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Methuselah wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 6:49 pm After today's game I don,t have much hope.We were watching the opposition instead of tackling them.The rot set in when we lost 3 of our best players on a free at the end of last season and replaced them with average players,some of whom were carrying injuries when we signed them.Is it any wonder we haven,t had a settled team all season.
We need players who will run through a brick wall for this club but there are very few in this team who will do that.I cannot blame the manager,a lot of these played are just not good enough.If we do manage to survive this season it will be because of mistakes other teams have made.I just do not know who the leaders in this team are who are able to drive this team forward and therin lies the problem.

blue nige wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 7:54 pm Spot on ,if we go down unless there's a complete re set needed on how we move forward or the club is finished, our planning on everything is just fire fighting and reactionary

April1972 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 7:13 pm My feeling is that since PW left we have banged around from one idea to another with various changes of head coaches and philosophies. The whole idea of bringing Clemence in was to bring more attractive football and hence increase crowds etc. We then lurched from there to exactly the opposite with Whing. It’s been a total masterpiece in how not to run a club on the field.
The BOD have to take ultimate responsibility as they have the cheque book and do the hiring and firing. I have sympathy with Hornby as he is a numbers man and not really a football man and he has been a good custodian of the finances. We all presume that Wood is the main man on the football side of things (although his exact role has never really been explained to us the fans).
I have nothing against the new coach but I can only feel he may the right man at the wrong time. Surely we should have appointed an experienced head on a short term contract to the end of the season with a big fat bonus for keeping us up. Then we re-evaluate again then at the end of the season and if we want to go down the young upcoming coach we should have done it then whether we stayed up or not and give them a clean slate to work from.

blue nige wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 7:54 pm Spot on ,if we go down unless there's a complete re set needed on how we move forward or the club is finished, our planning on everything is just fire fighting and reactionary

Tantabank wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:38 pm Call me old fashioned but why not go back to playing with two wingers, which we've got. Also play the ball at ground level instead of lumping it forward and feeding big defenders.

blue nige wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 6:01 pm We've 2 days to pull something out of the bag or we're doomed, you can't even see this team beating Harrogate or Newport at this rate ,Mentally weak lacking any real leadership on the pitch!