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Reply | Marti Camx4
at 08:58 29 Apr 2024
In reference to the other thread about how far ahead we need to be to feel safe, Marti's answer was 3-0 going by that little vid  |
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Reply | The LFW Confession Box
at 21:13 28 Apr 2024
I'll tell you this. Watching Gazball nearly finished me with this club. 51 years being part of my soul, and I got to the stage that I was embarrassed and depressed coming to watch them. Only reason I kept with it was to have some time catching up with my son that I wouldn't have otherwise had.
So for those of you who think I'm a bit hard on jolly old Gaz, in a year where I have the shock of my second marriage break up from nowhere, and the not quite so unexpected death of my mum, if he'd lost me my love for this lot, it wouldn't be his sodding wellbeing that would have been my primary concern. |
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Reply | Gareth Ainsworth Wellbeing!
at 21:01 28 Apr 2024
I think that's a pretty decent view of things, but be in no doubt it's one that any of us could only take now we have survived this season. If we'd been relegated, I fear the effect at the club would have been catastrophic, and no one would have been quite so sanguine.
The depth of the trouble we were in is illustrated by the fact that although MC had us achieving form and results of a top eight team, it took until game 45 to confirm our survival.
The fans may now treat GA with whatever respect they wish for his time as a player, and I have no problem if they want to forget about his stint as manager. But the people running the club should never ever be allowed to forget not only the impact of his appointment, but the process of managerial appointments last season.
Beale being allowed to dictate to the club who stayed and who went should never have happened. Critchley's appointment was not only the wrong man at the wrong time, but took a sodding eternity to confirm during the time where we had a midseason break for World Cup, so we had been afforded a decent amount of time to get it right. Stunk of complacency. And having been interviewed and turned down (so I believe) prior to Beale and Critchley, Ainsworth's appointment simply should never have happened. I remember someone asking whether GA was interviewed prior to Critchley, and being told by the guy at WLS that yes he had, but there was as much chance of him getting the job as you or I. Bad decision upon worse decision upon "Push the f@rking red button" decision.
Make absolutely no doubt that we got away with it big big time this season. There is no place for complacency, or confused and indecisive management at any successful business. We've been given a massive chance to start putting in place the building blocks to get it right going forward, particularly if we get an Eze dividend. The support appears to be growing, and youngsters are beginning to join the fanbase. This is a moment of big opportunity for us, and we must take advantage to show lessons have been learned, and to make the club "better" in every single way. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 17:17 27 Apr 2024
With respect, you spent all of last Summer telling everyone who expressed misgivings about Ainsworth that they were wrong, so it's a bit disingenuous to tell everyone to stop talking about him now.
The truth is that bloke brought the club to the brink of a ruinous relegation through his ineptitude and lack of managerial and tactical ability. I don't need inside information on how Willock was treated by Ainsworth, it was there for absolutely everyone to see through his benching, his 95th minute introductions to games already lost, and Ainsworth's complete inability to develop a game plan to suit not only Willock, but the majority of the squad, assembled to play passing attacking football. I mean using Eze speaking positively as an example, I doubt Ebs has ever said anything nasty about anyone in his entire life.
Ainsworth lost his job, a job he was never qualified to be given in the first place, because he was not delivering, simple as. Within 5 weeks, MC had us playing, and that included Willock scoring in three consecutive games. 5 weeks. The person who was responsible for Ainsworth's appointment, we are led to believe, was Amit, and he apparently issued an apology to the fans for having to go through this season, which I think is a tacit admission of his part in the whole debacle of Ainsworth's appointment.
Finally, if it takes me or anyone else reminding everyone of the potential consequences of making such boneheaded and clearly unsuitable appointments so it doesn't happen again to us in the future, I'd happily be on here every day doing so. You may see it as spilling blood, I'd have the stats of this season before and after Ainsworth hung in the offices of the Chairman and CEO if I could. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 16:01 27 Apr 2024
I said Willock was treated disgracefully by Ainsworth. You said you disagreed with my Ainsworth comments.
I mean, perhaps it would be better just to say that everyone's entitled to an opinion. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 15:10 27 Apr 2024
What I am saying is that if you are employed as a Formula One car mechanic, and you have to report to a manager who tells you that what you need to do to fix a problem with the engine is smack it with a wrench because that always used to sort your Ford Escort out, then you are not going to have any respect for that manager, are you?
