Even Gooch says we need to adjust the model


Nothing we already don’t know but after 4 managers (including dodds who is still here) have raised questions about it you’d think the club would listen

But after those meeting minutes they certainly won’t be changing anything imo

If he is saying it you can guarantee the players and coaches know this too. It’s the same at plenty of other workplaces.

The people doing the actual work know how things should be and what they need but are hardly ever listened to because those running the place think they know best but rarely change things for the better.
 



Nothing we already don’t know but after 4 managers (including dodds who is still here) have raised questions about it you’d think the club would listen

But after those meeting minutes they certainly won’t be changing anything imo
Lynden Gooch is spot on with everything he has said. Nothing will change until those issues are properly addressed.
 
It’s going to be very hard for us to recruit any good players 25 years or older in the future. As a club we’ve demonstrated that we do not value anyone that can’t be potentially sold on for profit and we won’t be rewarding or offering security for players over this age bracket who do well for our club.
It’s a balancing act (and not easy!) but we’ve got it badly wrong in the last 2/3 windows.
 
It’s going to be very hard for us to recruit any good players 25 years or older in the future. As a club we’ve demonstrated that we do not value anyone that can’t be potentially sold on for profit and we won’t be rewarding or offering security for players over this age bracket who do well for our club.
It’s a balancing act (and not easy!) but we’ve got it badly wrong in the last 2/3 windows.
What safc have forgotten is some players give enough value during their time at a club so that selling them on isn't a factor. Not all players need to be sold, spreadsheet management rather that on pitch management is a problem.
 
Selling LND was horrific. Yea he got injured hindsight is a wonderful thing. Let’s imagine he got fit and scored 20 goals in a league promotion season for saints.

Keeping LND and he gets injured again gets covered by insurance. It was the worst sign of lack of ambition getting rid of LND the replacements have been horrific. And to say because he got injured that decision was right is a joke to be honest at the point of sale no one knew.
 
Aouchiche has played over 70 games at a far better level than the Championship to be fair.

He has also shown enough in flashes he has been given to have been given a lot more game time IMO.

There's myth on here that you can't be young and experienced which isn't the case.

Aouchiche is probably not the best example but if for example you have a 21 year old in your squad with 100 first team appearances at Championship level and a 30 year old with 10, who would you deem to be more experienced?
Experience isn't just down to games played.

It's through experiencing everything. Going through changes of manager, relegation fights, promotion battles, dealing with injuries, adjusting to changes in the team/playing staff.

There's loads of different situations physically and mentally that footballers deal with.
 
Gooch is a canny lad and has made for himself a far better career than he probably should have due to his effort and determination, but if we are honest there is no club with Gooch starting regular games that is going to get promoted from this division and he wouldn't have played much at all only for an njury crisis.

He is a poor full back who has been tortured against average players in this league when he has played there, and his best position is on the wing where I have about as much chance of playing games for SAFC as he did.

It was the right decision to sell him.

Then he suggests we should have kept a £10m asset who has played a total of 17 minutes in the last 64 Championship games by the time the season finishes.

I like Gooch but there's a hint of sour grapes in that piece and also a bit of idiocy at best when it comes to the Stewart comment.
Selling Stewart was not the problem it was when we did it and not having purchased a Championship striker in the summer before we sold Stewart…….
 
He’s right. Apart from the bit about Stewart. Flip side of course is the younger players can become leaders in time.
Like he says though it makes everything else harder when they had experience there to fall back on so all they had to do was to focus on themselves. Now we've got basically onien as the stand out experience in the squad so those young lads like he says need to add taking on that role to the even younger lads we've now got filling the squad out. People say but Neil has X amount of games etc he may have but he's still a young lad and being a leader might not be his thing. It's criminal how we've shot ourselves in the foot like this, the infamous you can't win owt with kids thing you look at that team it was absolutely packed with players older, leaders and with massive experience. Compare that to our team the one where we have had the four youngest starting sides this season and our u21s had an older starting age than our first team. It's about balance and we've completely borked it.
 
If the club weren't prepared to offer Stewart a decent contract due to his injury record, it was the right decision to sell and in hindsight it was a great fee we received.

If we had if spent the money on 2 strikers of the ilk of a Tom Cannon, Ellis Simms, Broadhead, Stansfield etc then we would have been fairly happy.

To waste it on replacements like Hamir, Rusyn, Mayender, Burstow loan fee/wages, was inexcusable and heads should roll for that.
 

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