Message to COSU

[kentblues]

Maybe they're waiting for their next manager to become available

It’s always tempting to try and rationalise the inexplicable. Sometimes it’s more mundane…it’s more like running a business than a football club where you become fixated on a “process” as the cure for something that is wrong, or the means to get better outcomes for less investment. My experience is once you become fixated on processes and involving the cast of thousands you get inertia- there’s always a reason from someone or something not to do something (after all it might be a mistake)…

This, unless COSU can articulate otherwise, is where I fear we are….hopefully temporarily and eventually there will be talk of streamlining processes…

 

[onceknownasrab]

Either we don't have the personnel to play Maherball or Maherball just doesn't work. The club can see it, the fans can see it and Maher must be able to see it. So why the insistence in playing it? Pro or anti Maher fans would all cut him some slack if they saw him showing flexibility and not the determination that appears no less than pigheaded.

We have a talented squad but with very real limitations. Put them on the front foot, one touch, fast passing/crossing and they can frighten most teams. Push them into a match up with most sides they are found physically wanting. Lightweight, too easily muscled off the ball and seemingly naive to the dark arts of football that stitch us up most games. We have no leader on the pitch, no general or grit merchant. All in all we are too nice. That being said we are way too good to be languishing where we are and that is not good enough.

Change the players, change the coaches or change the burgers, I don't care, but do something. Genuinely I think we can do better with everything we have now, including Maher, but boy does he needs a wake up rocket directed up his Ranger.

 

[kentblues]

A number of them certainly weren’t his first pick…

How many times have you had to gently explain this, the white board, not getting the names on it or even well down the list and why, what we’ve ended up having to settle for?

I really do understand why ITKs are reluctant to share. However many times information is shared, alternative facts are repeatedly rolled out to suit a different required narrative…

Of course, COSU knows all too well the reality which is why there is zero chance of Kev being let go at the moment. They are also probably being slow to deliver the promised support now whilst the new processes “bed in”.

 

[Shrimper]

When COSU took over they spoke a lot about communication. Didn't they agree to have regular communication with fans keeping them up to date? That doesn't seem to happen anymore

 

[WestyReturns]

A number of them certainly weren’t his first pick…

There isn't a manager in NL who has ever got their first choice all the time. Even Wrexham missed out on players when they were offering silly money. It's never going to happen. Unless it's a forced transfer out of his hands Kev takes responsibility.

 

[blues exile]

When COSU took over they spoke a lot about communication. Didn't they agree to have regular communication with fans keeping them up to date? That doesn't seem to happen anymore

They have crept into their bunker. Happy to have a pint with the plebs back when all was fresh and exciting but at the first rumblings of discontent, nowhere to be found.

 

[Boreham Blue]

I think much of what we are seeing aligns with what COSU promised in terms of spending money to get the debt cleared, practical things improved and no pressure on the management to get promotion overnight. There was euphoria as we had been saved from extinction but people forget this quickly as I think they would have hoped we would have matched last year’s performance levels. I think COSU need to up the communication and remind people what they said they would do and assure everyone things haven’t changed but they also need to consider if they need to flex their plans based on how the team are playing or be explicit now that next summer is the sensible time to invest and then to judge them. It’s the vacuum of updates that allows people to fill the gaps.

Personally I’d like to see a decent signing if available with a clear message that this is the type of player we will be signing but most are not yet available but when they are we sign now.

 

[Mick]

Either we don't have the personnel to play Maherball or Maherball just doesn't work. The club can see it, the fans can see it and Maher must be able to see it. So why the insistence in playing it? Pro or anti Maher fans would all cut him some slack if they saw him showing flexibility and not the determination that appears no less than pigheaded.

Good players could get by with a poor system. Poor players might manage with a good system.

Poor players playing a poor system is a recipe for the disaster we have now.

 

[Liam AAS]

When COSU took over they spoke a lot about communication. Didn't they agree to have regular communication with fans keeping them up to date? That doesn't seem to happen anymore

Maybe they just aren't ing the bed like some of us

 

[manor15]

I think much of what we are seeing aligns with what COSU promised in terms of spending money to get the debt cleared, practical things improved and no pressure on the management to get promotion overnight. There was euphoria as we had been saved from extinction but people forget this quickly as I think they would have hoped we would have matched last year’s performance levels. I think COSU need to up the communication and remind people what they said they would do and assure everyone things haven’t changed but they also need to consider if they need to flex their plans based on how the team are playing or be explicit now that next summer is the sensible time to invest and then to judge them. It’s the vacuum of updates that allows people to fill the gaps.

Personally I’d like to see a decent signing if available with a clear message that this is the type of player we will be signing but most are not yet available but when they are we sign now.

Agree with this but I think the bigger concern seems (from an external point of view) to be their internal communications.

