I've watched the Havant collapse with great interest, as their long term manager Paul Doswell was very knowledgeable about this league, not to mention a remarkable fluency in conversational German. After being top 3 for most of last season they suddenly collapsed, he got sacked, and was replaced by a manager doing it as his first management job. His inexperience meant he continued the losing run that season, so had the rookie brainwave of dismantling the side that, bar a recent downturn, had been consistently successful, and used all his inexperience to build a new team for the current season that did dreadfully, so he got sacked too.
Steve King took over the sunken ship, and has got sacked too! Their results are remarkably bad, nearly always letting in at least 2 goals, hardly scoring, so everything about them needs to be fixed. They are 14 points below the safety zone, so whoever takes over will almost certainly get them relegated, and get sacked too! So it may be as much Steve King taking on a hopelessly messed up club as him not doing a decent job, though I am not sure if their one league win this season was before his arrival.
But that is all fine from a Welling perspective as that is a relegation spot hopefully assigned to Havant, and Dover look similarly short of ideas, and I have always thought the Eastbourne manager is out of his depth, so at a guess he is on borrowed time, as there is only so long he can keep making the same excuses about injuries. Steve King will be torn between who to go to job hunt at, us or Eastbourne! Truro are finding it hard these days. So hopefully these are four teams who will finish below us.
Why would Steve King be considering us? I thought we had a Manager ?
Too true, he can only succeed on large budgets. Also not prepared to involve himself with he fan base. This was one of the gripes I saw from H&W fans on Vanarama forums. I also found that when he was ith us before. I trust in Danny for this season and the next and possibly into the National one day.
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It's not nonsense, that is how football managers go about things, as football is a dog eat dog world, with lots of people trying to get the few jobs. Danny is here for the long term, so Steve King would be wasting his time trying to get something with us, but it wouldnt surprise me if Steve King ended up at Eastbourne, as the inexperienced manager there inherited Danny's squad which had finished top 8 three seasons in a row, and that manager is doing badly there, they are now 1 point above the relegation zone having played more games than the teams below them. There has been a massive turnover of players there, so he made the same rookie mistake as the previous Havant manager, of quickly breaking up a squad so he could make his mark with his own choice of players, without the experience to sign the right players.
That is all ok from a Welling perspective, as at the moment I think Eastbourne, Dover and Havant look relegation favourites, which if so only leaves one relegation spot we have to avoid ending up in. But it all re emphasises how important experience is for managers, as Havant, Dover and Eastbourne all started the season with managers on their first managerial job, and all have done really badly.
Shame on you Riverstown for doubting me! No, don't cry, I will accept your apology! Now, let's get 3 points today, which could, depending on other results, get us out of the bottom 4!
Well, there was a Steve King thread down here somewhere.
We didn't love him as much as Jamie Day, say no more, but we thought a great deal of him (our house). Not everybody loved him though. Spent too much money, in trouble with refs, etc.
Played some blinding football under his management and performed well at previous clubs. Play-offs were a jinx for him though. Watch Gerring wipe out Naz in the box at Woking in that play-off final. SK was fuming, although at the time we didn't think it was a penalty!
Steve King goes to many non league grounds. He is a proper non league football fan. We've met him a few times (obviously many times when he managed us) but, as has already been pointed out on the forum, he is always interested in players.
Will his next club be in The National South or not in The National South?
