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at 01:24 21 Aug 2022

Thing is the team he inherited finished 3rd in the covid interrupted season. He didn't get a bag of dross. The guy who he replaced just seemed to lose his mojo and ran out of ideas.

In January when he got his extension I conveyed I thought that was the best bit of business we could have done in the window. How things changed.

You may feel at present he is what you need but you have to consider what he will leave behind. We're sitting 3rd again tonight on 9 points from 12, we should have have been on 10 other than a 90+3 winner against us.

Again I'd direct you to pie and bovril or steelmenonline, look at what people were saying after Sligo and before the league started. It was dire stuff with even the most happy clapper thinking it was playoff at best.

Our players look happy like a weight has been lifted as our new manager is letting them actually play football again and not some sort of moneyball percentages crap.

For example at the AGM he was asked why he never left anyone on the halfway line for corners. His answer was in 175 we had conceded two. However he also overlooked how we never scored on the break but how can you quantify a hypothetical.

Alexander takes good players and makes them average due to his particular ethos, that's the one's he doesn't fall out with or punish. Truely a toxic guy to have at the helm of a football club.

Forewarned is forearmed.

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at 11:50 20 Aug 2022

I'd echo that.

433, rarely won the midfield duel. Often outclassed and Turpin'd many of our points. Our striker is Kevin van Veen who you may know from Scunny can be class one minute then you see nothing of him for 3 games.

We switched to 5 at the back almost as a last throw of the dice when out of ideas and actually started to play football and make the most of our international captain who plays far better as a wingback over a right back.

It was all a bit different from when he first arrived, he was quick to make changes and often drastic ones. At the end subs were left far too late to influence probably because the amount of players that were in his good books was small.

He's divisive and rubs people up the wrong way. He also holds grudges. HIs man management is appalling. He did probably enhance a few players but also stagnated and regressed a few too.

The biggest heads gone moment was at Ibrox, 2 nil down looking like its gonna be a cricket score. The three subs he made at half time were crazy. However we pulled two back and contributed to them realising that the league chase was probably beyond them. That game for the guys he put out and the result will be forever an enigma for our club.

Gary Neville has since conveyed he shouldn't have sacked him at Salford. We all wish he hadn't too.

If you want more of a feeling, steelmenonline is one of our forums, Alexander has a 31 page thread dedicated to the man, the myth, the legend.

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at 00:37 20 Aug 2022

Evening,

Came to light on our forum that you are considering our recently sacked manager Graham Alexander. On reading this thread probably best to give you a heads up on the guy.

Arrived in Jan 21 with us 11th out of 12 on goal difference. Remit was to keep us up which he did. Many of us weren't too bothered about what we were watching, we knew we were in a survival dogfight. Needless to say we missed out on our top 6 split by only a few points but despite that were able to secure safety with a few games left.

Seemed to buy well but late on in the summer, extended a few players who should have been released but we put that down to covid and not sure how the season would pan out.

Had a not too shabby first half of the season based on results but the football was awful to watch. We nicked goals and then went 5 or 6 at the back. The talisman playmaker left in January and he was offered an extension to 2025 based on the fact we had the highest points tally in the league outside Rangers and Celtic in the calendar year.

Then the rotten run and "tombola" selection. 4th at Christmas we didn't win in the league until April, 11 games without a win but we inexplicably qualified for the top six as those around us couldn't get any consistency. In a feat still a surprise to us we got European Qualification.

Players in form were dropped, many who did well sidelined only for their replacements to not justify their gametime. It was demoralising for the support and players.

It was ugly, uninspiring stuff, we scored 3 goals or more in 1 league match and once in the league cup against a lower league team. However he fulfilled his remit (on paper) and went into the new season.

We got Sligo in Q2 of the ECL and were beaten 1-0 at home and 2-0 away, a lost lucrative next game and suffered a major upset. He got the jettisoned the following day.

We were unprepared and lacking decent transfer activity. Rumours have since surfaced the board withheld funds as they wanted them for the next guy. Make of that what you like.

During his tenure he was secretive, autocratic and froze out many players, including the club captain/international. The talisman playmaker made a point of saying training at his new club was more "focused".

His brand of football will make your eyes bleed and I fear we'll be a few months to undo what he did to the dressing room and un coach his dire tactics. I don't think many of our players enjoyed going to work for the majority of his tenure.

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