| Expectations for the rest of the season 20:03 - Nov 9 with 16876 views | Rangersw12 |
What are everyone's expectations now that we a quarter a way through the season ?
For me personally, I think we very much underperforming, players from last season regressing with Dunne & Varane being the biggest culprits.
We finally have a bit of pace in the squad and also a couple of decent strikers but we just never seem to improve and now look the most unfit squad in the league . This is a very poor Championship ( look at the top 10 ) yet other clubs with similar budgets are out performing us again .
We should easily be top 10 this with an outside chance of pushing for the play offs but at the moment we seem way off .
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| Expectations for the rest of the season on 18:56 - Nov 13 with 680 views | kensalriser |
| Expectations for the rest of the season on 17:03 - Nov 12 by TK1 |
As I've said before, we were bottom and five points adrift at this time last year. Two wins, two defeats changes everything. You can't tell anything in November.
I think we're an improving team who will get better over the season as players bed in and we sign a keeper. I certainly feel much more confident than I did in November 2024, but I missed Coventry and Derby so vision may be impaired by that. But let's see.
This is interesting, I think.
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How toe curling is 'PUSB'? |  |
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| Expectations for the rest of the season on 21:07 - Nov 13 with 499 views | Rsole |
| Expectations for the rest of the season on 21:39 - Nov 12 by KensalT |
The Peter Principle presupposes that there's a hierarchy that you rise through by being competent at your job and that you stop rising when you run out of competence and can't go any higher.
Nourry seems to have by-passed all of that by being parachuted into the top job with a sketchy CV at best.
And he seems to be insecure about that fact. Which I think is why he keeps trying to over inflate the experience that got him there.
However he got the job he needs to get over this apparent "imposter syndrome"
If in 24 months from now we're pushing for the playoffs with youngsters coming through into the first team and millions earned in player sales then no one will care if his journalistic career was a paper round on the White City Estate and his career in football started with completing the set of Panini stickers for the 2012 World Cup.
He's got the top job. Do it well, learn how to delegate, take good advice, move the club forward and all will be forgiven. |
Not an argument or an issue with what you said - at all about this:
The Peter Principle presupposes that there's a hierarchy that you rise through by being competent at your job and that you stop rising when you run out of competence and can't go any higher.
Like when you were the externally contracted, recruitment guy that was asked to find a CEO but got promoted to CEO in the absence of finding one suitable ? Ok, it’s not an internal promotion but it’s still a multi-level promotion into a role where he had zero experience. That’s effectively what we did with him - a 20 something with little to no hands on experience.
I’m not sure he suffers from Imposter Syndrome either - we may think he’s an imposter, BUT he doesn’t believe he’s an imposter and he clearly thinks he should be doing the job, or one even higher up the chain. You could almost classify that as the opposite of the admittedly loose definition but I’m not sure what that is classified as because very few people can pull it off (ooh er).
Taking it a stage further, he’s added coaches that report directly to him, insurance policies in case the head coach is fired again, employed himself as DoF and basically abandoned most of his badly articulated strategy(s) within a few weeks of the season starting. Not the definitive list - just a summary.
See it all the time with weak CEOs in every Zombie business. Unfortunately, I see the Zombie parallels in our club. Whilst we are not the only ones and some have it much worse, we could actually do something about it with the right set up. |  |
| Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?
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| Expectations for the rest of the season on 22:03 - Nov 13 with 438 views | Lblock |
| Expectations for the rest of the season on 13:39 - Nov 13 by Northernr |
Back three suits a few of our defensive players - RND as a LWB, Jimmy Dunne right sided CB, Steve Cook as an anchor in the middle not getting dragged out of position, JCS the perfect left sided CB if anybody ever finds a pulse.
It doesn't, however suit many players further forward. You've recruited a whole load of tiny tens to play in some form of 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1. A back three system means you're going to struggle to fit in more than one of Saito, Chair, Poku, Smyth, Vale, Kolli, Dembele... You;d end up playing some of these as a wing back which I don't think would go well. |
There you go
So have we recruited a decent Championship squad that can challenge?
Due to that lack of adaptability, availability and I’d say ability…… my answer is no. |  |
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| Expectations for the rest of the season on 22:09 - Nov 13 with 421 views | KensalT |
| Expectations for the rest of the season on 21:07 - Nov 13 by Rsole |
Not an argument or an issue with what you said - at all about this:
The Peter Principle presupposes that there's a hierarchy that you rise through by being competent at your job and that you stop rising when you run out of competence and can't go any higher.
Like when you were the externally contracted, recruitment guy that was asked to find a CEO but got promoted to CEO in the absence of finding one suitable ? Ok, it’s not an internal promotion but it’s still a multi-level promotion into a role where he had zero experience. That’s effectively what we did with him - a 20 something with little to no hands on experience.
I’m not sure he suffers from Imposter Syndrome either - we may think he’s an imposter, BUT he doesn’t believe he’s an imposter and he clearly thinks he should be doing the job, or one even higher up the chain. You could almost classify that as the opposite of the admittedly loose definition but I’m not sure what that is classified as because very few people can pull it off (ooh er).
Taking it a stage further, he’s added coaches that report directly to him, insurance policies in case the head coach is fired again, employed himself as DoF and basically abandoned most of his badly articulated strategy(s) within a few weeks of the season starting. Not the definitive list - just a summary.
See it all the time with weak CEOs in every Zombie business. Unfortunately, I see the Zombie parallels in our club. Whilst we are not the only ones and some have it much worse, we could actually do something about it with the right set up. |
We might be reading the signs differently but I agree with you that he does come across as a weak character.
But in the interests of balance we have done some good transfer business under his leadership. Fighting off competition for Kone and Poku was a plus, as was getting reasonable money in for the sales of Armstrong and Kelman, And Burrell is looking like the bargain of the Championship this season
For all our sakes he needs to get over his insecurities, build on his small successes to date and move the club forward.
(I know there have been mistakes as well, but I'm hoping he learns from those)
Hopefully by now the penny will have dropped that pisballing around with possession football isn't working for us and we need to rethink our approach.
It will be interesting to see if we revive our interest for Seny Dieng in January.
One of Seny's strengths is that he's good with the ball at his feet.
I hope we don't see his (possible) return as an excuse to go back to trying to play out from the back.
That's my biggest hope for the rest of the season. That the CEO/DoF accepts that we can't play out from the back and we put it behind us for good.
A strong and confident CEO would make that decision. Time for Nourry to man up. | | | |
| Expectations for the rest of the season on 22:19 - Nov 13 with 403 views | Logman |
I think we would be miles away from any sort of 5 or 3 at the back. Maybe in the future when we get some of the Devt Squad defenders coming through (Adamson, Akendilini, Smith, Agbude) but the thought of Jimmy Dunne and Steve Cook being two of a back three would send shivers down my back.
I'm pretty sure the club have thought 'Yeah, Marti's 4-2-3-1 can work, so we will recruit accordingly'.
I think we do have the players for 4-2-3-1 if we play the right players in the right positions, e.g. a proper right back, Kone or Burrell at no. 9, Vale in the middle of the 3 etc etc
So, no, I don't think we have recruited badly. Just need to play the right players in the right positions. | | | |
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