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I am going to say it!! Yes I am, Nathan Jones......................
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100% this!NabySarr said:Jones kept Luton up in their first championship season, finishing 19th. They finished 12th the season after and then finished 6th. The season after that Jones left midway through, but they were promoted
He has shown that playing his way he can progress a team from championship relegation candidates to play off level. We should be backing him all the way to do the same, even if it might not be as quick with us1 -
Was it odd he didn't do a post match interview yesterday (unless I missed it). I know he was in the stands but usually the manager would still do the interview wouldn't he?1
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Cawley said he wasn’t allowed. Sounded like the whole thing was a bit of a cock up from the club actuallyAthletico Charlton said:Was it odd he didn't do a post match interview yesterday (unless I missed it). I know he was in the stands but usually the manager would still do the interview wouldn't he?3 -
NabySarr said:Jones kept Luton up in their first championship season, finishing 19th.
Ironically enough that was the year we were relegated2 -
Has NJ ever got promoted to the top flight with a team at the end of the season ? Not really relevant to us atm cos we’re a good few windows from getting anywhere near that for now .
He’s done beyond fantastic for us but this next step of staying up is a major test and he’ll do well to complete it with what he currently has.Never mind us backing him, the board need to back him with some genuine quality that isn’t made of balsa wood3 -
As said previously, we are alleged to have the smallest budget in the division and if that is not true, it will be at best ‘one of the smallest’. We should have no current expectations of being top half, let alone talking about promotion or Jones being the right man for that25
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Still easily in credit. Just like last season NJ will get the team sorted out. Another nice run and we will be safe and sound. Ready to strengthen for next season.7
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I can’t see where that next run is coming from. I win and 1 draw in eight games. If we lose tonight we are in deep shit with Coventry coming up.fenlandaddick said:Still easily in credit. Just like last season NJ will get the team sorted out. Another nice run and we will be safe and sound. Ready to strengthen for next season.2 -
Am perpetually bamboozled by this thread
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Keep the faith all - in Nathan we trust7
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He’s got us in with a fighting chance of staying up on free transfers and low wage signings including losing his top goal scorer for the season. Give the man some credit he deserves a medal for giving us a route out of the he’ll hole of league one and deserves our support on the attempt not to return.15
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It looked more unlikely last season and it still cameraytreacy said:
I can’t see where that next run is coming from. I win and 1 draw in eight games. If we lose tonight we are in deep shit with Coventry coming up.fenlandaddick said:Still easily in credit. Just like last season NJ will get the team sorted out. Another nice run and we will be safe and sound. Ready to strengthen for next season.4 -
Tiny budget, squad of league one players and an injury ravaged squad in that. A manager who this time last year turned us around from looking at potential drop to league two.
17th in the League having had a remarkable start and other than getting battered by a former premier league team in Southampton have given a great account of ourselves.
We were the bookies/ pundits favourites to come straight back down and yet at Christmas are not in the bottom three.
Deary me the fan base gets the club it deserves sometimes if people alluding that Jones' time is up. Similar to the calls of 'taken us as far as he can' about Curbishley after draws with the likes of Aston Villa in the premier league all those years ago.
Do we need to strengthen the squad - definitely. But we are where we are because of what Jones has got out of a limited group of players many of whom were potentially looking at a league one battle this time last year before we smashed Northampton under his tenure.
We're a relative minnow in this league now after over a decade of being a hugely underachieving bigger club in League one until Jones turned it around.
Cannot believe how quickly it turns and people are alluding to anything but Jones being hugely in credit and the man to take us forward. It's a bit deluded and entitled. We're a small club at this level nowdays compared to how established the majority of other clubs in this league are and it will take a good few years of consistent management and backing by consistent sensible owners to change that.
Staying up by the skin of our teeth this season will be a remarkable achievement and anything else a huge success.
