NTFC Trust Open Forum with Aidy Boothroyd and development plan viewing

[Dr Feelgood]

Cheers Fez

[sxcobbler]

Thanks for an excellent summary Fez.

[Ralap]

Yep, thank you Fez.

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Thanks Fez.
Were there many there?

[guest48]

It was standing room only !

[Gen.Disorda]

Well the moaners have had their chance, if you missed your opportunity. Unlucky, but please spare me of it if you didn't have the balls to say it to Aidy himself

[JollyCobbler]

Q: Do you miss Bayo?

A: I loved working with him, but he was a handful. He used to say he was about to get on the bike, but when you went over to his car it was full of KFC buckets. On 30-year-old knees carrying that bulk, I have to make a decision(Speaking as someone who walks his dogs past Sixfields every single day, I have seen plenty of the players,including Bayo, but never once did I see Bayo stuffing his face with KFC. In fact the only Cobbler regularly haunting KFC was Lee Nicholls). At the start, he was getting his goals in open play. Towards the end it was set pieces, which was made by the space Clarke Carlisle and Clive Platt were allowing him(Really?). I want us this year to be more flexible. But do I miss the effect that he has on the crowd. There is a massive hangover from last year at Wembley. The performance was shocking(No ****, Sherlock), and it hurt. I felt sorry for myself (Not the fans then, aye?). But when things turn around, you’ll have a nicer team to watch.

Q: Do we have enough goals in the team?

A: Roy O’Donovan is not firing at the moment, and Clive is more of a facilitator, a maker of goals. I said at the end of last season they were unplayable (And therein lays the problem. Neither have the stats to support being 'unplayable' at any level). Unfortunately for us this year, they ARE unplayable because one is injured and the other isn’t firing. We create enough chances, but we aren’t finishing them. I do have to address that, and Jacob Blyth will be coming back here. But these things will all click eventually(Not with Platt and O'Donovan it won't), but at the moment I’m tearing my hair out.

[Winslow Lee]

So Platt is more a facilitator, a maker of goals! In the 6 games he's featured this year the team as a whole has only scored 3 goals. Both Nicholls & O'Donovan looked better players playing alongside Bayo rather than Platt. This myth that Platt is some master creater of chances for others that lets him get away with not scoring many himself is a fallacy.

[everbrite]

Q: Do you miss Bayo?

A: I loved working with him, but he was a handful. He used to say he was about to get on the bike, but when you went over to his car it was full of KFC buckets. On 30-year-old knees carrying that bulk, I have to make a decision(Speaking as someone who walks his dogs past Sixfields every single day, I have seen plenty of the players,including Bayo, but never once did I see Bayo stuffing his face with KFC. In fact the only Cobbler regularly haunting KFC was Lee Nicholls). At the start, he was getting his goals in open play. Towards the end it was set pieces, which was made by the space Clarke Carlisle and Clive Platt were allowing him(Really?). I want us this year to be more flexible. But do I miss the effect that he has on the crowd. There is a massive hangover from last year at Wembley. The performance was shocking(No ****, Sherlock), and it hurt. I felt sorry for myself (Not the fans then, aye?). But when things turn around, you’ll have a nicer team to watch.

Q: Do we have enough goals in the team?

A: Roy O’Donovan is not firing at the moment, and Clive is more of a facilitator, a maker of goals. I said at the end of last season they were unplayable (And therein lays the problem. Neither have the stats to support being 'unplayable' at any level). Unfortunately for us this year, they ARE unplayable because one is injured and the other isn’t firing. We create enough chances, but we aren’t finishing them. I do have to address that, and Jacob Blyth will be coming back here. But these things will all click eventually(Not with Platt and O'Donovan it won't), but at the moment I’m tearing my hair out.

Your so cynical that it must be a real effort for you to even cross the road - 

[JollyCobbler]

Your so cynical that it must be a real effort for you to even cross the road - 

More a realist.

The squad assembled for the start of this season was very, very poor. The defense, after much shifting around, now looks better, thankfully.
The midfield players brought in are not an improvement on what we had. Carter: poor. Morris: technically sound, but too lightweight. Deagan is okay when he bothers to turn up.

All of this aside though, neither Platt nor O'Donovan are going to provide the goals to get a side promoted. O'Donovan has the ability, and alongside a useful partner he might prosper (except he still has a tendency to go missing during games), but as an 'unplayable' front two, seriously??
Yet Boothroyd still refuses to see the wood for the trees. Baffling?

