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Mark Molesley

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dannypav said:
I've got no idea if he's a good coach or a bad one , but for whatever reason you care to believe , he worked with probably the weakest squad of players I can think of in recent years.
As I say , no idea on his skill set , but he had very little to work with.
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With extremely limited resources,he created a strong defence and with any sort of central striker present,we’d have been comfortably mid-table.He did his utmost eg Akinde was coming to us up till 11-45 on deadline day,he got in Akinola,then found he wasn’t allowed to play him.
There was absolutely no-one : a hopelessly unready Emile Acquah played in 31 games,a hopelessly past-it Greg Halford 16 games.
Ron Martin panicked—praying for new manager bounce,he brought back Brown,which settled our fate for the next season as well.
 
I had a lot of time for him, until Oldham away. Totally dominated the game on the attack and takes off a striker for a defensive midfielder. Was happy to walk away with a draw. It was then I knew he lost the plot.
 
Kris said:
Not officially. PB was given the job to keep us up and he didn’t. Tough job of course but his lack of preparation for the Col Ewe game ultimately cost us.
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Why do people keep on saying the ColU match is the one that relegated us - numerous points just ebbed away earlier in the season, game after game, while MM persisted with his idealistic project and refusing to play to the strengths of the players available. PB was a strange appointment but change was made too late. When was a team's relegation decided on one game ?
 
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Chrisb said:
Why do people keep on saying the ColU match is the one that relegated us - numerous points just ebbed away earlier in the season, game after game, while MM persisted with his idealistic project and refusing to play to the strengths of the players available. PB was a strange appointment but change was made too late. When was a team's relegation decided on one game ?
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Against all the odds,MM had instigated a slow but steady improvement and there was at least a slim hope that he could still save us by overhauling a clueless Col U.
Brown’s new manager bounce was very low and short-lived and the abject surrender at the sheep pen did indeed seal our fate.
 
Chrisb said:
Why do people keep on saying the ColU match is the one that relegated us - numerous points just ebbed away earlier in the season, game after game, while MM persisted with his idealistic project and refusing to play to the strengths of the players available. PB was a strange appointment but change was made too late. When was a team's relegation decided on one game ?
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I agree. I've never fallen asleep watching Southend play on the box but, that season I did a few times. It was dreadful football, nearly every game without a shot on target.

I'm actually thinking about starting up a streaming service for people who suffer from Insomnia and stream games from MM time in charge. I'd make a killing :)

The season wasn't lost in the last 8 games, it was over after the first 15.
 
So strange how people defend one of the worst managers in our recent history. Is he related to some of our fans or something?

He was so good, he managed to only get his next job with Aldershot who he so kindly did the exact same as he did with us and put them near the bottom of the table.

The only good thing to come out of molesley was Hobson and even then he only became good once he had a proper coach around him.

Waste of space and if he wasn’t considered so “cool” by our fan base, we might have got him out earlier and had a chance of staying up.

Any proper football manager would’ve kept us up that year.
 
Dubai said:
So strange how people defend one of the worst managers in our recent history. Is he related to some of our fans or something?

He was so good, he managed to only get his next job with Aldershot who he so kindly did the exact same as he did with us and put them near the bottom of the table.

The only good thing to come out of molesley was Hobson and even then he only became good once he had a proper coach around him.

Waste of space and if he wasn’t considered so “cool” by our fan base, we might have got him out earlier and had a chance of staying up.

Any proper football manager would’ve kept us up that year.
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It's not about defending him

It's about being realistic and recognising that his job was made much harder due to Ron Martin
 
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