Question about Wally

Sweepy

Sweepy

Part-time Grapeviner
Joined
27 Feb 2001
Messages
15,321
Reaction score
9
Location
The Beautiful South

Question about Wally

We know Wally's weaknesses, they have been well documented:

Failure to motivate players fully.
Consistent poor team selections.
Responsible for the team with the worst discipline seen by a Bees side in recent years.

I doubt even his ardent supporters would deny any of the above. However, Wally does have one strength - the accquisition of half-decent players - although it's debatable whether even this is down to Wally or John Griffin.

So does Wally deserve the benefit of the doubt until he is given a small cut of the Smithy transfer funds, either for salaries or fees?

There, I've asked it. Now I need to sit down for an hour! :D
 

Question about Wally

Dyou really think he knows any thing about keepers? He knows fck all about out field players ! Its either luck,Stannard or Griffin ( eventually earning his corn ) I'd probably chose Stannard.One thing bothers me out this Nelson kid we're signing,, how good is his eye sight ?

:tryingtobeevenmorecringeytypejoke:smilie

I think the new bloke started his career at @ ' arrow Town .
 
Last edited:

Question about Wally

If he does get any transfer cash then he MUST spend it on a midfielder, if he doesn't then it proves he's got no idea..
 

Question about Wally

With Roget and Smith gone now, there should be a fair amount of wages now freed up.

We are well off for strikers and defenders, so we bring in a keeper (Nelson is on the cards and should be cheap wages-wise) and at least one midfielder, for which there should be more than enough money available in wages alone, if not a small transfer fee as well, to afford the good quality experienced face we need to keep us up.

I have defended Wally all through the troubles and hard times we have had, but if he doesn't deliver this, my (somewhat wavering) loyalties will be severely tested.
 

Question about Wally

29 managers sacked this season and some have done reasonably well. Downes must be the luckiest bugger alive.
 

Question about Wally

lucky? No bad judgement by some

How are you going to feel when hes awarded an extention to his contract in the summer ? They will not get rid,dont worry at he forum it was stated our gates wont be much lower in the third and we can find players who only want two bowls of rice a week.Theyve already made allowances for keeping him on, every things ok, dont worry
 

Question about Wally

Re: lucky? No bad judgement by some

Bigbee said:
At the forum it was stated our gates wont be much lower in the third and we can find players who won't be able to climb over them to get out as they'll all be under 13 anyway
Click to expand...

That's worse than sticking them up chimneys:nono:
 

Question about Wally

Sweepy said:
Failure to motivate players fully.
Consistent poor team selections.
Responsible for the team with the worst discipline seen by a Bees side in recent years. :D
Click to expand...

Nothing wrong with the players motivation or discipline today even in the face of Bircham's antics.

Wouldn't question the team selection either.
 

Question about Wally

Re: Re: Question about Wally

Stanley said:
Wouldn't question the team selection either.
Click to expand...

I would have put Frampton at left-back instead of Somner. How did he get on against Rowlands? Other than that, I'd have picked the same team.
 

Question about Wally

Re: Re: Re: Question about Wally

Steve986 said:
I would have put Frampton at left-back instead of Somner. How did he get on against Rowlands? Other than that, I'd have picked the same team.
Click to expand...

He didn't. Rowlands played up against Dobbo and only really threatened when he went through the middle. Dobbo handled him fairly comfortably.
 

Question about Wally

Rowlands was too interested in reacting to the crowd.
 

Question about Wally

Re: Re: Question about Wally

Stanley said:
Nothing wrong with the players motivation or discipline today even in the face of Bircham's antics.

Wouldn't question the team selection either.
Click to expand...

In all fairness, I think it is poor to challenge the argument following today's derby match. After all, if the team cannot be motivated for a home match against QPR they would all have to look at themselves.

I am more interested in whether this momentum can be retained over future weeks as our second division placing depends on it.
 

Question about Wally

That's right - our season hinges on the games against: Chesterfield, Wycombe, Notts Co, Stockport, Colchester, Rushden - all at home.
 

Question about Wally

all we need in terms of management is someone to come in and just show the players what to do on the pitch. a technical director/coach/DoF who'd work either below, above or alongside Wally. I'm sure someone already at the club (Geoff Taylor) could do such a job?
 

Question about Wally

saffrey said:
all we need in terms of management is someone to come in and just show the players what to do on the pitch. a technical director/coach/DoF who'd work either below, above or alongside Wally. I'm sure someone already at the club (Geoff Taylor) could do such a job?
Click to expand...

Below? Well that's one G Thompson so he can be sacked for obviously not doing a good enough job, and instead of above or alongside Downes, how about REPLACE?!!!!!!
 

Question about Wally

We have a young side that earn sod all in football these days. I am dissapointed we have not got to the play offs as we did with Coppell but Wally is still learning and hopefully we will stay stay up an consolidate next season.... Remember BFC is a business not a Sunday Team as a business we are on a knife edge.. we have 3 choices we go under and die.. we survive and struggle on and on or we get behind em and improve the choice is is ours. I am though dissapointed by the 8000 plus attendance Saturday we could have filled the ground with the right know how and made a lot more.... for all my "plus" points its these litte things that pee me off!:(
 

Question about Wally

We where never really going to have a full house what with tickets only going to members who could only get 4 each, if they had gone on general sale and qpr fans where in our end, and fighting breaks out where fined and we'd lose more money than not selling every ticket.

Hey, i may be totally wrong but just a thought
 

Question about Wally

i guess its hard, as said on another thread the club where in a winless situation.

Well not if we'd scored twice, then we'd have won, :)
 

Question about Wally

As people have discussed above, the season hinges on our remaining home games...we could win all of them (of course we won't!) but more importantly we must not lose to the teams around us.

6 wins in 15 will keep us up, it's gonna be tight though.

On the subject of Downes, though, and the original question in this thread, credit where credit is due:

OK, so the manager shouldn't struggle to motivate the players for a derby game. But they were up for it so that's important.

BUT, switching O'Connor to midfield and Tabb upfront changed the game at half time on Saturday, gave Tabb a bit more space and toughened up our midfield. I honestly think if Downes had not made that change we would have lost the game.

Don't get me wrong, he's made plenty of mistakes this season (too many to mention??!!) but he got that right and we got a good point. Well done Wally.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Back
Top Bottom