Hamshaw Believes He Is The Man For The Job

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The Millers Boss explains what he meant by 'deep rooted issues'

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Hamshaw Believes He Is The Man For The Job

Rotherham United Manager Matt Hamshaw spoke to the local press after the home defeat to Peterborough and came out with the statement ‘deep rooted issues’. Ahead of this weekend’s game at Bradford…
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So basically someone has had a word and MH has backtracked. His explanation was simply waffle. Personally, I don't care if he believes he's the right man for the job. I doubt if Taylor, Richardson or Evans would have said different. It's about evidence, about performance, about decisions, about selections, about recruitment and about game management. For me there's no evidence he is any good. But there's no point in sacking him because nobody better would work at RUFC as things stand.
 
Next Manager is already employed at the club.

Stick with him and judge him September/ October this year. ( 26 / 27 season. )
Yes he has made mistakes and those mistakes need addressing asap with a little help from the Chairman.
A reset at the end of this season. A 3 year project because it’s not going to happen in 2 transfer windows.
As a small club we can’t keep hiring and firing managers in the hope we drop lucky.
 
Guy_Branston said:
Next Manager is already employed at the club.

Stick with him and judge him September/ October this year. ( 26 / 27 season. )
Yes he has made mistakes and those mistakes need addressing asap with a little help from the Chairman.
A reset at the end of this season. A 3 year project because it’s not going to happen in 2 transfer windows.
As a small club we can’t keep hiring and firing managers in the hope we drop lucky.
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Guy, I always respect your views and have consistently said we have to give managers time. But many fans decided quickly that Stubbs (who had won the Scottish Cup) was hopeless, that Taylor (whose 4:3:3 in the Championship before injuries wrecked his defence produced better football than anything MH has shown in L1) had to go, that Richardson (who had won the L1 title) was a no-hoper and yet the Rawmarsh Pep is to be given until October 2026, is to be allowed to oversee the reset, is to be trusted to get things right he has so far got hopelssly wrong. Why? As Mrs Merton might have asked; 'What attracts Rotherham fans to Rawmarsh Matt?'

And fans can't have it both ways. A SITK on another forum who knows MH personally has said for months that fans would not believe what has gone on at RUFC but suddenly MH backtracks and says it was all just the heat of the moment.
 
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Tbh he is getting away with it because he is one of us. I find myself totally baffled by his decisions. I will say the usual, He seems a nice bloke. That doesn't work right now. I fear being relegated. That will be a total disaster. Crowds will drop big time. Season tickets, For the REAL hardcore.
 
RufcChappellRoanFanCraig said:
Tbh he is getting away with it because he is one of us. I find myself totally baffled by his decisions. I will say the usual, He seems a nice bloke. That doesn't work right now. I fear being relegated. That will be a total disaster. Crowds will drop big time. Season tickets, For the REAL hardcore.
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Lindum said:
Guy, I always respect your views and have consistently said we have to give managers time. But many fans decided quickly that Stubbs (who had won the Scottish Cup) was hopeless, that Taylor (whose 4:3:3 in the Championship before injuries wrecked his defence produced better football than anything MH has shown in L1) had to go, that Richardson (who had won the L1 title) was a no-hoper and yet the Rawmarsh Pep is to be given until October 2026, is to be allowed to oversee the reset, is to be trusted to get things right he has so far got hopelssly wrong. Why? As Mrs Merton might have asked; 'What attracts Rotherham fans to Rawmarsh Matt?'

And fans can't have it both ways. *** A SITK on another forum who knows MH personally has said for months that fans would not believe what has gone on at RUFC but suddenly MH backtracks and says it was all just the heat of the moment. ***
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He’s getting away with it because there’s no one out there that will change results.
I’ve said before, it won’t change under the current regime. He doesn’t have a fixed budget. They target affordable players and the Chairman decides yes or no.
Keep hiring and firing managers every 12 months won’t work.
Leam Richardson was disappointed when he was sacked and so was I., even though the football wasn’t entertaining.
Somewhere along the line decisions have to be made. The next manager is already at the club, ( promote from within, again.)

Redfearn, Stubbs tried to alter the culture of the club by trying to bring younger players in. Kenny Jackett decided after 5 games he didn’t want the job. Matt Taylor took a gamble of bringing older experienced players in that were injury prone. (Dad’s Army didn’t work. )
It was actually all downhill when Paul Warne left and his backroom staff followed him to Derby.
 
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And fans can't have it both ways. A SITK on another forum who knows MH personally has said for months that fans would not believe what has gone on at RUFC but suddenly MH backtracks and says it was all just the heat of the moment.
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I will never understand why a SITK who knows MH personally would feel the need to broadcast it all over Social Media about what went on with previous managers / players / how the club operate.
Previous Manager fetched several players in that had won promotion from League 1. Reece James had 3 promotions with two different clubs. Raggett, Rafferty, JCH won promotions. Previous manager went for an immediate return back to the Championship and it backfired.
I’m sure there was / is plenty of things wrong at the club and certain things that can be improved on but it’s not going to happen in 2 transfer windows.
Abuse aimed at players at Blackpool away will have a detrimental effect.
Kevin Watson, an ex player of ours was driven out of RUFC because of what a minority of fans were saying.
The more people abuse the players the more they will take it personally and want away.

Plenty of mistakes from the manager and I’m prepared to give him more time to see what these players coming back from injury bring to the team.
He could go one up front and play 4-3-2-1 and play for a point and 3 points if they could pinch a winner. At present we can’t buy a goal in open play.
Forget Gary Rowett or Robbie Savage as new manager.
Rowett wasn’t too interested in the managers job when he was out of work last time.
Oh and sell Sam Nombe in the summer and bring a complete forward line in.

