Quote Originally Posted by viaductbaggies View Post
So are your thoughts changing ?
I predicted that many of our fans would be after a change of Manager before Xmas when Val was appointed unless we were running away with the league by now. It appears to be the fallback position for so many of our fans!

I have always said that I think we first and foremost need stability. Unless Lai is going to put forward a treasure chest to buy new players in the Transfer window nothing much is going to change on the field with our without a new Manager and for the life of me I cannot imagine who we will get any better.

What does worry me though is Val appears so one dimensional and surely that makes it easier for opposition Managers to plan for and get better results against us. You know his formation, the likely players, the substitution plan almost every match.

Also the club is obviously an unhappy place behind the scenes. We have been here before when players go missing or get sent off. There is always a reason why players are regularly getting sent off, no matter how contentious the decisions. Unhappy, under stress players are not good players and no matter how poor their standard they cannot play up to it.

I do think Val should stay but I think he needs to change his approach, his formation, his substitution strategy or else I think we will end up mid table at least.

Finally whilst I am having a rant, yes FOL.

BUT I don’t buy into the fact he hasn’t invested at all. He has it is whoever has authorised these transfers that I blame. Not many have spent anywhere near as much as we have in this league, or have the overheads we have, we just don’t use what we have well.