Moo wrote:

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No surprises given the money spent and the failure to get into the play offs.

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Not only missing out on the play-offs but also how far off the play-offs they are. Writing on wall, I suppose, after announcement of 4 players' contracts acceptance yesterday.

Two ells in Welling wrote:

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Jody Brown as successor?!

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 I second that.

If they apply a bit of tippex to the training gear then they won't have to buy any new stuff.

Well! I am surprised. Never thought that would happen. I guess working with young hungry players who bought into his methods was easy. Trying to get a tune out of overpaid mercenaries who chase the pound note is another thing. Those players should be ashamed of themselves. He should of waited for a league 2 job to come up. Mr Devonshire waiting in the wings me thinks. At least Welling made a few bob from this debacle. 

Daveyboy1973 wrote:

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sad for him. obviously sold a dream, but probably always gonna happen with crazy foreign owners chucking money away, jamie shouldnt be too sad, imagine he's got a nice pay off and like someone said, he wont be out of work for long!

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 As i read it, they asked him to terminate his contract...doesn't that mean no pay off??? 

MarkX wrote:

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Faz deserves it BUT with help...I cant help but think he doesnt have the contacts!....we are playing with loads of loan players...we will need to build from scratch to compete whatever league we are in...more so in the National

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 Agree... Faz and his staff will have a huge task in building a squad for next season no matter what league we are in. He`ll have the smallest budget in the Vanarama National and one of the smallest in the Vanarama South too.  Has he got the contacts?? That was one of the questions asked when Jamie Day joined us 5 years ago. He didnt do too bad did he. 

A terrible shame.  If he had stayed with us, and kept us up, he could have gone wherever he wanted - and we  are talking league clubs. He did wonders for us on little resources and when the very future of the club was unsure.  Let us not forget this.  Also, but for his earlier results, we would have been down now despite the best efforts of Faz. However, he left us and took Tyrone.  I guess our loss will be the gain of either Dartford, Bromley or Margate.

If Jody Brown thinks Jamie is getting 'hammered' on here then he's not reading it properly. Apart from maybe one comment most of the discussion is about Ebbsfleet as a club. I'm certainly not gloating and I'm sure Jamie will bounce back pretty soon. I didn't like him going, taking a few players and leaving the squad a bit thin but I'll forgive him all that for what he did for the club as player then as a manager. Two years exactly on Monday this week when we won the league at Boreham Wood. 

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oohahhfranzcarr wrote:

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So they appointed a guy presumably because they admired the job he did over five years at Welling, steadily improving each year. And they gave him five months?

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 The brother of the guy I went to the Trophy game with sponsored the game so I was able to go in the executive portacabin at half time and full time. Whilst it was difficult to be balanced in the prevailing circumstances, I basically said to them that if they gave him 18 months I was confident he'd get them up but this season, where Bromley, Borehamwood, Basingstoke etc all had settled teams and several of the contender clubs were not short of a penny or two, they were at best 50/50.

Now I don't know if they were all 'on message' or they genuinely believed this but the prevailing attitude was that it had to be this season. Apparently they know jack and whether I would have been right they and I will never know.

I am grateful for what he did at Welling but not particularly for the way he handled his departure. Whether he should come back is academic now Faz has the job. However, by the end, he looked frustrated and fatigued by the lack of budget. That hasn't changed and I doubt his enthusiasm  for it would have either. I suspect he would be tailor made for Dartford if Burman wants to step aside.

If I am honest, I'm glad it went tits up for Ebbsfleet this season as I think their hierarchy need to learn a little humility to succeed. Ongoing animosity towards Daisy, none. The only time I won't be hoping he is a success is if we are still in the National and competing with him to stay out of the bottom four or he is at Dartford.

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 Can't really feel any animosity towards Daisy after the five years he gave us. He may have left on better terms but he was always going to leave at some point. I think he made the mistake of changing too much too quickly - he had a squad in the play off positions when he joined that need a few tweaks but ended up getting open heart surgery (a bit like another manager we all know and love....NOT!)

As for the powers that be at £bbsfl££t learning some humility I think you may be in for a long wait. These people throw money at things until they succeed and, if they don't, they throw more money at it until it does. They have no idea on how to run a football club but can't wait to fire the people they hire if they don't get instant success. Daisy knew that when he signed up and he has paid the price but I expect he will receive compensation of some sort to soften the blow.

I doubt he would come back to Welling anyway but that ship has now sailed -  Captain Fazza is on the bridge now with first mates Mcentegart and Barnes and that is where we will hopefully move forward.

Although I did not like the way that the departure was handled, the reported attempt to take some of our players, or the way they celebrated knocking us out of a tournament they had never cared about previously, I cannot wish them ill. They gave us five great years including my happiest football day this century. They could have walked away when the club was in the depths of financial trouble but kept the players settled and improved season by season.

I hope that Jamie finds a new club quickly, and one that is more suited to his style of management.

One thing that I don't understand is that Peter Varney keeps identifying managers that, for one reason or another, do not succeed yet he keeps his job. How does that work?

A shame things did not work out for Jaimie, he was a great asset to WFC but I guess the prospect of a bigger budget & salary was too good an offer to turn down. He made his decision but obviously could not get the performance from the team that his predecessor managed, sounds familiar? That's all water under the bridge now - we have another great asset in Faz and his team, still early days but the team is playing together again, Saturday is critical of course but it's been a good end of season.

That's an absolute joke with their apparent 95 applications for the job. Morons.

so does that mean Day for concord boss