lifestags wrote:bear 73 wrote:lifestags wrote:The issue unfortunately falls with NC and DS, Last Jan we didn't get Akins and panicked at the last moment with Sarkic and they have done the same again with Forrester and Nartey, the question is why? Is it DS ability to negotiate? Is it Clough being too stubborn?
Or does he rely on his brother too much, either way we have been left short after a transfer window again and it needs looking at, we will struggle defensively until January because of this.
this isnt me trying to be negative about Nigel by the way, I think he is a decent manager but he has definitely made some huge mistakes.
As for Bear and Broomo, no issues with them supporting the club at all, I just want them to be unbiased in their views.[/quo
If sticking up for the manager is biased, if giving him time to turn things around is wrong, if wanting better times is not on, unless immediately.
I feel we are at a cross roads , stick and build, or carry on 1 year no promotion next manager please.
Derby and Forest have took the second road and spent millions says it all, Mansfield have took that route, last season started real well.
And allowing new supporters to spend their cash watching league 2 football, with no issues from you, JR will be over the moon.
Being a positive poster i want as many people watching Mansfield town as the ground will allow, and then bishop st stand being full would bring a real buzz
Not once did I mention us replacing Clough, so what is your point? There is sticking up for a manager and then there is not being able to admit when he has made a mistake, I would say you are letting your personal ''feelings'' about Nigel get in the way of your footballing judgement. Which was always going to be the risk. I was hoping you and Broomo would be insightful with your knowledge of Nigel but also be impartial.
Depends what you mean by impartial.
It seems to me as if I don't just agree he's raspberried things up then I'm blinkered and bias. I even get contacted on twitter by people (perhaps you were one of them?) telling me he'll be under pressure if we lost to Rochdale.
If I don't just blindly agree he screwed the window, I'm blindly ignoring facts.
It's not as easy or black and white as that. Sometimes a transfer just doesn't work out. Doesn't mean anybody messed up as such.
I will say Hewitt has looked a poor buy so far, although I thought he did quite well last week.
There's a reason I'm not ready to "blame" anyone just yet. One, it's too early. 4 games he's played?
And 2, some of Nigels (and therefore Simon's) best ever signings have been centre halfs, or players he's moved there.
I could go right back to his Burton days, Greaves, Tinson, Tony James, Jake Buxton, moving Darren Stride.
At Derby, Barker, Buxton, Shackell, Keogh at Sheff Utd Chris Basham.
They've got a good eye.... usually.
In fact I can only think of one that went badly wrong and that was Andy Butler at Sheff Utd.
With him he realised early he'd dropped a clanger and got rid quickly.
IF Hewitt turns out to be another Andy Butler he'll replace him and he'll fix it. Then I'll be impartial and say he made a mistake but he had to play him to find out and he can't "fix" it until January.
I'm NOT saying he doesn't make mistakes. Every manager does.