Gary Simpson says Lincoln City did not deserve to lose against relegation rivals Nuneaton Town

“have listened to GS on imps direct video press talks , sorry but he does not give me much confidence in him he seems quite vague at times.”

“I think you are starting to draw up a straw man. I said the spurs fans were going ape over AVB at the start, they were, and the win against man utd was them turning the tide. I said spurs fans were fuming early on with AVB, they were. You have now decided that it is about 10 games aka the straw man.

I disagree on the game point of view and think he has done well to tighten it and try to nick a goal. I would agree around his use of players as other than the game against Woking where I thought Smith did well with Daigne he has looked a bit clueless. Taylor is also a must to come back in as for a time I thought he was a certainty to go for a tidy sum to a bigger club.

What I meant by what would you do was not as a manager, I meant what you you do as the club. Sack GS and then what? Who do you bring in? Will they be better? How do you know? And it is not about waiting, it is about having faith in someone that I don't have yet have serious reason to doubt.”

“"Andre Villas-Boas hopes Tottenham's historic victory over Manchester United will be just the start of a long run of show-stopping results for the London club.
Villas-Boas endured a slow start to his reign at White Hart Lane, with Spurs being booed off twice during an opening trio of winless games." http://tinyurl.com/cx4o8bc"


The win at OldTrafford, was his eighth game in the opening ten that I mentioned earlier, of which this game was their fourth win. http://tinyurl.com/c5lfkge

"On the single game point, you are right we can do that with Holdsworth. But the point you are missing is that GS has barely been in charge so each game is relevant in its own right rather than as a trend because you can't judge how something will go from such a short period".

So what is the magical number of games when you can establish/judge a trend? 10 games or more? if it's more, we're snookered, as we'll have to wait until next season to establish a "trend"!.By then it could well be too late!

At the moment under GS Pld 5 W 1 D 1 L 3.

The problem is Eatmygoal, we don't look like causing our opponents any problems. We look devoid of any ideas! which for me, is a major concern.

The win against Southport came as a result of a penalty, which coincidentally, should give GS a bit of a clue regarding Taylor!. The penalty was the result of the centre back hauling Taylor down, as Taylor and the centre back were in a direct "race" for the ball! (Oh and of course the Farman penalty save at the other end!).

Other than that, we never posed any real threat, and the fact that two games later, we still don't pose any real threat. That is the worrying trend I can see.

What would I do? Play players in the positions they are comfortable with, and where they had success. In a nutshell, play "football" and get rid of the flipping dinosaur thoughts and tactics that blights the English game. We played "football" earlier in the season and it bought us some success, with pretty much the same players we have now.

We simply haven't enough games left to stand by with our fingers crossed, hoping he'll get it right!”

“"Andre Villas-Boas hopes Tottenham's historic victory over Manchester United will be just the start of a long run of show-stopping results for the London club.
Villas-Boas endured a slow start to his reign at White Hart Lane, with Spurs being booed off twice during an opening trio of winless games." http://tinyurl.com/cx4o8bc"


The win at OldTrafford, was his eighth game in the opening ten that I mentioned earlier, of which this game was their fourth win. http://tinyurl.com/c5lfkge

"On the single game point, you are right we can do that with Holdsworth. But the point you are missing is that GS has barely been in charge so each game is relevant in its own right rather than as a trend because you can't judge how something will go from such a short period".

So what is the magical number of games when you can establish/judge a trend? 10 games or more? if it's more, we're snookered, as we'll have to wait until next season to establish a "trend"!.By then it could well be too late!

At the moment under GS Pld 5 W 1 D 1 L 3.

The problem is Eatmygoal, we don't look like causing our opponents any problems. We look devoid of any ideas! which for me, is a major concern.

The win against Southport came as a result of a penalty, which coincidentally, should give GS a bit of a clue regarding Taylor!. The penalty was the result of the centre back hauling Taylor down, as Taylor and the centre back were in a direct "race" for the ball! (Oh and of course the Farman penalty save at the other end!).

Other than that, we never posed any real threat, and the fact that two games later, we still don't pose any real threat. That is the worrying trend I can see.

What would I do? Play players in the positions they are comfortable with, and where they had success. In a nutshell, play "football" and get rid of the flipping dinosaur thoughts and tactics that blights the English game. We played "football" earlier in the season and it bought us some success, with pretty much the same players we have now.

We simply haven't enough games left to stand by with our fingers crossed, hoping he'll get it right!”

