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boyliegladbach wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 7:43 pm He's better than that awful walker who gets a start every week.

Now thats one thing i do agree with. Walker has been absolute bobbins

At the end of the day we just have to trust the manager and his judgment. Good luck to all our ex players it just didn’t work out for them at Barrow.

Now let’s get behind the manager and club whilst we re-set for the future.

Regardless of what we think, HE wanted out. No doubt a top earner and although I do like him, has not recaptured the form of his first stint.

After last season I only wanted MJ and Scott Smith out of that car crash of a season. Harper is clinging on by his fingertips atm.

The football is agricultural granted but the guys are putting the graft in which I haven’t seen for the last three seasons so I can support that.

Murray must have done well at Kiddy because the trolls on X seem obsessed in replying to every tweet the club make.

Matty wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 7:51 pm Strange departure all around. I could understand him going somewhere to get game time, but the fact that the title favourites believe he has something to offer whilst we don't is the headscratching part. I haven't seen anywhere near enough from the other wingers to suggest they are an improvement, despite Whitfield being short of the player we saw in his first spell.

All part of the process I guess, and there were always going to be decisions that seem odd at first.

Whits isn’t a 6ft 2 thug though who will kick, scratch and pull the opposition. He is a footballer who like Booty prefers to play in a side who dominate the ball and play a nice passing game

Main Stand SeasonTct wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:00 pm

Matty wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 7:51 pm Strange departure all around. I could understand him going somewhere to get game time, but the fact that the title favourites believe he has something to offer whilst we don't is the headscratching part. I haven't seen anywhere near enough from the other wingers to suggest they are an improvement, despite Whitfield being short of the player we saw in his first spell.

All part of the process I guess, and there were always going to be decisions that seem odd at first.

Whits isn’t a 6ft 2 thug though who will kick, scratch and pull the opposition. He is a footballer who like Booty prefers to play in a side who dominate the ball and play a nice passing game

Yet people here were adamant that they weren’t good enough for us at the time.

We have the main components. High pressing and aggressive. Some of you lot had gone soft. We now need some quality in the middle to compliment.

Mid table was my expectation and still is.

Main Stand SeasonTct wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:00 pm

Matty wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 7:51 pm Strange departure all around. I could understand him going somewhere to get game time, but the fact that the title favourites believe he has something to offer whilst we don't is the headscratching part. I haven't seen anywhere near enough from the other wingers to suggest they are an improvement, despite Whitfield being short of the player we saw in his first spell.

All part of the process I guess, and there were always going to be decisions that seem odd at first.

Whits isn’t a 6ft 2 thug though who will kick, scratch and pull the opposition. He is a footballer who like Booty prefers to play in a side who dominate the ball and play a nice passing game

You are 100% Correct.

But Boreham Wood are not a soft touch they can mix it when they want to. In other words they have balance. We have yet to achieve that balance that's why I don't like seeing a footballer like Whitfield go out on loan. In a sense he is on trial with them. If they like him and offer us a decent fee he will go I bet. Otherwise he will be returned to us.

andyg wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:30 pm But Boreham Wood are not a soft touch they can mix it when they want to. In other words they have balance. We have yet to achieve that balance that's why I don't like seeing a footballer like Whitfield go out on loan. In a sense he is on trial with them. If they like him and offer us a decent fee he will go I bet. Otherwise he will be returned to us.

I’m not sure Murray has signed the correct players for us to ever achieve the “ balance” you talk about. Whites has seen it since close season and everyday in training. The fact his agent initiated the move speaks volumes to what Whits thinks imo

His agent was at the borehamwood game on Saturday while Whitfield was playing for us. Abit of old fashioned tapping up

A baffling move really, not good enough for us a bottom four team but wanted by boreham wood, top of the league and probably the best footballing team at this level. That says it all. Obviously wasn’t fancied by a Murray and he may not be the player he once was but as he showed against Sutton, can still be a threat and cross and score. More than Walker has offered so far and Latty Fayweather, and Thompson hasn’t even played at this level before…
In fact I’d say other than ward and Marriott - Whitfield is one of the few players we have with any real technical ability.
Strange one, I’m not convinced. This is Murray’s team and ways though and if he doesn’t start delivering results soon then it’s all on him…

