Thoughts on Mike Dodds and next season

General
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I find it totally unbelievable that rather than spend money to improve the team this season, we deliberately spent it to strengthen the team next year, that makes no sense at all.

The Danes (along with Lowry, Berry and Fin Back) may be excellent next season, we just don’t know. However, if it was never the intention to use them this season then the implication is we signed noone to really strengthen for this year.

Norris - to replace Rav.(was that really needed?)
Bradley - forced by injury & loss of Taylor
Taylor - re-signed
Simons - to replace Morley
Reach - arguably needed as Sadlier has disappeared

(Did I miss anyone)

To me that’s really poor for a team that was challenging at the top of league 1. Either the players we bought were meant to strengthen for this season and haven’t or we dropped the ball and didn’t strengthen for this season. Poor business either way.

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I keep hearing it intimated that Hagelskjær and Westergaard are ones for the future, like they’re raw 19 year olds. Magnus will be 27 by the start of next season - Anders is already 28.

I live in hope, but it’s not looking promising.

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Berry and Lowry?

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I put those in the signings for next season category. I know Lowry has played some minutes but …

My argument stands - either we bought, and failed, to strengthen for this season or we didn’t even buy with the expectation to strengthen this season.
Both represent really poor business in January in my view.

Even allowing for the MB side show to distract them, we really dropped the ball in my view.

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Also, it would be very hard to buy players purely for next season if we don’t know which division we are going to be in. As silly as it sounds, I still wonder if the Danes were tied to the pursuit of the Danish manager somehow. It is an absurd theory, but there are few non-absurd theories for why a club would break their transfer record twice for players to then only be seen on the side of a milk carton!

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As seen on twitter

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That is just brilliant! Do they think he is from Scotland, though?

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I’d buy one of those, although it should be a wobble head

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Is Dodds Scottish???

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I think he is from Coventry, if I remember.

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Nevermind - just looked it up and his first coaching job was Coventry. No birthplace given that I can find.

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Transfermarkt and Wikipedia both say he’s English but neither specify a location.

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Russell Martin played for Scotland… :man_shrugging:

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Case closed

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Is that one of them Wrigleys pilla shaped pieces of chewing gum top right?

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Oh thank God. I thought it was supposed to be his brain. Which seemed unnecessary cruel.

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According to the tweet it carried over from the Jack Grimmer one by mistake, whether manual error or AI. Would have been funnier if it was a danish flag.

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Having had many dealings in my business life with government departments, and particularly the NHS, I would say that not only wouldn’t it cost you your job, it may well get you a promotion.

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LOL. Too true!

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The NHS (generally) isn’t part of a government department, so I’m not entirely convinced how informed that opinion is.