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We could have 38 days and still not be ready!

Just wait until we are mentioned in the same sentence as Curzon Ashton!!

Who knows?

Absolutely!! I wouldn’t mind so much and would be willing to give him a fair crack of the whip if we were progressing and showing signs that he’s building something. He’s only had 6 months admittedly but I just don’t see a plan, a style of play or even a settled system! In the main they’re not his players but even the players he’s recruited haven’t improved things at all. I’m willing to bet that the lions share of this squad barring one or two would do OK at just about any other NL side in this division! We’re definitely under performing as a team and IMO it just doesn’t look like he has the remotest idea of how to rectify it! Serious question…..If it was your money bankrolling this football club, would you trust Micky Mellon to spend it wisely? I’m not sure I would!

Tommy Bryceland?

I have to say, on the field of play we are still a mess, not a total mess, but nevertheless a mess!

Well they’re certainly not traditional inside forwards either! I’m surprised you even remember inside forwards!

2nd attempt!

What are you saying exactly?

When you think that maybe Nuttall, Norwood & Garner would probably account for 1/3 of that!

A new day?

More confusion!….we were playing 352 and Sachdev was signed because he’s a specialist in the position of RWB, Mellon said so himself. He has a MOM performance in that position and then is dropped, never to be seen again. Since then we’ve played a couple of different players in that position including Sutton who is not really a FB and definitely not a wing back (sq peg in round hole) which was the reason we brought in Sachdev in the 1st place. Now he says we still haven’t got a RB and Sachdev can’t play RB….. surely a RWB is also able to play RB? IMO Sachdev played here as a FB anyway as I never saw him get up the pitch and go past a player even once while he was here! I’m now so confused I’ve confused myself….it seems Mellon is confused too!

Will it be on NL TV I wonder?

It could if it was behind closed doors!

Seen Lundstram have one decent game Raglan has been OK but should be at this level Hudson was No.1 pre Mellon so don’t think you could put that down to him We know what Gardner is capable of when fit, he’s no better or worse than when he came in and is playing for a new contract.

Disrupted?

If the board were in any doubt at all he should have gone in May. If the same happens with Mellon we will be in deep shit! We have a few players who obviously need to go but they’re not all incapable. I can’t think of a single player who has improved since Mellon came in! I wouldn’t give him a blank cheque book…I would give him 2 or 3 signings for the key positions where we are lightweight but no more until he improves our play and demonstrates that he’s capable of moving us forward.

We would this season…we’ve 32 players!!

No chance the game will be moved at such a late stage!

But no rain from 7.00pm tonight until 11.00am tomorrow then light rain up to kickoff with strong winds which may actually help to dry out the pitch.

If that ain’t an incentive to get the pitch playable nothing is!

That probably applies to all Mellon’s signings….maybe he got lucky with Stones. I suppose 1 out of 7 ain’t bad!!

So….should we have stuck with Unsworth then? I would back any manager that showed incremental progress, but Unsworth was going nowhere. We are a huge club for this level and expectations are huge too and rightly so! Mellon, for all his experience and cute CV, IMO, hasn’t improved us one iota. Even allowing for our obvious deficiencies he should surely by now, be able to get 11 out of this squad of 32 players playing to a decent and consistent standard. Apart from a smattering of youngster’s these players are experienced pro’s who’ve done it before at this level and several in divisions higher up! Out of the 6 players he signed in January non are regular starters and a couple can’t even make the match day squad! We didn’t need squad players, we had enough of them, what we needed were players able to go straight in to the side and make a difference, otherwise, what was the actual point! I really hope he comes good but IMO he’s done nothing to suggest that he will. If we are struggling around Xmas time and not firmly in the playoff places do we just stick with it?

New manager bounce maybe but 1 win in 10 and 8 points from 30 at the business end of the season is absolutely dire and we’ve never looked like reversing it either! I think he’ll survive and will start the new season but the board must be shocked and disappointed at the way the season has capitulated and I’m sure his position will have been debated. If it continues into next season he will come under mounting pressure no doubt but unfortunately he’ll probably have spent a large chunk of the budget by then!

And then some!!