Look forward to welcoming back Ben Martin to PVR tomorrow.

Mr Bender however will not get such a warm reception... 

1-0 down another penalty cinceded by Nelson.

0-1 Half time. Very poor, misplaced places, too much played down the left. Nelson poor at right back. Poor penalty, delibeate push.

Another pen...seriously wtf

Final Score Welling 0 - 1 St Albans.

Well that was awful. A team lacking ideas, fitness and a lot of passion. We were told to judge the team after 10 games, i'm afraid my mind was made up after last Saturday, let alone today. I can't see anything else other than relegation if we keep this squad.

Corne and Williams would have walked into this team but were let go. This is worse than last season by some margin, which i didn't think was possible.

Not good enough in any areas, not even one highlight I can pick out.

Based on the falling attendances, I imagine the player budget is no longer sustainable. We need to cut the dead wood now.

I appreciate MG has put money into the club but he has to either admit that he's f***ed up by recruiting players that aren't fit enough for this league and/or that him and Damian Matthews aren't up to it as coaches.

-- Edited by WingsTillIDie on Saturday 20th of August 2016 05:28:32 PM

What a wasted afternoon, I could have stayed in The Hinge and got plastered. Very very disappointing display there is just no apparent effort or urgency in the team, they do not challenge or appear interested. At one corner we had 4 players back on the halfway line! Not once did I feel we were getting control or that pressure was building. Worse still I didn't think the opposition was much good either! It's one thing to loose to a good team but to loose, by yet another penalty, to a rubbish team is inexcusable. I assume that as MG is a Director his position as Manager is secure, so as a Director he needs to take Executive action and put some spine and grit into "his" team. Time is running out!

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Attendance is going down, 483 today. If we play like this against Chelmsford then I feel that we won't gain any new fans. Need to improve very quickly...

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 And again, I haven't got a clue how the club have come up with that number as looking around the ground it didn't seem anywhere near that.

The players that need chopping immediately include:

Hatton - past it, legs have gone and on the decline.

Slabber - Lazy and well past it 

Crawford - more clubs than Tiger Woods, what does that tell you? Not good enough.

Nelson - 3 of the 5 penalties conceded have been down to him. No where near good enough, I actually feel sorry for him because he is so far out of his depth.

Brown - not up to this level leaves us exposed because of it.

Waldren - the headless chicken of the group runs around doing very little.

Devyne - offers nothing, not up to this level. 

 

MG should seriously consider stepping aside and Letting someone have a go. Let him concentrate on the proactive work he has done off the pitch as at he moment he is ruin it all by taking us down on it. 

This squad will get us relegated of that I have no doubt.

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To make things worse, the official club Twitter account thinks we have remained 2nd bottom after today's result. No, we are bottom of the pile. Dreadful, the players recruited by MG appear to be simply not good enough at this level. The penalties being conceded is getting beyond a joke now. Is there some world record for penalties conceded in consecutive matches as, if there is, we are going to break it at this rate.

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 We are 2nd bottom, Concord conceded late on to prevent us going bottom. We stay above them on GD.

 

 

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 Oh thank god!! We're only second bottom. Let's have an open top bus parade!

When Goldberg took over I'm sure he said he had 'no interest' in being the manager... however 5 years ago he said "I don't have any desire whatsoever to get involved in the business of football again, but what I do want to do is to see how far I can go as a football manager," he said. "I love managing. I love the excitement of it and one day I want to earn a living doing it."


Interesting to see how it pans out...

What a load of bollocks

Polo wrote:

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I had a long chat with MG after the game. He fully admits he has messed up with recruitment and wants to put it right. There was no waffle or relying on the players we have signed in previous seasons and will be making changes.

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 Well that's some comfort. Will be interesting to see how that pans out.

The keeper kept us in the game today with some fantastic saves. He has pulled of a cracker in every game this year. If only every player had the same desire.

Polo wrote:

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I had a long chat with MG after the game. He fully admits he has messed up with recruitment and wants to put it right. There was no waffle or relying on the players we have signed in previous seasons and will be making changes.

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 Surely these players were scouted before they were signed! He must've known what he was getting. I lot of blame should fall at the feet of himself and his coaches. They should of knocked them into shape by now. Making the wrong call on one or two players is fine but there's a few more than that. 

-- Edited by Riverstown on Sunday 21st of August 2016 01:50:10 PM

MG in his interview talks of 2 or 3 in and 2 or 3 out on loan.....the real important bit is the quality of those coming in....not just like for like...we will see but......

We,  as supporters,  also need to accept that this season looks unlikely to be as we had hoped. But we need to get behind the team to ensure that we, at the very least, remain in the Conference South. 

COYW

OMERTA elb wrote:

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I wonder whether the two or three players MG wants to bring in will be on loan to us? The only problem with that is whether their clubs let them play for us in the FA Cup. I see Jonte Smith has gone on loan to Cray Wanderers who won convincingly in the Cup yesterday - presumably he played for them which would render him cup-tied for us?

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 He did n't play for them yesterday.

If we were to bring in loanees I'd hope it is a long term loan. It's not worth the disruption of short terms.