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Revell Out
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If we lose our next three games.
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You what?
See you in Exeter next week
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Don't forget it's a 12.30 kick off
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Yes down there on Friday.
Safe trip to all you loyal supporters that are going
You going or staying up norf and watching on the box?
Edited by RedandWhite at 20:41:38 on 14th September 2024
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Yeah, I'll be watching from the comfort of my sofa. Armchair fan.
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Ok I will see you at Mansfield then
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Fuck me I will see you down at Exeter next week then with the super Revs in charge
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cg4ywkr1lqd
Just seen this , just shows you what other teams can afford , in the context of us going for a cheap option.
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Part of giving someone a chance is that you have to give them that chance. Five games isn’t enough, nor will eight be.
I was very disappointed when Revs was hired again but I support the club. I want us to do well. It had nothing to do with him as a person, just our previous experience under his management.
In my mind he was given a clean slate in terms of being judged on his performance this time around. Sadly, quite a large section of our fans would rather be toxic “I told you so” merchants who are seemingly willing him (and therefore the club) to fail so they can say they were right.
Results and performances are no worse than they were towards the end of Evans’ tenure. Days before he left there were fans of this club discussing if he was our best manager ever (no, btw, not close). I understand there’s no need for blind optimism but let’s give Revs an actual fighting chance rather than the pathetic crap that’s being spouted at the moment.
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I agree nowhere near enough time to be considered have been given a second chance yet.
One thing I will pick up on though is comparison to Evans latter part of the season which others have done too, as if that's a reason to accept if we are still shit now. The point of a new manager is to be better than that, not say well we were shit anyway so doesn't matter if we are still shit. That wasn't acceptable and Evans only got away with it because of the previous 18 months being so good.
But I accept that it's a indication that whoever we appointed wouldn't have guaranteed anything better.
Early days yet.
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You misunderstand completely.
It isn't a reason to accept anything, it is a correction of people blaming it on Revs and ignoring/forgetting it started long before he took over and is a longstanding problem we have that he is now tasked with fixing, but is NOT a problem created by him taking charge as some are suggesting.
Which then brings onto the point that he has brought in attacking resources, in midfield and up front, to address the issue, and must be allowed time to see whether he can fix it.
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In time I hope we can be as "excellent" as Leyton Orient are.
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Evans was a shit manager. One good result against Villa clouded the eyes of many.
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I can't believe this, what a ridiculous thing to say. Villa put out their reserves and were there for the taking, anyone would've won that.
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Luther still has Phillipe Coutinho in his back pocket.
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Their best team at the time either started or came on, other than Tyrone Mings who stayed on the bench
Edited by AndyC at 11:04:37 on 4th September 2024
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I felt we had a slim chance with Callum Chambers in the Villa line-up. He probably hasn't played since!
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Sums up my thoughts too but you explained it much better.
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Wallace has taken 2 steps forward and 5 back
Cheap easy option shows already , I’ve been watching boro many many years and always said WE NEED A PROPER EXPERIENCED MANAGER THAT KNOWS THE LEAGUES
Yep we might have a few half desent players but without a leader to guide them give them not only a plan A but a plan B and get the best out of them if not we may have well just not bother ..
Steve Evans was the best we could have got brought the passion and club back to life and got results ( maybe after he left hearing he was a bit of a tosser to the players didn’t help ) but he knew the league and knew the players
Four games gone and the longer Wallace leaves it to get someone in and someone that knows what they are doing the better before 8/9/10 games pass us by and we are a drift at bottom and playing catch up ..
The football has returned to hoof ball boring crap long balls hoping that’s not the nice loading game we have been used to over the last two seasons , far from it !
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Wallace will wait until we’re in 23rd place in January before doing anything unfortunately
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What football have you been watching for the past two years? I like Evans as much as the next guy but the football has been shocking
The hysteria on here is incredible
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Leeds must have been playing some absolute atrocious stuff, if the last two seasons under Evans have been free flowing attacking football in comparison!
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But poor football is seen as acceptable when it's successful. When the success ends and you're just left with poor football, there is always going to be backlash
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Yep, I really enjoyed winning that one match in Evans' last ten, or three in his final 16, failing to even score in more than half of them.
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Yeah I remember those good old days when we appointed Paul Tisdale (a proper experienced manager that knows the leagues). That went well.
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No doubt PW will re-appoint him at some point in the future as he clearly likes to re-appoint failed Managers who he has already sacked before..
