
Originally Posted by
Derbymiller
I see all the arguments for giving Hamshaw more time and people make very good points, it all comes down to what is TS plan, or even his goal for this year. My personal opinion is our priority is to stay up first, then clear out those on silly wages and sell where we can. This then makes the product he has to sell a lot more attractive, lower financial liabilities, higher up the pyramid and less inherited players for whoever is manager next year. I still think Powell should have been given a contract extension as that means we have a sellable asset and not one that walks away, whatever people think of him, he is a sellable player and he will walk into another club with a nice sign on fee. My concern is I am not seeing anything that makes me think MH or his cronies know how to keep us up and just swapping a few players won?t do it. The question was asked whether we would have lost those five games with Spence, benson and nombe fit, the answer is no we wouldn?t have, we also miss McWilliams massively. So if you are going to struggle to score what do you do first? Stop conceding goals, keep it simple and make yourself difficult to score against. Second, use set pieces to get the odd goal to try and grasp a point or a 1-0 win. With clean sheets and points comes confidence, this team lack confidence and now MH openly says that the effort isn?t there and the players are answering back at him. That isn?t TS fault, that isn?t the fault of RS or PD, they have their own failings. The issues we are seeing are down to the management and coaching, yet they keep repeating the same tactics and approaches to games, that is not the behaviour of an intelligent individual it is the behaviour of a stubborn man that is losing the fans and by his account elements of the dressing room. How bad the latter is or isn?t we don?t know but it cannot make any of us feel good to hear him bring it up. So twist or stick is the question, there are arguments for both, it is up to TS to decide after all it is his club at the end of the day, even though we love it and feel the pain at times like this. However, what do I know, I just talk b****x and don?t have the genius and great intellectual footballing knowledge of others on this site.