by ferrarilover » 27 Apr 2014, 01:16
Woe is me, woe is me, we're the worst club ever to walk the face of the earth, we'll be in the South Devon league before long, we're totally unprofessional, we're a club without a single redeeming feature...
Yet, but for one 173rd minute shinner into the top corner in the Morecambe game, we'd be in with a great chance of staying up.
If you want to have a look at a club who are as bad from top to bottom as some on here are suggesting, then you need to look either to Bristol Rovers or Hyde (depending on how closely you want to look).
We're a perfectly decent L2 club who have made a bit of a hash of one season. If we'd have signed Coulthirst a month earlier than we did, if the ref had given the foul on Bodin, if we'd have closed down the Accrington striker, if the ref had spotted the Southend handball, if the FA had had the stones to admit that their ref got the Goodwin red card decision wrong, if Hawley had scored the pen against Exeter, if Tongue had scored the pen against [insert team name], if any one of these things had gone for us rather than against us, we would almost certainly be at least in with a shout of staying up.
This is not the case with clubs who really are up shit creek and in need of basically tearing down and starting again which seems to be what the apparently brain-dead yellowwot and some others are demanding.
If we'd had a 15 goal striker on our books this year, we'd be vying for the Playoffs. If we get one in for next year, we'll sow up the Conference title by February.
I know it's disappointing to be relegated, but have a look at just how close we've come to staying up. If we go down by 2 points, over the course of the season, that means we earned 1.45% fewer points than a side who weren't relegated. 1.45% is not cause for a total overhaul of the system. To do so would be like going to the Dr, finding that your VO2 max was 1.45% down and demanding a double lung transplant.
Going forward, we need to keep the majority of this squad together. Danny and Nico can go, as can Manse and Hawley, but the rest can stay. Players who've come agonisingly close to making the grade in L2 do not need to be shipped out for a year in the Conference.
Emotions are running high, but that's all the more reason for the club and the fans to take no immediate action. Give it a fortnight after the Wycombe game and then form a proper shopping list of the very best strikers we can think of. Sign one and pay him Hawley's salary and a bit more besides and guarantee (so far as such a thing is possible in football) 30 goals from him next season.
Remember this if nothing else, even the slowest F1 driver would kick your ass at go-karting.
Matt.
Woe is me, woe is me, we're the worst club ever to walk the face of the earth, we'll be in the South Devon league before long, we're totally unprofessional, we're a club without a single redeeming feature...
Yet, but for one 173rd minute shinner into the top corner in the Morecambe game, we'd be in with a great chance of staying up.
If you want to have a look at a club who are as bad from top to bottom as some on here are suggesting, then you need to look either to Bristol Rovers or Hyde (depending on how closely you want to look).
We're a perfectly decent L2 club who have made a bit of a hash of one season. If we'd have signed Coulthirst a month earlier than we did, if the ref had given the foul on Bodin, if we'd have closed down the Accrington striker, if the ref had spotted the Southend handball, if the FA had had the stones to admit that their ref got the Goodwin red card decision wrong, if Hawley had scored the pen against Exeter, if Tongue had scored the pen against [insert team name], if any one of these things had gone for us rather than against us, we would almost certainly be at least in with a shout of staying up.
This is not the case with clubs who really are up shit creek and in need of basically tearing down and starting again which seems to be what the apparently brain-dead yellowwot and some others are demanding.
If we'd had a 15 goal striker on our books this year, we'd be vying for the Playoffs. If we get one in for next year, we'll sow up the Conference title by February.
I know it's disappointing to be relegated, but have a look at just how close we've come to staying up. If we go down by 2 points, over the course of the season, that means we earned 1.45% fewer points than a side who weren't relegated. 1.45% is not cause for a total overhaul of the system. To do so would be like going to the Dr, finding that your VO2 max was 1.45% down and demanding a double lung transplant.
Going forward, we need to keep the majority of this squad together. Danny and Nico can go, as can Manse and Hawley, but the rest can stay. Players who've come agonisingly close to making the grade in L2 do not need to be shipped out for a year in the Conference.
Emotions are running high, but that's all the more reason for the club and the fans to take no immediate action. Give it a fortnight after the Wycombe game and then form a proper shopping list of the very best strikers we can think of. Sign one and pay him Hawley's salary and a bit more besides and guarantee (so far as such a thing is possible in football) 30 goals from him next season.
Remember this if nothing else, even the slowest F1 driver would kick your ass at go-karting.
Matt.
