Scenario

[sooty]

If i gave you £200 to buy a car that had done 130,000 miles and not been serviced since 60,000 miles surely it would let you down and spend a lot of time in the garage. Your friends would probably laugh and say why dont you get a new one.

Yet if i gave you £25,000 to buy a really nice car with a three year warranty and free servicing and corrosion checks for three years, it would probably be trouble free and go really well. You would be the envy of your mates and every one would like to take her for a spin.

Surely this is like football. If your Chairman/board have plenty of money to throw at you on decent players then you will succeed, however if you are running on a shoestring it wouldn't matter if you brought Benitez/Ferguson and Murinho then you would still struggle!
Maybe the problem lies with finances/spending restrictions which leads to very limited options for whoever is in charge. Maybe im wrong please give me your views.:confused: :confused: :confused:

[DutchBantam]

Dunno about that.

Plenty of managers have crashed their brand new Ferrari's into lampposts while poeple like Paul Jewell have driven their 20 year old Skoda for another 200,000 miles.

[Yeadon Bantam]

Or in football terms parkinson at colchester has had to work with about £3 and has got them up, same with sarfend

[sooty]

How, what could a manager do with our squad to make them perform better?

[DutchBantam]

How, what could a manager do with our squad to make them perform better?

Phew! Where to start?

I've not seen owt of City recently so I can only go on what I read in the papers and on the net and also a bit of common footballing sense. So I'll just mention one small obvious point.

THE MIDFIELD.

CT has not had a settled midfield all season. This is nothing to do with injuries or suspensions, it has to do with his management. He's treated the midfielders like shit. Petta, Morrison, Shumacher, Muirhead, Crooks, Kearney. None of them have been shown any backing or encouragement. When they have needed a rest or a kick up the arse he doesn't seem to have given them one but when they have been doing well, THEN he puts the boot in.
Consistency in selection has also been lacking. The midfield has chopped and changed so much there's no wonder the team are so inconsistent.

I could go on and mention the way he's treated Cooke, or the strange substitutions he's made or even the fact that he's furkin useless with tactics, etc... but I will let the other lads mention all that!

[sooty]

I disagree to a point, he has had injuries Schuey, Bridgey Petta, Morrison, Muirhead etc and has sometimes had no other option than to change midfield.

You say hes treated cooke crap, but how many times has he looked like scoring or Cad or even Claridge (not many) especially at home. Experienced strikers should show more goals than any of these have.
I agree you need consistency but you cant always do much else when you have injuries. Also people critisize when he doesn't make changes and then critisize when he does. I agree we probably need a change in management but it is not a job i would like unless i had financial backing!

[sooty]

Yes but hes got decent players to start with such as iwelumo, Garcia etc

[Lofty]

Yes but hes got decent players to start with such as iwelumo, Garcia etc

Iwelumo is fecking w@nk!! I wouldn't swap any of our forwards for him!

I agree though, I don't think anyone could really change anything with the present squad but I do think we need to freshen up in the summer with a new manager with new ideas and a few players in/out.

[komakino]

What about getting them to compete for every ball, for the full 90 minutes of every match?

[Wicker Man]

What about getting them to compete for every ball, for the full 90 minutes of every match?

yes, and put a bit of passion in

and maybee todd could motivate properly instead of treating all the players, bar horrorshow & windas, like SHIT

Also the guys a tactical disaster, he makes the worst substitutions, starts with the worst players

blames everyone and everything bar HIMSELF for a loss - the fans, the pitch, tim & stiks, the opposition etc... the list is endless

some of the shite he spouts on after match interveiws shows his ARROGANCE ,INEPTITUDEand STUBBORNESS

He had the job of sorting out our discipline....fooking great job he's done there. windass discipline is an outright embarrasment and he deserved his ban

he is HYPOCRITICAL slating one manager for playing defensive football, which in comparison to our football is like brazil ffs

we know we have a decent squad which could eaily get far in this undeniably appauling league. we saw it at barnsly away how we can peform, why not eveyweek?

there is no team spirit and imo HE HAS LOST THE DRESSING ROOM!, The players dont play for him at all

He think's he's an expert in everthing, even telling the experts at lillishaw that they don't know how to do their job:confused:

if you've watched the tripe that someone told me was football at V.P this season you'd know what i mean, sooty i think that not being here has made you suceptible to pro-todd articles in the t&a and really you should ignore them!

Rant over

[Lofty]

What about getting them to compete for every ball, for the full 90 minutes of every match?

Surely this is down to the players aswell? Granted Todd has the responsibility to ensure they do but once out on the pitch it's up to them. It's up to the players to work harder and the boss to make sure they do.

My boss doesn't encourage me to do my work but I don't just sit at my desk all day with my thumb up my arse!!

Maybe the players have lost faith in Todd and it's transferring onto the pitch? Maybe a new man in charge would freshen them up a bit and give them a boost? But at the end of the day it's still the same players with the same ability whoevers in charge.