| Happy New Season 13:59 - Aug 10 with 4572 views | mikehunt |
What are your realistic expectations? For me play-offs, 3rd round of the FA Cup and maybe give the Trophy a go.
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| Happy New Season on 14:34 - Aug 10 with 4478 views | Edindale |
Play offs would be a good achievement and any other successes would be a bonus. |  | | |
| Happy New Season on 14:57 - Aug 10 with 4387 views | 49thseason |
| Happy New Season on 14:34 - Aug 10 by Edindale |
Play offs would be a good achievement and any other successes would be a bonus. |
Agreed, this season has to be a stepping stone to better things, being somewhere in the top third with an attacking style of play, and a return to " fortress Spotland " would be an excellent set of ambitions. If we can win a few games that we would have drawn or lost last season we will be on our way... scoring a hatfull of goals in the process would entice more back to watch games at the COA....and a virtuous cycle will start to improve everything, especially now we have some real business know-how running the place....Early days but the atmosphere has improved significantly |  | | |
| Happy New Season on 07:41 - Aug 22 with 3411 views | seasidedale |
Happy to get to play offs but still think we are 2 players short, a centre back and a centre forward, you know the 20 goal a season player nobody want who will come here for nothing and paid a pittance | | | |
| Happy New Season on 08:13 - Aug 22 with 3362 views | TalkingSutty |
| Happy New Season on 07:41 - Aug 22 by seasidedale |
Happy to get to play offs but still think we are 2 players short, a centre back and a centre forward, you know the 20 goal a season player nobody want who will come here for nothing and paid a pittance |
It doesn't have to be a play off place this season ( great if it is). We wanted a more progressive style of playing and we are already seeing that. We wanted a stronger squad, we've got that and so has the manager. The Boardroom have backed him. We can all identify areas of the squad that need improving, conceding poor goals and being wasteful in front of goal/ overplaying is something that needs sorting out. A top ten finish with a squad that is showing improvement and needs a few additions next summer is the minimum we should expect and i include the manager and players in that. The only way to increase attendances is to put a winning team on the pitch, you go to the game to be entertained and see your team win. |  | | |
| Happy New Season on 08:38 - Aug 22 with 3310 views | wheniwasyourage |
10th
No cup runs | | | |
| Happy New Season on 09:03 - Aug 22 with 3251 views | Trev |
We finished 11th last season, 9 points off the play offs with a tiny squad. The goal absolutely has to be the play offs but, as a minimum, we should be looking to close the gap and build a foundation for a big push next season. | | | |
| Happy New Season on 10:29 - Aug 22 with 3084 views | 49thseason |
| Happy New Season on 09:03 - Aug 22 by Trev |
We finished 11th last season, 9 points off the play offs with a tiny squad. The goal absolutely has to be the play offs but, as a minimum, we should be looking to close the gap and build a foundation for a big push next season. |
We also need to realise that it will take time to build the off-pitch commercial machine needed to put cash into the footballing side of things. These two elements have to work hand in hand, the product on the pitch has to be good enough to attract and sustain new supporters and sponsors.
I doubt the building of new training facilities will happen this season and the re-development of commercial activities will not happen overnight, meanwhile, the manager will have to the best he can with the available resources.. its a balancing act and probably a little unsteady right now but with time things will start to improve. | | | |
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| Happy New Season on 10:45 - Aug 22 with 3069 views | Duckegg |
I agree about the squad being a couple of players short and the positions in question.
Also to push on and improve the manager has to change things on the pitch if it is not working but is McNulty capable of doing that!
An imrovement for me would be less goals conceeded and more points than last season. |  | | |
| Happy New Season on 11:54 - Aug 22 with 2923 views | Dalenet |
| Happy New Season on 10:29 - Aug 22 by 49thseason |
We also need to realise that it will take time to build the off-pitch commercial machine needed to put cash into the footballing side of things. These two elements have to work hand in hand, the product on the pitch has to be good enough to attract and sustain new supporters and sponsors.
I doubt the building of new training facilities will happen this season and the re-development of commercial activities will not happen overnight, meanwhile, the manager will have to the best he can with the available resources.. its a balancing act and probably a little unsteady right now but with time things will start to improve. |
The manager has chosen his new players and is building a new squad. It will take time for them to gel, but it is now his squad. The playing budget can only grow of the club grows, and we need to play well to get people into the ground. And of course a cup run or two would help. We now have a stable club and so he doesn't need to be looking over his shoulder or worrying whether the players will be paid. Its in his hands now and I hope he does well. With our budget, we should be in the play-offs. Whilst we haven't got the result we deserved (last Saturday) or hoped for on Tuesday, the squad has talent and speed. I am delighted that the manager is getting us to attack more. | | | |
| Happy New Season on 12:23 - Aug 22 with 2886 views | 1949er |
14th no cup runs | |
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| Happy New Season on 12:54 - Aug 22 with 2798 views | davidab2202 |
| Happy New Season on 10:45 - Aug 22 by Duckegg |
I agree about the squad being a couple of players short and the positions in question.
