Ed Balls is deluded....

“We had a board meeting this afternoon. I can tell you there’s no complacency here, but actually as a board we’re thinking, one, three, five years ahead,” Balls said following the AGM.

“In football, of course, if you have three or four bad games that puts you under pressure, but a couple of wins can turn things around and we really need those wins at the moment. But there really is no complacency here and also no sense that we have got things fundamentally wrong.

“We’ve got a high quality manager, a high quality squad and if that Murphy goal had gone in (at QPR), if we’d held our nerve in five minutes of extra time at Newcastle, if Leeds would not have had an amazing shot in extra-time, things would have been very different.

“Football’s about fine margins. There’s no complacency here and Alex more than anybody is determined for us to turn things around in the next few weeks.”

“He’s proven as a manager that he can take a football club from the Championship to the Premier League,” Balls said. “He did that for us two years ago, he did that from a difficult position, considerably worse than this point in the season in the Championship than we are facing today, and he turned it around with a record that was second to none.

“We would have gone up with 120-odd points if he’d been there for the whole season. Football clubs have good runs and tough runs. Everyone knows we’ve got a Premier League quality squad, not just a Championship squad, we’ve got a manager who knows what he’s doing. The board are backing the players and the manager.”

I understand the board will back him at the AGM but I get a bad feeling about just how much loyalty they have towards him...

Very very worrying times... our new CEO's "promotion, promotion, promotion" is laughable I want to be a millionaire but I need a plan to get there, it's no good just saying it and hoping.

FFS we're in a mess

Posted By: Taxi 4 Johnson on November 24th 2016 at 08:33:19

Message Thread

Ed Balls is deluded.... (NCFC) - Taxi 4 Johnson, Nov 24, 08:33:19
- "If we'd not lost 3 games we'd be better off" great analysis, Ed (n/m) (NCFC) - bjg123, Nov 24, 09:23:44
- That Murphy goal? (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Nov 24, 09:09:41
  - When he hit the bar (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Nov 24, 09:13:19
- he needs to learn the difference between extra time and injury time (n/m) (NCFC) - s10 yellow, Nov 24, 08:51:32
- Alex Neil is their puppet for the next 8 1/2 years (n/m) (NCFC) - berstreetsfinest, Nov 24, 08:45:04
- They all are because they think Neil is a good manager (NCFC) - Jim, Nov 24, 08:41:48
  - He did a wonderful job for 4 months and a mediocre job last season (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Nov 24, 08:52:25
    - It's a failing but this squad, motivated and organised is still (NCFC) - Jim, Nov 24, 09:51:55
      - If this squad is good enough for top 2 how come everyone keeps slating our recruiting? (NCFC) - mr carra, Nov 24, 10:19:10
        
        Recruiting left something to be desired but we didn't lose very much so (NCFC) - Jim, Nov 24, 10:42:28
        
        You say we haven't lost much, but is that really true? (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Nov 24, 11:48:40
        
        Pesonally i think our squad is lopsided, a top centre forward (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Nov 24, 10:42:03
        
        That's a fair point. (n/m) (NCFC) - Garry Brooke, Nov 24, 10:34:48
      - I'm not as convinced that this is one of the two best squads in the league (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Nov 24, 09:55:14
        
        I agree it a bit imbalanced but its not as if we've had any games (NCFC) - Jim, Nov 24, 10:44:01
    - Agree that recruitment is the major failing (n/m) (NCFC) - Worthing Yellow, Nov 24, 09:06:46
  - Hope this isn't a re-run of 2005/06 season (n/m) (NCFC) - KentonCanary, Nov 24, 08:51:17
  - Don't forget most on here thought the same 7 weeks ago (NCFC) - SCC 28, Nov 24, 08:47:46
    - doesn't matter a tiny jot what folks on here think or say (NCFC) - Tombs, Nov 24, 09:04:12
      - I don't think they matter either (NCFC) - SCC 28, Nov 24, 09:16:29
        
        tbf you are irrelevant tennis boy (n/m) (NCFC) - Tombs, Nov 24, 09:18:40
        
        Yep no need to educate people about AN any more (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Nov 24, 09:24:07
        
        Yappity yap (NCFC) - Tombs, Nov 24, 09:33:02
- He drained 90k from my club and gave (NCFC) - asics_kit, Nov 24, 08:36:04
  - Vmt (n/m) (NCFC) - yellowman, Nov 24, 11:41:32
  - 90k, thats 2 weeks wages for some of our reserves. (n/m) (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Nov 24, 08:59:13

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