He did a wonderful job for 4 months and a mediocre job last season

Player recruitment is my biggest bug bear.

He inherited a very good squad which had a little bit of an issue in that we didn't have a quality ball playing midfielder able to spread play and stretch organised defences - this resulted in some disappointing results when teams parked the bus.

We haven't fixed this issue and in fact it's got worse.

Early in the season quite a few people said that this squad is stronger than our last championship squad, but I couldn't see that then and I definitely can't see it now.

If the board can't acknowledge that this could be the continuation of a longer term slide rather than a one off bad patch, then they definitely are complacent.

Ed Balls is right that football goes in peaks and troughs and a bad patch isn't a reason to sack a manager, but as above, is this just a minor bad patch?

I don't think so.

Posted By: SimonOTBC on November 24th 2016 at 08:52:25

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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