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Between this and some of the attention seeking nonsense on the Kelman thread, we’ve got some odd people following this club.
all teams have bad runs, we’ll come out of this and stay well up13 -
Amen to that @RodneyCharltonTrotta.
It bewilders me how some of our fan base are about these things. Just where did they expect us to be at this stage of the season?2 -
I'm not even bothering to read the previous pages, but if people seriously think NJ should go based on current form then they seriously need to take a hard look at themselves and how they support this club.
Look at last season, we were crooked by injuries and had a horrid patch, ended up winning promotion with NJ in his first full season at the club.
Look at the season before, we were utterly dire and at risk of being relegated into League Two, look at NJ came in and done in stabilising a sinking ship and keeping us up.
Look at where we are right now, we've had 6 starting 11 players out in injury, our main striker is out long term too, oh and we're now in the Championship too which is an incredibly fierce League with no such things as easy games. But we've had a great start to the season that shows what we can do with NJ when we've got our full team back, and his teams are known for having a better second half of the season, there is no reason to be sounding alarms at all right now.
To those who moan and think he should go, how about using that energy and focus on getting behind the team instead, be the extra man they need on the pitch and support them rather than this nonsense of negativity & suggesting we get rid of NJ.8 -
Edit: had time to ponder…
We desperately a proper motivated NJ ‘dragging them kicking and screaming’ back- the old school NJ, the newly appointed NJ.
only thing that will get survival, is that backs to the wall and us v the world mentality again.12 -
Starting to seriously question the recruitment in the summer, needed instant impact players not punts or potential. Buck stops with him poor recruitment will cost us in the end7
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Last couple of posters arrived in this3 -
If anyone wants Jones out, I ask the question... Where did they expect us to finish this season?21
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He can be held accountable for transfer activity. Not sure why that’s funny2
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Overreactions as usual, we need bodies through the door in January and I'm confident we'll see that. Fact is a number of the players that have ability don't have the heart and those that have the heart don't appear to have the ability.
Then we have the injuries...
No manager is going through this season, with this side and injuries without this dip in form imo.
Let's see what January brings, for sure we're gonna get spanked on NYD, so that's a free hit for me.7 -
NJ has shown us that he can turn things around. But it needs to happen soon. We need some serious steel in the January window. Can't defend, can't score, zero control in the middle.4
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Cause you’re overreacting, and answer the question, who else would you have brought, with the budget and where did you think we would finish this season before Watford?AberystwythAddick said:He can be held accountable for transfer activity. Not sure why that’s funny10 -
Funny how the transfers weren’t an issue when we were flying. Injuries have done the damage, not recruitment alone. Worth waiting to see what January looks like before the meltdown begins.AberystwythAddick said:He can be held accountable for transfer activity. Not sure why that’s funny11 -
I’m not overreacting at all by saying he can be held accountable, it’s a statement of fact.Rothko said:
Cause you’re overreacting, and answer the question, who else would you have brought, with the budget and where did you think we would finish this season before Watford?AberystwythAddick said:He can be held accountable for transfer activity. Not sure why that’s funnyThe results show that the players brought (Carey and possibly Kelman aside) have not performed to the standard required to justify their recruitment.3 -
Dazzler21 said:Overreactions as usual, we need bodies through the door in January and I'm confident we'll see that. Fact is a number of the players that have ability don't have the heart and those that have the heart don't appear to have the ability.
Then we have the injuries...
No manager is going through this season, with this side and injuries without this dip in form imo.
Let's see what January brings, for sure we're gonna get spanked on NYD, so that's a free hit for me.
Agree with all of this except the last sentence. We lost our right to call it a free hit by the last two results. So we have to go out and get a result. No excuses.0 -
Lack of depth by not using the loan market was an issueDazzler21 said:
Funny how the transfers weren’t an issue when we were flying. Injuries have done the damage, not recruitment alone. Worth waiting to see what January looks like before the meltdown begins.AberystwythAddick said:He can be held accountable for transfer activity. Not sure why that’s funny3
