Dean Watch.

[FrankMunro-371]

Can we start a petition to have it presented to him by DW?

That might not end well...

 

[Alan]

3 wins on the bounce have dragged Crawley out of the bottom 4. Vital win over Orient at the weekend.

What's happened to Orient between last season and this that's made them so much worse?

 

[Kenny]

What's happened to Orient between last season and this that's made them so much worse?

New mental Italian owners haven't helped a great deal

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

New mental owners (including appointing the current manager who speaks no English, and not in a Pochettino at Southampton way either, he literally speaks no English), last season they had phenomenal luck with injuries - they got by with a tiny squad and loads of them played 40+ games - , signing the likes of Henderson/Simpson/McAnuff/Dossena on silly contracts probably hasn't helped the dressing room dynamic, it's a year too far for Lisbie, losing Odubajo, plus they never played good football under Slade, bog standard L1 hoofball, so it was always likely to be very much a one off.

 

[Alan]

I guess not. Any major changes to their squad, though? Any prospects we may look at if they go down?

Russell Slade was their manager last season? Wouldn't have guessed that based on the "job" he's done at Cardiff thus far...

 

[Kenny]

Slade managed to get a good 18 months of over achieving out of Orient. Went off the boil towards the end of the season

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I guess not. Any major changes to their squad, though? Any prospects we may look at if they go down?

Dean Cox is an excellent player but given how Ken has viewed Jacobs at this level I'm not sure we'd ever really use him effectively in this division. The rest are just journeymen.

 

[NoodleWolf]

Wonder how Deano's record with them so far is?

Actually, just sorted it out myself: P16 W6 D3 L7

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Dean's Dynamo's back into relegation zone after losing today.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

A 5 - 0 defeat for Dean's Dynamo's tonight at Walsall.

 

[slink]

A 5 - 0 defeat for Dean's Dynamo's tonight at Walsall.

I've seen almost all of the teams and League one this season and tonight Crawley were the worst. Absolute shambles and how Brian Jensen is still playing is beyond me,

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Two games to go and Dean's Dynamo's are three points above the relegation zone. They might just stay up, though both Leyton Orient and Notts County have a game in hand.

 

[Kenny]

He has got some vital wins against the teams in the bottom 6.

If he does keep them up, I would advise all of his "fans" to avoid reading anything he says for a long long time

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

League One is his level. He is doing a job there and giving Crawley a chance of survival so chapeau for that.

The above does not change the fact that he was spectacularly out of his depth at Wolves and another choice that wasn't would have kept us up at a canter

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Slightly off topic, but what has gone wrong at Leyton Orient? Last season they were unfortunate not to get promoted, yet just a year later they are in big trouble at the other end of the table.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Nutcase new Italian owners, basically. Brought in McAnuff, Henderson and Dossena on ridiculous money in the summer - they are all on more than a good number of our first team squad, and all of them are miles past it - that disrupted the dressing room harmony straight away, Odubajo was a massive loss for them, Lisbie couldn't go on forever, then Slade's football isn't actually very good so the wheels were always prone to coming off fairly quickly under him once momentum stopped playing a part.

They then saw fit to hire Liverani despite him having very little experience and not speaking any English, and not in the Mauricio Pochettino mold of speaking it just fine to the players but not to the press either, literally, he doesn't speak any. Predictably enough it hasn't worked.

I'd be straight in for Dean Cox in the summer whatever happens with them.

 

[PuntsWolf]

I'd be straight in for Dean Cox in the summer whatever happens with them.

He's a good player but I don't think he will be that much of an upgrade. Think we can do better than that

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Thanks DW. It does make you wonder why these people buy clubs and then change things around. Maybe Orient overachieved last season, but they had something that was working, so why change it? And why unsettle a dressing room that clearly had a great spirit last season? It makes no sense to me.

 

[jd1981]

They over achieved last season and it's why they fell away towards the end, if they had come up they'd have gone straight back down I'm pretty sure.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Thanks DW. It does make you wonder why these people buy clubs and then change things around. Maybe Orient overachieved last season, but they had something that was working, so why change it? And why unsettle a dressing room that clearly had a great spirit last season? It makes no sense to me.

Because rich, successful businessmen always think they know best even though invariably they know nothing about football. Morgan had his own spell of it here.