When Did it All Go Wrong this Season?

[qblockpete]

What was the date it all went wrong this season?

[MYU]

The day the season started.

[writtler]

Surely that should read pre season - in the transfer market!

[qblockpete]

No.

Looking at our squad pre-season, the bookies got it roght

[vblockranger]

never had the players for a promotion winning side this season. The board never put their money where their mouth is.Sacking Dowie 20 odd games in didnt help much either and then not getting a striker in January finished us off. Simple to me.
Too high expectations from some supporters.

[vblockranger]

looking forward to next season though as long as Sousa can bring players in that he wants...and not those that GP and flabby pick for him.

[EYR]

The appointment of Dowie

[qblockpete]

No problem with

Sousa can bring players in that he wants...

but please tell me who. he brings in?

[sirpiechucker]

I know some will say it was finally lost during the 4 pts from 27 period but other factors led to this. We all believed Vine would return and didn't. We didn't realise we would lose Rowlands and Agyemang. We certainly couldn't afford to have lost Buzsaky but did. We shouldn't have fired Dowie or in some respects even have hired him. I can totally understand that we didn't sign strikers in the summer because last season scoring wasn't an issue as we all expected Vine and Buzsaky to be fit and we knew that Blackstock had found his form at the end of last season. But when they weren't replaced and confidence had dropped that was the point that led to our dismal run which in turn led us to missing out on the play offs.

I simply don't think that one person or one situation can be blamed.

[Gtleighsr3]

Whats gone wrong.have rich owners.Not going down/up.Compared to previous years its been good.

[vblockranger]

No problem with

Sousa can bring players in that he wants...

but please tell me who. he brings in?

i dont know Pete...cos im not Sousa, thats the point
He is the manager. He decides what systems we play and he decides what kind of players he needs to fulfill the positions in that system. He has probably already started looking around at players available here and on the continent. If the manager cant pick his own players for the board to get in then who can?? Do you think the board or Paladini is a better judge of a player than Sousa? If so then pardon me while i **** myself laughing...

[EYR]

It all started to go wrong when we started to believe all the hype about richest club and running away with the league with a mid table squad.
Failed signings didnt help but you cant odds that,it happens.

[qblockpete]

sorry, but you are not answering my question.

I dare say in the premiership you could be right.

Flavio gives him say a 2 million budget, what kind of player could Sousa bring into the championship?

You and I probably know more at this stage, the players in the championship. Bearing in mind he spends all day training the players, how can he pick up a good player and sort out contracts and terms of the deal?

Even, i don't think that is why Sousa is here to be honest.

[NewCrossHoop]

If you believe you know more about the players in the championship then you are showing some serious disrespect to the man.

If Sousa is a dedicated professional which his playing career would suggest he is then he would be spending much of his time outside the 3 hours or so of training he takes a day researching competitors styles of play and the players in their teams. Show the man some modicum of respect because at the moment you are sounding like a spoilt child

[KLR]

Season was over before it started: No Full Backs.
Even Arsene Wenger would struggle to get this squad playing well with that self inflicted handicap.
& people think its SOUSA that should get the sack ??!
Dear Oh Dear!