Richard Head wrote:Were you about in the late 70's and early 80's? I don't remember much success in those days.
mrpotatohead wrote:Does anyone know of any reason morale could have been a bit low amongst the players at the end of last week?
Keith wrote:Richard Head wrote:Were you about in the late 70's and early 80's? I don't remember much success in those days.
This is what I can't understand. What was it that got us through those awful days that is missing now? It certainly wasn't the football, that was as dire as it is now. But we stuck through it. And now, we're a Football League team, playing the likes of Portsmouth & Blackpool. We're playing ex-Premiership teams instead of getting battered by Chorley & Great Harwood.
mrpotatohead wrote:Does anyone know of any reason morale could have been a bit low amongst the players at the end of last week?
Keith wrote:Richard Head wrote:Were you about in the late 70's and early 80's? I don't remember much success in those days.
This is what I can't understand. What was it that got us through those awful days that is missing now? It certainly wasn't the football, that was as dire as it is now. But we stuck through it. And now, we're a Football League team, playing the likes of Portsmouth & Blackpool. We're playing ex-Premiership teams instead of getting battered by Chorley & Great Harwood.
If we're as skint as was alluded to in another thread, then we certainly don't have cash to pay Jim off and sack him, even if that is what some people want. So for practical terms, Jim is staying no matter what. Personally, I'm still in the 'better the devil you know' camp, although crap hoofball, pisses me off just as much as anyone else.
I fully understand why some people feel they've had enough, but I wish we could develop a 'bunker mentality' and get behind the team & management 100%... because that is all we've got. And if we don't we may not have anything at all.
morecambegeek wrote:Shrimpy wrote: I'm just not sure whether I agree that Jim is the problem.
He is not THE problem.
He is, however, one of many problems the club have. Jim can't do anything about the lack of funds coming from above.
He can do something about the way he approaches home matches, send the team out with a bit of fire in their belly and attach the opposition. We might get a tonking now and then, but we get a tonking now when we're set up to try and get a draw or nick it. As it is, he just does the same thing week in, week out.
Wild Bill wrote:Folk say better the devil you know, but how could it be worse than losing six (seven if you went to Bournemouth like me) on the trot? Yes, defenders of Jim will jump in and say well he's done the business away, but all that says to me is that he has a team that in theory is half decent (making the low budget argument rather weak) but tactically or mentally he can't set the lads up right to play at home.
mrpotatohead wrote:I think we have the worst collection of players we have had for 10 years, it would be impossible for some managers to keep them out of the bottom 3 , and if tbe club let them all go I would think that half of them would have to get 'real' jobs.
mrpotatohead wrote:I think we have the worst collection of players we have had for 10 years, it would be impossible for some managers to keep them out of the bottom 3 , and if tbe club let them all go I would think that half of them would have to get 'real' jobs.
shrimpinho wrote:The big question is why can we not replicate our away form to our home form. No one has been able to turn it around for 3 years, not the manager, not the players, not the staff or directors.
Of course Jim is not THE problem, he has to deal with some major barriers. However, Jim is a part of the problem. Laying him blameless because of x,y and z is absurd in my opinion.
Wild Bill wrote:This may sound odd but I think Jim's passion and desire to get it right may be having the opposite effect on the players.
Christies Child wrote:Players for me feel under increased pressure at home due in part to the endless pressure in verbal terms put on them by the entire management team from the touchline during all home games.
The constant issuing of instructions and barracking by the assistant manager in particular is counter productive.
Imagine being at your work place and being constantly told how to do something or told to put more effort into what you are doing. How would you feel....
What's the betting that you'd be telling them to F*** OFF under your breath.....
We've a more than capable squad who should have the right to make their own decisions on the field of play.
Maybe if we had a stronger Captain who could be an influential figure to the players we'd be a lot better off. For me that man should be Kevin. A player who the squad look up to....
I fully expect a load of abuse following the above thoughts....
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