Sean's next job.

[sinkov]

Are you suggesting SD is a one trick pony army88, because if you are, I think you are probably right, (for once!)

Like every manager he's dependent on the quality of his squad. Look at the superb football in our two Championship promotion seasons, when he had one of the best squads in the division. A world apart from recent seasons when, due to a lack of finance, he was landed with a squad of aging journeymen.

Again it shouldn't need saying, but it seems necessary to keep re-stating the bleedin obvious.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Like every manager he's dependent on the quality of his squad. Look at the superb football in our two Championship promotion seasons, when he had one of the best squads in the division. A world apart from recent seasons when, due to a lack of finance, he was landed with a squad of aging journeymen.

Again it shouldn't need saying, but it seems necessary to keep re-stating the bleedin obvious.

If it's so bleeding obvious mon ami, how come Pope, Tarkowski & Wood are already gone with Brownhill, McNeil, Cornet & Collins all likely to end up at EPL clubs?

4-4-2 or nothing with the added toll of gegenpressing, does not work week in week out, season after season with elite footballers. No wonder the mard, spineless b@stards are all boarding "Do One Airlines"...

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[ClaretinBudapest]

If it's so bleeding obvious mon ami, how come Pope, Tarkowski & Wood are already gone with Brownhill, McNeil, Cornet & Collins all likely to end up at EPL clubs?

4-4-2 or nothing with the added toll of gegenpressing, does not work week in week out, season after season with elite footballers. No wonder the mard, spineless b@stards are all boarding "Do One Airlines"...

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Wood has already been declared a flop at Newcastle and would gladly sell him on for £6-7m.Brownhill will be found out also when he eventually and hopefully leaves.Mcneill will probably flourish with similar talented players around him.Cornet is a bit injury prone but great talent.Pope should be England no. 1 if and when he can playout better with his feet.Collins is the only one I consider a future PL star.
They are and have been mediocre by PL standards BT.Tarkowski was class but he went on a free.
As for the rest-mostly has beens or making up the numbers.We have NEVER fielded a full PL standard team so to keep that team in the PL for 6 seasons was a minor miracle-albeit with soul destroyting tactics.

[sinkov]

If it's so bleeding obvious mon ami

Like every manager he's dependent on the quality of his squad. Nothing contentious there mon ami, nothing more bleedin obvious I would say. But not to you. Ah well.

[army88]

Are you suggesting SD is a one trick pony army88, because if you are, I think you are probably right, (for once!)

That’s twice now Bt once in 1978 and today. 👍😂

[WillPark]

Steady on army88, this new found congruence is rather unsettling.

I wouldn't worry about it BT. Come September and things aren't going the way you pictured it you'll be raging about why SD was sacked and the far too many young players without Championship experience. That's why this forum never gets boring

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I wouldn't worry about it BT. Come September and things aren't going the way you pictured it you'll be raging about why SD was sacked and the far too many young players without Championship experience. That's why this forum never gets boring

It was time for SD to go Will. Like sinkov would say, "Ce qui sera sera".

[sinkov]

I was reading the appraisal report from the dudes who look into Academy status sinkov and one of the major criterion is to gauge how many kids come through the system hit the first team. Quite frankly, SD did not trust them, hence he would not play them, hence we lost our hard earned status

Nothing to do with trusting them, he didn't play them because he didn't think they were good enough, nor did he think they would become good enough. But you think he was mistaken, he should have given them the opportunity to prove themselves. So I ask again, please provide me with the list of players Sean wouldn't trust, or didn't think were good enough, and have gone on to prove him wrong by succeeding elsewhere.

As ever mon ami, I will do all I can to help out a mate, and I will start the list for you, Tom Anderson, who is the mainstay of Doncaster Rovers rock solid defence. Carry on from there, list them all please, there will be many of course won't there, Sean was here for 10 years, the number he wouldn't give a chance to must be in the hundreds, don't hold back, I may have forgotten a few.

In your own time of course, this will be a long list and it will be a long summer, no particular hurry.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Nothing to do with trusting them, he didn't play them because he didn't think they were good enough, nor did he think they would become good enough. But you think he was mistaken, he should have given them the opportunity to prove themselves. So I ask again, please provide me with the list of players Sean wouldn't trust, or didn't think were good enough, and have gone on to prove him wrong by succeeding elsewhere.

As ever mon ami, I will do all I can to help out a mate, and I will start the list for you, Tom Anderson, who is the mainstay of Doncaster Rovers rock solid defence. Carry on from there, list them all please, there will be many of course won't there, Sean was here for 10 years, the number he wouldn't give a chance to must be in the hundreds, don't hold back, I may have forgotten a few.

In your own time of course, this will be a long list and it will be a long summer, no particular hurry.

You are missing the point entirely mon ami. The criteria is that some of the kids have to hit the first team to keep hold of the Academy status irrespective of whether they are deemed good enough by the first team coach.

Pep gets this, SD didn't, and that's why we lost our Academy status.

Me and thee have been having this debate for years now and quite frankly with the lack of real "talent" breaking through, I'd close the whole expensive charade down.

It looks to me to be more and more like a vanity project we neither need nor can afford. I don't think ALK share that opinion.

[sinkov]

You are missing the point entirely mon ami. The criteria is that some of the kids have to hit the first team to keep hold of the Academy status irrespective of whether they are deemed good enough by the first team coach.

Pep gets this, SD didn't, and that's why we lost our Academy status.

Me and thee have been having this debate for years now and quite frankly with the lack of real "talent" breaking through, I'd close the whole expensive charade down.

It looks to me to be more and more like a vanity project we neither need nor can afford. I don't think ALK share that opinion.

What is your point ? You're saying we lost Academy status because Dyche wouldn't play players who quite clearly were not good enough. Of course he wouldn't, was he supposed to risk losing games by playing players who weren't good enough, just to ensure the survival of an academy that wasn't producing good enough players anyway ? You're talking nonsense mon ami.

Anyway, where's the list ?