What is it with people wanting to knock this set up? After all the animosity towards Stewart Donald, you'd think that people would be pleased to have a young owner, with fresh ideas, and a family background in football club ownership. I can understand a healthy dose of pessimism but people just seem to want to criticise and its always presented as 'realism' or claims of being more knowledgeable.
People use pessimism as a defence mechanism as they're fed up of years of having hopes crushed. I can understand it from a psychology point of view. The problem is when they then try to project that pessimism onto everyone else.
Ipswich are the only real threat that I can see. Who have Wigan signed that should worry us? Charlie Wyke and Max Power are their star signings.
I understand that, but there's pessimism and then there's rubbishing the club/owner/manager/players/approach before they've even started.
Sheffield Wednesday have the best squad / manager combo by my reckoning. Ipswich look strong with Cook. Portsmouth unknown with Cowley's. I'm less worried about Wigan but we all know that's going to shoot us in the foot.
That's what I mean by the second point. They've allowed their pessimism to consume them and then even criticise others for not being as pessimistic as them.
He has already spent money on building a management infrastructure that we have never had , has spent money on laying a new pitch as Donald would not spend money maintaining the old one , he has spent money on ongoing routine maintenance at the stadium and academy to bring them up to a good standard , so he has SPENT money . The transfer window is just past the half way mark so if the right players become available I am sure he would back Speakman and Johnson- we just have to be patient and judge how we have done at the end of the window and how we start the season .
None. It's called having an opinion. So by your logic you can't criticize a player if you haven't played the game aswell? I personally think Johnson is full of excuses at times. Saying Hawkes needs to bulk up to get in the first team. The transfer market is stagnant. U23s will get a pathway to the first team under me, despite us having a defensive crisis tail end of the season Younger didn't even get a sniff of the first team.
I'm not feeling it with Sheff Wed. They've released about 15 players and some of the names look like first team players from what I can see. Westwood, Lees, Reach, Harris, Rhodes, Penney. I'm sure they would have been in and around the first team. Also the two lads Celtic bought for half a million I'm guessing would have probably had more than enough talent for this division.
They're recruiting well despite their embargo!!! Just signing that winger Oxford had last season who scored 10 goals.
They’ve already signed well to supplement some of the best players in the league (Bannan, Luongo etc) and will continue to do so under Moore
3-4 years ago these pics mate. Hes about 22 years old now, i think Johnson was just trying to make excuses when he made that statement because of the pressure he was getting to play him. Younger is a big unit and he was also starring for the U23s at the time but Johnson still preferred to play first teamers out of position rather than give him a chance.