Most liked posts in thread: Graham Alexander.. time to go.

I wouldn’t mind as much if the football wasn’t so prehistoric or he at least have some young lads a go to develop, but I’m seeing no redeemable features and I’m usually one who defends managers for too long on here. I’ve never wanted someone out so fast, he seems like a decent bloke that’s about all I can say for him.

That said, like the last 3 sackings I have no faith in those who would be in charge of finding a replacement, the blame lies with them. Don’t give them an excuse by blaming others.

 

I've never lost faith in a manager as quickly as I have for GA.

The only defence I can offer for him is the inheritance of such a shocking squad overall.

However, the football he is serving up is soul destroying.

I truly cannot see where the next win is coming from in the league.

His persistent reluctance in starting with flair players such as Pointon and Chapman is baffling. The only positive result we have had this month came in the EFL Trophy, if my memory serves me right, both these started.

How as he not abandoned the negative awful 3-5-2 formation to start games. We simply don't have the players to make a success of this formation.

The number of times we concede the first goal in the first 15 minutes or so is shocking and down to the tactics in my opinion.

I am afraid I don't trust him with the summer rebuild, but then I don't trust Sparks with any more appointments.

What a depressing mess we find ourselves in.

 

What on earth was his rationale to start with that line up? What has Jon Tomkinson done wrong? What has Odour done right? Why is Smallwood still on bloody set pieces? Why for goodness sake start with the slowest backline I've ever seen at City? Why take Cook off and isolate Jake Young when we are needing goals? Not sure I've felt as detached from this football club as I do right now, the football on display is absolute garbage and I don't see it turning around anytime soon.

 

Sack him and then what ????

Put faith in a CEO who gets it fooking wrong time after time ............put faith that our fooking recruitment team to provide the players ??????

This aint about the manager anymore its about get these two fooking idiots running our club out of the door.

Sack him tonight all you want but the core of the problem remains

 

Need a new owner and CEO. Replacing GA will have no impact, season is over.

We need experienced, qualified leadership that will invest and drive us forward. Under the stewardship of Rupp and Sparks this will never happen. It's a damning indictment that we have been surpassed by Barrow & Crewe.

 

This was a shocking appointment from the off. His style of football is dire and as has been said, going from one extreme to the other in MH to GA was never going to end well.
The club is rotten to the core though and whatever happens with GA, we will continue to go from one sh*t show to another as long as Sparks and Rupp are making the calls.
Without radical changes from the top down, we are currently on a one way ticket out of the football league.

 

We can't give GA the Summer transfer window.

We don't want the squad he will assemble.

But this is way beyond Graham Alexander, and he shoulders only a small amount of blame.

 

Indeed. In what alternative football universe is Ash Taylor a better centre back than Matty Platt?

 

I used to dismiss calls for him to go but his team selections continue to baffle me week upon week so I’d say I’m meh.

Taylor and Ridehalgh again.

woeful today. Never looked like winning at any point.

 

Very telling that MK Dons got rid of him for his turgid style of football, swapping him for a young up and coming manager in Mike Williamson. Dons being below us when they swapped (if i recall he was installed a couple of days after sacking Alexander), he now has them 6th, 3 points off the automatics. Now reverse that with Alexander who took over with us in 16th after the defeat to Sutton. His run so far has return 16 points from 13 games and now sees us 18th, playing football that has you wanting to bleach your eyes.
Which kinda shows the point if your club has direction and you choose the correct appointments you have a chance or reversing the bad form.
And if you add Alexanders spell at MK Dons, ironically his stats results wise are the same for both clubs, 16 points from 13 games. Add them together and his tally for this season at both clubs is 32 point from 26 games.
Theres a common denominator throughout us getting managerial appointments wrong but i just can't put my finger on it.......

 

Not Alexander’s fault.
Blame the board. Blame Hughes especially but GA has inherited a mess just like Parky did all those years ago. Demanding his removal solves nothing.

 

There's nothing about this that constitutes a simple 'sack the manager' conversation. His appointment was a mistake, and is probably one we need to rectify, because the key thing here is - no one else at the club is setting the footballing strategy, and there's no way in the world I'd want us rebuilding the squad in the summer in the image of GA. It's dinosaur football. Horrendous.

 

Alexander should never have been given the job in the first place. An absolute dinosaur of a manager who has been left behind by the modern game.

He is of course not the problem at this club but I have no faith in him as manager and have no interest in watching his 'style' of football. We cannot allow him the have the summer window because it'll be another wasted season next year.

 

Thank god i had the decorating to do this weekend, far more entertaining than the so called football.
Calling for G A 's sacking after 2 months is just crazy.
Although i do not agree with some of what he has done, we need to stick with a manager for longer than a season or part of one.
He is not to blame for this shit show.
The finger is pointed firmly at Rupp, Sparks, Gent and with this squad of players, Hughes.
We have got rid of Hughes and he has no one to blame but himself for his timid tactics.
Gent as head of recruitment , 2 out of every 10 are average, no one above and many just terrible.
Sparks talks a good game and his organisation of the commercial side is a credit to him, his football side is ameteurish at the best.
Herr Rupp, Why did a man with little or no interest in football, allow himself to be persuaded to invest in a football club.
For a so called shrewd business man,a very strange decision, especially as he has gone at it half hearted.
You can not run any business at arm's length, unless you have a very experienced CEO in the field doing it for you.
I have no idea where we go from here, i just hope G A finds that combination of players that get us winning again, i do not think he will manage that this season, too many feckless buggers in the squad, but hopefully we have a better squad to give it a decent go next.
Now do i go tomorrow or not, still got some painting to finish.

 

And if you are going to play a back 4, you pick the best central pairing you've got, which is Stubbs and Platt.

 

I think we're behind square one. Square zero. Square one would include a plan and the means to actually build something. We're in a worse position because we're half committed to something that isn't going to work, under incompetent leadership.

 

The more you compare what both clubs did and how they handled both the sacking and the recruitment of another manager, its actually a good analogy as to why and how we've gone wrong in the last 6 years. Remember Hughes and the CV in the junkbox? The mess that was Adams? And then the fiasco with actually appointing Alexander, weeks and weeks of nothing and we sign a manager sacked by a club weeks after we had started looking for one. Who, admits he'd never even spoken to the owner before signing? I mean, what sane business owner wouldn't want to know which new employee would be effectively managing his staff? No wonder the Cowleys turned us down.