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Killens_physio

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  1. I havent seen us win since we beat Cheltenham 2-1 back in 2006! Admittedly I dont go as often nowadays as I used to, but its still over 30 odd games since then that I havent even had a sniff of a win.

     

    To top it off in past seasons, I have managed to attend the games where we lost 7-1 to Cardiff, 5-0 away to Millwall and Reading , 4-1 at Yeovil, 6-2 at MK Dons and a 5-0 home drubbing to Peterborough. Last season I was working up in Manchester and made it to three 'home bankers' at BP against Walsall, Scunny and Bury..........which instead yielded a grand total of 2 points.

     

    I finally plucked up the courage to go again this season against Brentford only to see us lose to a 93rd minute goal, but I'm planning to go to the Orient game, so anyone planning on going, dont..........as we will most likely lose!

  2. How many points out 21 do we think Scunny will get , doubt it will be more than 10. We would then need 9 points from 9 games , with superior goal difference .

     

    People can worry if they wish , I a'int.

    Until we are mathmatically safe I'm taking nothing for granted. However as it has been all season, its about what we do that matters. Would rather have the points on the board rather than the games in hand.

  3. Prozac told us LJ said:

    Jonathon Grounds I know well, the lads a leader but it seems to have been driven from him"

    Thats a very interesting comment from LJ. I have a mate who is a Yeovil fan and he said that when Grounds was there he was very vocal and like a leader..........which makes me wonder what the hell PD did to him that made him not. Despite what the players have said in the past, I dont think the dressing atmosphere under Dickov was very good at all.

  4. I don't agree that Dickov will become a good manager; I don't think he's up to it and never will be tactically.

    But surely the only way Dickov is going to learn is by getting good advice and ideas from others who know more about the game than him? No one can every question is work ethic but judging by the comments surrounding his regime and their fitness, he needs to adopt a more professional attitude towards his coaching and management techniques. I still think he has the makings of a decent manager but he has got a hell of a lot of work ahead of him starting with his tactical nouse.

     

    Maybe he needs to lose that nice guy attitude and become an arsehole instead!

     

    By the way to what level did PD have his coaching badges?

  5. LJ said:

    “I knew we only had 70 minutes of that tempo in us. They aren’t up to 90 minutes yet but they will get there. They’ll have a day off tomorrow and then we will get them back in to show them what they have done well and what they can improve on. If we can keep going like that we will win more than we lose.”

    Under Dickov we were lucky to get 10 mins on a rare good day of any substantial high tempo football let alone 70! Sometimes you just need to take the game to the opposition and put them on the back foot. So many matches over the last couple of seasons where teams were there for the taking if only we raised our game and got out of 1st gear but instead we gifted them goals and they won without even breaking a sweat!

  6. PD was a good bloke but a crap manager. I don't have any thoughts on LJ; he's been in management for two days. He's had a good start. Let's hope it continues but let's not get carried away.

    I think Dickov will become a decent manager, but his biggest flaw was that he believed that we could win matches just by talking a good game which we all found wasnt true. Bad managers talk the talk with very little action, good managers let the results do the talking for them. Others like Dave Penney were :censored:e at both. PD as well all know would have been better suited to having an experienced number 2 next to him and learning from them, but he was either unwilling to listen to advice or thought he knew better. LJ on the other hand seems to me to be the kind of character who wants to learn and is always wanting to better himself. I'm sure even Fergie would say that everyday he learns something new and the guy, even though he is a total prick, has won everything there is to win in the modern game.

     

    Dickov needs some time away to look at himself and the way he handled the whole situation here. He could still make a decent manager but he has to learn from his mistakes but sometimes I thought that he was too stubborn to do that. His next appointment is a make or break for him as he will have to start backing up his talk with results and progress.

  7. I watched a video on the BBC website the other day about the preparation that Billy Davies goes through for each match at Forest. It was quite incredible how much prep work he puts into each fixture. He even has his own media studio at home where i monitors training which he has filmed. Seems like he plans to the minute detail. Was actually quite a fascinating insight into how the game has changed over the last 15 years or so. If LJ has that same attention to detail and approach then whatever happens he will leave us with a more professional setup hopefully.

  8. Very warm reception, a couple of waves to the RRE, gets involved and seemed to enjoy the occasion.

    Good stuff. Would have been interesting to see how different it would have been had the club not done the meet and greet yesterday. All sounds positive so far, lets hope the players buy into it as well over the next 9 games.

     

    Once again shows what this group of players are capable of, even if it was against Hartlepool. Big test this weekend

  9. the more I think about this, the more sense it makes.

     

    TP has pretty much the same players as PD did but still the same performances and results are coming through, yet when it was PD's team that was losing he got the blame, but now it's TP's team that's losing, the players are finally taking the blame in the eyes of the fans.

     

    So I put it to you, was Paul Dickov really that bad? Or was it just the fact that the players don't care?

    Dickov assembled this squad of players over his tenure. Apart from their obvious attribute of whether or not they were any good at football which you would take as a granted when scouting a player, you also need to take into account the character of the person you are buying. What has been abundantly clear this season is that while the talent of the side for the most part cannot be questioned (although maybe the club as a whole believes these players are better than they actually are), their desire to win and their application to get results can be. PD has on paper put together a decent league one side, but the character of the player he has signed is now coming to forefront.

     

    So in short, yes PD is to blame for our current predicament. Once the rot sets in during a season, it is very hard to make a permenant change that will make much difference. This team has played badly for too long this season and its become a habit. The FA cup run, and some good performances against namely Preston and the Dongs have papered over the stark reality of this group of players. You can have all the ability in the world but if you lack the basic trait of desire and commitment to improve and win, your talent counts for nothing!

  10. I wouldn't blame the owners for selling up .

    Who would want to buy us honestly?

     

    I see Stockport got beat 3-1 at home today by Braintree. If we go down this season, that will be the kind of results we will be getting in a couple of seasons. Relegation from this piss poor league is not an option, but sadly its going to happen

  11. As soon as i heard of Gillette Soccer Saturday that we had a pen, i was praying Jose wouldnt do his Palenka dink, then when i heard it was saved i knew he had! If I could predict what he was going to do from my own living room, any goalkeeper worth his salt would have done as well! Not the time to be trying that and I hope he will get docked a weeks wages for doing it as well. Could well have cost us a valuable point!

  12. I'm glad he got sent off. Im glad they got knocked out. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Fergie almost choke on his chewing gum and sprint down to the touchline to hurl abuse at the referee. I also enjoyed the incessant booing by the bitter Manure fans after the decision had been made. I also laughed and cheered when Modric equalised and I even cheered when Ronaldo scored (something i never want to have to do again). So all in all i thoroughly enjoyed seeing them go out and took great pleasure and delight in it as well.

     

    Ferdinand's antics at the end just summed up what a horrible, hypocritical and spiteful club they are. The Champions League will be a far better tournament without them. Good riddance!

  13. If Joe was to come back, I would only like to see him here in an advisory role rather than manager. I'm pretty sure Jimmy Nicholl does the same kind of role with Dean Smith at Walsall, and they dont seem to be doing to badly on a smaller budget and less talented squad than we have. I would hate for Joe to come back again in a full time basis as manager and get hounded out when we dont play tika-taka football and blow the opposition away week after week.

     

    All in all, the guy is a legend and thats how it should stay.

     

    Stitch on the other hand...........question is..........has he been out of the game too long now?

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