Board backing Slade/Wilko....week one update

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

I am desperate for you to be right, but sometimes events can overtake you as Hartlepool found out last season.

I think we just need one really good result to lift the gloom, and lets hope it is next week.

As Ginny and others have said though, all of a sudden you can be sucked right into it even if we did play well yesterday. I am pleased we played well of course, but suddenly you can be under intense pressure to get a result and then anything can happen.

I think the board showed how naive they are in their statement of support only  a couple of weeks ago more or less saying we were safe. Since then despite performances being improved we are much nearer the wrong end with a combination of our results and other clubs strengthening their squads.

Quoted from RichMariner

Say Fenty sold up now.

Say he waived those benign loans, and found a suitable buyer to take over.

How would his reign be remembered?

In a nutshell, he'd be remembered for presiding over the darkest time in the club's history, when we reached our lowest ebb with six seasons in non-league.

He'd be remembered for taking the club on a downward trajectory over 17 years at the helm - with a couple of seasons near the end (2015/16 and 2016/17) that bucked the downward trend... before it showed signs of starting again in 2017/18.

Yes, we were in a financial mess when the ITV Digital collapsed. He stepped in and steadied the ship while things had to suffer on the pitch.

But all that was dealt with while we were a FL club. We continued to overspend and mismanage squads with poor managerial appointments that ultimately cost us our place in the FL.

If he stays, we'll continue making the same mistakes. The new ground is not the answer if we continue supporting the wrong managers and if we continue making PR gaffes.

We've backed the wrong managers and then failed to back the one that was worth fighting for once another club showed interest.

It has been 17 years of mostly bad decisions and I don't see anything to suggest that theme will change.

It's best he goes now before he really does do irreversible damage to our proud club.

He won't get those benign loans back because he'll keep putting his hand in his pocket to give managers like Slade the money to buy more players who don't cut it.

So he needs to accept his losses, do the decent thing and work hard to find someone who can come in, take control and run this club sustainably without asking them to cover the cost of his mistakes.

Quoted from Cloudy

I saw more than enough yesterday for me to believe we wont go down. I know that goes against the majority on here but thats the way I see it

Quoted from Cloudy

I saw more than enough yesterday for me to believe we wont go down. I know that goes against the majority on here but thats the way I see it

Quoted from arryarryarry

I still don't accept that that is the case.

Quoted from arryarryarry

I still don't accept that that is the case.

Whilst yesterday we played very well especially the first half I would temper that with the fact that Colchester were utter crap until their manager sussed out the way we were set up, changed it for the start of the second half and really looked dangerous especially down our left hand side.

Yes we could have been 2 or 3 up at half time but we weren't and still managed to come away without keeping a clean sheet.

At the end of the day we slipped closer to a relegation spot.

I'm not expecting much from the Luton game but the following few games are vital to our League survival.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

This is where my mind is. Yes we passed through them to a degree for the goal but a better side than Colchester would have pushed up on Davis and Dixon and cut off any width.

Far to often did we go sideways and the middle 3 of Summerfield, Berret and Rose lacked a ball carrier and to be fair in the last 20 it was even looked like Summers was carrying Rose for a bit. I’m amazed that DJ didn’t get on either instead of Woolford or in the middle 3.

The work rate & application of the players suggests we will be safe the lack of a finisher, pace and someone attacking to partner the ever busy Summerfield in the engine room indicates it will be a nervous run in.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Makes you wonder where we would be now if the Americans had taken over.

In a better place probably and not fearing relegation.

Quoted from ginnywings

This is my worry. If you find yourself at the wrong end of the table from early on, you have a fighting chance to do something about it. If you drift into this position over a period of time after a relatively decent start to the season, it can catch you unawares, and by the time you realise the danger, it can be too late. Panic sets in and pressure builds when games start to run out. Stop it before it gets too late is the way, but i fear the club haven't taken our position seriously enough. Slade is still talking like it's a blip and we will rise up the league. Still talking play offs last week. It is not a blip, it's 8 games and the little run we had previously only saw us narrowly beat the current bottom two sides. The Swindon game aside, i am seeing too many similarities with our demise to non league.