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If he has locked them in the dressing room I hope he has lost the key.

Gloomy Gull wrote:Very disappointing that neither CH or Hodges have the decency or the bo**ocks to face the media and comment on another appalling performance .

CH YOU wanted the bloody job....be a man and face up to your shortcomings ....or was there no excuse for the way the team was set up/motivated for this game.

It is easy to say this with hindsight, but when Dave Byrne applied for the manager's job, the board should have said to him: "Budgie, would you be interested in being assistant to the person we would like to appoint as manager, " that if he had an experienced assistant working with him, we might have stood a chance of getting out of this situation.

Bomber wrote: It is easy to say this with hindsight, but when Dave Byrne applied for the manager's job, the board should have said to him: "Budgie, would you be interested in being assistant to the person we would like to appoint as manager, " that if he had an experienced assistant working with him, we might have stood a chance of getting out of this situation.

it was an experienced manager that we needed.

Just back in from that shambles (stopped to get a curry and many beers to drown my sorrows)..... what a waste of £21 (+ petrol) to watch messrs Hawley and Bodin produce totally f**k all between them all afternoon...... hold on Stockleys doing ok (at least he challenged for the bloody ball) so lets drag him off and let the lacklustre Hawley carry on doing precisely whatbhe does best.... f**k all!.... cant be arsed to type anything else....we all know how this is going to end...... sorry Mr Hargreaves, but you are clueless...... beer time.... roll on the end ofnthe sesson.....

only just got in - its actually disgraceful that Hargreaves cannot come out and face the media. He picked Stockley and Hawley - a combination that would never ever work in a mlilion year.
As a football team we are a complete embarassment.
Unfortunately it has to be said that we now have a manager a manager who is a complete embarassment as well.
A shame because as a player he was a legend but as a manager he hasn't got the first idea.
Season over goodnight

For Chris Hargreaves, see Wes Saunders.

When club legends become manager, it doesn't always work out.

Alex Russell must NEVER become manager!!!!!!!

The two and a half year contract given to Hargreaves seems just as astute as the 8 year deal Newcastle gave Pardew. To any board members reading this - thank you for running the club into the ground having previously revived it.

Didn't go today, but looking at the starting line up, I knew we wouldn't score any goals. Hawley and Stockley up front is like having Stevie Wonder and Stephen Hawking as forwards. We have no hope up top, we haven't had that all season, that is why we don't win football matches. Yet another 1-0 loss, we cant score goals.

Well, here's what the manager had to say:

"I kept them in there for a long while talking about the reality of where we are and we discussed the first half to the second half," said Hargreaves, whose side remain rooted to the foot of the table.

"I want more leaders in my team, we were too deep and there was a big gap in the middle which we couldn't sort out.

"It was a bad free-kick to give away and a bad defensive header which lead to the goal but we need to stand up and be counted now."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... -at-defeat

I too went to the game today, but Im sorry to say I wish I hadn't as it was a waste of time. The believe and desire from the players (and fans) was almost non existant today. I was hoping we would throw everything at them today but sadly this was not the case and it almost seemed we had accepted the fact we were to be relegated from the league.

Here are some of my thoughts from the game:

-The middle of our midfield felt almost non existant today and failed to get hold of the ball all game.
-Bodin was pathetic, made poor decisions all game and failed to make an impact.
-Harding was useless in the middle and struggled to get the ball down on deck and string a pass together.
-When Chapell came on he looked a real threat and created a few of the limited chances we made.
- Hawley and Stockley put us under immense pressure by loosing the ball far too easily and unable to bring the wingers into the game.

That is all, I am done.

njgull wrote:Well, here's what the manager had to say:

"I kept them in there for a long while talking about the reality of where we are and we discussed the first half to the second half," said Hargreaves, whose side remain rooted to the foot of the table.

"I want more leaders in my team, we were too deep and there was a big gap in the middle which we couldn't sort out.

"It was a bad free-kick to give away and a bad defensive header which lead to the goal but we need to stand up and be counted now."

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... -at-defeat

it appears he forgot to add "and the fact that i made a sh*t team selection"

lucy6lucy wrote:Another defeat beckons

:slap:

lucy6lucy wrote: :slap:

well lucy, even stevie wonder could have seen it.

and austriananthea or bixie bet on it.

it was that much of a sure thing.

njgull wrote:Well, here's what the manager had to say:

"I want more leaders in my team, we were too deep and there was a big gap in the middle which we couldn't sort out.
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... -at-defeat

So didn't anyone think to tell him, or didn't he check for himself, that Harding and Mansell were paired in central midfield for several games at the start of the season and they were utterly abysmal ?

Interesting post-game interview by Phil Brown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DiG1kFH ... AH9beGN4Aw.

Basically suggesting that if we regularly played up-tempo like we did after conceeding today rather than try to keep frustrating other teams, we might not be where we are now. Sound familiar?