Maynard out?

[upthemaggies]

I think football on the whole is boring now compared to what it was

Yes, and seemingly it hasn't been a gradual thing for English football, it's gone downhill rapidly over the last 5 years. I was still enjoying the Premier League up until lockdown, don't even watch MOTD now.

It's not just the action on the pitch, it's the pundits, the fans, the whole package, it's all become terribly bland and a complete yawn fest. VAR is obviously having a massive impact as well, the relegation and promotion battles between tiers 1 and 2 have become a non-event. Yet crowds remain extremely healthy, many clubs seeing their highest in 50 odd years, it's bizarre.

[1955pie]

I'm not twisting anything, its a a fact that we have lost 13 home games since his arrival. Its also true that every other team in the EFL have had injury issues. Also our home games this season have been tedious to watch.. Those stats are indefensible. If by some freak of nature he is still here next season, then he had better perform 150% better than he has to date.

You must at least admire the fact he has got a cart horse up to Grand National standard?

[BCnotts18]

Oh, Maynard, a bit on the fence. He's not had the easiest of seasons and I don't know how much of that is down to him or the disruptions and injuries. But we're in the play-offs and many would have taken that at the start.


Every team in the league has had injury problems, this is not purely a Maynard thing.. People are making excuses to cover up just how poor he has been.. 13 HOME games lost since his arrival...

That's my main sticking point with SM. He's undoubtedly had a difficult time this season with injuries, as well as key players and colleagues departing, but home form is incredibly important, and if ours had have been merely reasonable rather than pretty poor, we would've walked this league.

You mention that SM has lost 13 home games in the last 14 footballing months; in the god knows how many games since we dropped into the national league and got back into league two, we only lost 16 at home...

[durhampie]

That's my main sticking point with SM. He's undoubtedly had a difficult time this season with injuries, as well as key players and colleagues departing, but home form is incredibly important, and if ours had have been merely reasonable rather than pretty poor, we would've walked this league.

You mention that SM has lost 13 home games in the last 14 footballing months; in the god knows how many games since we dropped into the national league and got back into league two, we only lost 16 at home...

Not exactly the credentials of a good manager.. But i suppose he cant get any worse, Can he ?

[MarcusCole]

My main point with Maynard is the games are really boring to watch. The players seem to want to play the ball backwards more often than forwards. Jatta seems to playing as if he doesn't want to score at the moment, too many times he gets in a scoring position only to cut it across and find no one is there to cut it across to.

There seems to be no play B other than do plan A but slow it down then hoof it.

[Boomerangpie]

Not many managers and coaches at this level have a Plan B it?s very common complaint in football. I haven?t seen us hoof it all season, we go direct more often which I am a fan of. Mix it up a bit is good.

We definitely could replace him with better we most certainly could replace him with worse. If your trust the owners and we don?t go up with roll the dice and try someone new

[durhampie]

Not many managers and coaches at this level have a Plan B it?s very common complaint in football. I haven?t seen us hoof it all season, we go direct more often which I am a fan of. Mix it up a bit is good.

We definitely could replace him with better we most certainly could replace him with worse. If your trust the owners and we don?t go up with roll the dice and try someone new

But there are some coaches who know what to do to win a game...

[matt_magpie]

I don?t really judge him on last season for a few reasons.

This season he?s on the whole got it right tactically away. At home it?s harder to judge, is HE just getting it so wrong or is it the players or just both or just one of those seasons?

I?m 100% behind him for the rest of the season and happy to let the owners assess through data and I?m sure they hear whispers from the squad, good or bad.

[the_anticlough]

I really don't think he's safe.

He presided over a big blown opportunity.

And when we play Salford, surely the owners will be looking for a) clear signs he learned from the two defeats and can find solutions against those type of teams and b) motivating the players to settle the score and get the better of them.

I think Salford was the biggest nail in Moniz's coffin, and now they loom large again. I don't think SM can go P4 W0 D1 L3 against them and keep his job.

[The_Pie_Man]

If we go up - he is safe (clearly - it would be massively unfair to sack SM under those circumstances).

If we lose in the playoffs, I think he is toast (and rightfully so).

I doubt League 2 will be so weak again next year - I think the_anticlough is spot on, this years screams missed opportunity if we fail to take advantage. Hopefully we will and this is all conjecture.