Not investing in the squad because the right options aren’t available at the right price? Fine, makes sense, but your coach can’t then talk to Chris Phillips and say we need 2-3 signings.

A CEO who comes out and says that the striker you’ve signed a month ago isn’t a signing you would make with the current recruitment strategy? What’s that all about?

If that’s COSU’s approach, it makes sense, but they need to get their ducks in a row.

 

[Ipswhrimp]

I’m pretty much with you on this, I think the factor that could change things though is if the crowd turn on Maher, as happened a little yesterday after he took Kendall off when we were chasing the game. Imagine a 3-0 defeat at Daggers next Saturday and a vocal away end singing “you don’t know what you’re doing”, booing the team or singing “we want Maher out” - that might accelerate things for COSU

Personally, I shall be pretty miffed if the boo-boys drive King Kev out. Give him the tools and he'll do the job. He showed that when he was a player and has shown it again (last season) as a manager.

 

[Holy Joe]

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A CEO who comes out and says that the striker you’ve signed a month ago isn’t a signing you would make with the current recruitment strategy? What’s that all about?

I'm not sure that's what he said or implied. I wasnt at the meeting but I read the minutes as more implying that data isn't the only consideration - and as an example Kendall's data - it was to dispel the computer says no comments going round

 

[kentblues]

There isn't a manager in NL who has ever got their first choice all the time. Even Wrexham missed out on players when they were offering silly money. It's never going to happen. Unless it's a forced transfer out of his hands Kev takes responsibility.

It’s even been explained on more than one occasion that we had prime targets who had agreed to join us, ready to sign (in one case twice!)? Yes it’s all Kev’s fault…

Social media….whether a player or manager when a target is in the cross hairs the facts aren’t allowed to get in the way are they..

COSU will be even more grateful to Kev as it allows them to quietly and slowly get dressed in the background…

 

[stewart]

Are you suggesting that every player signed since Maher took charge hasn't been a player he particularly wanted?

Maher has had the last say on who we sign , he stated that right from the beginning of his tenure.

 

[kentblues]

Agree with this but I think the bigger concern seems (from an external point of view) to be their internal communications.

Not investing in the squad because the right options aren’t available at the right price? Fine, makes sense, but your coach can’t then talk to Chris Phillips and say we need 2-3 signings.

A CEO who comes out and says that the striker you’ve signed a month ago isn’t a signing you would make with the current recruitment strategy? What’s that all about?

If that’s COSU’s approach, it makes sense, but they need to get their ducks in a row.

We were close to not filling the bench last week and have the smallest squad in the league. So whether Kev answers truthfully by stating the obvious or tells a ridiculous lie by pretending otherwise does change the reality.

Tom may have thought the comment on Kendall was more helpful than it is. Saying the computer would have said no could come back to bite. I’m sure some have him in their sights once they move on from Bonne. And if the computer is being ignored then what exactly is all the new processes bedding stuff about and why does it mean we are struggling to make signings. It really doesn’t make sense?

 

[stewart]

A number of them certainly weren’t his first pick…

maybe not his first pick but he was the one that had the last say in signing them.

 

[kentblues]

Maher has had the last say on who we sign , he stated that right from the beginning of his tenure.

If the first eight choices have gone and you have the ninth choice what you supposed to do? The ninth choice is now the first choice?

 

[overseas shrimper]

To what end though?

Surely if your plan is to make a change then its better to do it now than later.

My personal choice would be Harris and Barrett until the end of the season. At least the team would show some endeavour in the final third and have a crack.

Lose away daggers and things will start to get toxic. They were toxic in the west today. Fans are starting to turn on each other..

Assuming you want a shift from boring football, your desire to get Harris is bizarre. Anyway, he won't come to us unless there's a good budget to compete with the biggest budgets in our league.

Barrett will be looking for a number 1 opportunity if even remotely interested in starting his managerial career in the 5th tier. Again, he'd want a competitive budget to ensure he has a good opportunity of making a success of it.

 

[stewart]

If the first eight choices have gone and you have the ninth choice what you supposed to do? The ninth choice is now the first choice?

But deep down you as manager should know its the wrong choice thats why that player is the 9th choice

 

[stewart]

Assuming you want a shift from boring football, your desire to get Harris is bizarre. Anyway, he won't come to us unless there's a good budget to compete with the biggest budgets in our league.

Barrett will be looking for a number 1 opportunity if even remotely interested in starting his managerial career in the 5th tier. Again, he'd want a competitive budget to ensure he has a good opportunity of making a success of it.

another reason i have stated make Currie the interim manager for rest of the season , lets see how he performs with the same set of players Maher cannot get to perform under his 3-5-2 , im thinking under Currie it wont be 3 -5 2, and it wont be the dross we are getting now
, lets give him a chance , he did well with Barnet a few seasons ago .