tmwilson wrote:I was very critical of Flitcroft last season. Do I think I was wrong ? No . He made a pig's ear of it but I never wanted him sacked . I have fully backed him this season. Players like Hamilton and Mellis have improved . He has brought in some very good players.
The style and quality of play is up there with the teams under Curle and Deaden. The club as while is the best it's ever been . It's professional run and that has filtered down to the manager and players . Afrer the preseason and a few games in the league , I haven't attended one game where I thought we couldnt win . I haven't feltike that for years . Flitcroft is slowly becoming one of my favourite managers of all time .
Saying that . We have a long way to go and if we do fail to get promotion with the players he has inherited, players he's signed and the backing of Radford , then it will be the biggest ba##'s up since Curle failed to gets us promotion . So far , I've enjoyed the ride and im very hopeful.
gazza1988 wrote:Thing is, looking at the evidence so far, he was always going to balls up last season.
Evans doesn't do much fitness work with the players. He signs a high amount so he can rotate the team. Anyone remember Evans claiming Mellis can't do 2 games in a row?
Look at Peterborough. Early pace setter and now the wheels have fell off around the time he jumped ship from us.
Flitcroft is big on fitness and it shows. He doesn't need to chop and change because players are tired. He gets them to a very high level of fitness. Last season you could tell players were getting a bit "leggy". Who here can honestly say that players have looked exhausted near the end of 90 minutes? I can't say I have.
We are in a strong position. Let's enjoy it.
tmwilson wrote:I was very critical of Flitcroft last season. Do I think I was wrong ? No . He made a pig's ear of it but I never wanted him sacked . I have fully backed him this season. Players like Hamilton and Mellis have improved . He has brought in some very good players.
The style and quality of play is up there with the teams under Curle and Deaden. The club as while is the best it's ever been . It's professional run and that has filtered down to the manager and players . Afrer the preseason and a few games in the league , I haven't attended one game where I thought we couldnt win . I haven't feltike that for years . Flitcroft is slowly becoming one of my favourite managers of all time .
Saying that . We have a long way to go and if we do fail to get promotion with the players he has inherited, players he's signed and the backing of Radford , then it will be the biggest ba##'s up since Curle failed to gets us promotion . So far , I've enjoyed the ride and im very hopeful.
Chander Lear wrote:I think Futch may also need a bit of praise. Generally speaking, we have been quite solid defensively this season. I like to think he has had something to do with it
Chander Lear wrote:I think Futch may also need a bit of praise. Generally speaking, we have been quite solid defensively this season. I like to think he has had something to do with it
Vice President wrote:In terms of the players he has brought in, the style of football, league position and the way he conducts himself in interviews etc. he has been very impressive this season.
No team has an automatic right to promotion. The fact that DF has strengthend the team in all areas this season adds weight to my belief that we weren't quite good enough last year. By the same token - impressive though we are at the moment, there is a lot of competition for promotion - and even with our budget and great loan signings, we can't take anything for granted.
I hope DF can get us promoted this year, as I think he could become a long term manager for this club and the stability and direction of travel is all consistent with the Radford's bigger picture.
DF might not have had as many promotions as SE, but he is a better manager. In many respects, he is possibly the best manager that we have had since Ian Greaves. Let's hope his success here can substantiate that claim.
Sneag wrote:Vice President wrote:In terms of the players he has brought in, the style of football, league position and the way he conducts himself in interviews etc. he has been very impressive this season.
No team has an automatic right to promotion. The fact that DF has strengthend the team in all areas this season adds weight to my belief that we weren't quite good enough last year. By the same token - impressive though we are at the moment, there is a lot of competition for promotion - and even with our budget and great loan signings, we can't take anything for granted.
I hope DF can get us promoted this year, as I think he could become a long term manager for this club and the stability and direction of travel is all consistent with the Radford's bigger picture.
DF might not have had as many promotions as SE, but he is a better manager. In many respects, he is possibly the best manager that we have had since Ian Greaves. Let's hope his success here can substantiate that claim.
I agree with that VP. DF has certainly win me over this season.
However we shouldn't get too ahead of ourselves yet. County my stay up we may fail to go up. Football has a habit of kicking you squarely in the plums.
Who can forget Neil Kinnock celebrating his 1992 election win a week before the polls opened.
Marky Mark wrote:The problem is that he was still the same nice guy, and someone who cares about his job, wanting to improve people and make them better people, and aware of their mental health at the end of last season when people were all over him. These aren’t attributes that he’s gained by being 3rd in the league, winning games has given him the space for people to realise that he is all of those positive things for the club. If we go through a bad patch like last season will there be posts praising him as an individual? Doubt it.
Chander Lear wrote:gazza1988 wrote:Thing is, looking at the evidence so far, he was always going to balls up last season.
Evans doesn't do much fitness work with the players. He signs a high amount so he can rotate the team. Anyone remember Evans claiming Mellis can't do 2 games in a row?
Look at Peterborough. Early pace setter and now the wheels have fell off around the time he jumped ship from us.
Flitcroft is big on fitness and it shows. He doesn't need to chop and change because players are tired. He gets them to a very high level of fitness. Last season you could tell players were getting a bit "leggy". Who here can honestly say that players have looked exhausted near the end of 90 minutes? I can't say I have.
We are in a strong position. Let's enjoy it.
Spot on.
A bit leggy over the xmas period, but that was to be expected with the amount of games and more or less the same side. but after a bit of a break, they look fine again
mousemousemouse wrote:The thing is, if he carried on the “Evans style” and got us up, we would be the whipping boys if we didn’t have a clear out. Look at our fitness at the end of last season, it took us a little while to get into shape this seasons
League 1 wouldn’t have allowed us do that without losing those 17 we have drawn.
We are building for life in the next league, not just to get up and hope and pray
They beat a poor Mansfield side 1-0 at Field Mill/OCS the season they went up in 2014/15.Sedgwick wrote:His bury side ripped us apart and went up....
His Mansfield side are ripping other teams apart in what I think is a stronger league.... I want him to be here for a long time and be responsible for developing the next gen of youth. No more new managers every one or two seasons.
mousemousemouse wrote:The thing is, if he carried on the “Evans style” and got us up, we would be the whipping boys if we didn’t have a clear out. Look at our fitness at the end of last season, it took us a little while to get into shape this seasons
League 1 wouldn’t have allowed us do that without losing those 17 we have drawn.
We are building for life in the next league, not just to get up and hope and pray
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