NZamba Legend
Deep-lying playmaker ⭐
Us being non league is like year 10 work experience. You get out as soon you can and with no intention of ever going back.
My heart says straight back. My head says 1-3yrs. So I’ve gone with the latter.
I thought the team improved under Brown in the last 6 games. With a full preseason, investment in and (hopefully) the squad in place for the start of preseason, we are giving ourselves every chance of an immediate bounce back. However, it would be remiss not to acknowledge the alarming free-fall of the last 3 seasons: that will take some effort to halt let alone turn around so dramatically as winning promotion at the first attempt.
Here’s hoping my heart wins this one...
No offence Jonny, but **** off.Enjoying the Kool Aid being drunk on this thread already. You are in disarray and the man responsible for that disarray is still helming the club.
The NL is far more difficult/competitive than when we were there and we had two Championship-quality strikers up front - plus McAnuff & Ekpiteta - and only won the division by three points. Murphy and Coulson are a solid start, but you are so, so very far away from being ready to challenge the top echelons of that division.
No offence Jonny, but **** off.
How delightful. Maybe I'm being overly cynical but you're coming off as a fan of a rival team who is reveling in our misfortune.No offence taken, Rusty. I’m just here to help you all make the painful transition from watching the likes of Collymore, Eastwood and Drewe Broughton to the plucky band of plumbers, estate agents and lollipop ladies that will make up your squad this year. Think of me as a benevolent spirit guide to your upcoming vision quest across the endless desert hellscape of the Vanarama National League.
Drewe Broughton ?..No offence taken, Rusty. I’m just here to help you all make the painful transition from watching the likes of Collymore, Eastwood and Drewe Broughton to the plucky band of plumbers, estate agents and lollipop ladies that will make up your squad this year. Think of me as a benevolent spirit guide to your upcoming vision quest across the endless desert hellscape of the Vanarama National League.
we had two Championship-quality strikers
Leyton Orient? Championship quality? Surely that's a logical contradiction?
Naturally. Which is why we sold them both immediately.
While I don't disagree you had two class strikers in Bonne and Koroma, neither really came to you with goalscoring pedigree.
Bonne was released by Colchester with an unimpressive 1 goal (against your boys) in 18 games and Koroma only had 4 in 31 games from your first season in the National League.
Obviously this is just looking at basic numbers and their performances could have been impressive otherwise (Koroma scoring a hat-trick and getting an assist as a 18 year old in your League 2 relegation season suggested he had something).
Lets hope that Matt Rush can step up and become our Koroma, and that people won't get on his back if he doesn't get great numbers in his first full season.
We’ve already done that in the last six games with PB.1/3 seasons for me. Won’t be this coming season as need to banish the loosing mentality and that won’t happen immediately.