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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jan 27, 2020 12:15:38 GMT 1
SO. Is it still Ricketts out this morning then i wonder 😮 I see what you did there I did the same last night on the other thread the ricketts out mob quickly crucified me yet again for being pro town lol if anyone watched his interview after the game in the bbc motd box with Lineker , shearer and co you have to admit, he knows his stuff, fully committed to the club and supporters, and has a decent sense of humour too we couldn't ask for better and hopefully the critics can see what I saw now, spend 3 hours with him and let show you that he is of the style of the Leeds manager and is switched on and you'll realise you are wasting your time looking elsewhere Just hope he still wants to be part of it when the bigger clubs come knocking. Hopefully he will and only go for a REAL upgrade not just any old 'big' club.
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Post by harboroughshrew on Jan 27, 2020 14:11:46 GMT 1
Fascinating article in The Game section of The Times today giving many details of how Ricketts and his backroom staff instructed the players tactically before the Liverpool game and at half time. This is a real eye-opener in terms of the high degree of professionalism behind the scenes at the club. So dont lets forget that when things are not going well during a game. I have always said we will see the best of Ricketts next season and hopefully all of the fans will get right behind him as the team evolves and improves. Great spirit from the lads yesterday - it made me proud to be a Shrewsbury fan.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 27, 2020 14:27:19 GMT 1
Christ I was joking man. You used to be able to take this sort of banter! Whats happened? And i'm not finding proof of you being able to take banter before either - LOL thing is I've always stuck by the town manager whoever they are, even Askey, only turned on Ratcliffe towards the end and even then it was only gallows humour, relegation means nothing to me, it is what it is and life goes on as far as your other question, in limbo at the mo waiting for a simple procedure to fix things, depressing , annoying , and I take it out on you lot whilst waiting, no offence meant ;-) Simple procedure? Long wait? It's all part of the Tory plan to get you out of getting it on the NHS and paying to have the simple procedure done by the same person at your expense. Tory voters (though I assume you have more sense), don't notice how lower than the average over the years increases eventually affect the service that they expect. Similar happened years ago when people wanted the unions tamed, but didn't realise it was going to affect their unions, their jobs and their pensions.
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Post by floreatsalopia1 on Jan 27, 2020 14:31:14 GMT 1
Fascinating article in The Game section of The Times today giving many details of how Ricketts and his backroom staff instructed the players tactically before the Liverpool game and at half time. This is a real eye-opener in terms of the high degree of professionalism behind the scenes at the club. So dont lets forget that when things are not going well during a game. I have always said we will see the best of Ricketts next season and hopefully all of the fans will get right behind him as the team evolves and improves. Great spirit from the lads yesterday - it made me proud to be a Shrewsbury fan. The start of the article states Sam Ricketts looks to the floor of the home dressing room at the Montgomery Waters Meadow and composes himself. A smile, a pause. “You f***ers,” the Shrewsbury Town manager says at full-time. “The game was there to be won and you just wanted to go to Anfield, didn’t you?” Laughter breaks out and Jason Cummings, whose goals helped Shrewsbury to come from 2-0 down to earn a replay with world and European champions Liverpool, sticks his tongue out with glee. “It is all there for you now,” Ricketts, 38, says. “Enjoy it, well done, now let’s have some music.”
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Post by venceremos on Jan 27, 2020 14:32:32 GMT 1
Fascinating article in The Game section of The Times today giving many details of how Ricketts and his backroom staff instructed the players tactically before the Liverpool game and at half time. This is a real eye-opener in terms of the high degree of professionalism behind the scenes at the club. So dont lets forget that when things are not going well during a game. I have always said we will see the best of Ricketts next season and hopefully all of the fans will get right behind him as the team evolves and improves. Great spirit from the lads yesterday - it made me proud to be a Shrewsbury fan. I've had my gripes and been bored more often than I'd like this season but if the season ended today I'd judge it a successful one. It feels like there is real progress being made under Ricketts. The league hasn't been great so far - though it certainly hasn't been as bad as some have made out at times - but the FA Cup has certainly made up for that. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to the Cup so I'm very happy with that - and the season's not over yet. I'm already looking forward to what we might see next season.
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Post by Pilch on Jan 27, 2020 14:35:29 GMT 1
thing is I've always stuck by the town manager whoever they are, even Askey, only turned on Ratcliffe towards the end and even then it was only gallows humour, relegation means nothing to me, it is what it is and life goes on as far as your other question, in limbo at the mo waiting for a simple procedure to fix things, depressing , annoying , and I take it out on you lot whilst waiting, no offence meant ;-) Simple procedure? Long wait? It's all part of the Tory plan to get you out of getting it on the NHS and paying to have the simple procedure done by the same person at your expense. Tory voters (though I assume you have more sense), don't notice how lower than the average over the years increases eventually affect the service that they expect. Similar happened years ago when people wanted the unions tamed, but didn't realise it was going to affect their unions, their jobs and their pensions. next week now, not bad really
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Post by 18stfc86 on Jan 27, 2020 14:39:13 GMT 1
Like I've said before, no doubting Ricketts is a quality cup manager but in the league which is the bread and butter, he's currently underachieving. During Cummings's interview at FT, he even said that the team isn't hitting it's full potential and should be higher. So, who do we blame? The managers tactics are to blame in my opinion.
