Quote Originally Posted by MikeSB View Post
Wartman, so what can be done to address everybody's concern and not just yours?

1. Sack DA and KL and how much would that cost? Over a 100K probably.

2. Bring in a new management team, from where exactly? Reaseheath? Or are you suggesting a 'proven' management team from where exactly and how much would they cost the club?

3. What new players could be brought in as the window has now closed and so any new management team would need to deal with the current squad and could they improve things or not?

4. The two GK seem to be a problem and so we sack them both and bring in another one/two at what cost as they need to be experienced and proven don't you think?

5. DA and the BoD had no option but to allow players to leave as they wanted out and seemingly some are refusing to sign extensions to contracts and so what can be done there?

6. The ethos of the club is the academy and as agents are present at academy matches who can stop them whispering in ears about big sign on fees if they don't sign extensions? Who's fault is that?

Maybe the whole system of the academy needs to be looked at as many clubs like Accrington just as an example don't have one and their gates are half of ours and I heard how big their team is and how we can't handle set pieces as a result as they can sign 'big/tall' players while we wait ten years in watching how the youngsters develop at a very high cost obviously. But that is more longer term for the BoD..

So what do YOU suggest is the best option now?
Hi Mike

I will try to answer some of your questions above

1 & 2 yes I would sack the management team rather than throw money continually at what is obviously a lost cause, and I hope that BOD have learnt their lesson and never recruit a manager from Reaseheath again as they do not have the knowledge/experience required to manage in the football league.


3 &4 New players at this time is difficult as you rightly point out the window has closed, but the exposes the utter failure of the board to act at the right moment when somebody could be brought in with time to recruit. All that would be available is unattached players and they are unattached usually for a reason. As to the goalkeeper’s get rid of Fred Barber and get a new coach in to eke out the improvement and ability that both of our current keepers are capable of.

5 Why all of a sudden do players want to leave is the question I want to ask what has changed at Crewe to make players all of a sudden decide they want out ?

6 And as to the academy a big fat yes that it has to be downgraded we clearly cannot afford it at its current level as it stymies reasonable investment in the first team to make it competitive at league 1 level, I also worry that the standard of players coming out of the academy is not as it once was which possibly suggests poorer coaches. Ie Fred Barber etc etc.