bozzer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 3:45 pmI’ll have a go at answering your questionsJazzy_10 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 11:34 am Didn’t want to make my first post a negative one, but feel a lot of questions need to be asked after yesterday.
We’ve played like a bottom half team since Burgess took over (the form table shows that too) and the last two games just showed a real lack of experience in setting up a team to win Vs some really poor opposition.
A few key players were missing but that’s no excuse to be having from what I counted were about 3 shots on target against 2 bottom half table teams with terrible defensive records. They’ve both conceded 152 goals this season, and we couldn’t score playing with 2 strikers… and it’s not just the service that was poor. The set up was wrong and the decision to play/sign the forwards we have were wrong as well. Why were we resorting to long balls continuously when it clearly offered no return Vs St Ives, and then to do the same again Vs Nuneaton yesterday?
And can I just say what are we doing clapping the team off after performing like that? No, we shouldn’t be celebrating how far they’ve come this season, to choke a play off space in the manner we’ve done is inexcusable. Are we happy to stay as we are for the next 5 years with no real push in the right direction? A manager with no experience and a board seemingly happy to stay in step 3 football is the perfect recipe for that.
Bad decisions from all areas of the club lately, including the clubs timing of announcing the manager as permanent. Would it be the right call to make him permanent from today knowing he was only a temp for the rest of the season? I’m sure a few would be doubting the decision if we made that announcement today.
Would we have the won the playoffs? Unlikely. But just making the playoffs would’ve been a great springboard for the next season. Very disappointed, and the inevitable ‘limited resources’ we’ll have next season probably means we should expect this to continue.
I don’t feel we’ve played like a bottom half team since Burge arrived e.g I thought away at Redditch we were excellent as we were at Coalville, the more injuries we got the worse it became.
Should we not be clapping the team off, yes we should, they felt like we all felt yesterday but it’s for the whole season and as gutted as I was I wanted to thank them as much for the games at Needham, and Hednesford as I did for yesterday.
If we are at this level for 5 years then so be it, as someone else has mentioned without a huge increase in sponsorship or selling our soul (been there done that) then absolutely I’ll take step 3 football for the next 5 years, if we get in the playoffs and have a cup run that would be good too.
For some perspective, You have to compare it to some other clubs who reformed look at 1874 Northwick or Scarborough, Scarborough reformed before us and are for the first time flirting with the playoffs, and they have their own ground and they have bigger crowds.
I think announcing the manager as permanent was great timing, if we hadn’t then there would have been discussions today whether we should be, meanwhile other managers will be tapping up our players, now Andy can get on with planning for next season, he’s brought an air of professionalism which has been great and let’s see what he can do next season.
I’m gutted still about yesterday but he’s got my full support and I can’t wait to see what he can do next season
We have I’m afraid. The last 5 game and last 10 game form table put us both in the bottom half. Granted we had a few decent performances, but we’ve notably thrown leads in a lot of games since Burgess arrived: Tamworth, Leiston and Coalville draws.
Yep I agree there’s some problems commercially at the moment, but to be happy staying in step 3 for 5 years is really short sighted ironically. There needs to be a drive from all areas of the club, not just to stay happy and cosy where we are now. Question is are we seeing the drive from all areas of the club? Don’t think so. (Although it was nice to see a drive on social side of things recently, which I’d like to see more often next season).
I really can’t see how it was great timing. The timing for the announcement was awful. You don’t give someone the permanent job before finishing the task at hand (which I would expect was to get the play off spot). And if it wasn’t announced then I’d fully expect the discussions about if we should’ve hired him permanently or not to have taken place. Imagine this was Dudding in charge right now - would he still be getting the same backing after what’s happened?
Other managers will be tapping up our players regardless, as we would to other teams as well. But yes, at least he’s got time on his hands to sort things out for next season now.