Dan Rice is from generation failure is the new success. (Look how many Derby rejects he’s appointed) Unless our Tech Bros owner suddenly notices some of his gazillions missing nothing will change.
Brisbane Road has become quite the destination for traumatic events and existential crisis.
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If the game tonight is a draw, we go into the final game of the season with a chance of automatic promotion.
I’m not really excited or enthused by it. I am papering over cracks with my rose tinted specs on my brave face.
True, but Wrexham have been hugely over performing their xG all season. By about 20 points in total. So it isn’t always unsustainable
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It’s not an airport; you don’t have to announce your departure.
But they have golden oldie forwards, that are against league one keepers.
As xG is about finishing prowess it makes sense that former premier league forwards would outperform their xG.
You might expect their loss of pace to mean fewer chances, but xG doesn’t measure chances n9t created.
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Yeah that’s very true, Okonkwo a big factor in terms of stopping the xGA I’m sure. They don’t pass the stat test or the eye test and yet here we are, almost Ainsworth-esque although of course most of their players far exceed the skill level of ours during those glorious times.
Finally someone said it. It’s just complete tosh.
@WanderingDays what we were just saying about xG over performance for Wrexham? Couldn’t write this stuff 
Ridiculous
My son is building this next to me. I looked over and in my mind… ‘That’s Dodds car that is. It used to be a purring F1 racer, until Dodds got into the drivers seat.’
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#clutching
Lots of Kone criticism around me in the ground. Which to be be fair, is merited. It’s an astonishing and horrible collapse of confidence and ability for the young lad and painful to watch. Injury? head turned by offers? I suspect the latter and I cannot but wonder what Bloomfield would have done with him had he stayed with us because I don’t see Dodds (yet) as a man manager for a team in some turmoil which, after a bizzare transfer window and arriving as third choice coach, he got. He may come good, after all Ainsworth learnt a lot after nearly taking us out of the leagues and so it seemed did Blooms. I’m not overly optimistic though.
Outside of getting the best from the players which he clearly isn’t, he also needs to work on his tactical nouse. Charlton was a disaster and again today we had no plan B.
We are the worst team in the playoffs, lesser than the sum of our parts, and unless the plan is that we don’t concede from open play over three games and we’re shit hot on pens, it’s league 1 next year.
Whilst I don’t think that the Ricicles want us to stay down, I honestly believe they don’t care that much if we do as getting the academy right is priority one. Although seemingly having their pants pulled down by a university suggests there’s work to be done there too.
I’ll be back next season but may well skip the playoff games. I’ll probably be optimistic in September and maybe with some reflection and learning from the top downwards there’ll be reasons to be cheerful this time next year.
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Proof to me has a losers mentality. Thats not how professional winners act.
Anyone watching Wrexham. See Nathan Jones at 2-0 down. That’s how you manage. Look at the respect commanded in the body language. Look at the lack of respect on display from our players today. Body language shows a lot.
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The names I got called on here when I said Rice had shat our season away. Where’s @glasshalffull1 this afternoon?
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End of the day, Matt Bloomfield was/is bloody good at his job and Dan Rice wasn’t/isn’t very good at his.
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The Rev gets a bad rap and isn’t, perhaps, Premier League quality but he’s a top drawer lower league manager.
I’d expect him to have Charlton top half in the Championship in the not too distant future.
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