Scott5 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:55 pm A baffling move really, not good enough for us a bottom four team but wanted by boreham wood, top of the league and probably the best footballing team at this level. That says it all. Obviously wasn’t fancied by a Murray and he may not be the player he once was but as he showed against Sutton, can still be a threat and cross and score. More than Walker has offered so far and Latty Fayweather, and Thompson hasn’t even played at this level before…
In fact I’d say other than ward and Marriott - Whitfield is one of the few players we have with any real technical ability.
Strange one, I’m not convinced. This is Murray’s team and ways though and if he doesn’t start delivering results soon then it’s all on him…

Nothing other than a convincing win tomorrow night will suffice IMO

For what its worth, I think quite a few on here are rushing to judgement at a very early stage. I can't comment on Saturday's game as I didn't see it, but from some comments you'd think we'd been hammered to a heavy defeat instead of coming away with a point. In my opinion an away side has zero obligation to entertain, as we have seen many a time at HS when we have been outfought and beaten by teams who weren't bothered about pretty football but eventually finished well above us.
In the main we have gradually improved since game one, and there wasn't a great deal wrong with the performance against a highly placed team in Sutton who, apart from that early scare, barely laid a glove on us, something which seems to be being ignored in all the moaning about the Worthing game. Before I'm accused of being that terrible thing, a happy clapper, I'm not saying everything in the garden is wonderful, just that some of the criticism is a bit over the top given all the problems we started with, and maybe a bit more patience is needed.
As for Whits, his overall performances have been disappointing for months, with the possible exception of the Sutton game, and no amount of excuses about systems and roles can alter that. For his sake I hope he does ok at BW, and that we eventually get some benefit from the move.

Main Stand SeasonTct wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:58 pm

Scott5 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:55 pm A baffling move really, not good enough for us a bottom four team but wanted by boreham wood, top of the league and probably the best footballing team at this level. That says it all. Obviously wasn’t fancied by a Murray and he may not be the player he once was but as he showed against Sutton, can still be a threat and cross and score. More than Walker has offered so far and Latty Fayweather, and Thompson hasn’t even played at this level before…
In fact I’d say other than ward and Marriott - Whitfield is one of the few players we have with any real technical ability.
Strange one, I’m not convinced. This is Murray’s team and ways though and if he doesn’t start delivering results soon then it’s all on him…

Nothing other than a convincing win tomorrow night will suffice IMO

Already sat through six minutes of Murray making excuses before we’ve kicked a ball. No point even turning up

beachy01 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 7:05 pm

Barrowvianbedlam wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 6:57 pm

We’ve been absolutely honking for months and he’s been played out of position. Add to the list of McCann, Banks, Malcolm, Booty and White who weren’t good enough but seem to be doing very well elsewhere

McCann wanted to go, no1 ever said he wasnt good enough? Banks downed tools, ud want to keep him? Malcolm and Booty never played enough to make a judgement on. We should have kept Tom White

Your right we have been honking, but Whitfield was part of that, out of position or not. Should have gone in the summer IMO. Another one gone from last year, happy days

As ive said previous id have been happy if they all went

Booty was a player anyone with a footballing brain could have seen that (harper included in that too btw) more of a moan about recruitment and decision making to be honest. Very frustrating start to the season

Main Stand SeasonTct wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:58 pm

Scott5 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:55 pm A baffling move really, not good enough for us a bottom four team but wanted by boreham wood, top of the league and probably the best footballing team at this level. That says it all. Obviously wasn’t fancied by a Murray and he may not be the player he once was but as he showed against Sutton, can still be a threat and cross and score. More than Walker has offered so far and Latty Fayweather, and Thompson hasn’t even played at this level before…
In fact I’d say other than ward and Marriott - Whitfield is one of the few players we have with any real technical ability.
Strange one, I’m not convinced. This is Murray’s team and ways though and if he doesn’t start delivering results soon then it’s all on him…

Nothing other than a convincing win tomorrow night will suffice IMO

Great news we are potentially changing the manager again this week.