Farnborough v Torquay United Tue 20TH

[Vick]

Some quotes from Farnborough manager Spencer Day in post match interview:

Torquay: "a fabulous club"; "a very big, big, club"; "big time, pro-time club"; "Torquay have got some fabulous players", "a really good side", "they have got so much quality"; "a really, really strong side".

Always good to have someone taking a look from the outside in.

By saying the opposition side are a really good side with fabulous players, he is justifying why his side did not win or even score a goal. If he had said Torquay were rubbish or only average, people would ask him why Farnborough didn't win. Manager talk. Take it with a pinch of salt.

[portugull]

Well I do not know how that finished 0-0.

How did big Duane not score from 3 yards at the end. He got into the perfect position.

Well at least we broke our losing run.

[Nick Potkins]

Firstly, it is worth listening to Spencer Day, Farnborough’s managers interview. A great summary of last night’s game.

My take on last night was, we are a team short of confidence and lacking in creativity. We were lucky to get a point, could have got all three, but over the 90 minutes got lucky.

It was great to have Jarvis back, clearly, he is not match fit. However, with him playing we revert to long balls into him. I cannot remember him winning many! If this is the way we intend to play, another striker running off him is needed, I cannot recall this happening.

Clearly Dawson has been a great loss this season. He is very vocal, leaded the team by example last night and was the only players appearing capable of opening opposition defences. Upon his departure the midfield created little.

McGavin, the jury is still out for me. He processes a fantastic strike but is slow in reading the game and reacting to the second ball.

Ronny Nelson won everything in the air and picked up everything at the back. Arkell Jude-Boyd would have been my player of the match, showed his pace in getting up and down the flank. A number of well-placed crosses just needed a man of the end.

To me, our midfield was exposed in transition time and time again. This allows teams space to run at our defence. This pressure can only be sub stained for so long. Further evidence of this is when defending corners all eleven players back in the box, anything cleared is a chance of the opposition to shoot and smash it back into the box.

[United62]

Well I do not know how that finished 0-0.

How did big Duane not score from 3 yards at the end. He got into the perfect position.

Well at least we broke our losing run.

That miss was unbelievable... if he was a defender for Farnboro they'd have all been patting him on the back for a fantastic clearance!

...and if any of our players actually read this... any chance of actually shooting once in a while. You know, that little round thing, just hitting it forward AT the goal rather than bottling it and passing it to someone else... who then... yep, passes it to someone else. So bloody frustrating.

[Wolborough]

We are a poor mid-table side that is going nowhere this season. End of.

[CornishGull]

Is he after Johnsons job?

More likely he's after Clark Osborne's job. Spencer Day is a property developer whose only previous experience of football management was at Chertsey Town, a club he actually owned. At Farnborough he has loaned the club £1 million.
Spencer Day was once known as Spencer Trethewy, the 19 year old yuppie who joined the board of the original Aldershot FC with a fraudulently obtained £200,000 loan. He eventually did jail time for fraud.

[MellowYellow]

More likely he's after Clark Osborne's job. Spencer Day is a property developer whose only previous experience of football management was at Chertsey Town, a club he actually owned. At Farnborough he has loaned the club £1 million.
Spencer Day was once known as Spencer Trethewy, the 19 year old yuppie who joined the board of the original Aldershot FC with a fraudulently obtained £200,000 loan. He eventually did jail time for fraud.

If that's the case maybe Clarke Osbourne is planning to be our next manager.

[TommyGunn]

More likely he's after Clark Osborne's job. Spencer Day is a property developer whose only previous experience of football management was at Chertsey Town, a club he actually owned. At Farnborough he has loaned the club £1 million.
Spencer Day was once known as Spencer Trethewy, the 19 year old yuppie who joined the board of the original Aldershot FC with a fraudulently obtained £200,000 loan. He eventually did jail time for fraud.

Dodgy
Blimey I remember his real name now you have told that story. He was on Wogan about 30 years ago.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/artic ... lieve.html

[Nigel L]

Dodgy
Blimey I remember his real name now you have told that story. He was on Wogan about 30 years ago.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/artic ... lieve.html

After one of the longest adolesences ever (yep, I've lived through a lot of it, being a Farnborough fan for 40+ years and counting) Spencer Day, now in his 50s, has grown up in recent years. Although still prone to daft outbursts, his love of the game shines through. He's passionate about football.

He has a fraud conviction, which will never be spent (he served time for it), so he can never be a director of a football club, or own one. However, he has a very good lifelong friend (who is very well-heeled in his own right) who controls Farnborough and, very clearly, sets out the rules under which he operates. Day is also a rich man, dabbling in hedge funds, property speculation and the like. He's not dumb.

It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but it works, and has worked for many years. Day became our manager in 2011, 13 years ago. Long term Farnborough fans were well used to on the pitch stuff being completely undermined by events off of it, but we've been stable and adequately funded for a while now. It's almost become normal.

Something I'll say in Day's favour (he knows I haven't been his greatest fan, because of, ahem, previous interactions), he's so willing to give footballers who've screwed up a decent second chance. Sometimes it's worked and there are players now in the Football League who know what I'm talking about. Other times it hasn't worked at all, but he keeps trying, being mindful about his own major screw-ups when he was much younger.