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I was wondering how many other clubs do this the other day.
We've reappointed:
Fairclough
Westley
Revell
Sort of Dino (assistant then manager)
Any others?
I suspect other clubs reappoint one manager, but rarely 3 or 4 of them.
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Barnet reappointed Martin Allen 16 times.
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Yeah I reckon lots of club do it with one manager, like Ferguson at Peterborough, just wondered how many do it with multiple managers.
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Peterborough either appoint Darren Ferguson or Grant McCann, short stints from Westley and Evans aside.
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Yeah, he appointed GW enough times.
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Even that experienced manager who went to Rotherham took 4 games to get a win...so much for experience. We have an enthusiastic young manager who's team is above his predecessor. All new managers need time...AR will come good I'm sure.
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Agree and hope it works out ,as I mentioned before, hopefully having Banfield around will help.This break may come at good time to manage injuries.Perhsps we will also play a few BCD games .
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The same Neil Banfield that was appointed Assistant Manager to David Noble at Wealdstone in January and both were sacked after 73 days with only one point in 6 games… very reassuring !
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Totally different situation . Banfield would I suggest not have been around footy for so long if he had no ability
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Appointed Assistant Manager to a highly regarded lower league player just starting out in his management career.. sounds like a very similar situation to me.
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Honestly.
Same old case, lose a few games people want the manager gone. This fan base at times, honestly.
This season is all about consolidating in League One, whilst also consolidating in League One with Alex Revell as manager. It’s not going to be a season like the previous couple we’ve seen, many people who have been around this league for a long time are calling it the hardest it’s ever been with the amount of big clubs and money involved. Just take a look at Birmingham and their spending habits.
Yes, we’ve taken a chance on Revs. However, the squad he’s put together I think is absolutely fantastic. We’ve been able to sign players of a certain calibre for example, Charlie Goode and Jake Young, improve our squad and ultimately we’ve made the adjustments needed to do well this season.
However you want to look at the opening 4 matches, we’ve missed nearly 2/3 of our attack. Reidy’s missed, Pressley out, Appere out on Saturday as well, Young still to play. Once just a few of these players return you’ll see an improvement in the final third. We’re 16th, with a win on the board, to be debating whether Revs should go is ridiculous. If we’re sitting bottom by the end of October then I think you’ve got an argument, but after 4 games?
Seriously.
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It's not just 4 games though is it, I'd guess it's around 80+ if we include his last tenure and we're still being served the same shit.
The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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He has a lot better players this time around.
At least give him a couple of months to impliment and fine tune any changes!
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And he’s a couple of years older and wiser and will surely have learned things from big Steve. The fact there is a thread like this after only 4 games is utterly ridiculous.
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Well I for one have learnt nothing in the last two years, why should he be any different
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You and I haven’t been involved day to day with the club but PW has and obviously interviewed him and we have to trust in his judgment. It’s far too early to be casting doubt on PW’s decision. (Cue people reminding us of earlier poor Manager appointments).
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Perhaps it's a genuine thanks but if not think Matt has put forward a good assessment, even if you may not agree with some or all.
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It’s a long running forum joke.
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Fair enough, will beat that in mind . Like Matt's enthusiasm though,wish I had more if it
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Who would you replace him with then?
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I'd replace him with an actual football manager, literally anyone with a semi-decent track record
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Graham Westley?
Paul Tisdale?
(You didn't specify how far back their managerial success was)
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Tisdale was the worst ever. Mr Soy
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Yeah the football was dreadful.
Only good thing he did was bring Bozzie back to the club.
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Plus wore Peaky Blinders clobber. Got feeling he joined us bit too late ,may have worked out better if not ?
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Not with some of the terrible players he signed in that January window.
Some were genuinely below National League standard.
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Zain Westbrooke, Bailey Clements, Bruno Andrade, Christy Pym.
YUK.
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Agree, hence my point ,perhaps budget limitations etc..Who knows.
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In fairness, I think it was Revs who re-signed Andrade.
Pym wasn't a terrible player rather a complete Scunthorpe. Add Luke O'Neil to that list too in terms of ability.
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I was just listing awful players from that season.
If Revs brought back Bruno then I might have to join everybody on here in being RevsOut, as that is inexcusable.