You look at how much we've spent on our squad in the past couple of seasons and we should be aiming and expecting better than to be sitting 16th in the table.
Don't know how many times I'm going to have to say this, my opinion isn't going to change anytime soon I doubt, that's up to Ricketts to prove me wrong.
Can we all enjoy yesterday until Gillingham on Wednesday instead of trying to get into a petty debate which has been done to death recently because we're doing well in the FA Cup. Even Radcliffe was a good cup manager, look how that ended!
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Post by Pilch on Jan 27, 2020 15:10:06 GMT 1
Can we all enjoy yesterday until Gillingham on Wednesday instead of trying to get into a petty debate which has been done to death recently because we're doing well in the FA Cup. Even Radcliffe was a good cup manager, look how that ended! remind me who started this 'petty debate' Radcliffe was a good cup manager ? whats make you say that ? how many cup games can you remember ? I'm thinking 1 here's his 4 years in charge cup record league cup 1st round. Sheff united 0-6 agg 1st round Preston 2-4 agg 1st round tranmere 1-3 1st round walsall 0-1 Fa Cup 2nd Round. Lost 2-1 to Oxford ( beat Northampton at home ) 1st round Lost 4-1 to cheltenham 1st round Lost 1-0 Brighton 4th round 0-4 Chelsea. ( beat barrow home, Stafford home and Everton home )
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jan 27, 2020 15:16:02 GMT 1
Like I've said before, no doubting Ricketts is a quality cup manager but in the league which is the bread and butter, he's currently underachieving. During Cummings's interview at FT, he even said that the team isn't hitting it's full potential and should be higher. So, who do we blame? The managers tactics are to blame in my opinion. You look at how much we've spent on our squad in the past couple of seasons and we should be aiming and expecting better than to be sitting 16th in the table. Don't know how many times I'm going to have to say this, my opinion isn't going to change anytime soon I doubt, that's up to Ricketts to prove me wrong. Can we all enjoy yesterday until Gillingham on Wednesday instead of trying to get into a petty debate which has been done to death recently because we're doing well in the FA Cup. Even Radcliffe was a good cup manager, look how that ended! I guess that answers my question. Unless we win at least 5-0 at Gillingham this week will be branded a failure by some.
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Post by Pilch on Jan 27, 2020 15:20:01 GMT 1
Like I've said before, no doubting Ricketts is a quality cup manager but in the league which is the bread and butter, he's currently underachieving. During Cummings's interview at FT, he even said that the team isn't hitting it's full potential and should be higher. So, who do we blame? The managers tactics are to blame in my opinion. You look at how much we've spent on our squad in the past couple of seasons and we should be aiming and expecting better than to be sitting 16th in the table. Don't know how many times I'm going to have to say this, my opinion isn't going to change anytime soon I doubt, that's up to Ricketts to prove me wrong. Can we all enjoy yesterday until Gillingham on Wednesday instead of trying to get into a petty debate which has been done to death recently because we're doing well in the FA Cup. Even Radcliffe was a good cup manager, look how that ended! I guess that answers my question. Unless we win at least 5-0 at Gillingham this week will be branded a failure by some. I don't expect much of a performance , the players will no doubt have a sore head this morning, and it will seem the biggest chore ever dealing with the gillingham trip, a classic 0-0 I'd take right now ;-)
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jan 27, 2020 15:27:32 GMT 1
I guess that answers my question. Unless we win at least 5-0 at Gillingham this week will be branded a failure by some. I don't expect much of a performance , the players will no doubt have a sore head this morning, and it will seem the biggest chore ever dealing with the gillingham trip, a classic 0-0 I'd take right now ;-) Well that will give the moaners something to moan about.
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Post by venceremos on Jan 27, 2020 16:16:20 GMT 1
Like I've said before, no doubting Ricketts is a quality cup manager but in the league which is the bread and butter, he's currently underachieving. During Cummings's interview at FT, he even said that the team isn't hitting it's full potential and should be higher. So, who do we blame? The managers tactics are to blame in my opinion. You look at how much we've spent on our squad in the past couple of seasons and we should be aiming and expecting better than to be sitting 16th in the table. Don't know how many times I'm going to have to say this, my opinion isn't going to change anytime soon I doubt, that's up to Ricketts to prove me wrong. Can we all enjoy yesterday until Gillingham on Wednesday instead of trying to get into a petty debate which has been done to death recently because we're doing well in the FA Cup. Even Radcliffe was a good cup manager, look how that ended! There is no such thing as a good cup manager. Can we stop making that nonsensical distinction? If the team was hitting its full potential it would be job done, wouldn't it? How many times does Ricketts have to repeat that the squad's a work in progress for the penny to drop with those who think we should be at full tilt already? It's up to Ricketts to prove you wrong? Er, no, I don't think that's how it works.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 27, 2020 16:55:14 GMT 1
The simplistic way of looking at it for me is: rewind to the start of the season, tell me that we would be in this league position and still in the (any) cup. Would I have been happy with that?
