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Doc Brown said:
For what it’s worth, I’ve not heard that level of antipathy towards our own manager mid-game since the Westley era.

I was genuinely taken aback by the volume of booing that met the substitutions, and the number of people out of their seats chanting ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’ at Lowe on the gantry.

As much as I’m not impressed with Lowe, he really has been dealt a shit hand. As was McAvoy before him and Neil from Jan 2020 onwards.

The squad is just crap. Not quite as crap as 3 goals in 10 - for this, Lowe must take some responsibility. But over the last 3/4 seasons the job of PNE manager has become increasingly difficult, and is now verging on impossible.

For that, The Family and Ridsdale must take the flack. Not the manager. Whether he be Neil, McAvoy or Lowe.

We really would need a manager blessed with Brian Clough levels of turd-polishing genius to get these misfits into the top half, let alone the top 6.
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Everybody to blame except the players then. The manager,coaches tell them what to do and the PLAYERS don't respond. To me it's the players more than the manager that's to blame. I am sure no manager in the world tells their team" Go out there lads but don't shoot or beat a man,create chances. Just try and make sure you don't lose. Players and managers probably get win bonuses on top of their salary. It is easy to blame the coaching staff but they aren't the ones wearing the boots on the pitch.
 
Bring_Back_Nuge said:
We have a striker who scored 17 championship goals last season. We have Brown, McCann and DJ who can all score from midfield. The system we are playing does not get us into good enough positions to be able to play to our strengths which has to be getting the ball out wide and playing it into the box where we have a good finisher in Riis and midfielders who know where the net is and can make late runs.
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7 million for Riis! On current form we'd be lucky to get 7 quid
 
When Lowe first came in I thought he was mental for trying to play a system that we clearly didn’t have the players for. For the record I can’t stand the wingback set up but that appears to be in fashion at the moment and if that’s how Lowe chooses to set us up and eventually it leads to success then brilliant.

In order for Lowe to be successful the board need to back him and give him the correct tools for the job, 2 transfer windows later we still don’t have a recognised RWB (integral to how Lowe wants to play) and our striker options are horrific. We have a back 3 made up of a former LB and 2 lads heavily criticised last season (albeit they’ve been very good this season but who’d have seen that coming, credit to the coaches?🤷‍♂️).

There’s no way do I believe that Lowe would have started the last transfer window thinking or being happy Troy Parrott as his only striker signing and Brad Potts still being his RWB with nothing in the way of serious competition for that the position.

What Lowe has done (up until recently) is brought a feel good factor and positivity back to the club which has been a breath of fresh air.

Some of the football we’ve played this season has been decent, at times very good we are just lacking that little bit of quality in the final 3rd but how many years has that been an issue. Had we managed to sign Archer or an Archer type player up top and a recognised RWB to offer a threat from that side of the pitch it’s my opinion we’d have scored more than 3 goals this season and be comfortably in the play offs.

One huge problem I see is that even if Lowe wasn’t so stubborn with this set up, what set up do we go with in order to improve? We have nothing in the way of pace and wingers. 👀

Which ever way you look at it Lowe has been seriously let down by the board this window and it’s very difficult/unfair to judge the fella and/or his set up with the current dross he has to work with. Mid table (ambitious) or lower is about right for this squad and that’s exactly where we sit currently. 🤷‍♂️

It’s only a matter of time before Ridsdale and Hemmings crush the enthusiasm out of Lowe, you can already see he’s cutting a frustrated figure (understandably so) as he knows he’s been shafted yet he still has to toe the line. History repeating itself, same thing happened with AN, I can fully see why he gave up in the end. Like others have posted, if I was Lowe I’d get my agent onto Cardiff and get the hell out this shit show before his reputation is in tatters.
 
On asking about the ownership and ambition, lack of investment, Peter has told me that he understands our frustration but has a very prescriptive budget to work with, even if we had sold Emil there were no obvious replacements to sign.

So just on the selling Emil bit, is Lowe not now taking rule with recruitment and finding players, should we not always have a shortlist? Should we not be being proactive?
 
Dick Dastardly said:
Made all the right substitutions at right time. We would have gone on to at least draw if not for the cock up by Woodman and Hughes. The manager can't legislate for that. Both Hughes and Woodman have been superb so far all season so hard to criticise. On to the next game.
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Utter nonsense.