Edited by Chuds at 16:48:23 on 2nd September 2024
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“Bruno is an extremely exciting talent”, said boss Alex Revell. “He has won promotion from this league already, and will add a huge amount of experience to us as a football team”
“It is down to him to get his head down and work hard to show everyone how good of a footballer he is. I am excited to help him fulfil his ambition and get back to his best football”.
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I’m sure there must be many a manager who’s had high expectations of a player where it just didn’t work out. And, IIRC Andrade had done well at previous clubs (Borehamwood, Lincoln) so some justification to AR’s optimism.
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They've had success, it's an improvement.
Sometimes you see a manager have a shocker and then get a job at another club and you think 'how did they manage that?'
We have a manager, who had a shocker and now he's back in management at our club! If any club in the FL should know not to appoint Revell, it's us!
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His record really wasn't as bad as you are making out.
Edit: Also, his early record since returning is on a par with the start of GW1 and Gary Smith, is far better than GW2, and isn't much worse than Evans.
And that is without our top scorer, and best keeper we have ever had.
Edited by Chuds at 10:17:24 on 2nd September 2024
Edited by Chuds at 10:23:02 on 2nd September 2024
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To be fair Chris Day has been retired for six years now.
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If only there was an example of a manager doing badly, getting sacked and then coming back and doing well at our club. Nah, sounds unrealistic!
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Mark Sampson kick started the England revival at tournaments, bring him back.
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Mark sampson you’ve gotta be joking never in a million years
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A better England manager than Phil Neville. Then again, Phil was still better than Gary Neville at Valencia.
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Agree but someone on here thinks anyone walking round Stevenage Market would be better. One thing I think that might help going forward is Banfield being on board
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'Someone'?
Just to clarify I should have said anyone walking around Stevenage Indoor Market OR next door's dog.
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I completed Championship Manager. I got so good at it the FA offered me a role with the England squad. Took Stevenage from the Conference to the Champions League in six seasons.
I think I could do a better job than him.
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Yes Jay, and were last found working in an Australian nightclub toilet.
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We are 4 games in, no need to start whingeing and moaning just yet we have players to come back from injury and we have new players like Jake young to start as well so I am willing to give the man a chance and before some of you start saying its the same as before it isnt
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I’m prepared to give him until the Green Day deadline.
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STOP THIS ANTI REVS B/S !!!
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Give him at least until the end of September.
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Happy to give him time but the team needs to show improvement and quickly. If we were missing lots of chances I wouldn't be too concerned but what is concerning is that we aren't creating anything. There's no point playing long balls into the striker if we don't get bodies around them. We also don't see players beating a man and creating space. Hopefully Young can make a difference up front but AR needs to be playing 2 up top at home as out and out strikers. He needs to find a system that suits the players. Good decision making and composure are missing in the final third. Yesterday Butler was soo casual in the final third allowing defenders to close him down when he could have played the ball into the box. Kemp looks a decent player but we never get him on the ball In dangerous areas of the pitch. Hopefully with Reid coming back things might improve.
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"If we were missing lots of chances I wouldn't be too concerned but what is concerning is that we aren't creating anything."
Against Shrewsbury, Norwich, Huddersfield and Palace we created plenty of chances, and not just chances but absolute sitters.
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Same on Saturday. Simpson missed an absolute sitter, and List also had chances.
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Let me add to this...we have had a difficult start but Chuds is right. February onwards under SE we certainly lost our way or we were found out big time. The SE tactics masterclass fell apart somewhat, we were unable to adjust appropriately. AR has inherited the bulk of that self same playing squad so to put his mark on it will take some time. He has to instill a new way of playing that will come easy to some and not to others. Until the players are all singing from the same song sheet it will be an absolute mess as per yesterday. Give AR a little more time for the challenges he has in front of him. It will either work out or it won't but the ladt thing he would want right now is the fans turning against him. Four games in, crikey, no other manager would do any better with the remnance of yhe SE regime.
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Genuine question, do you think Revs is trying to establish a new way of playing?
I think he's largely trying to do the same thing that Steve did... Play very direct, press high, run a lot.
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I think it's different. The players aren't yet used to it hence the long balls of falling back into what they know, but those are more aimless and ineffective this season and just go out of play because we don't have the players or set up to play that way. Simpson, Roberts, Kemp aren't there to win aerial battles with defenders.
From what I've seen I get the impression we are trying to play more of a passing game with a high press etc. Also quite narrow and trying to play through the middle. Evans got the ball out wide more and used crosses which results in goals. Not seen any attempt to use crosses this season.
