The BELEAGUERED Carlisle Utd Thread

[hellogregory]

Our owners released a statement last night fully backing Mike Williamson as the man to move us forward, all we have to do is be patient for his system to work even if it means dropping into the non-league then so be it.

Another relegation is a bitter pill to swallow, but I believe it will be followed by four successive promotions all the way to the Premier League playing tidy football under the inspirational genius that is Mike Williamson.

MK Dons fans will regret losing him to us.

They didn’t really say that though did they?

Look, I think we’re 100% going down, but I did not read that as them saying “if we go down so be it”. I fully expect them to have a go at preserving our league status.

 

[hellogregory]

Charlie Wyke got his leg cracked by Cheltenham on Saturday so will miss the rest of the season

https://twitter.com/x/status/1851655655255351568

The next time we see Wyke on a football pitch could be in non league football. Sad to see.

 

[Carver]

Charlie Wyke got his leg cracked by Cheltenham on Saturday so will miss the rest of the season

https://twitter.com/x/status/1851655655255351568

The next time we see Wyke on a football pitch could be in non league football. Sad to see.

Thanks to some dirty scummy Cheltenham player Luke Young formerly of Wrexham.

 

[WhiteRussian]

You aren't going down. There's only two places and even though I'm not Williamsons greatest fan I do believe he will get it right enough even if it takes the January window.

 

[Tallow]

Appointed a new Sporting Director today.
Rob Clarkson, previous experience at Sunderland, Rangers and the FA.
A positive appointment imo, strengthens the structure of the club and presumably can work well with Williamson to improve on field matters.

 

[hellogregory]

Yeah happy with that appointment. Good CV for someone so young.

But my word he’s got a job on his hands. 2 months till the transfer window, he’s going to have to seriously hit the ground running.

Hopefully this means Greg Abbott is clearing his desk.

 

[Carver]

Yeah happy with that appointment. Good CV for someone so young.

But my word he’s got a job on his hands. 2 months till the transfer window, he’s going to have to seriously hit the ground running.

Hopefully this means Greg Abbott is clearing his desk.

This guy could be our best hope of staying up and hopefully he'll work well with Williamson.

Glad we've finally got a sporting director at last!

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

I’d personally rather someone like Jon Coleman in as sporting director or Nigel Pearson when mentioned.

Someone with a lot of connections and experience and know how as a manager, at the end of the day they are not managers so type of player they look for has to match a style but they’d had experience finding the right type.

But they want young fresh and at least he has done job a while and for me in areas we need to scour having north east and Scotland experience…….that’s our markets.

I would like one more recruitment addition with some focus to check around non league there are fantastic bargains there if willing to splash out but you have to scout it properly and not go off one fa cup in tv performance.

At least now you have two new people finding the players non linked to the last two horrendous transfer windows.

 

[Stocky]

I’d personally rather someone like Jon Coleman in as sporting director or Nigel Pearson when mentioned.

Someone with a lot of connections and experience and know how as a manager, at the end of the day they are not managers so type of player they look for has to match a style but they’d had experience finding the right type.

But they want young fresh and at least he has done job a while and for me in areas we need to scour having north east and Scotland experience…….that’s our markets.

I would like one more recruitment addition with some focus to check around non league there are fantastic bargains there if willing to splash out but you have to scout it properly and not go off one fa cup in tv performance.

At least now you have two new people finding the players non linked to the last two horrendous transfer windows.

I think someone like you've appointed is the best option for DOF. I don't think it suits old school manager types like Pearson or Coleman. I honestly don't think that generation of coaches/managers in the UK fully understand what the DOF role entails. I really think they believe it's basically being the manager without having to drag their arse out into the cold to coach Monday-Friday.

 

[Grimsby Road]

It’ll take more than just a couple of decent signings.

That financial backing has been there for two windows, and we’ve picked up a few players who - on paper, at least - should be good enough to compete at this level. Wyke, Jones, Lewis, Thomas, Hayden etc.

There is an inevitability about it. Williamson is beat, his interviews increasingly desperate. The fans have turned, and there is no unity at the club. Without major changes, this ends only one way.

It reminds me of Town a lot with Artell last season , tried to implement a style that the players could not cope with (were not good enough) and eventually reverted to type due to a bit of a dressing room debate . It worked , I wonder if something similiar might happen with you ?

I watched a couple of the Williamson interviews and he comes over as media trained and robotic even a bit patronising in the most recent 1 . I suppose the question is , if he makes it to January do you trust him with a warchest to recruit his own players ?

 

[Tallow]

It reminds me of Town a lot with Artell last season , tried to implement a style that the players could not cope with (were not good enough) and eventually reverted to type due to a bit of a dressing room debate . It worked , I wonder if something similiar might happen with you ?

I watched a couple of the Williamson interviews and he comes over as media trained and robotic even a bit patronising in the most recent 1 . I suppose the question is , if he makes it to January do you trust him with a warchest to recruit his own players ?

From what I've seen and heard from him so far, then yes, I would trust him to sign decent footballers.
As a club, we don't want another manager with a strategy of signing injured and unfit players.
Simpson signing Georgie Kelly last season gives me nightmares.

 

[Grimsby Road]

From what I've seen and heard from him so far, then yes, I would trust him to sign decent footballers.
As a club, we don't want another manager with a strategy of signing injured and unfit players.
Simpson signing Georgie Kelly last season gives me nightmares.

Yeah I would probably agree , I really don't enjoy his style of football though tbh - I went to both games against us and watched a few of MK on the box the passing seems sort of robotic like his interviews , it's all pretty predictable and even when we were very bad we beat them just by basically letting them have the ball at the back for most of the game knocking it sideways ; I know other teams play it out from the back including us but all the others that do it look like they are trying to do it to score at least .

Mk fans probably know more than me , they must have been better at times to make the play-offs l.

 

[Carver]

So what we need to do is follow the Grimsby model.

 

[hellogregory]

It shows how bad things are when our fanbase is celebrating putting in a competitive resilient performance in the cup against Wigan and only losing 2-0.

Players giving their all and putting in the hard yards should be standard, but for us it’s like all our christmases have come at once.

 

[Optipez]

It shows how bad things are when our fanbase is celebrating putting in a competitive resilient performance in the cup against Wigan and only losing 2-0.

Players giving their all and putting in the hard yards should be standard, but for us it’s like all our christmases have come at once.

I'm with you on that. In bad seasons I've watched us do " spirited" cup defeats only to sink back to abysmal the week after in the bread and butter of a relegation battle.

 

[GTFCfish]

It shows how bad things are when our fanbase is celebrating putting in a competitive resilient performance in the cup against Wigan and only losing 2-0.

Players giving their all and putting in the hard yards should be standard, but for us it’s like all our christmases have come at once.

We put in a competitive performance at home to Wealdstone today but unfortunately came up just short.
I’m proud of our players efforts though.