We had a decent thread a while back discussing Evatt’s philosophies and approach to the game (think it got tainted and pulled)

So not a bad time to start it up again at the beginning of the season.

In the main he’s done a fantastic job. A minority lost patience round about Xmas/New Year in both seasons. 

But surely now he has the large backing of the majority of fans and the brand he talked about implementing here is now well and truly established.

Good article above highlighting how he’s using Sport Science to get the squad performing to it’s optimum level.

A young, meticulous, intelligent and passionate individual, who we are very lucky to have leading our club.

I hope he gets what he deserves with promotion to the Championship. 

He’s lost the support of the fans he as too go but Sharon thinks he’s god !

5 minutes ago, Rizlar said:

He’s lost the support of the fans he as too go but Sharon thinks he’s god !

Just had a word with her, and she thinks you're an illiterate tit.

I think we all need to avoid letting this get too personal and potentially abusive, our manager is a human being at the end of the day and has to his credit, had a steadying influence on the Club. i have thought for quite a while that everything has been getting too stale and a change is needed but I won't type anything I wouldn't say directly to anybody's face.

Lets keep it reasonably civil chaps.

14 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Just had a word with her, and she thinks you're an illiterate tit.

Give your head a wobble.

7 minutes ago, Rizlar said:

Give your head a wobble.

You think Sharon believes Ian Evatt is God. I'm not the one who needs to give their head a wobble.

9 minutes ago, Rizlar said:

Give your head a wobble.

It's you're 

I'm a tolerant person. Maybe too tolerant. It doesn't make me a snowflake or a happy clapper. But I get the feeling that Evatt bashing is getting trendy. Yes, yesterday was a complete and utter shambles and embarrassment. Enough is enough for some. I get the outrage towards him and SB.  Expectations were high at the beginning of the season. Yes, we have pissed away far too many points, especially at home. But imo this league is piss poor and we are just another component of it. I'm of the opinion that Evatt will pull a rabbit from the hat. Tolerance has been my undoing in life plenty of times. But perseverance has prevailed too. I'm not here to change folks mind or to tell them they are wrong. My opinion may aggravate many but it shouldn't. Don't shoot me for it.

5 minutes ago, kent_white said:

It's you're 

Very sorry Mr White and Mr Cheese I will check my grammar before I post from now on ! 

1 hour ago, mickbrown said:

But a necessity. Can you name a decent performance in those 13 games? We’ve scraped those points 

Performances ultimately don’t matter, points on the board do.

12 minutes ago, kent_white said:

It's you're 

No it's not

8 minutes ago, Underpants said:

I'm a tolerant person. Maybe too tolerant. It doesn't make me a snowflake or a happy clapper. But I get the feeling that Evatt bashing is getting trendy. Yes, yesterday was a complete and utter shambles and embarrassment. Enough is enough for some. I get the outrage towards him and SB.  Expectations were high at the beginning of the season. Yes, we have pissed away far too many points, especially at home. But imo this league is piss poor and we are just another component of it. I'm of the opinion that Evatt will pull a rabbit from the hat. Tolerance has been my undoing in life plenty of times. But perseverance has prevailed too. I'm not here to change folks mind or to tell them they are wrong. My opinion may aggravate many but it shouldn't. Don't shoot me for it.

Even though I’ve moved away from that opinion, it’s a good post.

And I also agree with @Dimron getting abusive and personal achieves absolutely nothing 

6 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Performances ultimately don’t matter, points on the board do.

We're not in the top six 

And that's largely down to our performances

Let’s see what happens Friday when we go to Wycombe, get smashed and come scurrying back with our tail between our legs after spending all week wanking off over how great Wycombe are and how they’ve got a massive budget. At the start of the season, this fixture had 3 points in the bag written all over it and if we were performing as required would already be rubber stamped, good form or not. 
 

The funny thing is, everyone knows how this will go.

i said to the lads around me after the Huddersfield game that my only hope was that the board didn’t fanny around too long otherwise it’d be another potential 2 or 3 seasons before we could expect to mount a solid charge and guess what, Sharron is proving that she doesn’t have the cojones to deal with this situation.

she’s too close to Evatt and that’s a real problem. She’ll learn from this but unfortunately the hard way.

Maybe she is learning the hard way and that’s the problem? 😮

11 minutes ago, bwfc4ife said:

Let’s see what happens Friday when we go to Wycombe, get smashed and come scurrying back with our tail between our legs after spending all week wanking off over how great Wycombe are and how they’ve got a massive budget. At the start of the season, this fixture had 3 points in the bag written all over it and if we were performing as required would already be rubber stamped, good form or not. 
 

The funny thing is, everyone knows how this will go.

i said to the lads around me after the Huddersfield game that my only hope was that the board didn’t fanny around too long otherwise it’d be another potential 2 or 3 seasons before we could expect to mount a solid charge and guess what, Sharron is proving that she doesn’t have the cojones to deal with this situation.

she’s too close to Evatt and that’s a real problem. She’ll learn from this but unfortunately the hard way.

Maybe she is learning the hard way and that’s the problem? 😮

Most of that only exists in your head.

