Post-Match Thread and Ratings Southend United 1-3 Gateshead

[Leigh_Seasider]

It's quite simple. This current team isn't good enough to finish top 7 in an average league.

If the board are serious about promotion then the recruitment of lower league players and over the hill cast offs won't cut it.

We need the better players of other teams in this league ala FGR for Cardwell etc.

We will get lucky with a few like GSM but several will take seasons to get better or won't make the grade.

The longer we stay in the national league the harder it is to break even and crowds will dwindle.

You really can't handle one or two more seasons down here? I think we could still make play offs (yes we need to improve a LOT) but much more likely that next season will be the one to really go for promotion. There aren't any 'better players of other teams' left are there? I'd much rather build for the future personally than chuck everything including the kitchen sink on getting out of the NL.

 

[BEERMONSTER]

It's quite simple. This current team isn't good enough to finish top 7 in an average league.

If the board are serious about promotion then the recruitment of lower league players and over the hill cast offs won't cut it.

We need the better players of other teams in this league ala FGR for Cardwell etc.

We will get lucky with a few like GSM but several will take seasons to get better or won't make the grade.

The longer we stay in the national league the harder it is to break even and crowds will dwindle.

The real issue here my fellow suffering Shrimper is that the COSU message is very clear, priority is sustainability of the Club, to be achieved hopefully by a targeted 5 year period. They do not consider progress up the football pyramid in that time scale a priority or a requisite requirement to achieving this. Yes the fanbase can offer the logical argument that promotions would bring increased revenues into the Club and COSU wouldn't argue the point, they just aren't demanding it, if it happens brilliant but they have a nice to happen approach to getting out of this League not the I want promotion now approach of supporters. COSU will look to compete for promotion going forward but definitely will not look to or have the expectation to 'sweep' to it and that is the reality and that's a bitter and unpalatable pill for some to swallow. I said on another thread that Kev's postion is safe if he doesn't massively drop the ball, relegation or a serious threat of it most likely would be that fumble, criticism of tactics or the perceived drop in attendances due to opinions of non entertaining
football or mid to bottom half table position wouldn't be it, although arguably definitely it would be underachievement.

 

[blues exile]

The club is simply not sustainable all the while it languishes in the NL and the longer this is the case the worse the financial position will become. The current squad is nowhere near good enough to get us promoted, lndeed it is arguable that the likes of Ralph, Miley, Taylor, Bridge and Husin have reached their full potential while the jury is out on some of the others. This coupled with a seemlngly rigid and inflexible playing style will probably condemn us to years in this purgatory as we shrink in ambition and status.

 

[BEERMONSTER]

The club is simply not sustainable all the while it languishes in the NL and the longer this is the case the worse the financial position will become.

Yet from COSU's perspective getting out of the NL is not a vital catalyst towards sustainability and have the belief that our financial position will improve without the bonus of promotion! Not saying their right and not saying their wrong, just saying it as it is.

 

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