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. 

26 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

However, in those first 15 matches, let's call them 'the Crellin days' he was very fortunate there were no fans in or he'd have been lambasted

Or would he have realised quicker we’d be better with any one of us in goal?

56 minutes ago, Big E said:

I am not sure he would last at the top. The transition and time taken to implement is something you don’t get there. Which is a shame as he could probably build something great with money 

Hes pretty much had instant success tbf

Hes been in management 4 seasons and hes been promoted in 2 of em. 

I do question some of the decisions but overall Evatt, with the backing of the Board, has exceeded all my (limited) expectations. That said my expectations have gone up a fair bit from where we were back then on the brink of disaster. I mean look at us now - good looking team playing some great football at times and in with a strong chance of staying in the playoff places although we do have to keep an eye on the Posh and Barnsley, who could knock us out of the top 6 if they both win their games in hand - but we've got the points on the board and can use the time off to get the new look squad to gel for a late season push. Exciting times to be a Wanderers fan.

Automatic?

Probably need to win 13 to be in the reckoning?

Someone said earlier in the Charlton thread that Shoretire did the right thing passing to Charles (when he hit the bar), Dapo would’ve probably dribbled it on his own.

Thought that was bang on, and for all the praise we can give Evatt for improving the players he’s had. He also deserves a lot of credit (with Markham) for identifying the right players. Our transfer strategy is the best it’s been in my lifetime. Seems like most of them are hits and very few misses. 

Im sure in a couple of years someone will be saying “remember when peoples heads fell off when we sold Dapo”, that’s no disrespect to him but he was a square peg in a round hole this year and we’ve done very well to get a decent fee for him, replace him with cost effective options who actually address the weaknesses in our squad.

Cant wait to see how the end of this season plays out

1 hour ago, globaldiver said:

Automatic?

Probably need to win 13 to be in the reckoning?

Think all will be clear after we've played Ipswich and Sheff Weds in March 

1 hour ago, Wanderlust said:

I do question some of the decisions but overall Evatt, with the backing of the Board, has exceeded all my (limited) expectations. That said my expectations have gone up a fair bit from where we were back then on the brink of disaster. I mean look at us now - good looking team playing some great football at times and in with a strong chance of staying in the playoff places although we do have to keep an eye on the Posh and Barnsley, who could knock us out of the top 6 if they both win their games in hand - but we've got the points on the board and can use the time off to get the new look squad to gel for a late season push. Exciting times to be a Wanderers fan.

Could do with not losing to Posh and Wycombe in our next two aways

Both Evatt and the board are very much learning on the job. They get more right than they do wrong. 

2 hours ago, MickyD said:

Or would he have realised quicker we’d be better with any one of us in goal?

tbh. I think one of us might have gone on & replaced him hoping no-one noticed until they realised we'd started looking better.

19 minutes ago, Zico said:

Could do with not losing to Posh and Wycombe in our next two aways

That’s it for me 2 key games coming up

few of clubs behind have 2-4 games in hand 

Said elsewhere 8 points out the next 4 minimum. With those games in hand we need to maintain as much distance as we can 

41 minutes ago, Zico said:

Think all will be clear after we've played Ipswich and Sheff Weds in March 

Pompey away should be added to this small list.

6 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Pompey away should be added to this small list.

Was more about beating the teams above us to see if we can catch them, if we don't there's no chance 

Will have to beat Pompey regardless, as well as pretty much everyone else, as there's little chance right now anyway 

I still think our destiny is an away second leg play-off semi against one of Plymouth, Sheff Weds, Derby or Ipswich and I have my doubts over whether we could get past that, but it's going to be bloody exciting getting up to that point and having a go at it.

Edited January 29, 20233 yr by Marc505

At the moment, I'd be more confident against the southern teams.

The new lads may give us a bit more against the other two, that will be seen over the coming weeks.

23 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

I still think our destiny is an away second leg play-off semi against one of Plymouth, Sheff Weds, Derby or Ipswich and I have my doubts over whether we could get past that, but it's going to be bloody exciting getting up to that point and having a go at it.

I so want it to be Ipswich. We have a play-off semi-final score to settle. I know it was a while ago but fuck it.

Pure lottery the play offs 

33 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

I still think our destiny is an away second leg play-off semi against one of Plymouth, Sheff Weds, Derby or Ipswich and I have my doubts over whether we could get past that, but it's going to be bloody exciting getting up to that point and having a go at it.

This is it for me, a few weeks ago I dreaded the thought of the play-offs as felt collectively we were weak and would struggle with potentially 3 big high pressure games.

Thankfully so did IE and seems to have addressed it. So is a tall ask to go up automatically but if we don't, I just want us to be resilient, nasty and hard to beat for the rest of the season.

If so, I will go into the play-offs in a far better frame of mind than I would have been otherwise!!

I was talking to Sharon on fixture release day, she was saying the amount of time Evatt/Markham spend on analysing players before submitting bids for them is incredible. No knee jerk reactions

 

33 minutes ago, MickyD said:

I so want it to be Ipswich. We have a play-off semi-final score to settle. I know it was a while ago but fuck it.

They'll change the away goal rule and appoint a bent ref 

34 minutes ago, MickyD said:

I so want it to be Ipswich. We have a play-off semi-final score to settle. I know it was a while ago but fuck it.

Aye, would take that right now 

From first whistle to last, “Barry Knight, you’re a wanker!”

Or, in the style of “Bruce Ricoh & Colin Todd, Bruce & Colin”

”Mike Riley and Barry Knight; both - bent bastards!”

8 minutes ago, Zico said:

Aye, would take that right now 

Would you not prefer them at Wembley 😁

I'd fancy us against anyone in the play offs. 

4 hours ago, gonzo said:

Hes pretty much had instant success tbf

Hes been in management 4 seasons and hes been promoted in 2 of em. 

I don’t think he would survive the previous poor starts. Great windows yes but patience isn’t in existence higher up