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Well the results DO help, but...
1. Flab seems to be keeping his nose out of the dressing room. No more of this "4-4-2, but no, I'm not really picking the team, Mr Manager, Sir". Ah, yeah, 4-4-2, the formation the majority of you wanted and the one you think you've got. REALLY? Do you think Routledge has been playing up front with Simpson? I don't; he is playing about as high up the field as Buzz and Taarabt, i.e. part of the 3 in a 4-2-3-1 formation. ONE up front! The exact formation this squad is playing is the one Sousa was trying last season, but didn't have the personnel for it.
2. The manager FINALLY (Let's hear you say Halleluyah) appears to have been able to pick the players HE wants. No more Borrowdales. Now, let's be clear here: Borrowdale appears to be fitting in well and developing quite nicely, but he should NEVER have been bought if the manager didn't want him. You Happy Clappers can go on about how Gianni was right; look at Borrowdale, he can PLAY (as if Gianni would ever know a millionth of what Paola Sousa knows about football...), but that's not my point. The point is, it is pure insanity to bring in a player that the manager doesn't want or doesn't rate - there should be no more of that now that JG and JM are in charge of transfers.
2a. OK, I'm off on a tangent here, but Ben Watson. Great, it looks like we might land him in January for, what was it, £2.5m? Great business people are thinking. Maybe, but if the club had listened to Iain Dowie at the start of last season and pushed the boat out by another couple of hundred k, we'd have had him then for less than £2m. Of course, the real reason we didn't get him then was probably more to do with Flab wanting to get in with his continental football contacts (again as if he'd know a trillionth of what Iain Dowie knows about football...) by bringing Parejo to the club.
3. The settled team - ah...
And just to re-assure Isleworth, I am still less than happy about Gianni's role at the club. I haven't forgotten what went on before the Flab and his mates came in - budgets being exceeded season on season resulting in a spiralling debt, the Gino Padula saga, the (what seemed like) daily dramas that came out of the club and most of all, his loose lips.
There are, however, signs of improvement, the main one being his silence. He was almost as much of a rent-a-quote as Simon Jordan three or four years ago and now, he is much more low profile - good. As mentioned above, he is no longer the cheif recruiter - good; he is also not in charge of finances - superb!
So, he may yet turn a corner, but its going to take more than a few good results (and even a promotion) for me to change that view.
UUU RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
1. Flab seems to be keeping his nose out of the dressing room. No more of this "4-4-2, but no, I'm not really picking the team, Mr Manager, Sir". Ah, yeah, 4-4-2, the formation the majority of you wanted and the one you think you've got. REALLY? Do you think Routledge has been playing up front with Simpson? I don't; he is playing about as high up the field as Buzz and Taarabt, i.e. part of the 3 in a 4-2-3-1 formation. ONE up front! The exact formation this squad is playing is the one Sousa was trying last season, but didn't have the personnel for it.
2. The manager FINALLY (Let's hear you say Halleluyah) appears to have been able to pick the players HE wants. No more Borrowdales. Now, let's be clear here: Borrowdale appears to be fitting in well and developing quite nicely, but he should NEVER have been bought if the manager didn't want him. You Happy Clappers can go on about how Gianni was right; look at Borrowdale, he can PLAY (as if Gianni would ever know a millionth of what Paola Sousa knows about football...), but that's not my point. The point is, it is pure insanity to bring in a player that the manager doesn't want or doesn't rate - there should be no more of that now that JG and JM are in charge of transfers.
2a. OK, I'm off on a tangent here, but Ben Watson. Great, it looks like we might land him in January for, what was it, £2.5m? Great business people are thinking. Maybe, but if the club had listened to Iain Dowie at the start of last season and pushed the boat out by another couple of hundred k, we'd have had him then for less than £2m. Of course, the real reason we didn't get him then was probably more to do with Flab wanting to get in with his continental football contacts (again as if he'd know a trillionth of what Iain Dowie knows about football...) by bringing Parejo to the club.
3. The settled team - ah...
And just to re-assure Isleworth, I am still less than happy about Gianni's role at the club. I haven't forgotten what went on before the Flab and his mates came in - budgets being exceeded season on season resulting in a spiralling debt, the Gino Padula saga, the (what seemed like) daily dramas that came out of the club and most of all, his loose lips.
There are, however, signs of improvement, the main one being his silence. He was almost as much of a rent-a-quote as Simon Jordan three or four years ago and now, he is much more low profile - good. As mentioned above, he is no longer the cheif recruiter - good; he is also not in charge of finances - superb!
So, he may yet turn a corner, but its going to take more than a few good results (and even a promotion) for me to change that view.
UUU RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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