Here's a question for you all. Should players, who are considered fan favourites (FF), be kept at the club even if there are better players out there/already at the club? Or, would you rather only the best players should be at the club even if it means releasing a FF?
Reminds me of a comment made over Christmas drinks about a certain Cristiano Ronaldo... ...which went something along the lines of: "Fantastic news, now even Man Utd fans can join in & hate that horrible piece of ****...!"
That isn't the full story though. Skill is important, but fans value the likes of consistency, effort & attitude highly.
It is an intangible, but "character" matters too, recent examples being Bulman & Tsaroulla Recent past included Tubbsy & Sergio and further still Danny Carroll & Ernie Cooksey All approachable individuals who do not hide their feelings.
Not sure if I'm posting in the correct thread but having watched Lindsey's first training session on YouTube and the photo gallery it was good to see Nad's and Conroy both looking fit but didn't see Balagizi is he injured or maybe worse?
Here's a question for you all. Should players, who are considered fan favourites (FF), be kept at the club even if there are better players out there/already at the club? Or, would you rather only the best players should be at the club even if it means releasing a FF?
The top managers make no allowance for sentiment. They have a ruthlessness for winning games and trophies. Equally they treat people with respect not like rotting garbage.
In the same way that top managers insist on the final say in all on field matters, and would not have some clients looking at stats on a laptop setting the agenda.
Fans favourites retire, leave and otherwise go such is the nature of the game. It's when fans favourites are kicked out for being fans favourites or some other spurious excuse that fans get annoyed.
Let's take the example of Morris. Fans fav. Getting on a bit but had his performances dropped? Not really...see the rave reviews he gets from Gillingham fans as evidence. So the club freezes him out so it can spend money it does not need to spend on a young keeper who, for all his good points, is not going to be here next year. Basically the club have wasted money because a number on a piece of paper. Yes stats mean something but you also have to use judgement. Something our current set up seem to lack.
Fans favourites retire, leave and otherwise go such is the nature of the game. It's when fans favourites are kicked out for being fans favourites or some other spurious excuse that fans get annoyed.
Let's take the example of Morris. Fans fav. Getting on a bit but had his performances dropped? Not really...see the rave reviews he gets from Gillingham fans as evidence. So the club freezes him out so it can spend money it does not need to spend on a young keeper who, for all his good points, is not going to be here next year. Basically the club have wasted money because a number on a piece of paper. Yes stats mean something but you also have to use judgement. Something our current set up seem to lack.
Jim Baker
Stats will only ever tell you so much, and there is a lot you cannot quantify in football. For example, one of the greatest players of all time, Zidane, didn't score a tremendous amount of goals as an attacking midfielder and don't think he got many assists either, but he had impeccable control, skill and presence in midfield. What would his ball recovery, ariel duals won and key passes have looked like, probably pretty average. The overfocus on statistics shows that WAGMI simply do not watch as much football or have the same love of the game as the average British or European football fan. The pathetic Twitter ramblings of hipster Millennial Eben smith on twitter about not giving Lewis Young the job because we were 'outshot' in the games was ridiculous. We need to get rid of Galley and either let Lindsey manage the team his way, assuming he's not obsessed with stats, or get ina DOF who actually knows what they're doing.