11 Sep 2024 21:03:08
Feels like time for a poll Eds.
ETH in or out?
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ETH in or out poll
11 Sep 2024 22:30:27
It depends on the 8 weeks. Too early to say.
12 Sep 2024 10:04:13
It's not been a strong start to the season, but then it never has been under EtH. Even in his first season where he did well, all things considered.
There has been a massive upheaval over the summer, lots of players leaving, a massive reshaping of the squad, almost an entire new coaching staff, new people up and down the club and a new structure.
There was always a good chance that it would take a little while for the ship to stop rocking and for us to find a new groove.
I don't think anything can or should be done this side of Christmas unless we go in to full meltdown.
The reality is that many of our best players are young, and young players struggle for consistency, while we have very few experienced players with enough quality to carry them.
From what I've seen we haven't been anywhere near good enough, yet we have been better than last season and you can see some of the new ideas in spells during games.
It'll take time to perfect it and to bring up the players confidence and consistency in what they are being asked to do.
Unfortunately I think we need the one thing football fans lack, patience.
12 Sep 2024 11:04:25
Ah, patience. In terms of the EtH era, and in particular everything that has happened in the last 6 months, we need to allow things to settle and see where we are in another season or two.
Add up every era post SAF era however, and it's easy to see why patience is being tested. In the grand scheme of things we've won a couple of cups in this period, but because the golden age of Fergie was so great and doesn't seem such distant history, the drop-off has been immense, and the football has been consistently poor under each subsequent manager.
Fortunately it feels as if we are definitely doing things differently this time round and there is a lot of experience around the manager. I do believe things will come good but there has to be an immediate improvement in style or the manager may not be the benefactor of everything positive happening around him.
12 Sep 2024 14:03:03
Depends on for whom .?