The players have copped a lot of abuse over the last few years, but in the space of one season they had Mick Spiel, Neil Nice but Boring, and Mike Bassett appointed to manage them. It's not entirely surprising that some may have struggled to keep the faith is it? So for those that did, fair play to them, but a lot of the problems have not been down to them. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 14:33 27 Apr 2024
Part of the art of management is understanding that certain characters need handling in certain ways. I don' t think Ainsworth had the tactical acumen or the interpersonal skills to bring the best, or anywhere near it, out of Willock.
I'll tell you straight, if I worked for a manager who had clearly been appointed to a role way over and above his capabilities, I wouldn't wear it either. It isn't good enough to say, "well you're being paid a lot of money to perform, just get on with it". If I'm good enough to be paid a lot of money, I'll go somewhere else where my talent is appreciated and treated in an appropriate manner.
We have avoided being ruined for years to come by the skin of our teeth. The fault for that would not have sat with Willock, it would have sat with the shocking appointment of Ainsworth. |
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Reply | Young Uns .
at 14:17 27 Apr 2024
Was thinking last night that maybe being outside the Prem, with its inflated ticket prices, may have helped us in that respect. |
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Reply | Waking up Safe
at 14:15 27 Apr 2024
Noticeable that Amit has apparently apologised on social media to the fans for this season. And I think we all know what he means. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 14:05 27 Apr 2024
You know, I think we also shouldn't forget that he was disgracefully treated by Ainsworth - how much has that bloke got to answer for?
I will say what I said last week; if he is playing for a new contract elsewhere, then I have full admiration and respect for the way he has applied himself over the last month or so, because with his injury record, he's taking a big risk. His injuries have taken months at a time out of his career.
The idea that we might be able to persuade him to sign a 3 year contract with an agreed release fee, with a view to selling in a year at a profit does have merit. But I think that the likelihood is we would be able to replace him more cheaply than resigning him. As has been said elsewhere, there are likely to be plenty of other fish in the sea |
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Reply | Waking up Safe
at 11:35 27 Apr 2024
I think we shouldn't underestimate the fact that it's a Friday, people are finished work for the week and I wouldn't mind betting 90% of our lot were in a pub around Shepherd's Bush for 2 hours or more before the game. We didn't just dominate them on the pitch. |
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Reply | Andersen’s goal
at 11:19 27 Apr 2024
I too thought of Stan there, the little close control dribble into space. Had a feeling he might score last night, and was delighted for him that he did.
Brian, that is a cracking picture! |
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Reply | Cifuentes on Leeds
at 11:02 27 Apr 2024
I mean, it would be outrageously ambitious, but I wonder if the club might think about making him an offer too good to refuse to retain him long term, to allow him to develop the club in his image? I don't know, some kind of share ownership maybe? |
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Reply | Waking up Safe
at 10:30 27 Apr 2024
I've done many good and great things in my life. Hauling my arse out of bed at 5am this morning to go to market was right up there.
I feel like I'm trying to push the corpse of Giant Haystacks up Mount Kilimanjaro through an avalanche with a hangover. And I didn't touch a drop, honest!
Just a staggering night and atmosphere. To paraphrase Clive, cats and dogs singing and shouting and standing and clapping together from minute one to minute 96. I know it's old and rickety and not really fit for purpose anymore, but on nights like last night, that old stadium cannot be beat. [Post edited 27 Apr 10:31]
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Reply | Is this, unexpectedly, a season to be savoured after all?
at 10:20 27 Apr 2024
Staying up is of course a tremendous achievement from where we were. And plenty's been said about that.
But what has been absolutely staggering has been the support. We've been selling out home and away allocations for months now. You know selling out the allocation for Plymouth midweek was just insane. Reportedly many more youngsters going to the away games too.
And in the greater scheme of things, if we can keep doing this, it will support the idea that a new stadium needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. That may be one of the most important developments from this season for the longer term future of the club. In 10 years, who knows, we may look back at this season as one of the most important in our history. |
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Thread | Relegation battle
at 00:21 27 Apr 2024
Yeah. We used to be in one of them.
Now all we have to do is finish ahead of Watford and we'll be going up as Champions  |
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Reply | This season.
at 20:09 25 Apr 2024
How long has this season been? Well it started in the Neanderthal Era  |
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