Our form until November last 3 seasons
Three shocking starts and three consecutive seasons where we have averaged more than twice as many points per game from November as we did before November.
There are many reasons why we’ve been poor (**waves at Ron**) but even in really poor sides it has been noticeable that we’ve started so slowly. A big part of that IMO has been the inadequacy of the pre-season programmes. For three consecutive summers we’ve appeared undercooked. Players not getting enough minutes under the belt. Players being kept on furlough until the last possible moment. Players not looking fit enough (recruitment an issue here as well as we haven’t been recruiting enough athletes). Players not getting the right type of minutes as the manager more interested in getting a result against some Premier League team’s youth team in a non contact game than preparing the players for non-league tussles.
Last year we had
Great Wakering
W*** H** youth
Harlow (fielded more of an u23 side)
Dartford (fielded more of an u23 side)
Brentford (their youth team?)
Ebbsfleet (fielded more of an u23 side)
Norwich (their youth team?)
Year before our fixtures were
Great Wakering
Hullbridge
Charlton
Canvey (fielded more of an u23 side)
Millwall
Concord
I hope we’ve learnt from the mistakes of the past as our starts have killed us the last 3 seasons. We just can’t afford to go in so undercooked again.
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Three shocking starts and three consecutive seasons where we have averaged more than twice as many points per game from November as we did before November.
There are many reasons why we’ve been poor (**waves at Ron**) but even in really poor sides it has been noticeable that we’ve started so slowly. A big part of that IMO has been the inadequacy of the pre-season programmes. For three consecutive summers we’ve appeared undercooked. Players not getting enough minutes under the belt. Players being kept on furlough until the last possible moment. Players not looking fit enough (recruitment an issue here as well as we haven’t been recruiting enough athletes). Players not getting the right type of minutes as the manager more interested in getting a result against some Premier League team’s youth team in a non contact game than preparing the players for non-league tussles.
Last year we had
Great Wakering
W*** H** youth
Harlow (fielded more of an u23 side)
Dartford (fielded more of an u23 side)
Brentford (their youth team?)
Ebbsfleet (fielded more of an u23 side)
Norwich (their youth team?)
Year before our fixtures were
Great Wakering
Hullbridge
Charlton
Canvey (fielded more of an u23 side)
Millwall
Concord
I hope we’ve learnt from the mistakes of the past as our starts have killed us the last 3 seasons. We just can’t afford to go in so undercooked again.