Slowly slipping away………

We aren't losing though, we are just drawing too many games which suggests with the addition of 3 or 4 quality individuals, then these draws will turn into wins.
I think that's what the whole of the board, the management team and the recruitment side of the club are putting their hopes on this season.

 

Yeah but that's like what I felt like when I was a kid - "if I get a pair of Predator boots for Xmas, then I'll start scoring for fun next year". During the summer transfer window, I saw nothing to suggest that Rupp is going to fund the club with money to add "3 or 4 quality individuals". Why let us get in a situation like this, if there's money to be spent? Logic would dictate that its better to fund the club when there's plenty of players on the market, rather than waiting until the team isn't performing in January. We've heard it from so many managers...players take time to gel. That's the reason most business is done pre season. January signings more often or not, are to bolster the squad, cover for injuries, or get that one player in that can lift the whole team. We've also heard from the manager at the close of the last window, that there's no budget to be spent. The money we got from Crankshaw, I'm presuming went towards setting up the wages for the new scouting team. That business in itself is laughable - spending the last money in the pot on a scouting network, whose wages have taken away the wages/transfer fee of the very players they are looking to sign!

Maybe I'm wrong! Hope I'm wrong! I hope that Rupp backs and funds Adams, and his scouting team can bring 3 or 4 quality players in and turn those draws into wins. I'm also hoping that those players can a) be found b) hit the ground running and c) handle the pressure of expectation that they'll have due to the complete balls up of our strategy for this season. It just feels like Rupp and Sparks are flying by the seats of their pants (Sparks) or sticking their head in the sand (Rupp) and hoping all will come good. As I mentioned before, if things don't pan out as Adams expects come the end of January, I can see him walking.

I admire your optimism, I really do. But in all honesty, do you think Rupp will release money to sign "3 or 4 quality players" and where do you think these players will come from?

 

Spot on, for all his talk i dont think it will be long before he walks iff he isent backed in January.

 

You are possibly correct sir.[/QUOTE]
Correction. It's our money being provided for transfers from ticket sales etc.

 

So how long do we actually give Adams ? This was billed as a promotion season, hell we even copied the 1982 promotion kit to emphasise that. How long does he get, if we win one of the next five, taking us up to the window, does he still have a job ?

Not for a second advocating we sack him, I think he should get at the very least two more windows, but with a win percentage of 25% we are heading for 55/56 points. Despite his protestations, I can't see any reason other than the training regime for the proliferation of hamstring injuries and he has to carry the can for that surely ?

 

Don't hold your breath waiting for him to do that . He's said in the T&A this morning that he knows for a fact the hamstring injuries are nothing to do with the training regime.

 

Getting his excuses in early ?

 

Why do people talk like we sold crankshaw for millions ?

 

I seem to remember a YP article about a month ago saying DA had the Crankshaw money towards the Jan window.

 

I assume his view is that he has never had this amount of hamstring injuries at previous clubs with a similar training schedule?

 

That's the pizza bill sorted then

 

It was Adidas Mundial or Adidas World Cup for me, showing my age there.

 

I’m not saying that. I’m saying that it’s an indication of where we are, that the sum of whatever we got for Crankshaw, still didn’t bolster our budget, or was used on setting up a scouting network that should have been funded independently years ago.

 

And boosting player morale !!!
Mr Derek (it's never my fault) Adams

 

Where did you read this all I've heard is that we definitely will be able to spend the Crankshaw money

 

Well. I was given a pair of those, and walked out on the first game of the season and banged them in for fun. Then I went off the boil, decided that it was all down to the boots not working, threw my toys out of the pram, blamed by parents for not providing me with the proper tools, and banked everything on a new pair of boots for Xmas changing my fortunes.
Sound familiar?

ps Adidas World Cup still made and still one of the best boots out there imo.

 

Which either we’ve done by paying the scouts or Robinsons/Lavarys wages.
Hope you’re right and I’m wrong!