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Post by Alptrotter on Feb 14, 2020 10:26:47 GMT
I see that Hill is again asserting in the BN that "we have made big progress." I'm sure that I'm not the only one to see this as delusional.
In terms of staying in League 1, we are further away than ever.
In terms of building a squad (or at least the basis of one) for League 2 next season, we seem equally distant. Look at how few players are under contract beyond this summer and consider how many of our loan players would be likely to drop into L2 with us (assuming we'd want them)
In terms of creating a style of play (something which Hill bangs on about a lot) I for one see little evidence of any consistency evolving.
Of course, he can point to injuries and recruitment difficulties, but frankly, we looked far better in Hill's early weeks than now. Then I had some optimism. Not now.
In terms of developing saleable assets (again one of his favourite topics), Politic and possibly Darcy apart, is there any progress? I see players who at the start of the season looked ripe for development eg Brockbank, Edwards, Zouma, Alexander, Graham and Brown seem to have fallen by the wayside.
All in all, I wish maybe the BN might actually ask him to specify the "big progress" made.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 20:59:42 GMT
I’m not really sure what we could call progress if it was off the field I would say it’s still a work in progress which I do believe it might take a few years. Now on the field I would have hoped that things could have gone a lot better but in my opinion and it’s only my opinion all this bullocks from KH we as fans could do without all his talk about protecting the players drubbing’s apart from the younger players I think he should be a bit more out spoken as nearly all our players are seasoned professionals who should be able to take a bit of criticism on the chin. Well that’s about it from me until the start of next season oh don’t worry I’ll still be going to watch them just keeping my opinion’s to myself I still sit at the top by myself so I can say what I want to say without upsetting folk let’s hope we have a better end to the season COYWM 👍👍
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Post by whitesince63 on Feb 15, 2020 9:56:52 GMT
Don’t disappear Chip we need your opinions on here and let’s face it, there aren’t many of us left giving them. I was taken this morning with his criticism of the Development squad progress, which I take to be a swipe at David Lee and the other youth coaches. I won’t repeat my opinion it should be DL in charge anyway but like Alp says, I can’t see any progress made by KH at all and agree we seem to have gone backwards. If FV genuinely are happy with what’s going on then I really fear for us next year. All Keith’s rants about it being a long term project, keep faith with the manager is fine if you can see progress being made but frankly I see nothing positive happening. OK we need to give Keith 7ntil the end of the season but if it’s not improved substantially by then, then we need to be making big changes.
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Post by thegrud1 on Feb 15, 2020 11:23:43 GMT
This season was a write off from the begining...remeber where we were,,,,out of work managers were not queing up to take the job...maybe DL didnt fancy it...loans..frees etc that noone else wanted,,,what do you expect..judge the club NEXT year when all this is in the past and we can GENUINELY start again.
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Post by davidm on Feb 15, 2020 11:31:20 GMT
I don’t see how we can “start again” next season if we are not prepared for next season.
We should be using the remaining 16 games to prepare a squad which:-
1. Will be here next season,
2. Have some form of structure,
3. Have a definite style of football.
At the moment, it is just haphazard with loan players who have openly stated that they will not be with us next season plus the majority of the players having contracts which end in the summer.
We must plan for next season. All we seem to have done is sign Politic up for an extra year.
Point 3 above comes back to Alp’s comment – have we made progress. When Keith Hill came in, the first few games were refreshing. Neat, attacking football. All that has gone into an aimless hoofball style. So No – no progress has been made.
The manager’s attack on the U23s this morning is unfortunate. The way to inspire people is not to slag them off in public. He is obviously at odds with David Lee and company but he is also hitting the confidence of the young lads.
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Post by OohMac on Feb 15, 2020 13:27:16 GMT
What i dont understand is why make the comment on u23s. I cant imagine, i could be wrong, that this would be a subject.l for questioning. "After back to back defeats Keith, What do you think of the development squad?"
In October when we got to speed and put a few wins together i would not have thought we would still be behind Southend and gap seems to be getting bigger. Thats with us beating them too. So no i cannot see progress.
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