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Posted February 01, 2016 09:00 · last edited February 01, 2016 09:04

el grapadura wrote:

Jeff Vader wrote:

chopah wrote:

In Ernie's defence, in a league with squad rules as tight as they are how could he have anticipated Sigmund not playing as much as he has, with only 23 players you can't really afford to have 4 centre backs.  Fox was the like for like replacement for boxall.  If Siggie hadn't been out as much as he has then the back four would have been much more stable.  I think in the back of Ernie's mind there would have been the thought to replace Siggy after this season but I think he gambled on him being good for one more year.

Upfront well just got the wrong guy, it happens at bigger clubs than us, recruitment isn't an exact science.  Even Alex Ferguson had some duds, remember Bebe?

For me he has managed to get more out of the existing players in general, has brought through some youth and needs the licence thing sorted so he can go to the market and have a look for a new CB, ST and potentially another fullback.

Spot on this. He gets 1 signing wrong and now he is the sharktiest manager and has to go... Never mind Burns, Bonevacia, Krishna, Riera - its the Sarpong signing that is the true measure of his ability as a manager.

Having said that, going into the season with 2 aging centre backs in their mid-30s, and a young kid back-up, was risky. To suggest that it was unforeseeable that one of them could go down (or even simply underperform) is cutting the cloth too fine.

Having said that, he can't really be criticised for the Sarpong signing - it was really an unfortunate situation where a lot of little things combined together to make it a fizzer. But it was a worth a try - just didn't work out. Not the first time nor the last that something like that will happen to a football club.

Last year though- if Burns didn't work he had Krishna, who he had been working with for some time and Kenny who had a scoring record in pro football and good things were expected from McGlinchey. As well as Tyler Boyd, who'd actually played a fair bit with Huysegems and done well. This year McG has been in a bit of a lull and isn't a goal scorer- and beyond that not much proven goal scoring material anywhere with Krishna down.

He can be criticised for that, but we just don't want to because we're still in the after-glow of a season where we were top of the table for a while and blew teams off the park.

and cos we trust him to get us there again.

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martinb edited February 01, 2016 09:04
el grapadura wrote:
Jeff Vader wrote:
chopah wrote:

In Ernie's defence, in a league with squad rules as tight as they are how could he have anticipated Sigmund not playing as much as he has, with only 23 players you can't really afford to have 4 centre backs.  Fox was the like for like replacement for boxall.  If Siggie hadn't been out as much as he has then the back four would have been much more stable.  I think in the back of Ernie's mind there would have been the thought to replace Siggy after this season but I think he gambled on him being good for one more year.

Upfront well just got the wrong guy, it happens at bigger clubs than us, recruitment isn't an exact science.  Even Alex Ferguson had some duds, remember Bebe?

For me he has managed to get more out of the existing players in general, has brought through some youth and needs the licence thing sorted so he can go to the market and have a look for a new CB, ST and potentially another fullback.

Spot on this. He gets 1 signing wrong and now he is the sharktiest manager and has to go... Never mind Burns, Bonevacia, Krishna, Riera - its the Sarpong signing that is the true measure of his ability as a manager.

Having said that, going into the season with 2 aging centre backs in their mid-30s, and a young kid back-up, was risky. To suggest that it was unforeseeable that one of them could go down (or even simply underperform) is cutting the cloth too fine.

Having said that, he can't really be criticised for the Sarpong signing - it was really an unfortunate situation where a lot of little things combined together to make it a fizzer. But it was a worth a try - just didn't work out. Not the first time nor the last that something like that will happen to a football club.

Last year though- if Burns didn't work he had Krishna, who he had been working with for some time and Kenny who had a scoring record in pro football and good things were expected from McGlinchey. As well as Tyler Boyd, who'd actually played a fair bit with Huysegems and done well. This year McG has been in a bit of a lull and isn't a goal scorer- and beyond that not much proven goal scoring material anywhere with Krishna down.

He can be criticised for that, but we just don't want to because we're still in the after-glow of a season where we were top of the table for a while and blew teams off the park.