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You have twice as much chance of securing a decent lower championship/upper league one striker at this level, than you do a decent keeper at this level.

I don't know how to keep breaking the news. The budgets in league one for some sides are crazy. We simply cannot compete against these sides unless they have an off day. Why is that such an alien concept to some? I can think of at 4/5 sides, possibly more in league 2 that have healthier budgets than us. Look at our squad. It is made up of players who are either plagued by injuries, or for various reasons their careers are in decline. Brady is being asked to not only manage them. But cure them of all the issues that led their path to us.

You can lay the blame where you like. But it is undeniable, that if we stay in this league, Brady deserves a medal.

Yet another good  post Terry but as you are probably aware  it will be over some  heads  who indulge  in  anti Club/Manager/Players Rhetoric. For those who persistently  post negative views (only a few) as if they have an agenda to pursue; to bring them to book with a gentle warning? One thing about our budget JB has managed to sign players recently who seem pretty decent to me. Burge came from Sunderland with a good reputation and I often wondered how we pulled that one off! Great shame he has lost his form recently. I very much hope he regains his former confidence asap!

I wouldn’t expect him to openly criticise players either, but he suggested in the interview he was beyond criticism. I don’t have a problem with a manager saying he doesn’t discuss individual performances, but if you are going to endorse a performance like that, which I seem to recall he effectively did, then you will lose credibility and respect fairly quickly.

I don't agree with managers criticising players openly either - that's for us to do! However, if we've seen the same interview, JB says at one point that he takes responsibility for the defensive issues and that it's down to him to sort it out, so I really don't get the point about him suggesting he's beyond criticism.

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No doubt that Brady has done a great job with the budget he has been given since he has been in charge.

But....

This season he has arguably built the best squad we have had, so expectations are naturally higher, my main criticism of him has been his substitutions and in game tactics and his reliance on the old guard, he needs to be more ruthless once he learns / does that we will struggle to keep him, as I believe he has got the potential to manage a lot higher.

I get that we don't have 4 strikers who would walk into most league 1 sides or internationals etc but we have proved that we can go toe to toe with these teams, he just needs to work out how to keep the squad fit and firing every week.

If we do stay up, I doubt Brady will be here to see it.

"Kasabian being run" is generous.............Leicester scored, Tom cheered, no one did anything and the police escorted him out as he gave everyone the V's.

You have twice as much chance of securing a decent lower championship/upper league one striker at this level, than you do a decent keeper at this level.

I don't know how to keep breaking the news. The budgets in league one for some sides are crazy. We simply cannot compete against these sides unless they have an off day. Why is that such an alien concept to some? I can think of at 4/5 sides, possibly more in league 2 that have healthier budgets than us. Look at our squad. It is made up of players who are either plagued by injuries, or for various reasons their careers are in decline. Brady is being asked to not only manage them. But cure them of all the issues that led their path to us.

You can lay the blame where you like. But it is undeniable, that if we stay in this league, Brady deserves a medal.

Burge was terrible again, they scored with 4 crosses, all of them he was rooted to his line. Plus the full backs either side should have cut out or been marking.

We weren't at our best but looking back 4 mistakes cost us, we need to sort out the back 4 Odimayo brilliant against Huddersfield ( I think ) terrible since, Left back is an issue obviously but Guiness-walker looked decent in his cameo.

I don't think its time to panic as we haven't been like this all season, and I think for decent periods of that game we matched them but silly errors took the game and confidence away, I do think its time for swap of keeper though as Burge looks nervous and he is making those ahead of him nervous.

I also think our forward players need to have a look at themselves, I like Roberts fantastic player ball retention and forward drive is exactly what we need but how many shots has he had in the last three games and hardly tested a keeper, still think he needs to be first name on the teamsheet though, Fosu great player when he fancies it but a liability if we lose the ball he is very sporadic throughout a game, another one who needs to play. Pinnock and Hoskins miles off it at the minute, Eaves looked decent enough.
We need to find a better way of getting Fosu and Roberts to work and be dangerous every week, if that means losing some of the old guard so be it as much as I like Hoskins he is not a patch on either of them.

Scrap any thoughts of 5 at the back as we always seem to be terrible starting in that formation.


                                       Tzanev
Odimayo (massive kick up arse first) Baldwin / Willis Guthrie Guiness-Walker
            Chouchane          Sowerby Mcgeean
               Roberts           Fosu
                        Eaves.
Its not time to panic and we have a free hit against Notts Co in the Autoglass trophy coming up to at least try some alternatives out.

I think it’s worth pointing out that last season we had 2 runs of 3 games where we lost the lot and conceded 9 goals on both occasions. We also had separate a run of 5 games where we lost 3 and drew 2, and in the middle of that run we conceded 5 goals in one game against the worst opponents imaginable. Yet at the end of the season most seemed fairly happy with how things went. So whilst most of us are probably píssed off with how things have gone of late, let’s not get silly about it.

Hoskins is past it, we should have sold him 2 years ago, but there were no offers sadly.

Of course we should have, let's face it only scoring 37 goals in two seasons is really poor!!