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[Cardy]

Fair play Red Hero:

Red_Hero Posted on 21/9 12:41 Email this Message | Reply

re: Whats going wrong?

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Yep, selling good players and replacing them with weaker ones is key here.

Roberts, Butler, Freezer, Miller, Coles, Docs, Dinning all turfed out in the name of Tinnion. Add to those the likes of Aaron Brown, Leroy, Matty Hill and Anyinsah who (understandably) abandoned ship when they saw the way we were heading.

Whatever people think about any of those players, as a team under DW they were as good as it gets at this level. There's just no comparision between what we had then and what we have now.

But Tinnion wanted to do things his way. He wanted his players, his team and he ripped apart everything that DW built over 4 years. There was simply no need for it.

Sad thing is that Lansdown allowed it to happen. Tinnion was practically given carté blanché in his quest to get things right even when it was patently obvious he was the problem and not the players. Had he been sacked at the end of last season, at least we would have been able to hold onto a few reminants of the DW era.

Instead he completed the culling of DW players and started bringing in more inferior signings to add to the likes of Jamie Smith and Bradley Orr.

He said he was doing everything for the good of the club, but instead he was doing what was good for him. The decisions he made were detrimental to the club but too many fans were taken in by what he was saying.

If he said Coles and Docs were 'disruptive' then people wanted them out. If he said Tony Dinning wasn't doing enough then people wanted him out. They were all scape-goats used by Tinnion to hide his own inabilities.

Unfortunately for him, once he brought in his own players, he had nowhere else to hide. There were no scape-goats left and no excuses. He was found out in the most humiliating way possible - 7-1 at Swansea.

Whilst Tinnion takes a share of the blame for being a useless manager, the man ultimately responsible is the chairman. He appointed Tinnion and the moment he did that he created a massive divide in the dressing room. A divide that led to the destruction of a good squad.

Had he appointed an experienced, proven manager after sacking DW, we would have stood a good chance of promotion last season as the squad would have stayed fairly intact and there wouldn't have been so much disruption.

The fact Lansdown failed to foresee any of this when he appointed Tinnion is quite unbelievable.