📺Summer Catch Up with Stuart Maynard

[slack_pie]

The anti-Maynard brigade seem to attribute all of last season's failings to him, when in reality, we were on the slide a while before LW left. We got recruitment all wrong and simply didn't have the defenders or keepers to mount a sustained challenge at the top. Once that early season momentum faded, we were always going to finish outside the playoffs, even if LW had stayed.

Yes, our slide was spectacular, and Maynard has to take some of the blame, but he walked into a tough situation with a confluence of factors against him. This season, there will be no more excuses, so it's over to SM and his team to show they can move us forward. I am hopeful but the jury is still out.

[SmiffyPie]

The anti-Maynard brigade seem to attribute all of last season's failings to him, when in reality, we were on the slide a while before LW left. We got recruitment all wrong and simply didn't have the defenders or keepers to mount a sustained challenge at the top. Once that early season momentum faded, we were always going to finish outside the playoffs, even if LW had stayed.

Yes, our slide was spectacular, and Maynard has to take some of the blame, but he walked into a tough situation with a confluence of factors against him. This season, there will be no more excuses, so it's over to SM and his team to show they can move us forward. I am hopeful but the jury is still out.

The deniers won't like that. SM was completely out of his comfort zone, never had a full time club, never had a club with our history, never had players like ours and never handled a club with such expectations. How many times over the years have we seen other managers being unable to stop a slide once it starts? Why do people expect him to have been able to stop a team already on the slide? He got things wrong, of course he did how anyone could expect him not to is unreasonable. The Bros saw something in him so given all the things he had to deal with at the start and his obvious confidence now give him a break for at least a handful of games ffs.