Something wrong at the club?

[trebornam]

I agree vydra has been a disappointment,he seems to,we desparatly need two strikers have lost his goal scoring touch,i think Quinn should be in the side,he is a ballwinner which plaizon clearly isn't.although we have a lot of shots they are mostly from distance hoping their goalkeeper has fallen asleep..Hammond is never quick of the mark in the transfer window which generally means we are scrapping over the left overs,we need to spend some big money if we are ambitious.

[paultheroyal]

I know I will get labelled a conspiracy theorist and so forth but something seems to be wrong behind the scenes this season.

On paper we had probably the best ever assembled RFC squad at the start of this season and that seemed borne out by the early season form - then the team morale just crumbled away - but why?

Why have SC and now BM persevered with Vydra beyond all reason. Is this an instruction from the owners that he has to play?

Why is Sa not playing - perhaps a bad influence? Looks like he might get shipped out but why even place him on the bench if you are not going to use him as a sub? I thought he looked good earlier on in the season but something seems to have happened to change things.

Did SC get fed up with interference with how he managed and is that why he spoke to Fulham?

BM sounded very defensive in his BBCB interview this evening.

What is up? Any thoughts?

Ah, we are not winning games so there must be something wrong bollocks thread.

Chairman picking the team. Chief ball boy who is sassimas grandson is having an impact on tactics.

Get a grip. We have not got a great team. Indifferent. Tactics. We are crap. We will win games, we will lose games. We go again.... But hey lets blame shareholders number 3 best mate looking at Brian the wrong way which affects team performance!!

[RoyalinBracknell]

I don't think it's anywhere near the best squad assembled. The 106/8th in the Premier League team was significantly better for one thing.

Even looking outside that - perhaps even if you limited it to past McDermott teams - I think we've been stronger in the goalkeepers, full backs, wingers and strikers in the past. We've got some excellent centre midfielders and a decent groupi of centre-backs.

Varda hasn't done nearly as much as we'd have hoped but he has been involved in a significant number of our goals since Clarke left. He's got a strong past record at Watford and I'm not convinced we have a better option currently so can understand why he keeps starting, just as Shane Long did in 2010.

I don't particularly think there's anything wrong at the club - indeed we know there was 18 months or so ago and that's something which it's taken a while for us to get over. We got a really good point in midweek, unfortunately at this time we ' re lacking consistency so couldn't follow it up today. Hopefully we can have another cup run!

[Lower West]

Having a technically good squad doesn't equal a good team.

Too many loan players.

Too many foreigners.

Too many players with big ego's.

[Forbury Lion]

Clarke was given too much power over the summer, particularly in regards to the sacking of key staff members.

Which may mean Brian doesn't have so much power as the club look to learn from this mistake.

[Forbury Lion]

I don't think it's anywhere near the best squad assembled. The 106/8th in the Premier League team was significantly better for one thing.

To be fair, on paper at the start of the season the 106 team didn't look like a team capable of winning the title, scoring 99 goals and achieving 106 points. It wasn't much different to the team we finished the prior season with that failed to gain promotion. Those two youngsters Doyle and Long for example were heralded as a cheap option by the club much like Bas Savage - nobody knew they were the real deal until the season kicked off.

Contrastly, this season the team on paper looked alot better on paper than in reality.

[JIM]

Wher is all the money the club was promised fo players ?????????????????

[Sutekh]

We know there's something wrong at the club. It was so bad Steve Clarke tried to jump ship and then he was pushed after that attempt failed miserably.

Brian is now having to unpick the complete and utter mess of unhappy players, multiple loans, egos and under performances and find a way forward.

First move was to get shot of the overrated Blackman for £4m, next is to get Cormorant in and sell/loan Sa out to someone. No doubt there will be some other surprise departures this month.

Really looking for a strong finish from the club this season hoping that that will lead into an optimistic summer and the ability to compete with the likes of Aston Villa in the league next year (on the pitch).

[floyd__streete]

The major problem at the club as I see it is we have mainly crap players.

[Ian Royal]

The main thing wrong with the club is the whining bitch fans with their jerking knees and ludicrous histrionics.

WE LOST A GAME. THE SKY IS FALLING. THERE MUST BE EVIL AFOOT!!!!!

[winchester_royal]

Indeed, I wonder how the excellent performance up at Derby fits in with the 'Something wrong' theory.

[Cookie]

Yeah, Matej Vydra a young Czech player (23) might benefit from some time out of the spotlight.
If there is a standing order to play him (which I doubt) it's hurting him and the players around him at the moment.

I think the new owners splashed out at the start thinking that's all they needed to do to ensure progress and sell a few more season tickets.
But we may have to get used to the fact that they have spent all the budget.

They are all on the other side of the world so that won't help either.

I think all this doubt will evaporate with a run of 4 or 5 wins.

[Longhorn1970]

Clarke was given too much power over the summer, particularly in regards to the sacking of key staff members.

Which may mean Brian doesn't have so much power as the club look to learn from this mistake.

Clearly SC didn't think they were key staff and at first it seemed to work wonders or have we erased that from our memory ..

[Longhorn1970]

Indeed, I wonder how the excellent performance up at Derby fits in with the 'Something wrong' theory.

Derby got mullered by average brum at weekend ..

[winchester_royal]

Indeed, I wonder how the excellent performance up at Derby fits in with the 'Something wrong' theory.

Derby got mullered by average brum at weekend ..

Derby are 3rd in the table..

[percy_freeman]

Must be if HRK gets on the teamsheet every week.
Vydra hasn't performed but we keep getting told he will....he's had half a oxf*rd season so thats a waste of 1.25 million.
Sa hasn't gained an attitude and become crap overnight, he should be playing
Oh, Ian Royal, we haven't just lost one game.

[Longhorn1970]

Indeed, I wonder how the excellent performance up at Derby fits in with the 'Something wrong' theory.

Derby got mullered by average brum at weekend ..

Derby are 3rd in the table..

Yep, and they tanked at home to a mediocre side, talk is that if we had a striker we would have comfortably won that game so 3rd is flattering don't you think ..

[Longhorn1970]

Must be if HRK gets on the teamsheet every week.
Vydra hasn't performed but we keep getting told he will....he's had half a oxf*rd season so thats a waste of 1.25 million.
Sa hasn't gained an attitude and become crap overnight, he should be playing
Oh, Ian Royal, we haven't just lost one game.

Play them both I say .. It'd be carnage !

[Ian Royal]

Derby got mullered by average brum at weekend ..

Derby are 3rd in the table..

Yep, and they tanked at home to a mediocre side, talk is that if we had a striker we would have comfortably won that game so 3rd is flattering don't you think ..[/quote]

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No, not particularly. And you acknowledge that we played well at Derby then. So there isn't something wrong.

The, 'another club beat them so we must be shit because we drew' argument is cretinous.

[Ian Royal]

Must be if HRK gets on the teamsheet every week.
Vydra hasn't performed but we keep getting told he will....he's had half a oxf*rd season so thats a waste of 1.25 million.
Sa hasn't gained an attitude and become crap overnight, he should be playing
Oh, Ian Royal, we haven't just lost one game.

No you're right, under Clarke we lost lots. Under McDermott we're doing better, in fact prior to MK our trend was improving. So lets wait for a reasonable sample size before spitting our dummies, yeah.