Speakman on the transfer window so far - Echo article


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KS copping it anarl, bloke hasn't been here five minutes. Six months or so into the takeover and the sugar rush kids are stamping their feet having decided the owner and his senior staff are chancers and/or out of their depth.

And the problem is, a lot will make that sort of decision about them and be steadfast in that view until "they are proven right".
 
They also show patience with the manager as well by basing their decisions on more than just the league table and most recent results.

Think it was something like 10 games without a win at the start of one of their seasons, but they "underlying data" told them that they had actually played / performed well in those games and the results didn't follow what would be expected e.g. if you played those games 100 times in the same manner their average points would be better than they actually got. Its all about understanding "variance" in their system. These are the sorts of things that supporters quite simply don't really care about, especially around the North East where its headlines (and now social media) that drive a lot of thoughts.

The club really does need to start ramping up the way it educates the supporters though to try and get a few more to think along those lines.
If we perform well in the first 10 games, but don't get X number of points, then without a doubt we'll have a lot of fans on Johnson back demanding that we change it because "Brenty is ferking clueless".



NB - look at this shite for starters - KLD out of his depth
Why do people go to watch football? Would you go tho the cinema to watch crap films in the hope that in five year’s time they will show better. People have lost track of what entertainment is all about. We are not all masochists.
 
Aye, great stuff Kristjaan lad - bang on about how positive things are and having to take our time when we don’t have any players at the club for two f***ing positions with a game for points three days away.
I could understand it completely if he was on about players coming in to challenge or improve or starting line-up but we're still missing two to actually make one.
 
Aye, great stuff Kristjaan lad - bang on about how positive things are and having to take our time when we don’t have any players at the club for two f***ing positions with a game for points three days away.
I could understand it completely if he was on about players coming in to challenge or improve or starting line-up but we're still missing two to actually make one.


The incomng lads need to be really good players.
 
We are in agreement. The point is whoever comes in needs to be very good if we are sitting on our hands waiting.

I hope the new mob are waiting for class, not waiting for panic.
Spot-on mate. These signings are going to give us some insight into whether this lot are bullshit merchants like the previous.
I feel for Johnson mind. He memtioned the need for six players a couple of weeks back and not one has arrived.
 
This. Also, any players coming in will have very little chance to bed in as there are two ganes per week til the end of September

Huge season coming up, massive. I'm not a fan of the gaffer but he needs to be given the tools to do his job, if he is I think he will put out a good side.

I also think some of our own lads who are finally in and around the first team will pull him out of the mire, we have some good players waiting a chance.

We need a real threat up top.
 
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