Guitar Ray

Basically what’s not working is player recruitment and first team management, the rest of it is pretty solid barring the odd blip with our old stadium. 👍🏻

It’s impossible to keep all the fans happy, you only have to read some of the prophets on here to see that. To harangue the owners to the extent some are on here is absolutely potty. Mistakes have been made but the bitterness evident in some of the posts says much about the characters behind the words they write.

The contents aren’t pure bs though are they? Carol has just listed positive achievements, which as far as I can see are facts.

It could indeed but the consensus seems to be that DC was not in a great place mentally at that time. Also we’d had yet another <ovf censored> January window.

Disgusting? Someone having a cuppa? Let’s hope there isn’t a war.

Maybe not witch hunted but some fans wanted to stick with Clarke in the first place and derided the appointment of Crosby from the off as a “cheap option”, so not a great place to start. Easy for some to forget he was part of the team that took us up and overlook that maybe the club took the view that it maintained some continuity and subsequently he deserved a crack at the job permanently. Who knows? No question results haven’t been good enough albeit injuries and recruitment are mitigating circumstances. Nobody can say Crosby enjoyed much luck during his short time in the hot seat but ultimately he had his chance and failed.

Without a doubt. Very likely a catastrophic failure which will result in our relegation and the financial implications that entails. That said, the damage is done, we can’t sign anyone to significantly improve the team so we’re essentially waiting for the injured players to return whilst praying for “new manager bounce”. The immediate thing now is for fans to fully back the team and keep the Flitcroft protests low key. Flitcroft leaving tomorrow won’t help keep us up. There’ll be plenty of time for recriminations and a more suitable time in my view. Even if we do manage a miracle the fans won’t forget.

I fully appreciate what Carol and Kevin have done for our club, love them to bits. The letter makes a decent read and lays out some valid points without really explaining why the squad is so poor right now which is the basic issue here. Recruitment, overall poor since we gained promotion and only one person to blame for that. It’s a real shame that for all the undoubted good it’s the football side that’s come unstuck. Having thought about it I’ll stick with Carol, which means sticking with Flitcroft. I’ll see who we appoint as manager and his staff and the impact they have on the team, hopefully with the addition of a free agent or two, although I’m not holding my breath on that one. For me supporting the team is more important right now than one individual in the club so I aim to back the team and won’t be shouting for Flitcroft’s head until we’re mathematically relegated, which I think is nailed on, at which point I’ll jump on the band wagon but not before. This isn’t to denigrate those who wish to protest in any way. Quite clearly the guy has shafted us but Flitcroft leaving now won’t have any impact on us staying up apart from improving the atmosphere short term.

It shows on my mobile at the top of the page.

Spot on assessment.

I’m still asking myself how the hell have we ended up with effectively no strikers. I can’t get my head around it. It’s worse than gross negligence. Flitcroft has to go.

I was hoping to come on here to find the recruitment team had handed their notice in but that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Did he tell you why he was asked to leave? A simple yes or no will suffice.

Open and transparent community club? Why would you expect to know why someone lost their job in any walk of life? Not only that, you’re saying they should potentially breach confidentiality agreements and data protection laws. We can only speculate on the reason for his departure, there may have been whispers. If CG was sacked he won’t want the reasons known and if he was made redundant, which seems unlikely given that the role still exists, he would’ve had some financial package which would’ve almost certainly involved both parties agreeing to confidentiality. If he’s simply retired the nature of the job, the information he was privy to, would mean that the club would insist on this type of agreement. As I said, we can only speculate on the reason for his departure but the truth is you want to know rather than need to know..

That’s a crazy statement. Why would or should they put the details of a sacking, if that’s what it was, out into the public domain? That information is private and the only way that would change would be if there was criminal activity resulting in a court case, which clearly there wasn’t.

Of course he’ll have had a say, but how much is open to debate. It’s quite obvious he’s got little say and just has to be a nodding dog and toe the line. All three you’ve named were desperation signings on the face of it and more likely a case of Crosby being offered a take it or leave it choice by powers that be. It’d be interesting to see who Crosby would’ve signed if he were in complete control over his own team recruitment. I’m betting we’d be watching a far better strike force than what we see right now but of course that’s purely hypothetical.

I don’t think anyone will argue with any of this. The point I was making is how much of this is down to Crosby? Whilst we’ve undoubtedly signed some good players, we’ve had an unbalanced squad with some gaping holes since gaining promotion, that’s under 2 different first team managers, suggesting the manager is the problem when it comes to recruitment. Also, the current policy of signing mostly inexperienced young players on loan, whilst good in theory, does tie the managers hands somewhat in that he has to select these players, whether they’re good bad or indifferent. They don’t, and won’t, all turn out to be great and they don’t all hit the ground running, which inevitably affects the team performance, results and the in turn perception of the manager in the eyes of some folk. Non of this is to say Croz is blameless but his hands are certainly tied to some degree.

He wasn’t dealt a great hand, you’re ignoring the other loanees, who weren’t so good. Arblaster may have hit the ground running but Devine definitely didn’t. We were lucky that those 2 worked out. You’re also ignoring the obvious, he hasn’t had a decent striker to call on all season.

You mean can anyone see any candles burning. Don’t forget we’re skint. 👍🏻

Shocking remark. That comment is sexist, ageist and, er, weightist.

Non taken. 👍🏻

No, definitely Tourette’s. It’s a coping mechanism, saying Crosby instead of shitfannybollocks.

I’ve decided it must be a form of Tourette’s.

That’s more like it Nipper. 👍🏻

Highly unusual to see no mention of Crosby in one of your posts Nipster, have you suffered a momentary brain blockage?.