Awfords mini crisis.

[pompeygun]

Bulc.
To others though, do you really want yet another managerial change? Awfs for the long haul, big Awfs fan. Let him get on with it. After all we're only one place & 2 points from the play offs. We've improved from last season & whereas we were letting in goals for fun we've tightened up.
As for last night I didn't go but the team selection in midfield tells you all you need to know. Andy blooded two youngsters & one is only 17.
BC mentioned S****horpe-they've only gone & sacked their manager today. Crazy stuff.

[Corkhead]

Totally agree Gun. Let's not have yet another managerial change please. The focus at PFC has been rightly on getting the finances sorted and the club on to a level playing field in the transfer market. As long as we stay in this division (which Awfs achieved last season remember) and get the infrastructure and finances sorted then we can build from there. If our support keep the faith and keep turning up in large numbers (which I believe they will on current progress) then we can move on from there.

For me the goalscoring is the only major thing that now needs addressing on the pitch. If we can get a 15-20 goal striker and a decent playmaker who is comfortable in the role then the playoffs is the least we should expect in this league. Easier said than done I know but they are about.

PuP

[bluekite]

No managerial change yet for me, although like Adder I was not in the Awford for manager camp last year. I thought we had signed a 15-20 goal a game striker in Westcarr... maybe we should look to see what formation Walsall used to supply him with this number of goals last season. Taylor has never been prolific, Drennan, Storey.. who knows...Craddock ????... Connolly ?...any of the kids ?? surely there are plenty to choose from, the squad is becoming enormous (with not quite making it players?).
Playmakers... Nigel ? Fogden when he returns,
Jed? Dunne ?
Disappointed we didn't take last night seriously with our best team(Wembley appearance and cash if we made the final)... it was 4 days till our next game so surely the trained athletes wouldn't still be knackered. Ironically the one player Awfs wanted on the pitch got himself what could be a nasty knee injury.

[___Whatever___]

Awford is still learning so will make mistakes, if he learns from them is the important part and I hope he does.

I would like to see a settled 11 and maybe he needs to look at this and where he maybe can improve.

I would take pushing for playoffs this season which we currently are as two points off so see no reason at all for further managerial change. If we don't go up next year I would certainly expect it next year as the wages budget should go up significantly.

[nonsuchmike]

Totally agree. Pathetic performance. No guts, no skill, no togetherness.

[Mangosmate]

Although the original post was 6 weeks ago it appears he is slowly getting it together.It hasn't been great or poor since to be fair. As Gun mentioned above and others agreed,the service to the front man/men has been poor at times.But the front man/men have been worse, missing sitters in the last 2 games when its easier to score. Don't over-think it lads, stick it in the net!!!! I certainly don't want a managerial change btw, but Awfs must learn quickly and recognise the weaknesses even quicker .PUP

[Jim]

My main complaint about him at the moment is not knowing his best XI or where to play them.

Also, his omission of Storey continues to baffle me. Awford claims he needs confidence so yesterday, where he could have played a game with little at stake against weakened opposition, would have been the perfect opportunity to play him.

[lovedeanblue]

Kitey sadly Craddock is never fit, he had a very poor fitness record at Oxford but nevertheless GW and co signed him. I don't think he is very good at all when fit from the little I've seen of him either. As Corky is awol Saturday, I'm confident of a home win, question is who can score ?

[bluekite]

Kitey sadly Craddock is never fit, he had a very poor fitness record at Oxford but nevertheless GW and co signed him. I don't think he is very good at all when fit from the little I've seen of him either. As Corky is awol Saturday, I'm confident of a home win, question is who can score ?

Craddock has been injured virtually since he came... I will be close by on Sat (IOW visiting aged Uncle) but won't be able to get across. Still I don't have the Jonification gene

[Mangosmate]

AA has again wasted another weekend as far as improvement from the 1st team is concerned. Persisting with this shambolic formation is clearly a schoolboy error. To my mind he has been playing the wrong players within the wrong system and vice versa. He hasn't got all season to get it right. His defensive capitulation game after game is no way to carry on. If his side actually had a proper attacking set up ,they might actually score a goal.

From whittingham to barker to AA we have struggled for any consistency whatsoever. With such a large squad (which should be thinned out ) he is continually twisting himself and the players in knots.

What is it with these people getting managerial jobs to then go ultra defensive with no defence and no real plan going forward.

Shocking stuff from all concerned. No one expects to run away with the division, but they equally don't pay good money to watch such dross.

AA ...grow some balls mate, before you lose the plot altogether.

Football is not roc