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I do like the fact that the Steel City Derby is right up there as I have always thought it was a better rivalry than a lot of the ones the media fawn over!! But they really needed to do better research, they say its the world oldest rivalry, with the 1862 match descending into fisticuffs, problem is neither club was around in 1862!!! We were still 5 years away from being formed and the blunts we still 27 years away from existing!!!! I think they are mixing this up with a Sheffield FC v Hallam game!!!
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(13-04-2015, 15:06)Thurnscoe_OWL Wrote: close your eyes everyone if you don't want to be scared for next season
SG has said Nuhiu will be a big part of things next year and will score goals 
Good of SG to sack himself. Saved DC a job.
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Honestly, I've stuck up for Nuhiu but have openly said if we want the prem we need much better.
I've also stuck up for SG and have said I would give him a chance next season but he is really puzzling me lately and now I'm doubting that he has it in him to do any better than he has. It normally means the end of a manager when I doubt them so ...
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Problem for SG is if he tries some different things then he will lose his job if it doesn't work, or at least thats his fear, but if we want to progress as a club he has to try some different things even if they don't work!!! From DCs perspective he has to either tell SG he is completely safe so that he will get outside his comfort zone with regards to tactics and formations or he has to fire him now!!!
Of course the alternative is that no matter what he will stick to what he knows, and to be honest I think this is the case with him!! He isn't a dinosaur, but he is stuck in the old way of doing things and other more progressive managers will run rings around him with worse players and scrape a draw against us. The better teams beat us, the crap ones everyone can beat, its the bunch in the middle that determine your season, and we have dropped points at home in particular to most of these teams!!
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SG could keep his job by going to DC and saying "now we're safe I'm going to spend these next 4 games trying out different formations and players so we know what we need pre-season and we are then ready for next season. I hope you will stick by me whilst I do so".
No chairman would sack a boss for doing so if he has been told before hand
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I agree, it come come from both sides, I just think managers are under so much pressure these days for wins that the ability to build a club over a few seasons has disappeared!! It took Big Jack a couple of seasons to get it right and Atkinson was manager when we got relegated but built arguably the best Wednesday team ever for Francis to take forward. Now, everything is instant and you are only as good as your last win, not defending SG at all, he needs to go for me, but I can see the mindset he probably has!!
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(13-04-2015, 15:53)Thurnscoe_OWL Wrote: Honestly, I've stuck up for Nuhiu but have openly said if we want the prem we need much better.
I've also stuck up for SG and have said I would give him a chance next season but he is really puzzling me lately and now I'm doubting that he has it in him to do any better than he has. It normally means the end of a manager when I doubt them so ...
SG has done exactly what I thought he would, stuck rigidly to the 442 he was brought up on.
He has been in terminal decline for a few months now. It is just a question of when people recognise it, most importantly when DC recognises it.
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he could change all that by being enthusiastic, showing he has balls and attacking teams. We have nothing to play for so nothing to lose
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