Harry Bullocks
President⭐⭐
Especially Harry who left them in the lurch to join Pompey
And Barry "Judas" Fry....of course
Especially Harry who left them in the lurch to join Pompey
The way I read it is that he's put the pressure onto the home games, by saying we need 3 home wins from 3. I think that's sensible because:What planet is he on ? A process ? Gradual ? We only have 6 games left !!!!!
If these are his words he sounds a bit thick
https://www.southendunited.co.uk/ne...-is-the-biggest-factor-that-we-need-to-build/
Our problems began during the Championship season, by having players on big contracts, which were beyond our means.
Sound familiar?
Those problems evolved when we dropped down a division, but continued to sign players, on decent money, desperately gambling to try and get straight back to the championship. Which we failed to do.
And unfortunately the very next season, we felt the strain of those wages, and couldn’t afford to pay them anymore. So we didn’t
Currently, we have several first teamers who are on ridiculous wages, just as we had back in 2007.
I’m worried that for financial reasons, Martin has to keep this club at this level, at all costs.
I’d have had more faith in him, if he’d clearly set out a plan for our immediate & mid-term future, but he hasn’t done so.
It’s for this reason, that I’m concerned he hasn’t learned his lesson, and if we drop down, he will simply TRY and throw more money at it, in the hope we can bounce straight back up.
Do we several first teamers on ridiculous wages though? The only one I can think of that may fall into that bracket is Kightly
Do we several first teamers on ridiculous wages though? The only one I can think of that may fall into that bracket is Kightly
I thought he explained himself well. Kidology only gets you so far and he explained exactly how and why confidence building IS a process. I’d rather he approached it rationally and pragmatically then just tell everyone it’ll be fine. The team’s confidence is clearly at rock bottom, but his comments are focussed on building from the very first game. Good on him once again.It's more than possible to inject confidence and motivate short term, plenty of managers have done this before. Sounds like a kop out to me, if we had 12 games to go i'd agree with him but his job is to lift confidence now not in 3-4 weeks time, it will be too late then.
“Confidence is the biggest factor that we need to build and really that only comes with a result, a clean sheet; those sort of things.
“We need to try and get through the game without conceding a goal, get a point, get three points, give ourselves something to build from if we can.
“It’s a process that we aren’t going to be good or great overnight, it’s going to be a gradual thing.
“While they’re all good lads and they’re all together, it’s human nature that a run of poor results becomes wary.
“We need to address that, get something from somewhere in our next game and build from that to get the lads confident.
Having Harry here is only a positive as:
- we are outside the transfer window so he can't spend
- we have plenty of coaches already so there's no need for him to get involved in that and want to try out Premiership ideas on non-Premiership players
- but what we do need is a motivator and he can certainly do that
- once he's gone I can get him in SUEPA
Do still need to sort out my lift with hin though to the remaining matches ........
Our problems began during the Championship season, by having players on big contracts, which were beyond our means.
Sound familiar?
Those problems evolved when we dropped down a division, but continued to sign players, on decent money, desperately gambling to try and get straight back to the championship. Which we failed to do.
And unfortunately the very next season, we felt the strain of those wages, and couldn’t afford to pay them anymore. So we didn’t
Currently, we have several first teamers who are on ridiculous wages, just as we had back in 2007.
I’m worried that for financial reasons, Martin has to keep this club at this level, at all costs.
I’d have had more faith in him, if he’d clearly set out a plan for our immediate & mid-term future, but he hasn’t done so.
It’s for this reason, that I’m concerned he hasn’t learned his lesson, and if we drop down, he will simply TRY and throw more money at it, in the hope we can bounce straight back up.
If it’s to be believed that we have the fifth highest wage bill in this league, then yes, I’d say we must have, no?
At a guess, I’d suggest that;
- Kightly, Cox & Kiernan would be the biggest earners.
- Oxley, Mac, Coker, Turner & maybe Lennon would be on above average wages, and not far behind the top 3.
- Hendrie, Demi, Hyam, Hopper, Humphrys, Robinson, Barratt & Mantom would probably be on average Lg1 wages
And the also-rans would fall below the average wage.
Pretty much every club in the prem/football league is spending beyond its means and what you say could apply to every football club who get relegated.
Just because we have the 5th highest wage bill - and you have to take into account we'll be paying a lot more than northern teams due to cost of living - doesn't mean we have several players on ridiculous wages
—those 3 (NOT Kightly) are probably our 3 best players.Kiernan, Cox and Oxley are also allegedly high earners.
—those 3 (NOT Kightly) are probably our 3 best players.
Eh? Are you suggesting that because everyone else is doing it, so it’s ok for us to do it?
No, it explained why your parallel could apply to almost any club who get relegated.