Maynard In/Out/Shake it all about, Richard Montague's Recruitment, Cundy's Hip etc.

[legs77]

I’d take any bloody ground that isn’t us passing it around 30 times to go exactly nowhere. I think the acknowledgement of it working 18 months ago is fair, but we also need to acknowledge that it isn’t working now at all and maybe that’s why other teams don’t use it all the time in the lower leagues.

It was working till Feb 2024 ....what happened that made us drop ?

Moving up any league is always hard history shows you that and its a reason most clubs dont do back to back promotions.

[hissingdwarf]

It was working till Feb 2024 ....what happened that made us drop ?

Moving up any league is always hard history shows you that and its a reason most clubs dont do back to back promotions.

I’ll be honest and say I’m not convinced it was working until Feb. I think Luke Williams was working. He pulled all the threads together and managed the players to such a level that we could still attack our way out of the issues. Defence…we’ve all known it for past few years. The point being, we muddled through on the basis that the head coach could coax the extra 5% out of them and the passing from the back led to something rapidly.
I also think we need to be realistic, Williams had all the components of the orchestra, and he managed to make the tune sound pretty good rather than a useless rabble.
Maynard isn’t of the same calibre imo, tactically or motivational wise. But……

The wheels were beginning to come off before Williams walked.
The summer recruitment was pretty rubbish. The injuries stopped us in our tracks and we didn’t compensate well enough and now…

All amounts to the tippy tappy with no progress getting us stuck in a rut.

[legs77]

I’ll be honest and say I’m not convinced it was working until Feb. I think Luke Williams was working. He pulled all the threads together and managed the players to such a level that we could still attack our way out of the issues. Defence…we’ve all known it for past few years. The point being, we muddled through on the basis that the head coach could coax the extra 5% out of them and the passing from the back led to something rapidly.
I also think we need to be realistic, Williams had all the components of the orchestra, and he managed to make the tune sound pretty good rather than a useless rabble.
Maynard isn’t of the same calibre imo, tactically or motivational wise. But……

The wheels were beginning to come off before Williams walked.
The summer recruitment was pretty rubbish. The injuries stopped us in our tracks and we didn’t compensate well enough and now…

All amounts to the tippy tappy with no progress getting us stuck in a rut.

I disagree about wheels were coming off didn’t LW win 4/5 at home ?

Yes we got some beatings away but that is completely normal we had moved up a level.

With Williams we had a good chance of just getting in the play offs and anything can then happen.

Yes our defence isn’t great but our attack was our weapon and we used it to scare the sh*t out of teams which is what happened lots of teams completely sat off us.

LW is better than Maynard we all know this but that is my point the style WAS working as we have clear evidence of that it was only when he went that it didn’t work.

We might decide to play more direct next season and that will mean a overhaul of players who can fit that style so that will also have teething problems especially if you have a dud in the dugout.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

If we are looking to change our style of football next season then we might aswell stick with Maynard. His problem is he has changed the system with players that are not suited for it.You might aswell stick with him and let the recruitment team recruit players that fit the new model and vision.however it wont be pretty from what we've seem so far.