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I thought a seperate thread on this was needed so please put your thoughts on Parky's points here.
I think he shows a side of him we have not seen before. Is it because of the pressure getting to him? Is he stating FACTs? Has he had enough?
Go mental.
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Past is the past. Mendonca was Mendonca. Now is now it seems the message.
sorry when you continously leave our most gifted player on the bench you need kick up the arris
It's hard not to get swept up in the negativity down there at the moment especially after last week's debacle-hopefully we'll turn things around next week.
exactely, we may well have spent sweet fa but thats because we already had a core team of league one and above players
What does worry me though, is that he is usually pretty unflappable and for him to suddenly come out with these sorts of comments points to two things;
a) the fans discontent does effect the players
b) he is losing his cool under pressure
Unfortunately, I have us down for no more than a point over the next 2 games so he had better get used to disquiet from the stands.
Richardson
Dailly
S Sodje
Borrowdale
A Sodje
Mooney
Burton
Reid
Llera
That's 9 of the squad today that weren't at the club before he took over.
Add to that the fact that Elliot was nowhere near the first team and I think you'll find it pretty much is a team he has pieced together.
As far as I am concerned we have not overachieved and with the quality of the opposion, we should have won more games.
Every week Parky loses more respect, last week he played our best player out of position, today he was left on the bench.
I am now genuinely concerned we will not even make the play offs, can anyone here seriously see us going to Huddersfield, MK Dons and Saints and getting wins?
Reid was on the bench because he wasn't 100% fit, much like Jackson at Gillingham.
What interest me is how the players will react to his comments, not the supporters.
When he says : ''I've pieced this team together with absolutely no money'', he's telling the likes of Burton,the Sodjes, Llera, Mooney, Richardson, Reid, Borrowed etc. that they're not here because they're great players, but because we can't afford anyone better.
Some of them might take that as a wake-up call and go the extra mile for the guy. Some of them might respond with ''if that's how you see it, then **** you.''
We shall see next week...
Did wonder the same thing myself.
Poor old parky, my heart bleeds......
There is a lot of negativity about which is understandable at times but we need to get behind the team to save our club from rotting in league one!!!!!!!!!!
These players have not suddenly turned into bad players. We DO have one of the best squads in the league on paper, just our incompetent manager can't get the best out of them.
Nice to see him going down the same route as Pardew though, digging out the fans for the way they wish to support their team. Only difference between the two is Parky doesnt have the money to waste that Pards did.
The Gills are fighting relegation and have not won away in 48 attempts.
I don't care how much money you didn't have..........you played Mooney instead of Shelvey, and brought on Akpo instead of Waggy.
Loan players got us relegated into L1 and they will not get us out of it - please learn that they are not a long-term solution.
You have no Plan B, you cannot vary our tactics, the team disgraced us at Millwall and almost finished the job today.
Yet again, the wheel has fallen off our season in February.
They haven't tuned into bad players no, but they were never fantastic players in the first place.
Waggy for Burton? Mooney scored and looked better then the boo boys would have give him credit.
Amazing insight on recent games from Hull as well in this thread
So you would have played Wagstaff upfront with Mooney for 65 mins then?.
I'd argue we havnt got the results though, yes, we're third, that WILL change rapidly.
You're all making the same excuses you made for pards, instead of repeating its ok we're still 4th, now it's 3rd. It's ok though because we don't need to worry about it untuil 2 games to when we can't even get into the playoffs. Heyho, it worked 2 years ago with Pardew, I'm sure everything will be ok this time around.
Todays reulst was a joke, especially after last week. Parky should hang his head in shame, noone is to blame but him, it's his squad, his team, his tactics, his fault. No matter how much money we have, or have not spent.
2nd half we created chances but didn't put enough away.
Everyone is as inconsistant as each other in and around the play offs. So now really isn't the time for Parky out booing imo.
Compared to the start of the season everone was predicting middle table struggle, we're in the play offs 9 games left, move on from today and Millwall and focus on Huddersfield next week, we beat them theres a 8 point gap to fall out the play offs
Didn't realise living in Hull stopped me going to games, or having eyes.
and regardless of the different sides of the argument that people may present in terms of the limited funds he has had and pros and cons of the signings he has made, that is irrelevant in the context of last weeks debacle and simply what he is doing with the players/squad that he does have.
Because although i don't agree with or partake in booing, if theres ever a time when its suitable its when you have just ashamed the club and let down the supporters away at Millwall in our biggest game of the season and then a week later you are defending catastrophically and 2-1 down at home to a side who havent won away all season. Theres no excuse for that.
For me Parky has done excellently. I still look at the squad he had, and wonder how we've managed to compete this season. I pray that as pitches improve our 'light-touch' players will start getting back to their better performances. Ok so we could have had a few better free transfer signings such as Coyne or Kisnorbo. But equally we don't know the financial constraints Parky was under and he probably could not offer the package to much sought after players early enough pre-season. We know Puncheon was lost thorugh that process and I'm sure a few others were.
I think the real question on the quality of this squad is who thinks there was any chance of us staying up last season with these players? Once we got in a rut of losing imo there was no chance. The midfield still holds the same problems as the last few seasons and ZZ/Ambrose/Thomas were as much as part of that as anyone.
So personally if we get to the play offs I'm dead impressed by the job Parky has done.