Superb interview and for me really showed the depth of thought that goes into these signings. Pete really is in love with this club and is sold on developing the club for the long term, which is great to know.
The interview certainly changed my view of the Couhigs.
Brilliant to see the faith that Rob and Pete have in Matt, as Matt obviously works very hard for the club and hopefully his luck will change.
Survive in League 1 this season and win the EFL Trophy at Wembley and we have had a decent season from where we were at 5pm last Saturday.
So if all these signings don't work, and we lose the next 5 or 6 games, do they continue to have faith in Matt ? Would they then realise things havnt worked and change, or just accept relegation ?
Don't jump on my back, I've stated on the rumour thread that I want him to win even though he's lucky to be here. just asking what people think.
It’s a fair question isn’t it? If things still don’t work with a tranche of new players, it’s pretty clear where the problem lies. But I think we’ll be ok.
I think MB will be here for the season now and if we get relegated he will go in the summer.
I really hope he can demonstrate the capability, flexibility and ruthlessness needed to get us to perform to the levels we need to, but the evidence of the past year does leave me concerned.
That doesn’t mean however that we are wrong to stick with him.
Four more wins should do it. The last time a team was relegated with fifty points was 18/19.
We should count ourselves slightly lucky that the bottom of L1 is so weak. Unless something remarkable happens there’s really only one relegation spot still in doubt.
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It wasn't a serious post, deary me.
I thought the 100s part showed that.
There were two and both were definite penalties.
You've surely realised by now that the internet doesn't do irony.
Superb interview and for me really showed the depth of thought that goes into these signings. Pete really is in love with this club and is sold on developing the club for the long term, which is great to know.
The interview certainly changed my view of the Couhigs.
Brilliant to see the faith that Rob and Pete have in Matt, as Matt obviously works very hard for the club and hopefully his luck will change.
Survive in League 1 this season and win the EFL Trophy at Wembley and we have had a decent season from where we were at 5pm last Saturday.
COYB!!!!!
So if all these signings don't work, and we lose the next 5 or 6 games, do they continue to have faith in Matt ? Would they then realise things havnt worked and change, or just accept relegation ?
Don't jump on my back, I've stated on the rumour thread that I want him to win even though he's lucky to be here. just asking what people think.
I think he'll be fine if he can get them to Wembley.
It’s a fair question isn’t it? If things still don’t work with a tranche of new players, it’s pretty clear where the problem lies. But I think we’ll be ok.
I think MB will be here for the season now and if we get relegated he will go in the summer.
I really hope he can demonstrate the capability, flexibility and ruthlessness needed to get us to perform to the levels we need to, but the evidence of the past year does leave me concerned.
That doesn’t mean however that we are wrong to stick with him.
I think barring us being Fleetwood style miles off, he was always getting this season.
My worry is that if we did go down, which I don't think we will, the Couhigs will be stubborn and double down on him.
Flipping heck. Aren’t we all getting a bit ahead of ourselves, positively as well as negatively?
Today will give us a few hints perhaps, one way or the other.
I agree that they'll double down on him if we go down
I will stay positive about our ability to stay in this league.
I do feel that we need to get Kone in the starting lineup and Josh and Taf back and we will have a nicely balanced unit.
It definitely feels a very seesaw position at the moment.
Everyone is willing it to all turn immediately, but we do need to see something on the pitch to suggest that first.
It was only last Saturday where we had possibly the worst first half in recent memory and got out of jail with their man's ludicrous red card.
Four more wins should do it. The last time a team was relegated with fifty points was 18/19.
We should count ourselves slightly lucky that the bottom of L1 is so weak. Unless something remarkable happens there’s really only one relegation spot still in doubt.
If we start playing at the level of Bristol Rovers we'll get 57 or so points which will be around 13th position. Totally possible.
23 points still feel a lot (as of today). Maybe not in a few weeks time.
Not a patch on 2003 when our star summer signings were Charlie Mapes, Steve Dell and Andy Bell.
The latter 2, were they even in the summer?
I always put that summer down as the season of 1 really underwhelming signing in Mapes. Although he started well with a goal.
It'd be an interesting debate when we had the least range in our signings.
The Sanchez "must have links to Brentford, Wimbledon or Barnet" days, or the Waddock "must be Aldershot" related days.
Besides Stuart Green, what were Peter Taylor's links?
Wandsworth, Pentonville and Belmarsh.
In fairness he had to deal with the Hayes "do you fancy gizzing me the club or i might have to leave" pre season.
That Duberry, Westlake, Westwood, Oliver, Green combo has to be our worst ever league summer window.