I'm sure once he's experimented with this better style of football (which we aren't seeing yet because players aren't on same page/capable) and realised we aren't good enough to do that we will go back to playing an "old fashioned" way and actually get some results.
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I think we look to play through midfield an awful lot more than we used to, and remember commenting about 15 minutes into the Shrewsbury match that "our midfielders have had more touches already this season than all of last", hence Harvey and Kemp for instance being so much more involved than any midfielder last season.
I bloody wish we had signed a genuine wide player though, as I have done for so many years. Yesterday for example, the final 20 mins we were dying for somebody to get the ball out wide on our right but all we had (partly as we had to play with ten men, granted) was Freeman, who seemed to refuse to go beyond the halfway line, totally halting any attack we had developing down that side. It is so much harder to play through teams centrally than it is to get by them and put in crosses or cut the ball back from an advanced position (rather than us always crossing from about 15 yards short of the box, something we have been doing for years), yet we never ever seem to do it, under any manager. Does my nut in, bruv.
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Bang on.
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Kemp had the fewest touches of any player on the pitch a game or so ago.
He's quality if we use him. Pointless if we don't.
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From what I have seen there are glimpses of a different style of football compared to that which SE instigated. Although there is still a lot of pumping it over midfield in the SE style. When we do try to keep it down and play through the middle it seems alien to those used to smashing it forward. Pidge doesn't seem that comfortable with it neither does Butler. It just appears "not joined up" at the moment. AR is trying to change it but old habbits die hard. It will take a few more games for it to become natural to the whole squad.....I might be completely wrong!
Edited by Telboy at 19:59:52 on 1st September 2024
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Stop ruining people's flawed opinions with stupid facts FFS.
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Huddersfield in particular was a game of two halves. Absolutely awful in the first half, but Revs changed it at half time and we were really good second half. Not that there will be any shades of grey on this forum!!
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More bollocks on this thread than Grindr. Calm down.
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We have lost all identity as a playing squad. Either we go down the route one system, or decide we want to play football. At the moment we are not one or the other. Defensively we are fine, but other than that we are a mess. Theres no creativity in midfield. We pass it around for a minute at the back, then decide 'oh well, lets just hoof it up front'. Ive seen 3 games this season, and am still waiting to see Simpson actually win an aerial duel. Roberts is the only one that wins any headers. There's a clear reason why Huddersfield let him go. We never get enough bodies in the box when we do get into the final third. The crossing is normally woeful, we either over hit them, or hit the first defender. From what I've seen over last season, and so far this season, is that there aren't a lot of good teams. They are all very similar in quality i.e poor. AR needs to get a playing style sorted ASAP, and needs to get our strikers scoring. At the moment it just looks like we are trying to win every game 1-0 with a set piece, because thats the only time we get bodies forward in enough numbers.
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Actually agree with a lot of this .Good points,
Edited by HitchinBoro exCalling at 18:58:12 on 31st August 2024
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Well this didn't take long.
I note we are ahead of Bolton and Rotherham in the table, the second and third favourites to win the league, with far better and considerably more expensive squads than us.
Wonder if their managers should also be sacked.
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The Rotherham one should. 😉
In a way that makes it more concerning because they won't be behind us for long and means we are in a false position.
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may be better to stay with biggleswade this season.
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I have no problem sticking with Boro', thanks.
We failed to scored in six of our final ten matches under Evans before he left. But the lack of goals is all a Revell problem and everything was amazing under Evans.
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Season card cut up!
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Luckily I photographed the QR code before I did it in case I decide to change my mind
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I ripped mine up when it arrived in the post. Just knew it would be like this.
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Fucking state of this forum hahahaha. Bed wetting 4 games in.
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Fucking pathetic.
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They’ve got a point though.
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Sack him, sack every player, definitely sack the fans, close the club down and build houses on the stadium footprint.
It is the only way.
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Don’t give the council any ideas!
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Hardly. Just concern. Serious concern.
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Whereas normally you are pure positivity...
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Today was a flash back to three years ago, clueless tactics, aimless passes.. we seem to hope to score rather than creating clear cut chances… we can hide behind a poor ref and his bad decisions but you can’t disguise the fact that we were awful ! The revellution is in full swing.. and it needs to improve quickly before it’s too late !!