[bungle]

It's nice to see that in a very "roundabout" way he's "sort of" admitted he's wrong and he's fcuked up the start of the season.

Mind you.... Roy and Clive his first choice... He can't of said that with a straight face. I'd have pi$$ed myself if I'd been there... 

Agreed. Far more candid that I expected him to be.

It seems that ROD and Carter have been the players who have most disappointed him. TBF, ROD was a lot better last season and most of us saw him as a decent re-signing. However, the main problem with him is that he needs a partner to hold it up and lay it off to him and he hasn't had that for a while. It's not that he's missing chances; he simply isn't getting in to the right positions.

Carter on the other hand, was a poor signing and his lack of drive, energy and will to win could have been detected in his performances for Cheltenham (when he could get in the team that is). AB must surely regret swapping him for Gutts right now, veiled references to 'medical issues' aside. He should be dropped asap as far as I'm concerned.

I think the penny has, at last dropped for AB and he now realises that his summer dealings left us woefully short. The signings of Reid and Doumbe were a belated first step. Time will tell whether he can strengthen the attack sufficiently to get the results he needs to stay in the job.

[DrillingCobbler]

More a realist.

The squad assembled for the start of this season was very, very poor. The defense, after much shifting around, now looks better, thankfully.
The midfield players brought in are not an improvement on what we had. Carter: poor. Morris: technically sound, but too lightweight. Deagan is okay when he bothers to turn up.

All of this aside though, neither Platt nor O'Donovan are going to provide the goals to get a side promoted. O'Donovan has the ability, and alongside a useful partner he might prosper (except he still has a tendency to go missing during games), but as an 'unplayable' front two, seriously??
Yet Boothroyd still refuses to see the wood for the trees. Baffling?

Totally agree, 100%.

[The 12th Marquis of Sixfields]

Q: Do you miss Bayo?

A:  but when you went over to his car it was full of KFC buckets. On 30-year-old knees carrying that bulk, I have to make a decision(Speaking as someone who walks his dogs past Sixfields every single day, I have seen plenty of the players,including Bayo, but never once did I see Bayo stuffing his face with KFC.

Q: Do you miss Bayo?

A: but when you went over to his car it was full of KFC buckets. On 30-year-old knees carrying that bulk, I have to make a decision(Speaking as someone who walks his dogs past Sixfields every single day, I have seen plenty of the players,including Bayo, but never once did I see Bayo stuffing his face with KFC. In fact the only Cobbler regularly haunting KFC was Lee Nicholls)

why would he leave the restaurant and take the wrappers with him to put in his car? maybe he used the drive thru hence you never seeing him in the 20 seconds it takes to walk past

[JollyCobbler]

why would he leave the restaurant and take the wrappers with him to put in his car? maybe he used the drive thru hence you never seeing him in the 20 seconds it takes to walk past

Yeah, or maybe it's Boothroyd talking more ****e

[southofthecounty]

Yeah, or maybe it's Boothroyd talking more ****e

When walking to the ground from KFC last season, on two separate occasions, I saw a black sporty BMW with tinted windows, that had Ginsters and KFC detritus on the parcel shelf.
I wondered at the time if it was his car.
Anyone know?

[Tyler]

When walking to the ground from KFC last season, on two separate occasions, I saw a black sporty BMW with tinted windows, that had Ginsters and KFC detritus on the parcel shelf.
I wondered at the time if it was his car.
Anyone know?

Probably, but Bayo was never in there queuing up at the exact time that JollyCobbler walked past with his dogs so it's absolutely impossible that Bayo eats in KFC

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When walking to the ground from KFC last season, on two separate occasions, I saw a black sporty BMW with tinted windows, that had Ginsters and KFC detritus on the parcel shelf.
I wondered at the time if it was his car.
Anyone know?

Looks like it.

[JollyCobbler]

Probably, but Bayo was never in there queuing up at the exact time that JollyCobbler walked past with his dogs so it's absolutely impossible that Bayo eats in KFC

Well I can only make an assumption based on the facts as I see them. I have never seen Bayo eating a KFC, whereas I know Boothroyd talks s***e (as proven most Saturdays on Radio Northampton). But hey, it's a free country, so you carry on believing the spin

[Wolvo]

I can't believe people are possibly suggesting Bayo's diet was nothing but immaculate.

[Deepcut Cobbler]

I can't believe people are possibly suggesting Bayo's diet was nothing but immaculate.

As long as you put the effort in to burn it off...