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  1. Jim Smith
    @Morty - the poor defending has been undermining us all season and it is that which started to erode the belief once we started dropping points because of it. In my view its to do with how we are coached and set up. Midfielders consistently fail to track their man back, full backs consistently fail to stop crosses coming in and when crosses do come in our defenders are too often the wrong side of the man or marking space. Even when we were getting good results these flaws were costing us goals and making the latter stages of games uncomfortable. ALL of our defenders are capable of doing these basic things (except maybe Martin winning headers as a CB) so the fact they are all seemingly unable to do it in this set up suggests to me that there is a deeper problem then belief.
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    @king - don''t disagree a couple of proper leaders would not go amiss but I also thing that mental toughness comes from belief and belief comes from knowing you can do the basics (i.e. defend) properly and thus always give your self a chance in games.
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    Combination of 1 and 2. I suspect Moxey can see that he''s not up to it but I think the deluded duo on the board probably still think he''s talented and its all down to the players. I think they want to allow him to break up the squad and rebuild it.
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    Sorry that should say 16-21 bracket.
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    Option B clearly must be the fallback option. You have to have a strategy for different scenarios and clearly the strategy should we not be able to get back up within this brief parachute payment must be Option B. the recruitment of more players in the 16-12 bracket from non/lower-league, other academies and abroad with this Icelandic kid is something I presume that we all support, as is hopefully ensuring our academy is more productive. That strategy should continue to be pursued whatever level we find ourselves at. However, don''t try and make out that "Option B" has been the boards strategy all along and it certainly should not have been. We should be doing all we can to get back up this season or next because really the best chance of long term financial sustainability is to be in the top flight with the TV monies. indeed under our ownership model its probably the only chance we have of being truly competitive such has the shift been in finances in the game. Option B and staying in the championship whilst owned by the Smiths is a huge risk because our income will drop by £42 million in 18 months time and we will thereafter have to sell any half decent youngster we produce in order to survive.
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    It should be utterly irrelevant. "Must win" games for the manager are inappropriate because as we have seen before one home win means nothing. He is not good enough period. That said the combination of Lambert''s presence and a home defeat would I suspect be a perfect storm that would see the home fans finally rise up.
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    I don''t know how to sort the quotes thing. I will just reply without the quotes!
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    [quote user="morty"][quote user="king canary"]@Cantiaci I agree there would have been a meltdown if they''d all gone. This summer though we did spend £15m on 4 players and could have used some of that to address the leadership/mental issues in the team. Instead of £8m on an attacking midfielder we didn''t really need (and Alex Neil doesn''t seem to want to use) we could have bought an experienced leader to play next to Klose. Instead of Canos could we not have put that money towards an experienced defensive midfielder? The whole spine of this team needed work and we wasted a bunch of money n luxury players we didn''t really need.[/quote]Point being though is that we didn''t know the mental toughness issue, until the wheels fell off. I am pretty sure the players all made the right noises in how much they were up for the fight, in the summer.[/quote] The mental toughness thing is being overplayed in my book. Its a bit of arrogance amongst both squad and management (leading to them thinkin they can cruise through games like Saturday) but far more than anything else its basic defending that lets us down time and time again. the mental frailty of late comes from the fact that we can''t stop conceding goals because we can''t/don''t defend properly. Once that gets into the players heads then the mental frailty follows.
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    [quote user="morty"][quote user="Cantiaci Canary"]There would have been a MELT DOWN if we had sold Klose, Brady, Olsson AND Redmond in the summer! It was a valid strategy to keep the Premier League squad together (as Burnley did) but it hasn''t worked because AN hasn''t learned how to reverse a severe poor turn in form yet and he hasn''t put a fire in their bellies to step up when the chips are down. Sadly, a more experienced manager would have this squad sitting pretty in 1st or 2nd now in my opinion.[/quote]I still think it says as much, if not more about the players, than it does the manager.[/quote] Its about both but we''ve all been around long enough to have seen numerous examples where the same players perform markedly better immediately under a new manager. We saw exactly that with many of this lot two years ago when Neil came in. The fact that some of the players are culpable for how we have performed this season does not necessarily equate with the solution being ditching all the players in order to allow a manager who has show zero talent, ability or sound judgment now for 18 months to rebuild the squad. A large number of our players are good, international quality players (although the numbers are diminishing if Olsson is allowed to leave) who perform well for their countries yet appear unable to do even the most basic defensive tasks when playing for us in the league. I think to remove too much quality from the squad now and "start again" would be a huge mistake.
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    [quote user="morty"]Alex Neil really isn''t the worst manager we have ever had.[/quote] In terms of his managerial ability and what he has managed to do with the resources he has had at his disposal at this moment in time he is right up there with some of the worst of them in my book.
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    Really can''t risk Tettey in my view. If he got a yellow in this game would miss two games in the league where we probably have no other fit midfielders. Play the kids.