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What are you lot on about I know there’s some rubbish talked on here and I do wonder if some bother to go home and away revs shouldn’t be sacked I knew v it wouldn’t be to long for get him out we are not v on the bottom of the table give it time I’ve been going home and away for years and I say give him a chance
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Or to the second half of last season.
I fucking knew this would happen. People have already forgotten the dogshit of half of last season and our huge struggle to score and think everything was great under the fat lump, and Revs is going to be slated for everything until he gets sacked so people can happily tell the world they told PW he was wrong from the start.
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If you knew this would happen why are you so triggered by it ? Surely you would be planned and prepared if you knew this would happen ? It’s obvious we will be good at the back butlack goals and creativity up top , we all saw that from the end of last season and pre season this . To support you I agree we should not be panicking . We have picked a manager and a squad with a budget to be lower mid table and that’s how we are performing .
Edited by Richie Rich C at 19:42:43 on 1st September 2024
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I'm more worried that our budget isn't mid lower table as you say. I know we have more income this year due to the TV deal but feels like we have quite a big budget this year. If we don't survive relegation we could be in for a few years of austerity under GW.
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Look at the signings many other clubs have made and they have blown us out the water.
Our budget is easily going to be our largest ever by quite some way, but there won't be a huge number of teams in the league spending less.
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Being prepared for something doesn't make it any less annoying when it happens.
There are plenty of things I was prepared for the Tories to do (for example), but it didn't make it any less fucking infuriating when they actually did it.
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Playing devil's advocate, isn't the knee-jerking thing deciding that Revs isn't going to guide us inexorably towards relegation despite the evidence gathered from his 84 previous games?
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Odd post to reply to with that point.
I was simply stating that it really wasn't all rosey under Evans and that people really need to cast their mind back and actually remember what the final 4-5 months was like under Evans, where we desperately struggled to score or win (just one win in his final ten matches, and failed to score in six of them), rather than putting the goalscoring and winning struggles entirely on our new manager (whoever that is).
But in response to your point, not all of Revs' previous spell was bad either. We had a large spell of it where we did very well (W15 D13 L7). And that came after a very slow start to his first reign too (W1 D5 L9 in his first 15 games in charge).
Edited by Chuds at 13:48:30 on 1st September 2024
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Haven't you posted on here that Revs was basically running the team during the second half of last season though?
Edited by Freemo at 15:08:42 on 1st September 2024
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I am as certain as I can be that I said by all accounts he was running training anyway so said player said he didn't think anything would change, but that I never said anything about it only being recent as that isn't what we were told.
Pretty certain it was actually somebody else replying to my post to suggest that and to suggest (either seriously or as a funny, I dunno) that is why it all fell apart.
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Glad we aren't being reactionary or jerking our knees.
No way is Wallace getting rid, nor should he. He has backed Alex financially and will give him time.
If we average under a point a game till late October he may be in trouble but otherwise he rightly gets till Crimbo to find his feet.
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The knee jerk isn't based on one defeat... its based on watching 90minutes of something so reminiscent which nearly got us relegated from a division lower 3 years ago.
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You enjoyed watching that then? You saw hope for the future?
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Some people don't base everything on one game of football.
I saw plenty to be positive about against Shrewsbury, Norwich and Huddersfield (was at a wedding so didn't see Burton). Today was poor, but we were never troubled at any stage until Butler made a fuck-up.
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I listened, it sounded shite.
Sometimes it takes a little while for a new team to gel with new coaches.
We know we have a decent squad now. Give him a chance to get a tune out of them.
I didn't particularly want him and had my reservations. But I'm also prepared to back the Chairman's judgement for more than 4 games.
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I would as well if he hadn’t already failed miserably in the same role before and in the league below…
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After watching that drivel he has decided he wants to go back to Bradford. Revell is clueless and whoever recruited Simpson wants shooting. In a way today is a relief because football is all about entertainment and you pays your money and you takes your choice. I won’t be going again until there is a change of manager. Worryingly for Wallace a group of 60 somethings stood in front of me said exactly the same.
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You take the good with the bad when we nearly went out of the league and they got rid of macclesfidl a I still went home and way it says it when some said I listened to it on the radio and they think they have a right to say get rid
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Hopefully if you aren't attending you also won't be posting?
Or will you be carrying on with your I told you so's and gloating in us not doing well (should that be the case)?