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Post by venceremos on Jan 27, 2020 17:07:53 GMT 1
The simplistic way of looking at it for me is: rewind to the start of the season, tell me that we would be in this league position and still in the (any) cup. Would I have been happy with that? Spot on. Especially if being in the cup included beating a Championship promotion chaser after drawing there and then having the better of a come-from-the-dead draw against the runaway PL leaders and European champions, in front of a packed and bouncing Meadow and live on peak-time national TV. Long after many league seasons have been forgotten, people will remember this Cup run. I'm not having anyone tell me that doesn't make this a good season.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 27, 2020 17:14:06 GMT 1
The simplistic way of looking at it for me is: rewind to the start of the season, tell me that we would be in this league position and still in the (any) cup. Would I have been happy with that? Spot on. Especially if being in the cup included beating a Championship promotion chaser after drawing there and then having the better of a come-from-the-dead draw against the runaway PL leaders and European champions, in front of a packed and bouncing Meadow and live on peak-time national TV. Long after many league seasons have been forgotten, people will remember this Cup run. I'm not having anyone tell me that doesn't make this a good season. I'm a Piers Morgan party pooper! League position is very important, don't want to slide down like we did in the Ratcliffe season after beating Everton, but so far, so ok, with regard to where I expected us to be. Now to translate cup form into league form to make a good season. I believe Sam is the only manager who can do that, we can't, and won't, be ripping up the plan and starting again.
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Post by venceremos on Jan 27, 2020 17:36:59 GMT 1
Spot on. Especially if being in the cup included beating a Championship promotion chaser after drawing there and then having the better of a come-from-the-dead draw against the runaway PL leaders and European champions, in front of a packed and bouncing Meadow and live on peak-time national TV. Long after many league seasons have been forgotten, people will remember this Cup run. I'm not having anyone tell me that doesn't make this a good season. I'm a Piers Morgan party pooper! League position is very important, don't want to slide down like we did in the Ratcliffe season after beating Everton, but so far, so ok, with regard to where I expected us to be. Now to translate cup form into league form to make a good season. I believe Sam is the only manager who can do that, we can't, and won't, be ripping up the plan and starting again. Never, ever identify yourself as a kindred spirit of the loathsome Morgan! I take your point but "the Ratcliffe season" was a freakish aberration. If we sink like a stone from here I'll ……… be astonished (no hostages to fortune from me). But even if we do, at least we won't drop into non-league.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 27, 2020 17:40:46 GMT 1
I'm a Piers Morgan party pooper! Never, ever identify yourself as a kindred spirit of the loathsome Morgan! Unless it meant I could get access to his bank account
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Post by venceremos on Jan 27, 2020 18:44:13 GMT 1
Never, ever identify yourself as a kindred spirit of the loathsome Morgan! Unless it meant I could get access to his bank account It doesn't say much for our society that such a useless and dishonest man can make so much!
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Post by salop18 on Jan 30, 2020 0:02:59 GMT 1
Strange how Pilch hasn't started this up tonight..
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Post by Pilch on Jan 30, 2020 0:52:15 GMT 1
Strange how Pilch hasn't started this up tonight.. not strange at all for one I dont do Wednesday football, and two I always back the manager you should try it
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Post by Pilch on Dec 26, 2020 12:57:27 GMT 1
its amazing just how far we've come in less than 12 months doncaster 2 shrewsbury 0 possession doncaster 49% v 51% Shrewsbury shots 13 v 3 on target. 3 v 0 corners. 9 v 2 Doncaster 0 v Shrewsbury 1 doncaster 67% v 33% Shrewsbury shots 19 v 5 on target. 3 v 1 corners. 7 v 6 proof if ever you needed it that stats are meaningless, and wanting entertainment is a load of b******s happy xmas
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Post by tdk on Dec 26, 2020 13:12:23 GMT 1
Can we make 2021 R word free. Make it a Happy New Year
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Post by MetaShrew on Dec 26, 2020 15:29:56 GMT 1
Winning IS entertaining.
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Post by Pilch on Dec 26, 2020 15:42:45 GMT 1
you might be right, i mean look at hurst, we had charton away, charlton away, and , and you know i might just take my afternoon beta blocker at 3pm today just in case ;-)
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