Davis has gone

[Timmy58]

For me, this is the dream team. I find it amazing that the board thought so too!
As said earlier, I hope all those who swore never to return until SD left keep their word and turn up on Saturday.
Also, I hope that everyone gives DA/KL a real chance to get going and don't get on their backs after a couple of bad results.
Until this weekend, I was beginning to lose interest but now I'm really looking forward to Saturday. Hopefully, it will be worth it!

Dream team? Absolutely no managerial experience, so I hope it works out but I won't be surprised if it doesn't.

[MikeSB]

Dream team? Absolutely no managerial experience, so I hope it works out but I won't be surprised if it doesn't.

Well, well, well...

We have been waiting I don't know how long for Timmy to post something negative about the club even through all the past three seasons and he has refused time and time again and now the board have acted to stop the flow of bad results, he has posted a negative!

Now it may not take Sherlock much time to suggest that Timmy could be Steve Davis himself or his biggest cheerleader and why he was so so reluctant to criticise and now we may see a new Timmy doing more of that the very first chance he gets...

Maybe people can't think straight but exactly what managerial experience did SD have other than in lower non league and yet he achieved what he did in that first spell when a new broom was needed as the old broom ie Dario had lost his touch and motivation skills and that was needed at the time and so the time has come for another new broom. It was long overdue!

Artell is a 'proven' leader and motivator and KL is someone Dario was prepared to give a TEN year contract too because he rated him so highly. Timmy you need to be grateful that the board have acted now and not in April and appointed a great managerial team. SD can't complain as he knows he would have been sacked a long long time ago anywhere else.

[Timmy58]

Well, well, well...

We have been waiting I don't know how long for Timmy to post something negative about the club even through all the past three seasons and he has refused time and time again and now the board have acted to stop the flow of bad results, he has posted a negative!

Now it may not take Sherlock much time to suggest that Timmy could be Steve Davis himself or his biggest cheerleader and why he was so so reluctant to criticise and now we may see a new Timmy doing more of that the very first chance he gets...

Maybe people can't think straight but exactly what managerial experience did SD have other than in lower non league and yet he achieved what he did in that first spell when a new broom was needed as the old broom ie Dario had lost his touch and motivation skills and that was needed at the time and so the time has come for another new broom. It was long overdue!

Artell is a 'proven' leader and motivator and KL is someone Dario was prepared to give a TEN year contract too because he rated him so highly. Timmy you need to be grateful that the board have acted now and not in April and appointed a great managerial team. SD can't complain as he knows he would have been sacked a long long time ago anywhere else.

FYI Mike, I believe it was right to continue with Davis at the beginning of this season, and my opinion changed at the turn of the year when we stopped scoring and picking up points in a fairly poor league. Carlisle apart, we have not looked like scoring and he probably should have gone after the Accrington defeat. I am not unhappy with the appointment of Artell and Lunt. But I am concerned about the lack of managerial experience in that team. Davis had been a highly successful manager albeit at lower league level so did have managerial experience. I have been a Crewe supporter since the pre Dario days so of course I hope this proves to be a good appointment but as I said, I won't be surprised if it isn't. Very rarely do managers with this level of experience succeed at the first time of asking.
So, Mike, not negative. Just grounded and not being carried away on a wave of unfounded optimism. I will be delighted for my fears to be misplaced. What does surprise me is the number of people who believe change automatically means better!

[Furberstreet]

I agree that we need to see how Artell and Lunt shape up. Whether they have managerial experience or not, they must represent a welcome change as Davis and Collins were only taking the Club in one direction. They seem to have lost the dressing room and acted like statues on the touchline, seemingly hapless and unable to do anything to reverse the downward spiral. I wanted Davis out when we lost at home to Bradford a couple of seasons ago. The team played that day like they did against Accrington about ten days ago. I welcomed the appointment of Davis as Dario had clearly lost the plot, but it has certainly taken too long to close the Davis chapter. Time for a fresh start, though an improvement in results is needed fast!

