Give the manager more time

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Originally Posted by jackal2

I think that's mostly true to be honest, but I wouldn't necessarily use it as a criticism of either the previous Head Coach or the current one. I think it's just the nature of getting promoted and finding out what you have, and indeed don't have, to compete in the new league.

We had a way of playing, with the personnel available, that really worked for us in the National League and still worked for most of the first half of this season as we rode the momentum wave of promotion, but opponents at this level have "worked us out" and are noticeably better not only at disrupting our style but also exploiting it to score goals against us.

That means going through a process of gradually adapting both the way we play, and the personnel in the squad, to improve our competitiveness at this level. Scott Robertson and Lewis Macari are more combative players than some of our previous recruits, and we will need more incoming, especially in the centre-half position, but they won't all be brought in at once.

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I hate the saying but “we are where we are” I’ve no doubt in retrospect the club wished they’d brought in a couple of strong defenders in the summer as the winter transfer window is always difficult.
They will know this and there’s little point harping on about it now.
SM now has the simple task now of getting what he can out of the group in that we can’t add now like the last few seasons.
I think performance wise away he’s improved it and tbh it’s been more individual mistakes costing us at home.
I really hope the fans get behind them and if people want to boo, then boo but I’d wish they’d use their head and showed a bit of backbone that it’s not going to help, it’s easy being positive when winning all the time but nows the time to get behind the team.

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Originally Posted by durhampie

They had lost their form way before LW jumped ship. Partly due to his inability to change things, and his insistence of playing square pegs in round holes.. If he had stopped, things would probably have been no better than what they are now....

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You keep throwing this line out 5-0 3-0 last two LW home games.

I wouldnt mind some more of this loss of form !!

Mind I dont mind these 3-1 and 4-3 defeats it humbles us 😁

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Originally Posted by legs77

You keep throwing this line out 5-0 3-0 last two LW home games.

I wouldnt mind some more of this loss of form !!

Mind I dont mind these 3-1 and 4-3 defeats it humbles us ��

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Same here although I hear that Swans fans were on about their games of 2 halves, great in the first and crap in the 2nd, all sounds very familiar XD

I watched the Wembley dressing room after match footage again earlier. Loads of passion from LW and he's like one of the lads but I couldn't imagine SM being like that ever.

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Originally Posted by OP67

Same here although I hear that Swans fans were on about their games of 2 halves, great in the first and crap in the 2nd, all sounds very familiar XD

I watched the Wembley dressing room after match footage again earlier. Loads of passion from LW and he's like one of the lads but I couldn't imagine SM being like that ever.

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Swansea isnt important to me im only bothered what he did here that is how he is judged.

LW has the personalitity and man management skills they are also very important as well as knowing your tactics.

Look at Man Utd since Ferguson left you reckon under him with these players they'd be playing like this ??? No chance for me.

Liverpool will feel it when Klopp goes he is the best so you can only downgrade from him.

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Originally Posted by legs77

You keep throwing this line out 5-0 3-0 last two LW home games.

I wouldnt mind some more of this loss of form !!

Mind I dont mind these 3-1 and 4-3 defeats it humbles us ��

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Yes, but what about the losses, 5-1 @ Sutton. 5-4 @ Colchester, 4-1 at Home Mansfield, 4-2 @ Wimbledon. 3-1 @ Harrogate where they were taking the pi** out of us, 4-2 @ Tranmere and the 2-1 at home to Walsall. He wasnt that good was he...

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Originally Posted by legs77

You keep throwing this line out 5-0 3-0 last two LW home games.

I wouldnt mind some more of this loss of form !!

Mind I dont mind these 3-1 and 4-3 defeats it humbles us 😁

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100% this. There’s been a lot of yap on here about Maynard’s prospects but the bottom line is that in Williams’ last two home games we had two of the best performances of the season and since he left we’ve had THE 3 worst performances. That could be the players being mardy, it could be the head coach isn’t getting his ideas across, either way it’s bad.

I don’t think the owners will be as patient with failure as some seem to think. Very winnable game on Saturday, a repeat of the Sutton fiasco will mean they have to act imo.

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Originally Posted by durhampie

Yes, but what about the losses, 5-1 @ Sutton. 5-4 @ Colchester, 4-1 at Home Mansfield, 4-2 @ Wimbledon. 3-1 @ Harrogate where they were taking the pi** out of us, 4-2 @ Tranmere and the 2-1 at home to Walsall. He wasnt that good was he...

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You said our form was nose diving and now you pick first game of the season !

We are a newly promoted side did you expect us to not get a few hammerings this season.

Reality is we were 6th and that is a pure fact under Maynard we’ll be top 6 if the table gets turned upside down.

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Originally Posted by legs77

You said our form was nose diving and now you pick first game of the season !

We are a newly promoted side did you expect us to not get a few hammerings this season.

Reality is we were 6th and that is a pure fact under Maynard we’ll be top 6 if the table gets turned upside down.

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You can admire LW has much as you like. The bottom line is, we had been very lucky in quite few matches were we were hanging on.. The rot started with him, and has gathered pace because we didnt address the problems during the transfer window.. SM may, or not turn out to be any good, but he has certainly been left with a team that were heading in a downward trajectory.

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Originally Posted by durhampie

You can admire LW has much as you like. The bottom line is, we had been very lucky in quite few matches were we were hanging on.. The rot started with him, and has gathered pace because we didnt address the problems during the transfer window.. SM may, or not turn out to be any good, but he has certainly been left with a team that were heading in a downward trajectory.

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It’s about respect he came in and got us out the NL in the first effort you can talk about the squad he had all you like but he did it and that is all that matters he is a PROMOTION winning coach for us another fact for you.

As for we were hanging on so what every team has to hang on at times you can’t win 4-0 every week.

Depends what you call a rot I’d say after 50% of the season in a higher league being in a play off place is not a rot but you seem to think we should be like Madrid brushing everyone aside.

The transfer window is another thing altogether that isn’t the remit of LW or SM.

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Originally Posted by MapperleyMagpie

This will costs us hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and if this season start of next, feel good factor gone in the blink of an eye and even the Reedtz should come under scrutiny now

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Absolutely ridiculous. So the feel good factor they’ve created by bringing in a great brand of football, on the whole very good recruitment, introduction of sound system, investing in the boxt fan park and already put in absolutely millions and a few months of indifferent results they need holding to account straight away? Crazy.