Well done to new reporter Kevin Oakes.

I would just make one comment Welling have yet to show that they are a match for most sides in the division. Games are won by shutting your opponents out and actually scoring goals - dominating and creating chances and half chances by the bucketful do not make you a match for other teams unless you find the back of the net at least as often as them.

Couldn't agree more J. Smith will come good, all he needs to do is sign a target man to play with Omari, a goalkeeper, a decent right back and one maybe two centre halfs as our defence is so poor. This was proved again Saturday after playing Basingstoke off the park!!!

Defenders need to defend and ours DONT!

We are three players from being a very good side, just give Neil time and get behind the team.

I have only seen the home games this season but have come to the opinion that he has to go. Bearing in mind where we were last year, its a big dissapointment to see us where we are now, the thought of beating relegation hardly fills anyone with any confidence when last season we were battling for the play offs.

Neil has built this team and has little else to blame if you take luck out of the equation

My fist choice was Andy Ford. Unless he has signed elsewhere he is the man for the job and frankly the sooner the better.

Neil still looking for players, more loans than welcome car finance. still losing to crap teams, out the fa cup. they dont play the same in first and second half or consistent for 90 mins. plus its only going to get worse. if he had any self respect he would resign. his career will be ruined and its not all his fault , there is no foundation underneath him or support. at other clubs he would have lots of staff to help him, Here he has Barrie , Barry and Nethercott and a small budget and no commercial dept and a pi ss poor excuse for a reserves set up.

If i was neil i would walk before his reputation is destroyed.

true but its a massive if and not the percentage safe call. If we go down the club is finnish and gates will halve then we can downsize even more and pay £100 a player and get a school pe teacher as manager.


1 Improve commercially
2 Get a proven manager
3 Scrap WSU
4 Sort the reserves into a league!!


do these 4 things the club will start to improve.

1 hire poor manager and just let him get worse
2 get a joke of a reserves playing every 2 months vs pub teams
3 wait for calls from businesses and dont try to improve commercially
4 silence fans from criticising you and control a fabricated "supporters" association

carry on doing this and you are long odds to survive let alone improve one percent.


I feel sorry for Neil i honestly do, but this club will NOT be any good for him. Id advise him to phone pennock and ask him if it will get better, im sure on that answer he will walk.

-- Edited by JgFc at 17:08, 2007-10-29

whose word do you have it on that the budget was cut last year

Pieman - I can't agree with your analysis of what players are needed. We have a good right back - Leon - but he is in midfield because of our total lack of creative midfielders. Agree with another central defender needed, even if just cover for Mooro and Tony S. A striker is needed and goalkeeper plus better midfielders. Chippy has won me over but Keevil has a lot to prove - did little for me on Saturday. Ellis - hit and miss. Marlon shows potential. We only need a few injuries and suspensions and we are really in trouble. I think the defence is alright but the midfield needs to support them better and take the pressure of them.

There is the need for quite a lot of players and there has been no indication that Smith can find them apart from loanees. The time to get them was pre-season and he was too slow - this is a mess of his making, nobody else. I appreciate that people have different views about the infastructure at the club, but nobody is suggesting that he didn't have the opportunity to sign new players before the season.

With time running out and Welling becoming more and more frustrated, the game became scrappy and the good passing, attacking football which had looked like getting them back on level terms deserted them.

All the same, a low drilled cross from Robbie Ryan and a further effort on target by Pugh did enough to show when on the top of their game, Welling are a match for most sides in this division.    Extract from Kevins Newsshopper  article

Of course we are a match for most sides in this Division, but not in the second half. We don't have consistency and who can you point the finger at?  Neil or the players?
The first half against Basingstoke we played really well. Good fluid passing, man to man calling and going forward.  Second half, another team turned out.  The defense was less than c**p . The subs were brought on too late. We were down, OK, dont panic, look at the logistics.   Basingstoke made a substitution after we gave away a needless foul on the edge of the box. Sub came on, placed the ball and scored. What bloody defence?
Neil has had lots of time to secure us some quality players ( if the Hobbins were to give over some money? ) but where are we now?
I agree with JgFc on points 1, 2 & 4, but am not in the position to quantify point 3. I hope that I am wrong and Neil turns it around for us, but we need full time players on decent wages and not loanees.............except Ross off course

Completely disagree with your analysis Chelwing, dont know what games you have been watching this season. I happen to think our midfield of Marlon, Chippy, Sam and Ellis are one of the best in the league.
Defence is hopeless, Moore, Sinclair, Cottrell simply not good enough. Moore has been great for us the last couple of seasons but has been very dissapointing for me this season.

And a new forward to play with Omari please Neil, the young lad Pugh is not up to it in this league Im afraid.

Hey, but thats what football is about, different opinions.

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Completely disagree with your analysis Chelwing, dont know what games you have been watching this season. I happen to think our midfield of Marlon, Chippy, Sam and Ellis are one of the best in the league.
Defence is hopeless, Moore, Sinclair, Cottrell simply not good enough. Moore has been great for us the last couple of seasons but has been very dissapointing for me this season.

And a new forward to play with Omari please Neil, the young lad Pugh is not up to it in this league Im afraid.

Hey, but thats what football is about, different opinions.

 

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It sure is about opinions pieman and yours on the defence is way off beam. Moore's just won player of the month for christ sake and is playing a blinder. Young Sinclair alongside him has dropped the odd ricket but looks highly promising. Would return Soloman to defence but Cotterell has shown some improvement recently (before Saturday). In short don't think your view is widely held. It's goals (Omari apart) that are the problem.

 

Take your point about the Basingstoke game (I wasn't there) but thought your language somewhat harsh and dare I say a bit crass taking the season as a whole so far. I repeat for me the major problem is we don't have enough goals in us which to my mind is bound to put the team as a whole under more pressure.