16 minutes ago, Zico said:

We're not in the top six 

And that's largely down to our performances

Win our game in hand and we will be.

Just now, Mounts Kipper said:

Win our game in hand and we will be.

Starting to sound like last season again

1 minute ago, Zico said:

Starting to sound like last season again

It was top 2 earlier this season. I think we will finish around 10th. Think that’s what I called at the start of the season

3 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Regardless of yesterday’s abject performance it’ll be brave call to get rid given the last 13 games we’ve for 26 points. 

But of those 13 games we played only 2 in the top 9 and we lost them both (aggregate of 0-7).

We beat 10th, 11th (they had 10-men), 12th, 13th, 19th, 21st and 23rd. Drew with 22nd (they had 10-men) and 24th. Lost to 16th - Wigan.

Averaging 2 points a game is automatic promotion form, but only promotion if the league started at Blackpool.

He’s good enough to get us promoted from league one and a half. He’s not capable of being promoted from league 1.

36 minutes ago, kent_white said:

It's you're 

Has NIC hacked you? 

29 minutes ago, Underpants said:

I'm a tolerant person. Maybe too tolerant. It doesn't make me a snowflake or a happy clapper. But I get the feeling that Evatt bashing is getting trendy. Yes, yesterday was a complete and utter shambles and embarrassment. Enough is enough for some. I get the outrage towards him and SB.  Expectations were high at the beginning of the season. Yes, we have pissed away far too many points, especially at home. But imo this league is piss poor and we are just another component of it. I'm of the opinion that Evatt will pull a rabbit from the hat. Tolerance has been my undoing in life plenty of times. But perseverance has prevailed too. I'm not here to change folks mind or to tell them they are wrong. My opinion may aggravate many but it shouldn't. Don't shoot me for it.

My expectation wasn't high at the start of the season. Evatt has proven himself to not be up to the job and i predicted a mid table season.

On top of that this league is definitely tougher than last season. I can't even believe anyone would think otherwise. We've got a team who've spent £30m, no teams in financial disarray like last season, and promoted teams with budgets to make a charge. As a result we have 3 teams on course for 100ish points and a 4th team not far behind them.

The frustration is that this loyalty to him is the negative thing to do. There is no evidence to suggest he is capable of beating big teams when the pressure is on if he somehow scrapes us into the play offs. The positive thing would be to get a new manager in and take a chance.

2 minutes ago, Stig said:

My expectation wasn't high at the start of the season. Evatt has proven himself to not be up to the job and i predicted a mid table season.

On top of that this league is definitely tougher than last season. I can't even believe anyone would think otherwise. We've got a team who've spent £30m, no teams in financial disarray like last season, and promoted teams with budgets to make a charge. As a result we have 3 teams on course for 100ish points and a 4th team not far behind them.

The frustration is that this loyalty to him is the negative thing to do. There is no evidence to suggest he is capable of beating big teams when the pressure is on if he somehow scrapes us into the play offs. The positive thing would be to get a new manager in and take a chance.

One club with a golden goose doesn't make the league tougher. It makes them tougher. Also the other teams are doing well because of the ineptitude of the rest of the division. I stand by my opinion on that basis. I've seen nothing in the teams at the top that makes me think they are head and shoulders above even us. 

14 minutes ago, Underpants said:

One club with a golden goose doesn't make the league tougher. It makes them tougher. Also the other teams are doing well because of the ineptitude of the rest of the division. I stand by my opinion on that basis. I've seen nothing in the teams at the top that makes me think they are head and shoulders above even us. 

Yes. The 4 nil loss v Huddersfield, the 2 nil loss v Brum and the 5 nil loss v Stockport all looked like fairly even games....

The division this season is more competitive than it has been any season we've been in league 1: more big teams taking points off each other meaning the points total for the play offs will be low, but all the way down to 12th will be competing for those spots. Given our record in pressure games against rivals that definitely makes it harder for us.

And the fact 3 teams are still averaging over 2pts per game in this more competitive league shows there's still some outlier teams hammering everyone. We seem to have the worst of the season 2 years ago with 3 teams getting massive points hauls and a lot of competition for the remaining play off spaces.

Edited December 15, 20241 yr by Stig

5 hours ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

We are not just losing against top end teams and local rivals, far too often we are rolling over and having our bellies tickled and it's not been addressed...... That is the unforgivable bit. We went to Wembley and lay down against a team we had put 5 past previously because the team are weak mentally and the manager isn't able to sort it and seems unable to even acknowledge the problem. 

That's the thing, we aren't going to Birmingham, Stockport, Huddersfield and losing 3-2 or to a late or unlucky goal, like Posh and Blackpool did here.  Its like we are in a division below these teams, they don't break sweat.  This is how I don't understand this "we have players that would get into every other team" mentality, its utter nonsense, just watch the games against the top 6 and Wigan, we're chasing shadows.

4 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Regardless of yesterday’s abject performance it’ll be brave call to get rid given the last 13 games we’ve for 26 points. 

 

It shouldn't be, because the season isn't 13 games long. We're 12 points adrift of what the target was at the start of the season and Evatt himself admitted yesterday that we don't turn up in the big games.

1 hour ago, kent_white said:

It's you're 

Is it bollocks.