It's no wonder we are such a shambles when we have players from Danson Sports who are 2nd from bottom of a league 5 divisions below us attending training. Maxwell should be concentrating on amalgamation of a squad that has had constant churn into something resembling a game plan and tactical system. I appreciate what Danson Sports can bring us with their youth teams and facilities, it looks like a good deal for both parties.

Tuesday night is massive and we need to attack and get at a Carshalton team in terrible form.

Wallop wrote:

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Bored of it all now. Dont see myself renewing a season ticket next year.

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 You and many others I suspect...

If the performance wasn't disappointing enough yesterday then the post match interview certainly was. None of the so called "penalties" were even debatable and I would have been disgusted if any of those had been given against us.

We were so far off it yesterday. We look mentally and, more importantly, physically weak all over the pitch. The midfield that finished the game were all about five feet tall and six stone soaking wet. Unless they are all Barcelona standard footballers that is never ever going to work at our level.

On to Tuesday night although, in truth, I think we're all but done already. Successive relegations will be a real disaster for the club and it will be a long long way back from that. You can have all the initiatives you want but it all stems from a successful team on the pitch. Get that right and other things will follow. Get it wrong, season after season, and everything else becomes irrelevant....

Wingnut 2 wrote:

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Wallop wrote:

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Bored of it all now. Dont see myself renewing a season ticket next year.

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 You and many others I suspect...

If the performance wasn't disappointing enough yesterday then the post match interview certainly was. None of the so called "penalties" were even debatable and I would have been disgusted if any of those had been given against us.

We were so far off it yesterday. We look mentally and, more importantly, physically weak all over the pitch. The midfield that finished the game were all about five feet tall and six stone soaking wet. Unless they are all Barcelona standard footballers that is never ever going to work at our level.

On to Tuesday night although, in truth, I think we're all but done already. Successive relegations will be a real disaster for the club and it will be a long long way back from that. You can have all the initiatives you want but it all stems from a successful team on the pitch. Get that right and other things will follow. Get it wrong, season after season, and everything else becomes irrelevant....

-- Edited by Wingnut 2 on Sunday 22nd of February 2026 06:36:32 PM

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 It has been tough being a Welling supporter in the last few years. We deserve to be in the position we currently are today. Yes, some bad luck has been involved, but for the most part we only have ourselves to blame. Relegation from both the NL in 2016 and the NLS in 2025 were both expected after years of stagnation and decline, we were simply not good enough for both leagues. However, this season if we go down it has been a self-made relegation. 

70 players this season was completely avoidable if we had gone through our setbacks with a calmer head. I know the past is the past and there is nothing we can do about it, but I keep saying Lee Martin was unbelievably unlucky. The defeat to Hashtag cost him his job and fair enough, but when you watched back the games under him, we were in almost every single one of them, and fine margins never went our way. Just look at games such as Dulwich, Lewes, Carshalton. We never deserved to lose them, and we never got the luck we deserved in them. 

Going down to Step 4 will pose one of the most challenging situations the club has ever faced in its history. From a purely economic point of view, we are going to take a hit at every level. Attendance, FA funding etc etc, not helped by the fact that the clubs in that league are so much smaller than what we have faced in modern history. 

I just hope we can finally see some level of success in the near future. This has been now 7 years of near endless misery for this fanbase, and it has driven many of our once proud supporters away who can simply not take it anymore. This club and its proud history deserve so much better than what we have seen in recent times. And whilst he takes a lot of slack, Howard deserves so much better than this. His money is the only reason the football club is even still operational, and he clearly cares as he still invests in. 

Hopefully we somehow survive and rebuild in Step 3 next season. Otherwise a world of uncertainty is inbound for next season. 

We are not down yet and if we beat Carshalton and Cray Valley we could stay up on a very low number of points. Although our form is bad it is better than both of theirs.

-- Edited by Chris on Monday 23rd of February 2026 07:10:01 AM

kentishbelle wrote:

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Of course nobody is down yet.

The point, however, is that the trajectory is quite assured when you're bottom of the form table with 4L and 1D in 5 games, giving you a solitary point and your 'rival' on such a low point tally, Canvey, are actually 14th in the form table and putting some points on the board.

Something has to happen and quick.

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 If I may say so that is quite an uninformed comment. Canveys last 5 games have been against ourselves,  Potters Bar, Whitehawk, Cray Valley and Chichester so their 5 point return is quite unimpressive. Having said that we were quite fortunate to beat them.