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Thought you had announced anyway. you were boycotting as soon as Revs was appointed
Anyway hopefully we will pull through and Revs will be around , so you may not be going again gie sometimes.Assume you will boycott watching on TV too until he goes?
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You have to be related to Alex Revell. Only logical explanation for the rose tinted nonsense you spout
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😂 Only someone like you could say this, assume anyway as someone else posted it you will not be posting anymore until Revs gone ?
Edited by HitchinBoro exCalling at 19:10:00 on 31st August 2024
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The signing of Jake Young suggests Simpson won't be leading the line again.
However this is just going to paper over the sheer deviousness of ideas and service to strikers.
Jake Young IS a good signing, but without support he isn't going to make a difference.
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How many clear cut chances have we created in games this season?
Plenty.
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Get him out now, clear as day he aint good enough
Decent guy but not a League 1 gaffa
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Who would you replace him with?
The pool of available managers is very similar to that when Evans left. Either they were deemed not good enough, unattainable (high wages or compo) or didn't want to join.
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This is the horrible truth, are say Pauls Simpson and Tisdale better managers than Revs? Probably yeah. Would they get better results this season? Evidence says definitely not. It's not so much wanting Revs to do well as needing him to.
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Agree. The managers I'd want are in fairly similar jobs (Brady, Lindsay etc). Pete Wild might be an exception but Barrow collapsed towards the end of last season.
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And he has only ever managed in the north-west and is unlikely to want to relocate his life to us.
Lindsay didn't want to come to us in the summer.
So many of the names people were listing after Evans left were so unachievable (Duff, for instance, who is at Huddersfield), yet people seriously believed they would join us and were annoyed at PW when they didn't.
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Did PW day Revs was first choice ? Despite this perhaps he just decided we could not afford Duff, Clarke etc or some of those made it known not interested?
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He did not. He said we interviewed others and Revs was the best option, plus had the bonus of knowing the club and the player wanting him to get it.
I have been informed we approached some of the names people wanted (Duff, Lindsey, Ainsworth etc.) and all said no.
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He was first choice out of the people they spoke too hence him being manager. He wasn't automatic choice though, as if he was we would have appointed him straight away and not waited months.
I think Phil said along the lines of there was no one that they interviewed they thought would be better than Revell mk2 and that Revell impressed in his interview/plans etc plus added bonus of already knowing the club and players.
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Thanks both would be nice to know who we interviewed, realise we will never know .The names mentioned who were not interested were probably waiting for a "bigger"club
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And remember who is doing the picking...
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Who we replace him with is not our problem... to be totally honest he should never been appointed in the first place.
And whilst I'm ranting, who on earth thought Scott Cuthbert had the necessary credentials to assist an inexperienced League One manager??
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Cuthbert nearly went down with us AND Woking!
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Great... so he's got the necessary experience :-)
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An inexperienced Manager thought it was a good idea
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Who would you replace him with?
Stop a random person in Stevenage Market and they’d likely make a better fist of it
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Pathetic comment. Who would you genuinely replace him with and this exact moment and could we afford him, any compo to Revs plus compo if the new bod is in a job ?
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I can’t stress strongly enough how poor Lincoln were yet we were even worse! If we can’t even pick up a point in home games like this, it’s going to be a very long season.
I see no point in waiting - get Revell out now
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I am glad you don't go often.
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I mean technically he wasn't even a League Two one!
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No offense to Revell, but he isn't a league 2 manager either as his last tenure proved that.
Edited by ForestBoro35 at 17:18:16 on 31st August 2024
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That's what happens when you go cheap, Wallace will never learn.
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Yeah, he has really gone cheap with his investments the past few years.
In fact, since taking over the club.
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Did you volunteer to put a few bib in the coffers so we could not ",go cheap" .We have not for money amd wad even surprised the level we have paid out in transfer fees.
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It isn't up to us to bankroll a manager... but Evans proved that you pay for what you get.
I drove round the m25 to watch that, next time I'll just listen on the radio.
Attendances will drop further. Armchair fans want to see excitement (win or lose) and that's what an Evans team gave us.
If your not willing to pay for a manager who will try to achieve this then failure is inevitable.
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Remember the last half of last season?
I saw absolutely no excitement from an Evans team.
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To be fair, we were guff since January so it wasn't all rosey under Evans
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Yeh. That's a fair point. It did sort of fall away... but my confidence levels in Evans massively exceed those of Revell
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I mean manager wise. Obviously ain't gonna work once again.
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