I wont be at todays game but I wish Ryan the team and all the travelling supporters all the best and I hope Ryan debut league game goes well for us. I was impressed with the way he carried himself and spoke about his approach to the situation we are in and how he plans to move forward with us. Very promising. I really hope the club still by him and we get ourselves out of this predicament we are in. Up the Welling.
Absolutely dire display. Conditions never helped, but there is another team on the pitch for God sake. Gk had an absolute clanger, responsible for at least 4-5 of the goals that went in, capped off by the spooned clearence that resulted in their free kick goal.
Not interested in going into depth about the game, just need a massive performance on Tuesday vs Chatham but very unlikely unless we produce a miracle.
When you have a centre forward gifted a shot at goal in the 6yd box, yet still manages to f**k it up, that pretty much summarises your team.
Akinwande is probably one of, if not, the worst CF I have ever seen over PVR.
His attitude, ability and general posture is appalling.
I wouldnt have him anywhere near this club.
When you have a centre forward gifted a shot at goal in the 6yd box, yet still manages to f**k it up, that pretty much summarises your team. Akinwande is probably one of, if not, the worst CF I have ever seen over PVR. His attitude, ability and general posture is appalling. I wouldnt have him anywhere near this club.
Akinwande had a horrendous game that is for sure, but that miss only tells half the story of his game. Welling Fans were really having a go at him for seemingly not giving all for the cause in his game, for example whenever the GK had the ball in the box he did not lead from the front and trigger any press, rather standing back and allowing the keeper to punt it long and hard, and look at the problems it caused us. I have to be fair here, it will never be easy for a 30+ year old striker of his calibre to be running around like he once did, but he could have definitely helped us using his power and sheer calibre to hold up the ball and bring others into play. That was virtually non-existent, because the only times I saw us really create chances was when Paxman and a few others won it from scrappy midfield duels and carried us forward. It seemingly all passed Akinwande by, which is appalling for your main target man striker. Reminds me a lot unfortunately of James Alabi earlier this year, came into the club with promise, but failed miserably short of the heights he could have achieved.
Some people would call this scapegoating, but let's say it loud and clear, the GK had a 2nd half calamity show. 3rd goal sneaked in at his near post under him, 4th goal was a corner that evaded everyone in the box including himself and landed at a man at the back post to finish, 5th goal went under his body with a header (though there was probably a lot of power so you have to be sympathetic) and 6th goal resulted from a spooned clearence up in the air that gave them the free kick to score. I know the rest of the team in front of Dion are to say the least very fallible, but that amount of mistakes so early on into his Welling career can be a huge confidence setback. I have heard from Dion however that he will be GK until the end of the season minimum, and I guess he has to improve from his mistakes but that was an appalling league debut for sure. We can't be having GK number 7 in the league, because it will surely only make a bad situation even worse.
Chatham at home now on Tuesday is an enormous game for sure. 8 points adrift of safety is manageable, so if we can win a 5 point gap to safety really can inject much needed confidence into the group. Won't be easy because Chatham are a very very good side with a big financial muscle at this level, but football is always full of shocks and surprises you can never account for.
The new manager said in his pre match tweet and I quote, "I'll make sure they play for the badge..."
Whilst we were comprehensively outplayed for the last hour of the game by a better team with better players, one player didn't break into a sweat all afternoon. His teammates weren't great at all but I do think the vast majority of them did actually try but a number of them are simply not up to the required levels
It's going to get worse before it gets better. The new manager needs to identify more players and a system that fits said players. If he wants to go back to front quickly then he needs pace and mobility up front and, Ufuah aside, he doesn't have that. Also he needs runners in midfield and not players like Paxman and Ebouzeme who can't (or won't) move the ball quickly. And, based on the second half yesterday, we might be looking at a seventh goalkeeper in the not too distant future.
This is not on the current manager and we all need to realise that and accept it. Tuesday could be painful but perhaps with a few more training sessions and yet more new personnel and a slightly better run of games we might get going. It needs to happen soon before we get cut adrift and suffer another relegation
-- Edited by Wingnut 2 on Sunday 23rd of November 2025 10:48:21 AM