Rant over.
 
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We have switched from signing players who were "good/fit five years ago", to "youngsters who MAY have some sell-on value, plus short-term crocks who we can patch up". The first approach (under SE) was an expensive failure. The MH-era "on the cheap" approach, and he was dealt a poor hand to start with, has been as bad, if not worse. Few of those gambles have worked. The team seelctions and formations under MH have usually been designed to get 0-0 draws , or scrape 1-0 wins... and have mainly failed once teams knew what we were up to. The season has generally been lacking entertainment... plus the usual Cup embarrassmemts (not our priority, you see) , and not much sign that any manager could turn things around with this set of players. Some backroom staff leaving a few weeks after starting new jobs at RUFC, flagged up where we are probably heading. It's not a great L1 though, and some good signings could still save the day. (More of the same won't).

Otherwise, look forward to Paul Douglas saying "We have the fifth highest budget in L2" next season.
 
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It's not a great L1 though and some good signings could still save the day. (More of the same won't).

Otherwise look forward to Paul Douglas saying "We have the fifth highest budget in L2" next season.
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A couple of my pre-season relegation favourites are slowly pulling themselves away, notably Exeter and Northampton. Burton are as much ravaged by injury as we are - at my last look they had 12 players out. I still think Blackpool will pull away. Barnsley are poor atm but again I just think they have enough about them to stay safe. So, if we assume (perhaps wrongly) that Port Vale have too much to do it leaves 3 relegation spots from a dwindling list of candidates. Leyton Orient are an enigma as I expected more from them and they may still put a run together. Wimbledon, Doncaster, Rotherham, Orient, Burton and Northampton are my picks to finish between 18th and 23rd. We are 3-5 points behind all but Doncaster, 7 points behind Wimbledon. Our GD is poor.
 
In my humble opinion we are a club in a mess! A mess that could be sorted were the 'indians' given the right tools by the 'chiefs'.
We all think we know what those are (although there is plenty of disagreement as to the priorities!) but until the 'big chief' accepts the need for big changes then we will continue to stumble along.
 
I can’t stand Steve Evans and never could do so I might be a bit biased, but to my mind he was a disaster and the Board made a huge error of judgment (1) bringing him back in the first place and (2) backing him so heavily. Giving multi year contracts to so many older players on very good league one money was actually a huge gamble even though we didn’t pay much in fees. Not only that, Evans wasn’t going to answer to a Director of Football which is why that long term plan was binned off so quickly. Whoever was manager this season had a huge uphill battle because they were stuck with a few players eating up a lot of the budget who weren’t going to contribute. We all know who they are. In a way I resent Evans for getting himself sacked, because he was able to walk away and leave someone else to try and tidy up his mess. Something he did with us last time and that he has done at other clubs. I totally understand that the club doesn’t want to overspend, which means that there is very little room for Hamshaw to manoeuvre, but to a large extent that is a mess of the Boards own making by gambling so heavily on Evans. That being said for reasons that have been well rehearsed, in my opinion Hamshaw hasn’t helped himself at times. There’s time yet to turn it around but it has to start soon. I’ll be at Stockport with hope but no expectation. UTM
 
Excellent posts from sixpence and Clean. I disagree with Clean in only one small way. He refers to 'the Board.' RUFC is a Byzantine structure which reminds me of Louis XIV's apocryphal answer when asked about the nature of his government; 'L'etat, c'est moi!' Nominal job titles mean nothing at NYS. TS - as PD admitted - makes the calls and unfortunately he's not very good. We apparently don't set budgets for recruitment: Oliver Twist has to go to Arkwright with an empty bowl and the great man in all the depth of his ignorance of football and football players makes the call. Laughable.
 
I take the point Lindum and it’s a point well made. Not all managers would accept that kind of hierarchy although it’s not unique in football. You hear stories of chairmen picking the team at some (big) clubs. Our overall lack of professionalism has probably hurt us in the past though. Warnock not staying, Rowett turning us down and Jackett bailing out might be examples. I think I would also argue that three or four managers sacked by TS were sacked prematurely in response to pressure from fans. I am thinking of Richardson and perhaps more controversially Redfearn, Stubbs and Taylor who had difficult remits and were imo scapegoated to some extent. Professional football is a very small world and word no doubt gets around. Tony Stewart owes us nothing at all, but you simply can’t expect to compete consistently in the Chanpionship if you just haven’t got the infrastructure (never mind the money) to do the job properly, however well intentioned you might be.
 
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I think I would also argue that three or four managers sacked by TS were sacked prematurely in response to pressure from fans. I am thinking of Richardson and perhaps more controversially Redfearn, Stubbs and Taylor who had difficult remits and were imo scapegoated to some extent. Professional football is a very small world and word no doubt gets around. Tony Stewart owes us nothing at all, but you simply can’t expect to compete consistently in the Chanpionship if you just haven’t got the infrastructure (never mind the money) to do the job properly, however well intentioned you might be.
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I do think that Mr Stewart was kowtowing to the fans, with the sackings of Richardson, Redfearn and Taylor - none, in my humble opinion given long enough to do what they started - and, I suppose, Stubbs too.

I'm not sure about running a club by not setting out a plan of monies you can spend on certain aspects, which includes transfers - seems an old fashioned way of doing it.

I'm afraid you are never going to make money owning a football club and I'm not sure our Chairman really understood that when he took us on.
 
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