do one fella…
You ripped up your season ticket every other week under GA. Now you want him back. DOFL.
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that shows how bad the current head coach is…at leaast showed team and fans he cared
I assume you will be throwing your hat in the ring for the job then @Chairboys80 if Dodds is sacked?
You clearly have a plan & from your posts I have to guess you are some sort of motivational speaker & a EUFA A coach.
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Maybe in a regular season this season we should of been up in the automatic places now with this dull manager (coach) we wont even go throught the playoffs
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@Chairboys80 and @trev have hated every manager, team, and some specific players for as long as I can recall.
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yawn
One of the great joys of no longer running the gasroom is that I don’t have to read every tedious post from @Chairboys80 to see if I need to ban him again. The ignore function on this new platform is outstanding, I’ve got loads of you in there.
yeah it really sounds like you are ignoring me.lol
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Gents, leave it out. Neither of you are coming out smelling of roses.
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Well I think many of us have expected the season to end this way for some weeks/months.
It’s a shame as for so long we genuinely looked like a promotion team.
Clearly MD has to take responsibility for this but, despite the awful defensive football, I do not believe that we should sack him.
He is inexperienced and he came into a rather strange situation with a high-performing team having lost an essential cog and a large number of seemingly random new components bought to somehow fit in.
He has made a bit of pigs ear out of it (in my opinion) but the question is can he learn from this?
Assuming he were to have input into new players for next season (admittedly not a given) he probably should be given the opportunity to do so and see if he can create a team to compete (hopefully on the front foot) at the top of League 1.
Will it work? On the evidence of these last few months probably not, but I still think he should be given the chance as I really don’t like the instant gratification culture that says ‘sack the manager’ after a few poor results.
However, if the rumours that we had been in talks with that Danish manager when we were riding high under MB are to be believed, it’s not hard to imagine that DR is actively seeking a replacement more in line with his data model (which makes me shudder a little).
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You do wonder if their is something more going on in the background , Getting rid of MD will be small change for the owner however as he has never seen a game live but supposedly watches the games on tv you would think he wouldn’t be too impressed either. Personally to me if Dodds can be seen to be changing things for the playoffs and improve our performances that has to be a good sign however not sure he will.
I’m disappointed that you haven’t mentioned Norris. Terrible distribution again at the O’s although 3 Orient fans have walked away with match balls he sliced into the crowd. I’m not convinced he’s a League 1 level keeper. We know he’s not Championship level. Keeper position will be critical for next season. I’m good with Razza!
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When Bloomfield was going through the horrendous patch midway through last season, my opinion was that the board should either back their man and give him what he needs to turn things around or decisively sack him to allow someone else time to be able to improve things.
Under this new model, what scope does Dodds have to request potentially drastic changes to personnel he’s identified that would make his tactics work?
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Blooms changed players in the January, worked out a formation and the seeds were sown, where as I don’t think Dodds can change like Blooms did. He’s a very defensive minded coach, i hope he can work it out and find a solution.
He doesn’t. And that is why we probably limited our potential pool of prospects when Blooms went as we were after a Head Coach rather than a Manager.
I still say give Dodds a full pre-season. We did for Matt and we should for Dodds. I simply cannot believe (and I’m happy to be proved wrong) that Dodds doesn’t have any say on recruitment although it’s clear that it’s very much the Data Dan makes the actual transfer. But surely the new model is not obtuse enough to completely ignore the first team head coach?
My main concern with Dodds is that he is very much focused on defence and not conceding. There is way too much focus on this.
Our best managers, other great managers have focused on attacking. The only manager to really buck that trend successfully in the UK was George Graham.
Lots of us have been calling for him to take the handbrake off. Let’s hope he does.
I’m still torn between him being given time to develop and putting him out of his misery. We gave MB time but in a very different environment with a really positive Chairman.
If I was in charge I’d want to be seeing a change to ver these next three games to convince me why I should let him have the summer and beyond.
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He does seem remarkably defensive minded but right now what options to attack do we have? Cam has been run into the ground. Kone has no confidence and isn’t a lone striker. Danny U isn’t a lone striker either. Fred is a shadow of himself. Maybe hoof it at Vokes and hope other players can link up?
Or maybe, just maybe, Sadlier saves the season as we nick the semis 1-0 on aggregate and the same at Wembley. Or maybe, just maybe, I’m on glue.
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Thinking back to the Wrexham home game they came out after the awful stoppage doing training drills and looking more fired up and grabbed the winner. Before that we’d looked the better side but Wrexham seemed to show more desire- I think Dodds will at least need to his team to show that in the playoffs.
Yesterday again we had the momentum in the second half but couldn’t score, the game slowed down following an injury and Orient seized the initiative. We were brilliant at seeing out phases and taking our chances under Ainsworth- but we seem to have lost that wiliness of late- albeit we are playing at a higher level.
If - and it’s a massive if now- we can gain some grit and manage games better, as well as take chances when on top, we are still good enough to do well in the playoffs.
Either way next seasons side will look a lot different.
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I think this will be a very different preseason. Not only as this is the first time in over a decade that Wild Thing football isn’t here. (I call Gaz + Bloomsball 2 sides of same coin)
I’m really struggling to see what wycombe way that we’ll play going forwards. Does Dodds have a style?
Swansea for years had a football identity. They recruited players and coaches that fit that playing style. Wycombe to a certain extent under both Gaz and Blooms did the same.
What style will we have? And what formation epitomises that style?