Looking forwards to........... playing Dartford again

Spot on

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In reply to Johnny I will bullet point what I think were the errors on both sides.

The club

Poor communication (Should be more updates on social media, match programme and meet and greet events)
Not changing players and system when things started going wrong after a good start.
Not having plan B Options during matches if we were losing.
Appointing someone not qualified to sit on the bench
Reacting to the bad behaviour in the wrong way.

The Supporters.

Abusing players during matches rather than supporting and encouraging them (Evident in that our away record was better than home record)
Thinking that paying admission and having too much to drink gives the right to be abusive and rude to players and staff of Welling United
Fighting among ourselves
Disgraceful behaviour at home to Taunton Town
Worse, behaviour at Dover Athletic and Havant & Waterlooville, what must these clubs think of us? (The other season many supporters of away teams were telling me Torquay United were horrible and they didn't want to play them again. I don't want that said about Welling United)

My final thoughts are the club is improving in that we now have a strong ladies team. A good U23 team, which may source players and our 1st team was an improvement on the team the previous season, finished higher and with more games to spare. I prefer to look at glass half full than glass half empty. The manager thought the long ball was the best way for our team to play that is subject to opinion. Don't like it myself, but he is working with them every day so I trust the manager to know best. Moving Manny Parry to holding midfield was a master stroke. He excelled in that position. Our defence was really strong. The problem was we couldn't score goals. How many clubs say that up and down the leagues? I like Warren Feeney and I've always wanted him to stay. There are other good managers out there. King, McKimm, Saunders, Allinson to name a few. Only the owners really know what is affordable and practical or possible. The key thing to remember is owners, managers and players come and go. Supporters are constant. Yes, we can stay away if we don't like a particular regime but really we don't have the power to change it. It will evolve but you can't please all of the people all of the time. My belief is you support your team through thick and thin. It isn't blind loyalty, it is knowing things do change. There have been owners, players, managers that I've like more than others but ultimately, Welling United come first.

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 Dont usually get involved when it comes to these matters as it can get very emotive. But I went to many home games and even more away games this season than I have ever been to. Can only think of one player that has had comments or as you call abuse aimed at him and that was Payne. I believe he deserved the amount of criticism he was getting due to the number of disciplinary issues that often swayed the result of a game.

Luckily he turned it round towards the end of the season and turned out to be one of our best players (IMO). I would honestly love to know of other players that have received abuse from fans? A lot of the more hearty comments have been aimed at Warren and his friend in the dugout (not Cox). 

Appreciate I have not been to all the games and maybe busy shouting during the game to notice some more targeted comments aimed at other players.

When you say fighting amongst ourselves do you mean just disagreements or actual violence? Because of it is just disagreements then that will never stop and never want it to. I have a good group of people I go with home and away every week and we almost always have differences in opinions on players, management burger van etc 

Seem to lay the blame at the fans door with regards to Taunton, I almost laughed at that one