by Hoop Blah » 27 Jan 2010 11:57
by Hoop Blah » 27 Jan 2010 12:03
Alan PartridgeBR2 One simple question.
We won on Saturday (yes I know subs were on when we eventually scored but we played quite well and could have scored earlier) so why change the team?
It looks as though McD is like Rodgers in being too clever by resting players and forever changing the line-up.
If the likes of Rasiak and Bryn can't play 2 games in 4 days they shouldn't be professional footballers.
I really agree with the bottom line. I find it crackers that professional athletes are incapble of 2 games in 4 days. I know they are towards the senior years of their careers but they are in a lot better shape than local players that manage to do the same thing. If they are that tired after a game on a saturday then give them a day off training and get them right for the game Tuesday if they are in your plans.
by towserSL2crew » 27 Jan 2010 12:05
by weybridgewanderer » 27 Jan 2010 12:07
BR2 One simple question.
We won on Saturday (yes I know subs were on when we eventually scored but we played quite well and could have scored earlier) so why change the team?
It looks as though McD is like Rodgers in being too clever by resting players and forever changing the line-up.
If the likes of Rasiak and Bryn can't play 2 games in 4 days they shouldn't be professional footballers.
by Crowthorne Royal » 27 Jan 2010 12:15
by Compo's Hat » 27 Jan 2010 12:31
by Hoop Blah » 27 Jan 2010 12:38
Crowthorne Royal Reasons for both scenario's - I'm soory to say - Madejski.
He had the opportunity in that Jan transfer window to invest and maybe he could have sold his Premiership club, it defies belief that this shrewd businessman couldn't see what we all could.
by handbags_harris » 27 Jan 2010 12:40
by Compo's Hat » 27 Jan 2010 13:20
handbags_harris Funniest thing of the evening - Jimmy Kebe taking a corner. Just don't ever do that in future please.
by The Quiet Man » 27 Jan 2010 13:33
Hoop BlahCrowthorne Royal Reasons for both scenario's - I'm soory to say - Madejski.
He had the opportunity in that Jan transfer window to invest and maybe he could have sold his Premiership club, it defies belief that this shrewd businessman couldn't see what we all could.
That's totally overlooking the admission by Coppell that he looked at and decided not to buy the likes of Cahil, Taylor and O'Neil because he didn't think they were better than what he already had.
He's admitted that was his mistake and that he should've strengthened but didn't.
You can't blame the Chairman for that.
by Arch » 27 Jan 2010 14:26
The Quiet Man If you look at Stoke for example since they were promoted it is about team building - bringing in one or two quality players and some reasonable standard journeymen but constantly freshening up the team - something historically coppell has failed on several times with other sides and something SJM with his for sale sign did not appear intersted in in the slightest.
by Hoop Blah » 27 Jan 2010 14:36
by Terminal Boardom » 27 Jan 2010 15:24
by Focher » 27 Jan 2010 15:38
by papereyes » 27 Jan 2010 15:50
Hoop Blah First up, O'Neil has been a very good player for 'Boro and would probably have been even better for us as he wouldn't have had the unsettling move up north to contend with. He could've offered a bit of creativity through the middle for us or done a very good job on the problem right wing.
Cahil was a revelation for Bolton and has show an ability to chip in with a decent number of goals from centre back. When we went down scoring goals was a problem, but so was finding a settle centre back pairing that looked commanding. I'm pretty sure Cahil would've helped that and was a very good age to be buying a player that has possibly doubled in value since his move and inclusion in England squads.
As for Taylor, he's more of a left winger these days and also scored some important goals in the run in which helped pull Bolton clear (he also missed a sitter against us from memory). Having him on the squad to push both Hunt and Shorey into performing would've been worth his transfer fee alone!
Obviously they might've turned us down, but from the indications Coppell gave, and the strong rumours around both Taylor and O'Neil wanting to stay down South I think we would've had a more than godo chance of getting them.
Either way, to blame Madejski for a lack of investment at that time is just blatently wrong.
by Hoop Blah » 27 Jan 2010 15:55
by Ferris » 27 Jan 2010 15:57
Hoop Blah I think Coppell alluded to it at one of the fans forums yes, but I can't remember which of those players it was he was talking about at the time.
by RobRoyal » 27 Jan 2010 16:11
by winchester_royal » 27 Jan 2010 16:13
Focher On an individual basis our players are without doubt good enough, but as a team, way way short.
We are nothing but a victim of extreme stability, the stability which saw us continually get better between 2000 and 2008. Now that stability has gone, the club is all over the place trying to work out whats gone wrong, not only on the management side, but also the playing side, and the corporate side. It was always gonna happen, the same happened at Crewe (on a far smaller scale) when O'Gradi went. Leicester started their slippery slope when O'Neill left.
Watch the shambles that will ensue at Arsenal and Man Utd in the coming years when Wenger and Ferguson go. Probably the only way we are going to get this club back on track is to drop to League 1, and replicate the likes of Leeds, Leicester, and Forest, and bounce back stronger.
by juanpablo » 27 Jan 2010 20:14
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