This Season

[jackal2]

I can't see Maynard being sacked before the end of the season but he has to massively turn it around in the last 11 games to keep his job. I really can't see it myself but fingers crossed the last game of the season at FGR isn't a 6 pointers!!

Whatever Maynard's faults may be, it's being acknowledged by most that he's inherited a defence not properly equipped for this league, and he's right that this has been evident all season. So far, his tweaks to address that haven't stopped us conceding goals, and our attacking play has suffered through a general loss of team confidence and/or maybe a by-product of seeking to plug some of those defensive gaps.

Overall, it doesn't look very promising for him, but his best bet is to treat the situation as an opportunity. If he can somehow find a way of stopping the stream of goals against, working with the current personnel, and restore a bit of our goalscoring confidence as well, helping us to win some games, then he'll actually have shown some managerial ability and he'll deserve some credit.

I'm finding some of the attacks on him a bit distasteful, because he comes over to me as a decent guy and most of what he's said post-match has seemed pretty honest and accurate. Results will determine his fate, as they do for all managers, but I don't see anything to be gained from piling in on him like a pack of baying hounds (and that's saying something coming from a Jackal!).

It's in our interests and his interests that we somehow turn a corner, and I wish him well for as long as he's in position trying to do that.

[durhampie]

Whatever Maynard's faults may be, it's being acknowledged by most that he's inherited a defence not properly equipped for this league, and he's right that this has been evident all season. So far, his tweaks to address that haven't stopped us conceding goals, and our attacking play has suffered through a general loss of team confidence and/or maybe a by-product of seeking to plug some of those defensive gaps.

Overall, it doesn't look very promising for him, but his best bet is to treat the situation as an opportunity. If he can somehow find a way of stopping the stream of goals against, working with the current personnel, and restore a bit of our goalscoring confidence as well, helping us to win some games, then he'll actually have shown some managerial ability and he'll deserve some credit.

I'm finding some of the attacks on him a bit distasteful, because he comes over to me as a decent guy and most of what he's said post-match has seemed pretty honest and accurate. Results will determine his fate, as they do for all managers, but I don't see anything to be gained from piling in on him like a pack of baying hounds (and that's saying something coming from a Jackal!).

It's in our interests and his interests that we somehow turn a corner, and I wish him well for as long as he's in position trying to do that.

I'm afraid most of the blame lies at the feet of the recruitment team.. We could have Klopp managing this team, and the results would still be the same.. Apart from 2 or 3 players the rest are just not good enough for this level of football..

[legs77]

I'm afraid most of the blame lies at the feet of the recruitment team.. We could have Klopp managing this team, and the results would still be the same.. Apart from 2 or 3 players the rest are just not good enough for this level of football..

You said last night if we lose Tuesday then Maynard needs to go and now a few hours later you are saying it’s the not Maynard fault you don’t half tie yourself in NOTTS !

Reality is it’s a collective issue and as for Klopp wouldn’t do better is laughable we had a bloke at Swansea who had us 6th and we scored LOTS OF GOALS and WON LOTS OF GAMES at home ……since he has left we have same players with more added and yet here we are.

[durhampie]

You said last night if we lose Tuesday then Maynard needs to go and now a few hours later you are saying it’s the not Maynard fault you don’t half tie yourself in NOTTS !

Reality is it’s a collective issue and as for Klopp wouldn’t do better is laughable we had a bloke at Swansea who had us 6th and we scored LOTS OF GOALS and WON LOTS OF GAMES at home ……since he has left we have same players with more added and yet here we are.

I stand by that comment, purely because he his totally out of his depth at this level, and keeping him any longer would only make matters worse.. If the bloke at Swansea was still here, we may have won another game or so, but the rot had already set in by then. Klopp would provide the inspiration, but the players would continue to make those same basic errors that is costing us every game. You cant make silk purse out of pigs ear.. Thats the dilemma we have to put up with...