despite his work ethic and best intentions.Walker would have been my first and obvious choice.Not knowing your best starting eleven after 19 PL games is a symptom of these bad recruitment decisions (which are apparently based on a revolutionary AI system according to Pace & Co) but also bad management.
Another bad recruitment decision was our famous set piece coach.Long throws that result in nothing.Corners that never produce goals.Free kicks that often are taken short and eventually go backwards.
Scott Parker to be fair is a sympton of the problems at the club in my opinion.He was also an example of bad recruitment.Yes, he got us promoted on the back of a brilliant defence (which was subsequently disbanded down to poor decisions by the club)but his CV in the PL should have told Pace he would be out of his depth in the PL and a better manager was needed.
Our forward play under Parker has NEVER been inspirational even against lower teams in the Championship.I think at Plymouth we scored a brace but that was about it.The defence that got us promoted was dismantled and players that were deemed not good enough for the Championship like Ekdal and Laurent are now in our starting eleven in the PL.
I was never happy with the appointment of Parker and our performances even last season convinced me I was right.This season it has been a complete shambles since day one in the PL.The resolute defence has been replaced by one that now succeeds in leaking two goals in the first seven minutes and despite spending 100 million pounds we still look toothless going forward and little or no creativity in midfield.We now have a new LED lined tunnel but that is about the only thing that lights up Turf Moor.
I doubt Parker will be sacked because I think Pace & Co. have realised their 5 year plan is not working and/or as money men they are no longer prepared or able to throw more debt at the project.BFC were projected to be an established mid table PL club by year 5 which is exactly December 2025.Their leveraged buyout of Espanyol does not bode well for BFC and it suggests the Yanks are losing interest in the project.
On the surface of things its easy to blame Scott Parker and whilst he needs to shoulder some responsibility for the current situation I believe the problems at the club are fundamentally deeper.The people that chose Parker and kept him after promotion and were in charge of recruitment are the same people who recruited disastrously under VK after promotion.The same people who sacked the most successful manager in the clubs history with little or zero backing compaired to VK and SP.
They have made us a yoyo club whilst ladening us with crippling debt in the process.2026 will be very interesting for BFC.If the manager is not replaced then the writing is on the wall and that will tell us a lot about the owners intentions.
The players put in a good shift last night but some of them are just not good enough for the PL.Collectively as a team I think we could have stood a chance at staying up with a different gaffer.We have some quality players.Broja, Edwards, Hannibal, Humphries,Dobravka and Walker are all good enough for the PL.The rest though are Championship at best.The recruitment has been terrible-bringing back players like JBL that were not good enough the first time around and others that barely shone in the Championship like Anthony,Flemming and Laurent.
Josh Cullen being named as Captain is hardly an inspirational decision despite his work ethic and best intentions.Walker would have been my first and obvious choice.Not knowing your best starting eleven after 19 PL games is a symptom of these bad recruitment decisions (which are apparently based on a revolutionary AI system according to Pace & Co) but also bad management.
Another bad recruitment decision was our famous set piece coach.Long throws that result in nothing.Corners that never produce goals.Free kicks that often are taken short and eventually go backwards.
Scott Parker to be fair is a sympton of the problems at the club in my opinion.He was also an example of bad recruitment.Yes, he got us promoted on the back of a brilliant defence (which was subsequently disbanded down to poor decisions by the club)but his CV in the PL should have told Pace he would be out of his depth in the PL and a better manager was needed.
Our forward play under Parker has NEVER been inspirational even against lower teams in the Championship.I think at Plymouth we scored a brace but that was about it.The defence that got us promoted was dismantled and players that were deemed not good enough for the Championship like Ekdal and Laurent are now in our starting eleven in the PL.
I was never happy with the appointment of Parker and our performances even last season convinced me I was right.This season it has been a complete shambles since day one in the PL.The resolute defence has been replaced by one that now succeeds in leaking two goals in the first seven minutes and despite spending 100 million pounds we still look toothless going forward and little or no creativity in midfield.We now have a new LED lined tunnel but that is about the only thing that lights up Turf Moor.
I doubt Parker will be sacked because I think Pace & Co. have realised their 5 year plan is not working and/or as money men they are no longer prepared or able to throw more debt at the project.BFC were projected to be an established mid table PL club by year 5 which is exactly December 2025.Their leveraged buyout of Espanyol does not bode well for BFC and it suggests the Yanks are losing interest in the project.
On the surface of things its easy to blame Scott Parker and whilst he needs to shoulder some responsibility for the current situation I believe the problems at the club are fundamentally deeper.The people that chose Parker and kept him after promotion and were in charge of recruitment are the same people who recruited disastrously under VK after promotion.The same people who sacked the most successful manager in the clubs history with little or zero backing compaired to VK and SP.
They have made us a yoyo club whilst ladening us with crippling debt in the process.2026 will be very interesting for BFC.If the manager is not replaced then the writing is on the wall and that will tell us a lot about the owners intentions.
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