Thanks Kev - but is a new manager needed?

[Mr Browns Ghost]

We need to be honest with some of the players. Despite their loyalty and past heroics, some are just not at the standard that most fans expect. I genuinely don't believe Maher is the issue

Zach Jeacock1G
Collin Andeng-Ndi30G

Gus Scott-Morriss2 D
Nathan Ralph3 D
George Wind4 D
Adam Crowther5 D
Joseph Gubbins15 D
Harry Taylor16 D

Jack Bridge7 M
Noor Husin8 M
Jack Wood14 M
Cavanagh Miley17 M
George Moncur20 M
Keenan Appiah-Forson22 M
James Morton23 M
Mikey Faulkner26 M
Beau Macdonald27 M
Oliver Coker28 M

Macauley Bonne9 F
Danny Waldron10 F
Josh Walker11 F
Aribim Pepple19 F

Green up to standard
Red is not up to standard
Yellow Has potential / On the fence

KAF will come good absolutely he must be absolutely gutted he signed for us now.. fully agree with your comments on the red and green but would make a few more yellows red …

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

Dave Martin
Brooklyn Kabongolo
Jason Demetriou
Louis Lomas
Ollie Kensdale
Wes Fonguck
Mauro Vilhete
Callum Powell
Harry Cardwell

All no longer in the squad. You have been talking absolute rubbish.

Talking of rubbish has anyone got a copy of that pod cast where you convinced yourself we would be up there toying for promotion or that long post you posted where you said the Tory deal with Ron Martin was a good deal for the town of Southend … sometimes everyone even myself spouts absolute rubbish …

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

think he means at the moment. He has been poor since his return albeit a few minutes here and there. Saturday he was woeful and his attempt to tackle for the first goal was embarrassing to say the least. We all love Cav and we know he is a good player he has proven that but its disrespectful to drop the likes of Coker and Morton who have done little wrong and start Miley and Moncur. Interestingly someone said Saturday that in the old days when you had proper reserve teams players that needed minutes and coming back from injury would get minutes this way. That doesnt happen anymore so the only way Kev can get minutes in their legs is to play matches. I get that but he got it massively wrong Saturday. How does Husin keep getting picked. Again a good player but woefully out of form

He was poor before that too .. he was poor back end of last season the start of this season and now, the art of good management is to know when they have peaked loyalty will only ever keep us in part time pub leagues

 

[blues exile]

Dave Martin
Brooklyn Kabongolo
Jason Demetriou
Louis Lomas
Ollie Kensdale
Wes Fonguck
Mauro Vilhete
Callum Powell
Harry Cardwell

All no longer in the squad. You have been talking absolute rubbish.

Dave Martin
Brooklyn Kabongolo
Jason Demetriou
Louis Lomas
Ollie Kensdale
Wes Fonguck
Mauro Vilhete
Callum Powell
Harry Cardwell

All no longer in the squad. You have been talking absolute rubbish.

Suggest you look up the number of appearances these players made. With the obvious exceptions of Cardwell and Kensdale most of the others were fringe players. Unless of course you think Lomas, Kabongolo and Vilhete were first team mainstays.

 

[leeblue]

My comments are exclusively on the playing side and anything outside that should not be a factor especially as the players are being paid and have comfortable contracts. The results this season and the generally depressing standard of play are solely down to the coaches.

So to be clear missing out on virtually all our top targets due to the late takeover completion has zero impact on the playing side

 

[blues exile]

So to be clear missing out on virtually all our top targets due to the late takeover completion has zero impact on the playing side

You know that for a fact I take it. Care to name them?

 

[RHB]

You can say that again

Off topic, but I will be glad when the pre match thread appears for FGR. Lots of good discussion and posts on here, but a bit like some TV channels, repeats are constantly appearing. And without doubt I'm feeling really miserable now.

 

[BoyWonder2]

You know that for a fact I take it. Care to name them?

100% it is a fact, and I’ve listed names of players we have missed out on previously.

 

[onceknownasrab]

So to be clear missing out on virtually all our top targets due to the late takeover completion has zero impact on the playing side

Missing out on our top targets only suggests we could have been better than we are. Very few would disagree although the top targets may not have succeeded. It's all hypothetical. The issue is that many, myself included, do not believe we are as bad as we are showing and for whatever reason the failure is not getting the best from the team. I don't think we ever had a prayer of the autos with our squad but might have had an outside chance of the play-offs. To be honest I'm not upset by the prospect of another season in this league if we look like we have forward momentum. But we don't. If we don't or can't sign anyone else, well, that's football but, the fans deserve better from the side we have than we are getting.

 

[Texas Eslan]

Maher in! All day long. All season long in fact.

This season was never going to be the success that so many of you seem to be expecting.

Im blown away by the lack of empathy that nearly 30% of you on here are showing. Kevin Maher, Darren Currie and Mark Bentley were huge part of what kept this club alive over the last few seasons. Not just on the pitch but off it as well. They have performed miracles in near impossible situations, earning serious plaudits along the way.

Yet a large percentage of you now want to throw them out of the club because a shaky start to the season after we finally get rid of RM and are still reeling from his legacy. Where’s the loyalty, like Kev showed to us? Surely the minimum he deserves is a fair shot?

Some of the opinions as well…Kev needs to change his system…same breath, why did he change some of the players for the last game…! Seriously guys would you be happy with your 442, long ball to a big centre forward, hatchet man in midfield and big thuggish players all over the pitch? He is trying to implement a style of play that is technical and modern which will ultimately bear fruit.

Don’t care if you disagree, won’t reply again. Just needed to say the above!

 

[Hadleigh-shrimper]

Not this season unless we go down for me.

 

[thenobster]

Not this season unless we go down for me.

That’s the thing we’re trying to svoid

 

[Medway Blue]

Suggest you look up the number of appearances these players made. With the obvious exceptions of Cardwell and Kensdale most of the others were fringe players. Unless of course you think Lomas, Kabongolo and Vilhete were first team mainstays.

See, this once again goes back to my plea for people to stop viewing players as robots.

The loss of players does not solely impact on field matters. A fringe player, no matter how many appearances they have made, can still be a hugely important member of the squad - a popular person, a big voice in the dressing room, a joker on the training pitch, and somebody who lifts morale or is just part of a tightly-knit team.

Footballers are humans. Morale and environment plays a part in how they then play on the pitch. Losing teammates, regardless of how important YOU may think they are based on appearances alone, can change dynamics and affect morale/atmosphere.