Rivals next season

Am confidant we will only spend one season in Div 2, Just not sure how we will leave it,

 

A team having good supporters means sweet fa for performance in the league,so I don't know where you pulled that from re Plymouth

We're going to struggle, especially if we end up lumbered with the shite we have contracted. If rupp will fund a full rebuild then we might get playoffs, if he doesn't we're fecked and I could see back to back relegations

 

Macclesfield
Crawley
Cambridge
Morecambe
Newport possibly
Forest Green possibly
Salford City possibly
With respect to the above
All mouthwatering matches
NOT !!!
Thanks Mr Rahic

 

Truth is no one has a clue where we will end up. We're back to the pre Parky era now, with a squad going backwards quickly and no real idea what the owners intentions are despite what some might think. That said i like Bowyer, he seems an honest and amiable guy who looks like he cares about the club.
We're just another average league 2 side again now.

 

Agree to a certain extent. We are neither average, poor, or good, we are a nothingness until such time as we have restructured the team. Once recruitment starts we can then see where we are going. There is no given, we have no given right to be promoted or any definitive evidence we will slide into non league. We are all hoping we get the correct backing, and that GB can get the correct players in.

We are all feeling miserable and angry at our demise, but let’s not carry that crap with us into speculating the next season is going the same way. It is now time to pause, be patient for a few weeks to see how it is all going. We are certainly getting the right noises from the manager.

 

Will be some decent sides next season and we must make sure we are one of them. 3 sides go up autos, aim for that.

@River_City_Bantam may be able to tell us more but seems around 83 points is the aim to get autos. Very doable over 46 games

 

Should I go for a "Priority Card" do you think @How ?.

 

Do you think he will prioritise the cups or sack them off to get promoted?

 

We’re going to need a seriously impressive summer to establish ourselves as promotion candidates.

Assuming it’ll happen because we have the biggest crowds in the division is ridiculous. We need to find a way of shifting some high earners to league 1 clubs - good luck with that on the back of this season. We then need to sign 10-15 new players of the right quality and character, do it early enough that we can drill and shape them properly in pre-season, do something we’ve never done following previous relegations - perform well and consistently from the start.

Right now, I think there’s much more chance of not going straight back up, than there is of us being able to do it.

 

Why not both, its not as if we don't need the money.
I like what Ive heard from Bowyer but he was limited with this squad, although I have to say watching the team yesterday Im hoping he will be a little more adventurous going forward, the movement off that ball made us very predictable never seen as many sideways/backwards balls played.

 

He has criticised the fact we were slow and didn’t look to go forward.

 

To be fair he didn't help.

Like for like forward sub when it was clear we needed a different approach.

He seems a little cautious does Mr Bowyer. Needs to start going for games and making subs easier.

 

What options did he have to give us a different approach?

 

We don’t have any no 9’s apart from Miller.

 

They say dogs tend to be like their owners and wondered if it applied to chairmen who appoint managers in there own mould and nature, Cannot see Rhodes dealing with a strong personality somehow

 

As the game was a nothing game once again as yourself I question what was the point of Doyle off Miller on, even taking O'Brien off and repaying him with Colville with 5 minutes + injury

 

He dealt with Phil Parkinson and I'd suggest he was very much to the point, total professional.

 

For me, Bowyer gets a completely free pass on last season - thank god we can finally use that term. He had such a mess to work with, I don’t think you can really criticise for anything.

The two biggest pluses as I see it:

1. He’s been very vocal about how much of a rebuild we need. He hasn’t sugar coated anything. He wants more power, pace, threat and leadership in the side. I think he’s been as appalled at what he’s seen on the pitch as us and I believe him when he says he’s ready to work his bits off this summer. I think he probably can’t wait for Tuesday so he can tell most of this lot to do one!

2. You can see elements of what he’s trying to do. He’s trying to build a side that can play out from the back. He wants a side that can play, with some tempo and without just lumping it. I just don’t think he’s had anything like the quality needed to do it well.

I’m reserving judgement on any and every signing we make in the summer too. Whilst our recruitment in the summer was a mess, I was very excited about watching Akpan, Doyle and Scannell. And I thought the signing of O’Brien was a piss take. So there you go.

 

But if you went to the game you would of seen we needed something different.

Doyle for Miller was pointless