Kewell our or relegation

[Woodsetts_Pie]

Have you seen Lincoln have built a new training facility from the money they made from their FA Cup run? It's such a shame we have fallen behind them and that's why the FA Cup is so important financially. A board with a plan and forward thinking management, it's not rocket science is it.

Yet we have posters on here, - and even more on Facebook - who can't wait to see us out of every cup competition at the first hurdle with excuses like "We need to concentrate on ........" What do half the squad "concentrate on" when there is no competition for them to take part in?

Lincoln's success shows what progress in any competition where there is a financial benefit can achieve.

[magpie_mania]

Yet we have posters on here, - and even more on Facebook - who can't wait to see us out of every cup competition at the first hurdle with excuses like "We need to concentrate on ........" What do half the squad "concentrate on" when there is no competition for them to take part in?

Lincoln's success shows what progress in any competition where there is a financial benefit can achieve.

Mcculloch isn't really interested in how we do in the FA Cup but every post of his is to have a go at the club and AH.

[drillerpie]

Not sure it means both teams made the same number of passes, more the percentage of time that each team had the ball at their disposal. Oldham used the ball to get forward quickly, we just made sideways and backward passes until the inevitable hoof.

You would think so but on the Totally Football podcast a guy from Opta said possession is just the percentage of total passes made in the game as timing possession is too hard and the statisticians make mistakes!

[McCullochisGod]

Mcculloch isn't really interested in how we do in the FA Cup but every post of his is to have a go at the club and AH.

Is that having a go at AH or questioning his competence you mug....

[magpie_mania]

Is that having a go at AH or questioning his competence you mug....

Sorry, if it makes you feel better:

McCulloch isn't really interested in how we do in the FA Cup but every post of his is to question AH's competency.

[ancientpie]

Agendas aside I actually & thankfully missed Tues game ( a combination of "man flu"& lack of enthusiasm did for me) but through listening & taking note of the sensible posters on here I get the impression that it was proper bad,and this is worrying especially the negative tactics part. However I will repeat more or less the same thoughts that I have had over our last 5/6 managers, unless we have a better replacement lined up then sooner or later we have to back one of these "Rookies" to come good,the continuous merry go round of sign em, sack em aint working & I suspect that with every sacking this imaginary queue of " Better Managers" becomes smaller. I would have given KN longer but much like many of the earlier sackings I could see an argument for getting rid but shouting for HKs head already is beyond me.

[DelroyFacey22]

Amongst all the hysteria calling for Kewell to be sacked, I have not seen anyone suggest what else he could do. Without Stead and Hemmings there were no credible attacking options. We know how fragile the midfield is, so it was, on paper at least, sensible to play Thomas and Baldwjn as wide midfielders. The problem was that Milsom had an appalling game, Hewitt ran around like a headless chicken, and moving Turley to right back, with Brisley in the centre of defence, left things wide open.

But what else was there he could do? Nolan has bequeathed such an imbalanced squad, that cannot withstand any injuries or suspensions. Kewell clearly has nous, as was demonstrated by bringing Duffy on. It stemmed the flow towards the defence and gave some steel. What was probably not evident on tv was that Duffy acted like a captain and communicated and organised the defence.

Whether or not Dennis should have been kept on is debatable. He did absolutely nothing, but got no service. Something had to give and I think Kewell got the substitution absolutely spot on. Notts could have gone on to win as the Oldham threat was nullified. I expect Duffy to be a first choice and to be captain.

This is an excellent post.

Nolan only 4 losses at home in 18 months, Hk is close to that already - so go and figure

8 wins in 26 games in 2018 for Nolan, "HK" has 3 wins in 10 games already - so go and figure

The fact is The chairman should of never have sacked Nolan till January - end off. I know it was after 5 games, but chairman said he was considering it after 3 games- disgraceful for which he will now pay, and he could pay heavily with HK in charge

Nolan was sacked because we'd been cr*p since Christmas and ended up falling in to the playoffs after having been in the top 3 of the league for 23 consecutive games last season

HK is useless -there has been no improvement from him, He told us he sort it out in 2 months ( His words)

This is just nonsense, there has quite clearly been improvement, the fact we've kept 2 clean sheets and won 3 games under Kewell whereas Nolan managed 1 draw and a clean sheet and then went on to lose the next 5 conceding 3 or more goals every game is proof of that, denying it is just silly. We are very clearly in a better position than when Nolan was sacked.

Kewell's last 10 league games are 3W 4D 3L and that is a hell of a lot better than 0W 1D 5L...

To replace the lone striker with another centre haf after an hour or so, with the scoreline 0 - 0 against a bottom half the table team is almost like admitting we aren't good enough top push on and win the game.

Whilst that's what the numbers on the board said it's not what happened, he replaced Dennis with Enzio and put one of the two only experienced players he had available to him on the bench on. (Hawkridge would have been like playing with 10)

[Pies4u]

Delroy - agree with you re: Hawkridge, he is one of "pub players" on our books but replacing Dennis with Duffy is precisely what happened. It was a defeatist approach. The fact that we then re-shuffled and stuck Enzio down the middle was a consequence of that swap. I disagree with those who thought it was the only option, there was no point having Etete on the bench if we weren't going to use him to try to win the game.

Why did we need an "experienced" player to replace Dennis? I would certainly question that tbh. It was most of the experienced players who were the ones who were struggling.

[McCullochisGod]

Sorry, if it makes you feel better:

McCulloch isn't really interested in how we do in the FA Cup but every post of his is to question AH's competency.

Do you never question it?

[Pies4u]

Just for clarity - I mentioned elsewhere that Duffy provided the required vocal leadership & stability, no qualms about bringing him on. It was the fact that we were clinging on for a goal less draw rather than try to be positive and win a game against a team that sits in the bottom half of the table and had squandered a host of chances.

Duffy for Milsom, Hewitt or Brisley woukd have been fine but to, effectively, surrender at that stage was, quite frankly, bizarre.