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    [quote user="nutty nigel"][quote user="Indy"][quote user="nutty nigel"]Sorry Beardo. I meant to add that Neil''s contract was given in 2015. I expect the deal you refer to is the severence pay reported in the sun. The question that I''d like answered is how long was the contract McNally gave to Neil. The answer to that would give a bit more perspective to the reported 2m quid pay out.[/quote] I think it''ll only be a years rolling contract as that would be the standard years severance pay, I bet AN is on 40k a week. That would be the 2 million.[/quote]That''s what he was on originally Indy. The contract he was awarded in 2015 was described as an improved long term contract with a vastly enhanced salary.I''ve made this same point over and over but without knowing the details of that contract the reported 2m severance deal a year later doesn''t have any context. It could be more than he would have got or it could be less. [/quote] The key point about the media reports was not that it was £2m severance but that it was two YEARS pay. I suspect the £2m figure was a media guess at what two years pay might be but the point was his contract was changed so that the severance package was worse from the clubs perspective.
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    Tofollo even! Quite an amusing autocorrect that one!
  14. Jim Smith
    Any Olsson sale should not have been allowed to happen til we can adequate cover/a replacement. Tomfoolery should not have been sent back on loan til the position was clear given that we presumably knew we might sell Olson and Brady. This is incredibly basic, common sense stuff but obviously not for Alex "Thicko" Neil or our idiotic board.
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    In any event he should not have taken the money, given his is an unpaid role which I would take to naturally include being part of the recruitment process for a new CEO. What a joke that must have been by the way seeing as we ended up with Jez.
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    [quote user="nutty nigel"]No Jim. I can''t remember the exact words but it was something along the lines of the club being short handed earlier in the year. He certainly didn''t say it was for being interim CE.[/quote] Both Davitt and Butler reported it as acting CEO on the night.
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    [quote user="king canary"]I was half expecting it to have been paid to nephew Tom tbh- if that had been the case I think that might have been the end for me.[/quote] i think many of us suspected that and they knew the question would come up at the AGM.
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    [quote user="nutty nigel"]It''s all very well keep posting articles that way Steve Stone stood in for McNally. I don''t think anyone disputes that. We even had a supporters forum with Steve Stone where he talked about how he came to be doing it. I just don''t remember anyone from the club saying the 90 was for standing in as CE. And further to that the 2016 book closed at the end of June but Moxey didn''t start til the second week of August. So if it wasn''t a post balance sheet event then there''s either more to come or it wasn''t for being interim CE.[/quote] Nutty - is that not exactly what MWJ said when they were asked the question at the AGM - that the payment was made to Balls for standing in as CEO after McNally left (or words to that effect). It was not a post balance sheet event. The contradiction with the public statements from the club throughout the relevant 3 month period that Steve Stone was interim CEO was why several of us raised our eyebrows when it was reported that MWJ had said that.
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    I don''t think that is acceptable Morty. He shouldn''t have been paid the money and he should not have accepted it even if that is how it transpired. To be honest I''m dubious about the whole episode.
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    [quote user="morty"][quote user="Indy"][quote user="morty"][quote user="Indy"]Not having that, it was touted as a non payment role, it wasn''t regardless how you paint it. Had he actually done something to contribute to earning that that''s fine, but really struggling to see what he''s actually done to earn 90k.[/quote]He stood in, in the role of CEO. The money was given to him by the club, in recognition of the long hours he put in doing so. He didn''t ask to be paid, but the club insisted he was paid the going rate. Which was actually less than they would have paid McNally to do it.[/quote] Which is totally contradicting the press at the time on the city web Stone was appointed interim CEO, funny that at the AGM it changed to suite the 90k payment. We can all read into things what we want to see, my view is different to yours on this one Morty.[/quote]But thats what happened, it was stated at the AGM.Facts, not views.Are you saying the club has lied to us?[/quote] It is not a fact because he was NOT the interim CEO. Stone was. It may or may not be a fact that he did some CEO type work and that is why they paid him but frankly I don''t believe a word they say at the moment. He of course claims he tried to turn it down but the others were insistent he take it. Laughable.
  21. Jim Smith
    Can he come back and make himself useful playing for us then whilst he''s on strike?
  22. Jim Smith
    I will respond with a letter saying I won''t be renewing until they listen to their supporters and remove this failing manager.
  23. Jim Smith
    See he got his usual "I''ve spoken to Delia and Jez" line into the post match interview as well. I don''t blame the players if they really don''t like Neil and want him gone. He comes across as massively arrogant, unwilling to accept responsibility for any of our failings yet happy to drop people or hang them out to dry publically when things go wrong and take credit for anything good. We should have seen that when he blatantly gazumped Phelan to take all the credit for that win at Bournemouth in his first game. I have never thought he is "likeable" as others seem to feel. Quite the opposite.
  24. Jim Smith
    Does he not live in Yorkshire somewhere near Leeds? If so makes the tweet even more disingenuous. Ill advised.
  25. Jim Smith
    [quote user="ricardo"][quote user="Jim Smith"] The thing is Ricardo we have a lot of good players so occasionally we are going to beat teams in the way we did Derby. Wes was on fire and in the team and that makes us tick. Even in that game though they had two one on ones despite being very poor and not really threatening that much so the fallibility at the back was still there. Neil then made that result all about him and I think saw it as proof that there was nothing wrong with his methods hence the same old defensive cr*p today.[/quote]Jim, eventually we will come to a must win game that he doesn''t win.[/quote] Yes but I think where you and I differ is that you are happy to wait for that point whereas I would prefer them to be proactive and foresee things not wait until that point because waiting and waiting for that moment has already damaged us.
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