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Barra Marra wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 9:04 am

boyliegladbach wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:15 pm All well and good people saying its the same formation/system we got promoted with, however the desire, intensity, the passing,the pressing, the tracking back, the winning the ball back and the fitness isn't the same.

I would also add , the players aren't the same. Particularly the midfield.
That system worked with the players playing in it. A midfielder running riot and up there with league tops scorers, not to mention his creativity and pinpoint passing. Two young lads running non stop all day long. We were passing teams to death. The same system this season looks a bit disjointed. A lot more balls over the top are being played and we're putting in more crosses from out wide. Aside from Quigley, where's the big tall lads to take advantage of balls in the air? Evatt himself once mentioned about calls to "get it in the box" and pointed out the fact that this isn't how we played and why.

Mike wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:23 am

Pedro wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:39 pm
Firstly I said from the start it was a bad appointment.
We appointed a Manager who is financially secure unlike Evatt whom I did not like as a person ,but as my Dad used to say a hungry boxer fights harder

Evatt said once on Radio Cumbria that the Blackpool players got £250k each when they were promoted to the Premier League. He played at a high level for years so unless he’s made bad investments, he is most likely financially secure.

Working by your logic, Nigel Clough would’ve been a bad appointment for us as he’s likely to be financially secure after years playing and managing at a good level.

sempre contigo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:53 am There's also (as mentioned a few times) the massive risk of getting rid of Dunn and there being no guarantees with a new manager. That will have a financial impact even greater than being relegated with Dunn.

Mike wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:38 pm

sempre contigo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:53 am There's also (as mentioned a few times) the massive risk of getting rid of Dunn and there being no guarantees with a new manager. That will have a financial impact even greater than being relegated with Dunn.

Totally agree. For those wanting to sack Dunn, what happens if results haven’t improved under the new management team after 2/3 months? Presumably we’d have to get rid of them as well.

Could become really costly for the club, bearing in mind that switching doesn’t guarantee staying up.

HenneysKnee wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:25 am

Jonty wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:55 pm “I’m sure theres’s two teams worse than us”
“so long as we avoid the bottom two- job done”
love the winning mindset.

The realistic mindset. Or we could live in your world where apparently we are good enough to be pushing for the play offs

sempre contigo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:53 am So for me, Dunn isn't going anywhere so having a 60-page continuing thread on whether he should after every poor result isn't gonna do anyone any good. It's an old and tedious cliche but all that we have is to get behind him and the team, have some hope and strap ourselves in for the ride... I mean, when have we ever done things the easy way and like it or not, he is one of us now.

tictactoe wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:56 pm Said from the start and my opinion hasn’t changed, the board went for a name and should have gone for experience.

bluessupporter wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:48 pm

tictactoe wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:56 pm Said from the start and my opinion hasn’t changed, the board went for a name and should have gone for experience.

So with his track record what sort of 'name' did he have?

boyliegladbach wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:35 pm

bluessupporter wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:48 pm

So with his track record what sort of 'name' did he have?

Blackburn

Tavistock Bluebird wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:16 pm After 48 years out of the league the appointment of Dunn was nothing less than a naive act of self harm by the board. How on earth that man made it to the top of the board's list is beyond comprehension. I can only think that as Barrow seem to have a decent relationship with Blackburrn, some of his mates put in a word for him. After his dreadful spells at Oldham and Blackpool he must have thought all his Christmases had come at once when he got the call. I honestly can't think of one ambitious club in the top 5 divisions that would have given a man with such a dreadful record another job as manager. I said it at the time, the board have gambled 48 years of non league on a lame horse and it may come back to haunt them.