“Bow away

"Andre Villas-Boas hopes Tottenham's historic victory over Manchester United will be just the start of a long run of show-stopping results for the London club.
Villas-Boas endured a slow start to his reign at White Hart Lane, with Spurs being booed off twice during an opening trio of winless games." http://tinyurl.com/cx4o8bc

On the single game point, you are right we can do that with Holdsworth. But the point you are missing is that GS has barely been in charge so each game is relevant in its own right rather than as a trend because you can't judge how something will go from such a short period.

With regard to missing the point you have yet to state what you would do instead and why it will work? Why should we pay out to get rid of someone who has not won as many games as you would like so far? Who is going to come in and would have swept aside Macc and Wrexham? What I don't get is why he is being judged as a failure. Because yes he has lost games but other than Nuneaton it has hardly been an easy ride.”

“sorry for the lack of quotation marks in previous post.”

“So rather than being "a little silly" it is entirely relevant because it is a new manager that struggled early for results people jumped all over him.

His first 10 competitive games in charge read Pld 10 W 5 D 4 L 1 ,with one of those victories coming at Old Trafford. Struggled for results? Ok I bow to your judgement again. Perhaps Tottenham fans expectations are a little higher than most then.

Slightly digressing, I do take note of the "wider world" of football, and for that reason, is why I am not of the opinion that only Messi and Ronaldo, are better players than Bale.

It is not even slightly the same as we are assessing one game here where the plan nearly came off rather than more than half a season.

My point was, you can quite easily pick out results from Holdsworths time here this season, where the "plan" nearly paid off, and we were "unlucky" to lose. The fact is Eatmygoal we lost! Yes we have lost to these other sides too, and although we have not been "stuffed" as you put it, is immaterial. Whether you lose 1-0 or 5-0 the net result is still the same, 0 points!

You do seem to be missing my point here, there is no time to be re-building squads, trying out new players, we need results, its result based business. Like I said before, had this been at the start of the season, I would be agreeing with you in giving him time, however, we just haven't got the time now.”

“"I don't recall Spurs fans moaning too much about him once the season kicked off"

Perhaps you didn't take an interest in the wider world of football earlier on. I heard numerous fans on phone ins saying they won't watch spurs while he is manager. There were numerous columns in national papers deriding his tactics and saying players were not going to play for him. So rather than being "a little silly" it is entirely relevant because it is a new manager that struggled early for results people jumped all over him. Arsenal 5-2 Spurs earlier this season was a low point where I seem to recall a lot of fans moaning.

"if the ref blew the whistle a minute earlier" we would have had a valuable point. Bit like saying, if we hadn't lost any games under Holdsworth, we wouldn't be in the mess we find ourselves in now". It is not even slightly the same as we are assessing one game here where the plan nearly came off rather than more than half a season.

So far endlessly sacking managers has taken us to this point so you are asking us to do what exactly? Sack the manager. I just don't see how it will help. I can see the issues with players not being used and your own personal vendetta against people from lower leagues but our results have not been utterly dire. If we had lost all the games then I can see a case for switching quickly before it is too late, so far the only poor result was the Saturday past. It is not like we have not been within a shout either against Macclesfield and Wrexham, again we were not terrible. And that goes back to my earlier point about narrowly losing in the last minute, it is not as if we are being stuffed each game. I might be wrong as listenend on the radio to Macc and Wrexham but didn't sound like we were out of it. GS has been given this role because DH had taken us to a low position and now because GS has not worked miracles with that squad we are looking for someone to come in and do that. And if they don't do it in less than 2 weeks we get in someone else until finally we get someone who wins their first few games?

In terms of the AVB recruitement it is not really relevant because they are one of the biggest spending clubs in Europe so don't need to look for rough diamonds. If you are looking at players from lower levels then Swansea and Norwich are showing that buying players from lower levels, are not necessarily bad. Sometimes the players at lower levels are actually capable of playing well at a higher level. Like Simon Yeo or Ben Futcher.”

“emg agree entirely, also Gareth Macauley.”

“I for one wanted Holdsworth out but I feel his methods would have given us a better chance of a result than what Simpson is peddling. I didn't want Simpson, we needed new ideas, a tactician. In Simpson we have someone that appears utterly clueless, the things he has said have translated directly into the dire performances and results we've seen - 'they play too much football, we'll soon change that' speaking about himself & Keith at Northwich and talking of turning the bank into a 'turnip field', alarm bells were ringing in my head.
Now we have sunday league players in the first 11, centre forward on the wing or benched, better players in the squad not even making the bench - its a recipe for disaster.
If we fail to beat Telford, get rid and reinstate Grant Brown, this fool is taking us down.

Desperate times calls for desparate measures.”