Gratzimp
Vital Squad Member
The Cowleys sacked thread has started to look a bit like an appraisal of MA and what he could achieve this year, so I thought I would start a new thread. Here goes:
When he came in we had just lost DC and NC, the team were beginning to lose, and then we got tanked 6-0 at home by Oxford, with Michael watching from the stands. The team, had lost that winning feeling, and was starting to drop.
Forward now to today, we have comfortably stayed up, the team is now comprised mostly of the players considered as bench warmers, plus a few youngsters added since Michael began.
Now it doesn't look all that good for next season, however, all the other teams in the league are in a similar position. But we have an advantage in that we have a excellent coach of youngsters, who will build the team in that respect. The players he brings in are I think going to be hungry, young, inexperienced yes, but coach-able meaning they wont have a mind set of playing a certain way.
I think that IF we can fend off relegation next season, and finish in the lower mid table position, as we did this season, with a squad that Michael has of his own, then there will be no reason we should not be pushing for the play-offs in the 21/22 season.
BUT, this is a damn hard league to get out of, I posted on the L1 facebook forum a post saying just how competitive this league is under my true name (DG), happily it got positive replies from the so called bigger clubs such as Sunderland and Portsmouth.
It will be even harder next season, will the clubs coming down and those coming up. I really don't envy MA in his task, so we as fans have to make his task easier, by not getting on his or the teams backs, when things are going wrong. I do believe we have the right man for the job, his failures were mainly down to being at Barnpot owners clubs, rather than he himself.
So lets get behind him and the team, then our goal of the promised land of the Championship can be achieved.
Not the Prem though - horrible league, full of plastics, arrogance, entitlement, and only interested in money.
When he came in we had just lost DC and NC, the team were beginning to lose, and then we got tanked 6-0 at home by Oxford, with Michael watching from the stands. The team, had lost that winning feeling, and was starting to drop.
Forward now to today, we have comfortably stayed up, the team is now comprised mostly of the players considered as bench warmers, plus a few youngsters added since Michael began.
Now it doesn't look all that good for next season, however, all the other teams in the league are in a similar position. But we have an advantage in that we have a excellent coach of youngsters, who will build the team in that respect. The players he brings in are I think going to be hungry, young, inexperienced yes, but coach-able meaning they wont have a mind set of playing a certain way.
I think that IF we can fend off relegation next season, and finish in the lower mid table position, as we did this season, with a squad that Michael has of his own, then there will be no reason we should not be pushing for the play-offs in the 21/22 season.
BUT, this is a damn hard league to get out of, I posted on the L1 facebook forum a post saying just how competitive this league is under my true name (DG), happily it got positive replies from the so called bigger clubs such as Sunderland and Portsmouth.
It will be even harder next season, will the clubs coming down and those coming up. I really don't envy MA in his task, so we as fans have to make his task easier, by not getting on his or the teams backs, when things are going wrong. I do believe we have the right man for the job, his failures were mainly down to being at Barnpot owners clubs, rather than he himself.
So lets get behind him and the team, then our goal of the promised land of the Championship can be achieved.
Not the Prem though - horrible league, full of plastics, arrogance, entitlement, and only interested in money.