Also to push on and improve the manager has to change things on the pitch if it is not working but is McNulty capable of doing that!
An imrovement for me would be less goals conceeded and more points than last season. |
I am sure that there is an awareness of the need for a couple of signings in the positions suggested, but think that they will be made by signing loan players as from a quick check think we have only a couple of loan players in the squad as it stands
Don't think the transfer window restrictions apply to clubs at our level either so the deals whilst it would be nice to get them done sooner rather than later don't necessarily have to be done by next week | | | |
| Happy New Season on 13:21 - Aug 22 with 2723 views | Trev |
| Happy New Season on 12:23 - Aug 22 by 1949er |
14th no cup runs |
Disaster. | | | |
| Happy New Season on 13:42 - Aug 22 with 2658 views | D_Alien |
| Happy New Season on 12:54 - Aug 22 by davidab2202 |
I am sure that there is an awareness of the need for a couple of signings in the positions suggested, but think that they will be made by signing loan players as from a quick check think we have only a couple of loan players in the squad as it stands
Don't think the transfer window restrictions apply to clubs at our level either so the deals whilst it would be nice to get them done sooner rather than later don't necessarily have to be done by next week |
If JM utilised the loan market, players he's signed will have to make way and that will inevitably cause a degree of unrest - it's human nature. Management is about winning, and the jury is still out on whether JM has what it takes to manage a squad in a way that can accommodate better players whilst keeping those left out on board
In his selections at York, perhaps there was an element of that involved, i.e. "it's your turn tonight". if it was intended as a learning curve to see players in the heat of a tough encounter, fair enough. But for the team to gel (as someone else mentioned) there needs to be consistency
It's been said before, but... we shall see |  |
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| Happy New Season on 16:07 - Aug 22 with 2427 views | blackdogblue |
Got to be the play offs or a decent run in the FA Cup to get much needed income from bigger teams the more we progress for me…
Other cups don’t generate huge prize money but any trophy I would take |  |
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| Happy New Season on 18:12 - Aug 22 with 2295 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
| Happy New Season on 12:23 - Aug 22 by 1949er |
14th no cup runs |
12th at the moment so working on it. | | | |
| Happy New Season on 18:37 - Aug 22 with 2253 views | davidab2202 |
| Happy New Season on 13:42 - Aug 22 by D_Alien |
If JM utilised the loan market, players he's signed will have to make way and that will inevitably cause a degree of unrest - it's human nature. Management is about winning, and the jury is still out on whether JM has what it takes to manage a squad in a way that can accommodate better players whilst keeping those left out on board
In his selections at York, perhaps there was an element of that involved, i.e. "it's your turn tonight". if it was intended as a learning curve to see players in the heat of a tough encounter, fair enough. But for the team to gel (as someone else mentioned) there needs to be consistency
It's been said before, but... we shall see |
Whilst your suggestion that contracted players would not be happy to be replaced by loan players is perhaps the case , there should be an acceptance that the squad still needs new faces and would the same players be happy to be replaced by someone arriving on a 2 year contract who is deemed to be more what is needed. What any player has to do is knuckle down ,train to the best of their ability so it becomes harder for the Manager to leave them out of the team. | | | |
| Happy New Season on 19:07 - Aug 22 with 2166 views | D_Alien |
| Happy New Season on 18:37 - Aug 22 by davidab2202 |
Whilst your suggestion that contracted players would not be happy to be replaced by loan players is perhaps the case , there should be an acceptance that the squad still needs new faces and would the same players be happy to be replaced by someone arriving on a 2 year contract who is deemed to be more what is needed. What any player has to do is knuckle down ,train to the best of their ability so it becomes harder for the Manager to leave them out of the team. |
Completely agree. The point i'm making is whether JM has the ability to manage a larger squad of mixed abilities whilst keeping them all motivated
If you've just signed on a two-year deal having been sold the prospect of first team football, to then find yourself down the pecking order behind a loanee is something JM has to be very astute to manage
Last season's squad was threadbare, less so now, so JM is on a learning curve with results the ultimate arbiter of success. All that nonsense we heard from "sources" last season about him being a 'top class coach' was just premature waffle
Now, we'll start to find out | |
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