I know it will be my turn to be ripped apart but I honestly feel people have gone a little over the top with this Powell out rubbish/bring Parky back mantra etc etc.
The poor bloke has inherited a squad which has no backbone, a squad which may have beaten Peterboro 5-1 away but in fairness had sneaked and scraped wins apart from that this season (anyone else remember Swindon and Walsall at home under Parky?). Surely the best anyone thought we would get would be a play-off place, as our team is now truly full of old stagers and honest league one pro's? I honestly think even his one signing, BWP, was done for him rather than by him, a statement of intent by the board, while really just asset stripping Plymouth of their best player.
Yes, some of the selections are a little strange (How McOxo is playing I do not know), but I really think he needs to be given his own pre-season, his own signings, the chance to offload deadwood this summer (fortune etc), and THEN be judged on the first 15 games of next season. I also think the injuries at this level are significant as we have a paper thin squad quality wise.
Why are most people expecting us to have a divine right to go up this season, that we should be "small" teams like Exeter and Carlisle? This kind of condescending attitude has to stop, we are now a small fish in a big league one pond, and will have to earn anything we get from now on.
Please people give the bloke a break, he's been in charge for 11 games, and demanding his head now without ever giving him a chance on his own terms would be a mistake.
I case for the defence rests your honour.
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I totally agree with everything you said and can't add anymore to that.
He has now added 3 or 4 of his acquisitions to the squad - the fact that he chooses not to play most of them is perhaps an issue.
I think most people would take a sneaky or scraped win 'round about now.
Defence case thrown out.
Nobody likes losing. But we've been losing and sliding downwards for a long time now - and for the first time in several years, there is every reason to believe that the 2011-12 season will be the start of Charlton's climb back from the depths we have plumbed over the last 2-3 years.
It really is time to look forward to the hope which the Slater/Jiminez/Powell era offers rather than to conitnue torturing ourselves with the failures of the Pardew/Parkinson years.
To be honest this is the last thing we want. I think he's almost tried to be too imaginative... like a kid with a new toy he's tried out every possibility and capability in such a short space of time. I couldn't even begin to tell you how many different formations and systems he's used in 11 games. We need stability and a settled side.
I am glad someone else has said that....the same applies to the new board
FFS. Behave!
So to summarise I have no idea what I want
And what would be the point of that? No manager of any worth will come to us while we are in this league position and with this squad. We have to write this season off and cull the squad at the end of the season. it's as easy as that.
PL54 - He has now added 3 or 4 of his acquisitions to the squad - the fact that he chooses not to play most of them is perhaps an issue.
? Ecclestone was bought in before he arrived, Bessone has played whenever he is fit, BWP has played every game bar 1 i beleive, Nouble was thrown in a few hours after signing and who really expected a kid from Spurs to start the day after signing - I do beleive it is your case that is thrown out!
From what I've seen... in 11 games we have played:
4-4-2 with two speedy strikers, trying to keep the ball on the floor
4-4-2 with a big lump as one of the strikers, trying to hit him with the long ball
4-4-2 with 2 out and out wingers
4-4-2 in a more balanced style with 1 out and out winger and a central midfield "holding" the other wing
4-4-1-1 with Wagstaff buzzing in and around the main striker
4-3-3
4-5-1
4-2-3-1
This makes him look like Mike Bassett!
what I will say though is that Powell will need a cracking start to next season !
Not by me mate, I've got your back.
You're on the wrong thread, the bitching and moaning thread is elsewhere.
Until he drops McOxo and finds a playmaker for our midfield then the jury is well & truely out.
Until he drops McOxo and finds a playmaker for our midfield then the jury is well & truely out.[/quote]
I suspect that he knows full well that he isn't good enough, if we can see it, so can he, but who else is there in our squad? I've no idea what he's doing behind the scenes but I presume he is trying to draft in a loanee or two, but you can only get players in if their clubs allow them to move and if the player concerned wants to come to the club.
We now have 6 in the squad.
You can only have 5 on matchday.
Until Elliot is fit and/or Fry's loan is not extended we can hardly be bringing in any more.
What I want to know is out of Nouble and Parrett, one is an emergency measure, one is in a position we have been crying out for since July. How is it that Nouble went straight in and Parrett did not when it is patently obvious which need is more crucial... Parrett has even played several games in this division this season already.