Quote Originally Posted by Furberstreet View Post
If not living in the past means judging SD as a great manager on the basis of a victory at Stevenage in a League Two match against a team which just avoided relegation to non-league last season, then count me out
Your words, not mine!



Quote Originally Posted by Furberstreet View Post
If you want to wipe SD's slate clean then we can all say what a great start to his managerial career at Crewe, and let us have a lot more of the same. What a pity that the pre-season matches took three seasons to complete.
Again your words, not mine!
IMHO if SD isn't delivering by November, then he has to go - but until then he deserves the chance to try and get us back up. After all, he's done it before. Play-offs is an absolute minimum for us this season.

Has anyone considered the fact that maybe SD defied the odds over 3 of the last 4 seasons? - the bookies would suggest as much. And I see we are not even in the top half in terms of favourites to go up this season. So again he is up against it.

As for pre-season, it means nothing.
How many times have we had a great one, and then had a shocking start to the season proper?
So the fact that this time around pre-season wasn't great doesn't bother me for the same reason.

Very early days, promising start, nothing more - but worth celebrating!