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Steve Walsh - no longer our Director of Football

Steve Walsh as DOF

  • IN

    Votes: 52 6.0%

  • OUT

    Votes: 727 84.4%

  • Shake it all about

    Votes: 82 9.5%
  • Total voters
    861
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Rollo Tomassi said:
We resemble Newcastle about 15 years ago all bluster and talk and big money flops galore, whenever the big boys got rid of a player you could bank on them going to St James Park on a huge contract.

There is no rhyme or reason to the transfers we've bought the best players from clubs below us like Sunderland,Burnley and Swansea and then target the ones not good from teams above us like Arsenal and Man United and all at eye watering prices.
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That's the gist of the situation. We bought 3 #10's this summer without any idea of how to get them to play. We decided LB wasn't a priority even tho we literally had 0 cover for it. We had a back 3 combined age of over 100. We have 4-5 DM's and nobody to get the ball forward.

We are literally just buying players because we want to buy players.
 
For me we can't really blame Steve Walsh.

At Leicester he was a scout and assistant manager.

We have brought him in as the DoF. If we wanted to recruit a DoF then surely we should of gone for someone who has experience of the role. If we wanted to recruit a DoF from Leicester then surely we should of gone for the fella who actually did the job there.

Since 2014 that has been John Rudkin and not Walsh. Scouts judge players abilities DoF's have a vision of how it will all fit together. It's a bit like getting a brickie to design your house instead of an architect.

Get a brickie to design your house and you end up with a load of random walls that don't fit together get Walsh to build your team and you get a load of random 10's who will never fit together.
 

Dabluez said:
For me we can't really blame Steve Walsh.

At Leicester he was a scout and assistant manager.

We have brought him in as the DoF. If we wanted to recruit a DoF then surely we should of gone for someone who has experience of the role. If we wanted to recruit a DoF from Leicester then surely we should of gone for the fella who actually did the job there.

Since 2014 that has been John Rudkin and not Walsh. Scouts judge players abilities DoF's have a vision of how it will all fit together. It's a bit like getting a brickie to design your house instead of an architect.

Get a brickie to design your house and you end up with a load of random walls that don't fit together get Walsh to build your team and you get a load of random 10's who will never fit together.
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He shouldn't have accepted the job if he didn't think he could do it.
 
PhilEFC said:
Not sure I if it’s been mentioned but Ronnie Goodlass was pretty scathing of him on the call in last night on Radio Merseyside.

Good to hear an ex player tell it as it is. Sharp would have been defending him.
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His u21 aged signings have been great...its every other outfield player whose been awful.
 

riddick said:
That's the gist of the situation. We bought 3 #10's this summer without any idea of how to get them to play. We decided LB wasn't a priority even tho we literally had 0 cover for it. We had a back 3 combined age of over 100. We have 4-5 DM's and nobody to get the ball forward.

We are literally just buying players because we want to buy players.
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The thing is we actually didn't, the media said we did ofc, but not the case, we bought 1 number 10 in Sigurdsson, Rooney can't play there anymore - he looks utterly lost and has done for 2-3 years, play him deeper or don't play him, Klassen isn't and has never been a number 10, he's a central mid with license to get forward as much as he can (least he was at Ajax)

The main problem is either trying to fit Rooney into the team and ending up moving Sigurdsson out of position to accommodate him, and in general not realising that all 3 of those can't really play together in the same side, have the strong feeling that Rooney was just one the owner/chairman wanted for PR reasons and was forced onto the club for those reasons, Klassen and Sigurdsson where one Walsh and one Koemans decisions and they reached agreement to get both so both stayed happy.

We recruitment wise have never once seemed to look at the squad, the style of play, how players would compliment each other OR as importantly what each player needs around him to actually get the best out of them.

Sigurdsson needs for example runners around him to enable him to play them in or to give him space to shoot himself, he needs a target man to aim those set pieces at, instead we got none of that, and then force him out of position?

Klassen needs people behind him to allow him to get forward, he needs pace in the side to create space - which he is very good at finding and getting in scoring positions, without the pace, no space opens up for him, he then looks absolutely [Poor language removed] - could stick Lampard at his peak in this side atm and he'd look very average at best himself btw.

No target man, no pace, a slow defence meaning we have to play sitting deep, no outlet down either flank, because we don't have a left back frankly who can cross the half way line, and everyone knows we haven't so squeeze the centre and right side nullifying those easily. Compounded by sitting so deep and having no one who can carry the ball forwards or no one centrally who can pass it forwards. No Tempo, no pace, no height, no shape.
 

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