eddyh wrote:Matt. It wasn't a threat and I have no desire to spend any time in your company. Your jokes if that what you call them are just not funny but what I find more amusing is your denial of the mess that the club is in. Talk of better things to come is just fanciful. There is zero evidence that we have any chance of signing a promotion worthy team as that is what is now needed. Look at the table. The club appointed a joke manager when it had one chance to put a decen ( or even a rank average) one in charge. We are paying the price for that and will continue to do so. From the day this bunch allowed themselves to be duped by Dean Edwards it's steadily got worse. How anyone can't see that is beyond me. Just how bad does it have to get?
No one denies that the club is in a mess. A small handful of us accept that we might, if Lady Luck decides to smile upon us, be a long way out of that mess by the end of the season.
Your blaming of this Board for the problems of today shows an appalling lack of understanding or knowledge about the Board of yesterday. They've not been perfect, this new lot, but by Christ Almighty haven't they just been an improvement.
I don't think we'll stay up. Another poster (forgive me for not recalling which) has said it perfectly: winning when you're shit makes you Champions (see Cheltenham for proof). Losing when you're good makes you relegated (see Gateshead, FGR away, Chelts away etc).
What we needn't do is confuse our relegation worries with the actions of the present Board.
Let's have it this way: if I stab Bob in the neck then hand the knife to you, whose fault is it if Bob bleeds to death?
As to Nico, well that's not really his fault. Cox is a ball-breaker. He runs you 'til you're sick, then he runs you some more. Step out of line, don't get paid. He signed a squad accordingly. Young ruffians who need the Borstal treatment. Cox then wandered off, perhaps having reneged on the deal he had with us, perhaps not. I've not asked and I don't want to know.
The man brought in has identified those with whom his style is incompatible and has moved to set those players aside. Coupled with generous backing from the Board (in stark contrast to the chosen method of the previous lot) he has succeeded in signing quality replacements for the most part (forget the SDL boys, we were out of the window and needed bench fillers for zero outlay) and is working on more.
The other thing we should consider is our injury list. Our success in a season relies a little bit on luck (like everyone at our financial level). What we don't need is our two marquee players not setting foot on the pitch. Add Young and Fairhurst into the side and, while not pushing for promotion, we're certainly not in the drop zone.
We don't need promotion form for the rest of the season. We need title winning form for 6 games, then poor to average form for the remainder. I'm not belittling the feat, but winning 6 straight games is a long way from impossible. Do that (as Southport did) and we'll be midtable, tasked with cruising to the end of the season. Have a look at our six games in February. They are eminently winnable. We probably won't do it, I've said as much, but it's certainly not a foregone conclusion.
Matt.
[quote="eddyh"]Matt. It wasn't a threat and I have no desire to spend any time in your company. Your jokes if that what you call them are just not funny but what I find more amusing is your denial of the mess that the club is in. Talk of better things to come is just fanciful. There is zero evidence that we have any chance of signing a promotion worthy team as that is what is now needed. Look at the table. The club appointed a joke manager when it had one chance to put a decen ( or even a rank average) one in charge. We are paying the price for that and will continue to do so. From the day this bunch allowed themselves to be duped by Dean Edwards it's steadily got worse. How anyone can't see that is beyond me. Just how bad does it have to get?[/quote]
No one denies that the club is in a mess. A small handful of us accept that we might, if Lady Luck decides to smile upon us, be a long way out of that mess by the end of the season.
Your blaming of this Board for the problems of today shows an appalling lack of understanding or knowledge about the Board of yesterday. They've not been perfect, this new lot, but by Christ Almighty haven't they just been an improvement.
I don't think we'll stay up. Another poster (forgive me for not recalling which) has said it perfectly: winning when you're shit makes you Champions (see Cheltenham for proof). Losing when you're good makes you relegated (see Gateshead, FGR away, Chelts away etc).
What we needn't do is confuse our relegation worries with the actions of the present Board.
Let's have it this way: if I stab Bob in the neck then hand the knife to you, whose fault is it if Bob bleeds to death?
As to Nico, well that's not really his fault. Cox is a ball-breaker. He runs you 'til you're sick, then he runs you some more. Step out of line, don't get paid. He signed a squad accordingly. Young ruffians who need the Borstal treatment. Cox then wandered off, perhaps having reneged on the deal he had with us, perhaps not. I've not asked and I don't want to know.
The man brought in has identified those with whom his style is incompatible and has moved to set those players aside. Coupled with generous backing from the Board (in stark contrast to the chosen method of the previous lot) he has succeeded in signing quality replacements for the most part (forget the SDL boys, we were out of the window and needed bench fillers for zero outlay) and is working on more.
The other thing we should consider is our injury list. Our success in a season relies a little bit on luck (like everyone at our financial level). What we don't need is our two marquee players not setting foot on the pitch. Add Young and Fairhurst into the side and, while not pushing for promotion, we're certainly not in the drop zone.
We don't need promotion form for the rest of the season. We need title winning form for 6 games, then poor to average form for the remainder. I'm not belittling the feat, but winning 6 straight games is a long way from impossible. Do that (as Southport did) and we'll be midtable, tasked with cruising to the end of the season. Have a look at our six games in February. They are eminently winnable. We probably won't do it, I've said as much, but it's certainly not a foregone conclusion.
Matt.