[chinaalex]

FYI Mike, I believe it was right to continue with Davis at the beginning of this season, and my opinion changed at the turn of the year when we stopped scoring and picking up points in a fairly poor league. Carlisle apart, we have not looked like scoring and he probably should have gone after the Accrington defeat. I am not unhappy with the appointment of Artell and Lunt. But I am concerned about the lack of managerial experience in that team. Davis had been a highly successful manager albeit at lower league level so did have managerial experience. I have been a Crewe supporter since the pre Dario days so of course I hope this proves to be a good appointment but as I said, I won't be surprised if it isn't. Very rarely do managers with this level of experience succeed at the first time of asking.
So, Mike, not negative. Just grounded and not being carried away on a wave of unfounded optimism. I will be delighted for my fears to be misplaced. What does surprise me is the number of people who believe change automatically means better!

Timmy - You are quite correct, change doesn't automatically mean better, but lets face it, could the new management team do any worse ?.

The football under Davis had become shocking to watch. Everybody knew if the opposition scored first, then 90% of the time, they would go on to win the game. He should have gone at the end of the 2014-15 season, but for some strange reason the board stuck with him, but then, this is Crewe !. I'm sure someone said that this is a team in transition, so I suppose we shouldn't hope for much from the DA/KL should we, if your words are anything to go by ?.

[thnhouse]

I think for me Davis has been dragging this club down for quite some time, I've been unhappy with his transfer policy since his second season.

Excited about Dave and Kenny, it's worth remembering that Dave Artell might not have any management experience but he's got an awful lot of experience of lower league football which I'd say probably means we're not going to be too tactically naive. His big challenge is going to be finding players that are going to bring the best out of our youngsters and bring in wins.

[itwasin]

FYI Mike, I believe it was right to continue with Davis at the beginning of this season, and my opinion changed at the turn of the year when we stopped scoring and picking up points in a fairly poor league. Carlisle apart, we have not looked like scoring and he probably should have gone after the Accrington defeat. I am not unhappy with the appointment of Artell and Lunt. But I am concerned about the lack of managerial experience in that team. Davis had been a highly successful manager albeit at lower league level so did have managerial experience. I have been a Crewe supporter since the pre Dario days so of course I hope this proves to be a good appointment but as I said, I won't be surprised if it isn't. Very rarely do managers with this level of experience succeed at the first time of asking.
So, Mike, not negative. Just grounded and not being carried away on a wave of unfounded optimism. I will be delighted for my fears to be misplaced. What does surprise me is the number of people who believe change automatically means better!

Agree with Timmy it will not make Cooper or Kirk scoree goals will It! And as far as Lunt goes it's just a job for old blue eyes he never put a tackle in while playing for Crewe so maybe we will win the Fair League Trophy again.

[Timmy58]

Agree with Timmy it will not make Cooper or Kirk scoree goals will It! And as far as Lunt goes it's just a job for old blue eyes he never put a tackle in while playing for Crewe so maybe we will win the Fair League Trophy again.

Who would you have as number 2 then? As I recall Lunt was in the side to create chances, not to tackle. Others were there to do that

[England_First]

Who would you have as number 2 then? As I recall Lunt was in the side to create chances, not to tackle. Others were there to do that

ItWasDim will know don't not rate those other two non tackling midfielders Glen Hoodle and Paul Scholes, though in Scholes case he just couldn't tackle. Anyway, back to King Kenny, ItWasDim needs to search Paul Merson's fantasy football show on YouTube and see the episode with Dean Ashton, see Deans midfield picks and why.

[itwasin]

ItWasDim will know don't not rate those other two non tackling midfielders Glen Hoodle and Paul Scholes, though in Scholes case he just couldn't tackle. Anyway, back to King Kenny, ItWasDim needs to search Paul Merson's fantasy football show on YouTube and see the episode with Dean Ashton, see Deans midfield picks and why.

Is it under the Title "The Comedians"