Window Cleaner

:cool::cool::cool::cool: I certainly have be in a few Wrens in my time, no longer the case though.

I would that I could OSM, I asked for this week off but was told that my country needs me to be where I am and nowhere else for the time being.

good old Ottery, he still has illusions that I actually clean glass windows, now I'm sure that I've explained that before,or given enough clues for you to work it out for yourself.

You're wrong OSM, nothing would give me more pleasure than to see our current set up getting realistic results every week. But I just can't help feeling that with the squad we have we could do so so so much better. Something isn't right, the players don't look sharp, they're not at 100% of their ability although their effort probably can't be faulted.I see chances going begging and yet the midfield gets the blame and that's not right.If there are chances they need to be put away. When we put one more than the opposition away every week there will be no moaning or criticism. ITK???about football probably more than most, not to blow my own trumpet like.

Prost never coached the first team, it's not what he does. He prepares young players to be the finished article the instant the first team manager has need of them. I bet Morgan talks to him on the phone..a lot.

you never know, after Ipswich (i think it was) AP said Wotton was naze and would have to be rested for the next game (on Tuesday) He was there all the same and again for the game after. Keeps saying Rickie needs a break, plays 90 minutes every week. Pardew says stuff that means diddly squat when he talks about "resting" players.

could explain the change of tack on certain transfers I suppose. Perhaps he has advisors that we don't know about. I'm sure that he does.He's probably a cautious man even though he has a billionaire's money behind him.

I really don't see it as an ultimatum, NC wants better results, he's probably been telling the players and staff that for a couple of weeks,now he's gone public. Being forthright and saying what you think isn't one of the world's worst afflictions it's just gone out of fashion that's all.Some of football's great leaders and managers never thought twice about saying what they needed to say.

Not really back to square 1. We have some really really exceptional players for our league, that they're not sweeping all before them is a commentary on how they're being used.On our day we can beat the best, it's just that we can't do it at Exeter or Brentford. I think we may just need a new manager before we really see the true ability of our squad on a weekly basis, either that or the same manager with better,more modern coaches.As I've said elsewhere I'm not at all sure that the ability of the players hasn't surpassed the ability of the coaching staff.

this what??

As long as they turn up with at least 11 players on Saturday so that we can shaft them I really don't give a toss what else happens.I'm not obsessed with PFC,just beating them one more time.In fact it would be a warning to all other investors" do it right or don't do it at all".Anyway someone will bail them out, plenty of dirty money that needs laundering around .

And yet everybody blames the midfield for not creating enough, from the little I've seen and my spy in the crowd cousin it's the strike force that's at fault not the midfield, they're getting the ball to the front men in space in front of goal, that we can't expect a 20 odd goal striker to stick an easy one away from 12 yards isn't the midfield's fault.If the midfield have to create 20 or so open goals for us to take 2 of them then we'd better hope that ML will buy us Ronaldhino,Gattuso and Kaka next summer.

We aren't moaning ,Nicola Cortese is.He who pays the piper calls the tune and all that.

which is why i stipulated "or out of form".When everybody is fit at MU (or Arsenal) there is only 1 first team.

Volz probably turned us down about 50 times, he wanted higher league football and has got it at Schalke (or so I think)

What for?? all we have to do is get Hammond fit again, failing that we try the Gillett/Schneiderlin pairing which didn't look at all bad at the beginning of last season when we actually played the ball on the ground to wide men.I just cannot understand the Gillett situation,sure he isn't going to make the England side any time soon but to rate him as worse than James or Wotton must be a real insult to him. Especially as he seems to do quite well at Donny playing instead of folk hero (around these parts) Stock.

So then tell me how many players Lambert has signed at Norwich or Boothroyd at Colchester (could be hundreds for all I know) not all managers are Harry Redknapp types,some can do a good job with whatever they are given,probably because it's what they're used to doing.

But this is where you have to have a set of 11 first choice players who make up the team when they're fit.A lad comes in has 1 good game against a different style of opponent and then screws up big time in the next game. A manager must have 1 first team and peripheral players who come in a do a job when the first team isn't fit or out of form. Football management isn't a greek democracy.

Have just had a look at the "highlights", thought we missed a lot of easy chances, Lambert got in the way of Fonté for their goal and that Fonté missed a couple of easy headers which, combined with James giving the ball away, nearly led to them scoring again Can see what AP means about quality, Lambert should have put his early chance away, Lallana and Puncheon had reasonably doable chances as well.

And we had chances to do just that, just as we did against Brentford, you don't need 2 of the division's leading strikers and a Senegalese international to put away 1 easy chance out of every 4 or 5.The strike force is still a big problem as far as I'm concerned, because it's never settled and you have the nebulous Lallana getting under their feet all the time, one minute he's there ,next minute he isn't.Lambert has to step up and start scoring from open play again or be rested. We have plenty of others who can hit juicy free kicks and take penalties, perhaps then we'll start playing the ball on the ground again.

I really don't see the problem, these are good players, they are not "Pardew's boys" there are managers in our league who are doing far better with far worse. The problem is that either the players aren't motivated for the League (which I could see being true because contrary to popular opinion the play-offs were all but gone last September) or that they're being deployed wrongly and that is p*ssing them off.It could also be that there are "new boys" on salaries vastly superior to the others.Now if I was Connolly on a paupers contract and then Barnard comes in at 5K a week more I might just tell them to shove it.I don't say that's happened but it's a distinct possibility, hence the mysterious injury which got better and then got worse all by itself.

Who's judging the manager on the last couple of games, certainly not me. Although I'd be prepared to accept this season's results as a positive step it's obvious that to the top management they aren't what's required. Our league results have been erratic all season, that's why we only have obtained 44 points from 28 games and Norwich have obtained 60 odd despite a poor start.We have good players, we've had them all season and have some even better ones now.AP has been erratic in his team selection and has made some f**k awful substitutions which have cost us games (ie the double horror shocker at Huddersfield ) Waigo isn't always used correctly, he's a striker, always has been, always will be, no point playing him wide, Thomas is vastly undersused and Gillett and Holmes never had a chance from day 1, perhaps with reason.AP is erratic in his team selections and has "binkies" like James for whom a place must be found every game.

2 losses realy doesn't come into the equation.Not losing to sides like Brentford and Exeter and beating Stockport 2-0 isn't to be taken as a sign of success.With the players we have at our disposal we should beat Stockport 5.,6 or even 7 nil .The players that we have are really good for our league, the fact that we've taken the better players from other sides and haven't been able to get the same results with them is pretty damning for the coaching staff and I don't really mean just AP here. It has crossed my mind more than once that perhaps the talent of our coaches isn't great enough,or at least too staid, for the talent of our players..Remember Georges Prost, when he left we just didn't produce class players any more,but at Lyon they do

Lallana isn't a midfielder player really. He's an inefficient striker and certainly doesn' have the qualities to play "in the hole" he just isn't either smart enough or "badarse" enough. That role needs real attributes and he doesn't have them.I'm sure I'm alone in thinking this but the day he moves on will be the day Saints really start to click,

We need to get Hammond and Morgan back together in midfield and play them with Lallana and ¨Puncheon and stop tinkering with Antonio in the starting 11. 2 from 4 of Barnard?Connolly,Lambert and Papa in attack.