You would've taken Alvaro & McCann off who were about the only 2 offering us anything?
 
Dick Dastardly said:
Made all the right substitutions at right time. We would have gone on to at least draw if not for the cock up by Woodman and Hughes. The manager can't legislate for that. Both Hughes and Woodman have been superb so far all season so hard to criticise. On to the next game.
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Dick…their goalkeeper didn’t have a shot to save until the Browne effort and after that he could have carried on having his packed lunch.
The substitutions were awful but it wouldn’t have effected the result anyway.
 
StevieNorthEnd said:
On asking about the ownership and ambition, lack of investment, Peter has told me that he understands our frustration but has a very prescriptive budget to work with, even if we had sold Emil there were no obvious replacements to sign.

So just on the selling Emil bit, is Lowe not now taking rule with recruitment and finding players, should we not always have a shortlist? Should we not be being proactive?
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There weren’t any obvious replacements, or we just couldn’t be bothered looking?

Robbo and Ogbene were available for low 7 figures so there’s two, and then Aaron Collins from Bristol rovers for less than a mill
 
OB1 said:
I’d love to know what we’re paying them for. I’m assuming they were either suggesting names out of our price bracket or we just weren’t following up their suggestions, but either way what a waste of valuable money
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Most the targets were clients of Lowe's own agency 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
OB1 said:
I’d love to know what we’re paying them for. I’m assuming they were either suggesting names out of our price bracket or we just weren’t following up their suggestions, but either way what a waste of valuable money
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And it's not as if we save money from this latest bit of outsourcing, because meanwhile we are still paying another of Lowe's mates as chief scout (James Wallace), plus our erstwhile senior recruitment analyst James Beet, who was last seen securing those "better quality" loan pathways for our kids in, er, the National League (1), National League North (1) and Northern Premier League (2).

As with so many of the club's initatives, it all feels very half-arsed, with corresponding results.
 
Thracia said:
And it's not as if we save money from this latest bit of outsourcing, because meanwhile we are still paying another of Lowe's mates as chief scout (James Wallace), plus our erstwhile senior recruitment analyst James Beet, who was last seen securing those "better quality" loan pathways for our kids in, er, the National League (1), National League North (1) and Northern Premier League (2).

As with so many of the club's initatives, it all feels very half-arsed, with corresponding results.
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In fairness to Wallace, at least he picked out Fernandez so did something of note. MRKT did nowt

And also in fairness to Beet, some of those youngsters did have League 2/higher level loans lined up, but they weren’t guaranteed game time so the youngsters themselves chose the lower loans for the guaranteed gametime
 
Thracia said:
And it's not as if we save money from this latest bit of outsourcing, because meanwhile we are still paying another of Lowe's mates as chief scout (James Wallace), plus our erstwhile senior recruitment analyst James Beet, who was last seen securing those "better quality" loan pathways for our kids in, er, the National League (1), National League North (1) and Northern Premier League (2).

As with so many of the club's initatives, it all feels very half-arsed, with corresponding results.
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Don't think this scandal has landed with many yet
 
OB1 said:
In fairness to Wallace, at least he picked out Fernandez so did something of note. MRKT did nowt

And also in fairness to Beet, some of those youngsters did have League 2/higher level loans lined up, but they weren’t guaranteed game time so the youngsters themselves chose the lower loans for the guaranteed gametime
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Yeah, I wonder what Beet is doing now? Apart from effectively working his notice.

I think in the murky world of transfers, there's always backs to be scratched and mates to be helped out, on both ends of any transfer.
 
Thracia said:
Yeah, I wonder what Beet is doing now? Apart from effectively working his notice.

I think in the murky world of transfers, there's always backs to be scratched and mates to be helped out, on both ends of any transfer.
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A sensible club would have him as fully loan manager, so going out and watching the lads on loan to see how they’re doing

Since we’re not that he’s probably making the tea or something
 
OB1 said:
A sensible club would have him as fully loan manager, so going out and watching the lads on loan to see how they’re doing

Since we’re not that he’s probably making the tea or something
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Beet was an up and coming analyst and scout wasn't that why we recruited him?
 
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