Sorry, but if we don’t even make the play-offs then Rice should resign, and make an apology to the fans.
I doubt he will though, probably couldn’t give a shit.
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Why wouldn’t we make the playoffs?
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There’s a good chance we will now be playing Stockport three times in a row in May.
They will one day teach business school cautionary classes on this season. ‘How To Spend Millions Ruining A Dream Season’.
- Hound out your excellent young manager.
- Refuse to spend money to buy or extend the loan of your key player.
- Instead, spend far more than that on unproven players, including one (Norris) who is clearly expected to take the job of one of your star performers.
- Break your record transfer fee twice on players who cannot get in the team the remainder of the season.
- Bring in way too many players in January as a whole, including some with attitude issues.
- Hire an inexperienced head coach who will have no history to draw on of being thrown into a highly pressurized promotion race.
- Spend gobs of money on a new leased training facility, only to send the first team back to the old place with their tails between their legs.
- All of the above, for the cool, cool price of several million pounds!
Dan Rice, take a bow. Even the most cynical fan could not have envisioned how talented you are in your chosen profession of completely ballsing up our football club!
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Luckily for Rice, Lommy’s plan is to improve Kazakhstan youth football and nothing in your list has gotten in the way of that.
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Don’t worry. Rice will fuck that up eventually.
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Yep. Our club is just a business project now, like most others. And its project manager has made a right mess of it, despite having some promising resources to work with.
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Because Dodds isn’t a leader of men and Rice/Lommy aren’t fussed about doing it this year. The players can sense this and the results speak for themselves.
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It was interesting watching him at the end give little motivational speeches and hugs to Humphreys, Scowen and Kone. None seemed that interested. You can see Dodds’s style - lots of positive reinforcement interspersed with high-end tactical analysis. It’ll work for players like Luke O’Nien. But I think most players would prefer Bloomfield-style steeliness and the occasional half time rocket. I’ve yet to see us come out second half all guns blazing, and so often our opponents do, putting us on the back foot. It happened again today. And that lies squarely on Dodds.
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https://x.com/wwfcofficial/status/1908527701566107985
Post match interview. Not much touching or swaying but staring off to the left as if something much more interesting is going on has turned up. We’ll get there, Dodds.
I sense a little bit of passive aggression there. A dig at data analysis and no interest at all in Reading’s troubles!
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Personally, I find the very nature of the ‘Head Coach’ role a little strange but maybe it works differently in different places and there are successful long-term examples. To me, the HC is a patsy, a stooge, a transient drifter, maybe even a crony, with no real skin in the game. Don’t see how that individual can have true authority over people and things. Or maybe I’m just post-match annoyed and talking codswallop.
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Triple the amount of shots of them to be fair. A lot of them were pop shots but we were excellent for most of today. I’m frustrated but only at the previous results. We were good today.
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I genuinely feel for Dodds. He has been dealt a crap hand and is a human shield for the real culprit. If we don’t win the playoffs I would be fine letting him stay and learn his trade rather than chopping and changing again. He has even less experience than Blooms had when brought in, so who’s to say how he might do with a summer and some new players?
We have shanked the best shot at the autos we may ever get again, so at least acting like a stable club this summer might be good
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Head Coach might work if your Director of Football is an experienced operator in the management game, but unfortunately we’ve got Dan Rice.
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Danny boy if you’re reading this, accept responsibility, you messed up, you had one of the most highly rated young coaches working for you, a loyal servant of the club and extremely popular with the fans who had the 1st team flying high, seems to me an extremely rare thing in football , yet for some reason YOU decided you didn’t want to work with him and he left for a relegation scrap with Luton.
Resign now.
Don’t be seen in your shades and chinos at Adams Park again.
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For the first few games we were much better in the 2nd half. We kept it tight, then went for it.
Okay. So at least we know where we are now and can stop worrying about Wrexham.
We will be in the play-offs and it’s possible that our inability to score may disappear with that slight loss of pressure from trying to finish second.
In the last couple of games we haven’t played that badly so if we can start scoring we could go into the playoffs with a little bit of momentum.
Come on all. A trip to Wembley again may be fun*…
*Or not if we play like we did against Sunderland
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I fully expect us to be in around the top next season. Call me a fool, but I felt so low when we lost 3-0 at home to Cheltenham in Blooms first few months, that I never thought it would get better. It did.
I think, probably naively, with a summer to train players and get to grips with whatever the Danes can do, we can figure it out next season.
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If I may put my view forward albeit, only having heard a radio commentary.
First half:- you were better and should have been winning at half time.
Second half:- we were the better team.
Subs:- ours made a difference, yours didn’t.
Penalty:- One set of fans usually see a penalty one way and the other fans see it the opposite way. There are enough comments above saying the ref was correct. So having not seen the action I will say the Ref. got it right. I wish our players wouldn’t mess around pretending one player is going to take it and then change the taker. Should be a rule that the player who puts the ball on the spot must take it.
Pity we put a dent in your automatic spot, but I hope you can make the most of your game in hand and make up the other three.
Will we meet in the playoffs? Make a good day out at Wembley wouldn’t it? As we may be suspended for the last two games onward, that may be only a pipedream, though.
I thought we played really well today, as we did on Tuesday. If anything we have had too much control and dominated things so much that the opposition have retreated and crowded out the penalty area.
By the time we get the ball into the box there’s no space, everything gets smothered. Somehow we need to get back to shifting the ball forward earlier and having a second striker up alongside Kone.
Maybe, now that automatic promotion is realistically all but over, Dodds can tweek the style of play to create chances in clearer space.
It’s been a disappointing week, but at the start of the season play-offs would have been an acceptable finish. It’s not done by a long way yet.
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