You might want to check, mate, but surely nine perfect penalties and then a fluky tenth goal would take the match into sudden death rather than a dramatic victory. Bit of a rookie error really.
I think Bloomfield has been hugely unfortunate. The injuries played a big part in our downturn in form. He's not had that excuse for the last couple of games though. Lincoln was disappointing, but I don't think was as bad as some have made out. We were well on top before they scored a brilliant, but freakish 2nd. Yesterday was a terrible performance, I'd hope there's some sort of reaction next week.
It’s not the ‘sustainable business model’ Rob wants, developing other clubs players with no potentially financial advantage to us. And when they go back to the parent club, then what? Look what has happened to Franchise this season.
MK were probably over-reliant on loanees, but it's a system we've benefited from massively in the last and should use going forward to add quality where it's otherwise hard to fill a gap.
Crikey @Malone. Chess is hard enough to understand (I never got to grips with it) without you introducing pulsating devices secreted goodness knows where about a person.
Not just being argumentative just for the sake of it but I don't see the point or fairness of comparing results over a dozen or so games where one guy had to deal with what he had available and the other set the tone for the entire club, and employed all of the football staff and recruited all of the players.
We know results have been crap under Blooms btw, not for a minute suggesting otherwise but it's a ridiculous comparison.
Suggesting he probably should have done better with the players available is perfectly valid.
I wonder if Rob based his model on his early days when we signed a lad from the Essex Senior League and one from University that were suddenly worth a ton of cash and assumed this was the normal.
Mehmeti and Forino aren't quite once in a lifetime finds but they are certainly not the norm. So assuming we can find one or two of those a season is not going to happen. We need a balance and have to accept that sometimes we are going to do someone else's hardwork when it comes to improving their asset. MK were probably too reliant on loans and I think we have under used the system in the past 2 seasons. Getting a loan player in the January window screams of panic shopping. Campbell had too much to learn and needed to hit the ground running. He did ok but was never a consistent performer for me. We need to get loanees in early and let them be part of the team and the philosophy for them to be a real contributor to the squad. Its a tough market so I hope Matt has the charm and friend network.
In primary school I actually got a few rounds into the county championships. Despite learning how to play reading books.
I remember one round deep in, that I foolishly asked my competitors "who represents the county?" Before the games started. And 2 of them did. Went to pieces after that.
Exactly! It's very easy to sound 'right' with the benefit of hindsight. Comparing Gaz to Blooms isn't really fair either - the club was in turmoil at the beginning of Gaz's reign, which is not the case now.
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I think the device was in his person!
Maybe MB could use similar devices to get his message across to the players during a game?
@Twizz maybe that was the message when Lineker went down that time!
You might want to check, mate, but surely nine perfect penalties and then a fluky tenth goal would take the match into sudden death rather than a dramatic victory. Bit of a rookie error really.
Good knight.
Oh geez @DevC you are right. The King should've proofread my post!
I think the realization is dawning that if we wanted teams to keep hating playing against us...we should have left JJ in charge!
Maybe they were just looking at their ability to re-tile the toilets!
I see RC has admitted the squad lacked depth this season (although somehow I don't think he'd have been saying that had we gone up despite it...).
If we’d gone up it wouldn’t have cost us.
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I think we have to use the loan market better/at all next season.
Plymouth did, look what they achieved....
Lonwijk, Mumba, Cosgrove, Matete, Azaz all regulars. Not sure where it leaves them for next season but still used it to good affect.
Whittaker too - went back in Jan but helped set them up nicely
I make it that Blooms has been in charge for 14 league games which have produced 15 points for an average of 1.07 points per game?
Yeah, you're right
2.21 to 1.07 then
Yep, started with Shrewsbury.
3 wins in 14. No-one saw that coming.
4 wins isn't it? Fleetwood, Bristol Rovers, Forest Green, Cambridge.
I think Bloomfield has been hugely unfortunate. The injuries played a big part in our downturn in form. He's not had that excuse for the last couple of games though. Lincoln was disappointing, but I don't think was as bad as some have made out. We were well on top before they scored a brilliant, but freakish 2nd. Yesterday was a terrible performance, I'd hope there's some sort of reaction next week.
It’s not the ‘sustainable business model’ Rob wants, developing other clubs players with no potentially financial advantage to us. And when they go back to the parent club, then what? Look what has happened to Franchise this season.
MK were probably over-reliant on loanees, but it's a system we've benefited from massively in the last and should use going forward to add quality where it's otherwise hard to fill a gap.
Crikey @Malone. Chess is hard enough to understand (I never got to grips with it) without you introducing pulsating devices secreted goodness knows where about a person.
Whoops ! Wrote that without realising there was another page.
Having just forced myself to watch the goals, I’d like to apologize to Tyla Dickinson for describing Cartwright as an upgrade.
Not just being argumentative just for the sake of it but I don't see the point or fairness of comparing results over a dozen or so games where one guy had to deal with what he had available and the other set the tone for the entire club, and employed all of the football staff and recruited all of the players.
We know results have been crap under Blooms btw, not for a minute suggesting otherwise but it's a ridiculous comparison.
Suggesting he probably should have done better with the players available is perfectly valid.
Why didn't we get the "new manager bounce" that every other club seems to get?
I wonder if Rob based his model on his early days when we signed a lad from the Essex Senior League and one from University that were suddenly worth a ton of cash and assumed this was the normal.
Mehmeti and Forino aren't quite once in a lifetime finds but they are certainly not the norm. So assuming we can find one or two of those a season is not going to happen. We need a balance and have to accept that sometimes we are going to do someone else's hardwork when it comes to improving their asset. MK were probably too reliant on loans and I think we have under used the system in the past 2 seasons. Getting a loan player in the January window screams of panic shopping. Campbell had too much to learn and needed to hit the ground running. He did ok but was never a consistent performer for me. We need to get loanees in early and let them be part of the team and the philosophy for them to be a real contributor to the squad. Its a tough market so I hope Matt has the charm and friend network.
In primary school I actually got a few rounds into the county championships. Despite learning how to play reading books.
I remember one round deep in, that I foolishly asked my competitors "who represents the county?" Before the games started. And 2 of them did. Went to pieces after that.
Because we'd just won 5 in a row.
So short of smashing teams 5 nil, down was the only realistic way.
The club would have if they had any money at the time!
Exactly! It's very easy to sound 'right' with the benefit of hindsight. Comparing Gaz to Blooms isn't really fair either - the club was in turmoil at the beginning of Gaz's reign, which is not the case now.
How do you know that was the case?