brucie wrote:Basically Hector - Plainmoor Turd spouts the same old drivel time and time again. Face facts we have won precisely ONE game in god knows how many. We talk like Forest Green,Gateshead and the like are something special. They are tin pot teams,the same as us, and we cannot beat anyone. It will be the same old story next week against Eastleigh (another massive team - not)
I turned on the radio at 4.20pm listened to the game and my first post predicted that Gateshead were going to score. Two minutes later they did - I didn't need to be there. Its bleeding obvious what is going to happen.
Bristow has got ability but he needs to get down the gym and lay off the pies. What good is a player that can last about 55 minutes?
Rice - switched the radio on and he was consistently booting the ball into touch and then compounded that by booting the ball straight to the opposition goalkeeper. Constantly squandering position when the obvious thing to do was to try and find a team mate. Lets be fair - if brains were dynamite Rice wouldn't have enough to blow his cap off.
Then Hargreaves masterstroke is to bring on a midget who has managed two games for the mighty Hednesford all season.
And you wonder why we didn't win.
And what is the point of making subs with half a minute left - its ridiculous.
There are ten teams in the division who are better than us - because the league table says so. That isn't good enough by any stretch of the imagination.
Firstly, are you referring to a fellow poster, when you mention 'Plainmoor Turd'? Is that really necessary? Whilst it pains me, as much as you, to see how far we have fallen and are now 2nd best to the likes of FGR and Gateshead, that's actually where we sit in the scheme of things now. I don't suppose Fulham and Bolton Wanderers, in recent years, imagined they would be playing 2nd fiddle to the likes of Bournemouth and Brentford, or Pompey imagined they would be struggling in a division that contains Accrington Stanley and Newport County.
We are, where we are, for a whole variety of reasons. The club doesn't have much money; they are still paying the considerable wages of pointless players, like your mate Benyon, Tonge, Harding etc and a young team has been cheaply assembled by Hargreaves - fairly well, in my view. We have a rookie manager, managing, on the whole, rookie players and we are doing better than most of us imagined we would be after the last couple of seasons we have endured. The football played is good to watch, we score goals and the team hints at promise. How this may pan out if Young leaves, I do not know, I really fear for us then, but at the moment, I think there is more to feel hopeful for, than for the last couple of years.
You slate Hargreaves for bringing on the new signing McQuilken, but as you were not there, you would not have noticed how out of sorts Cameron seemed. Who else was he to bring on? O'Achie perhaps, or heaven forbid, Benyon? Like it or not, Gateshead are a decent team and one that has developed over the last couple of years. Our team has been together for little over 3 months. McQuilken looked ok, small, tidy on the ball - not in Young's class but a reasonable enough squad player. He did nothing wrong, so you cannot condemn his introduction because, you were not there to witness, his perfectly adequate cameo.
We lack the personnel to play the Ling style but then Hargreaves has been criticised for being too gung-ho in the past. It didn't take a genius to work out Gateshead would score, so don't congratulate yourself too heartily for that, nor that they would get a 2nd but at least our team showed some character by grabbing an equaliser and almost winning it. Most thought the game lost, hence the immediate stream of people leaving the ground, once Gateshead took the lead (and there is a lesson why people are foolish to leave games early, they wouldn't do it with a film at the cinema).
Rice kicked the ball to the opposition goaly once, and out of touch perhaps once. He did nothing wrong yesterday. I'm not really a fan and would prefer to see a Olejnik or even a Bevan in goal, but don't you think Hargreaves would as well? What can he do, if he is told there is no money for a new keeper, new centre-half, and extra forward because all of Knill's signings are taking up the playing budget?
You have saved yourself £150, and I don't blame you and this is the folly of the club's strategy - how many £150s have they lost recently? The gate was under 2000 (party, I suspect because there are so many home games coming up - people cannot afford them all) but it won't creep back over that if the team fails to convince. However, FGR, Gateshead, Eastleigh and Barnet, are some of the tougher teams we will face, with bigger budgets. Tinpot teams, they may be, but then so are we and there is little we can do about it.
well said hector , lets all save £150 and stop going and watch the club go down the pan, yes that really helps, as for this season the team maybe fustrating to watch at times but its been good to watch for most of the time and far better than the dross fed to us by knilly last season, CH has done well on a small budget . there will be mistakes made by him and the players and its a learning process which im sure will get better, support your club or lose it.
