Hammo
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I often struggle to comprehend views of football fans in general.
The problem is we are all better managers than any current manager in the world when we make comments with hindsight.
I think if we as fans are willing to accept Bailey has gone because he wanted out then we have to accept that replacing him like for like may never happen.
Gower has been a solid performer in the first XI for years and likewise a replacement just isn't going to happen overnight.
I think with the club building Fossetts it could in some areas cloud perceptions of ambition, current and future directions that we are heading.
The team now has to mould again and work as a unit which Steve Tilson has been so brilliant at getting us to do in recent years. Most of you indeed support Steve Tilson and rightly so. As in an ideal world he would not have been in a position to sell such influential players!
Fossetts suggests that Ron wishes to go places and I have no doubts he does. But I think the development there is something that should be left to one side at the moment and is much more of a bargaining tool for potential staff in a few years time.
I am guessing that he is working towards a long term plan. As he said, if we don't get promotion this year he deems it a failure. That sure is ambition! That is great to hear that from our chairman. However, when the club sells players that Steve has based a team around it makes on the field business very difficult and achieving success and maintaining it is a damn site harder.
That is perhaps why he said (according to J) that changes would be made if promotion is not achieved and not necessarily with management. But then again you wouldn't put that burden onto a manager and his team at the beginning of a season would you?
I don't think we should be worrying at the moment. Nor do I think promotion is essential. I can't believe that is expected by the actions that the board have taken by accepting bids for our team. If the club are operating at a loss then it is clear to me that by offloading some of the club's highest earner and entering Fossetts playing League 1 football with perhaps the best stadium in the division will soon start to turn around the fortunes of the club's financial position off the pitch which in turn could result in a more successful Southend United Football Club in perhaps 5 or 10 years down the line.
Ofcourse you go on what you see now. But Steve Tilson only has what he is given at his disposal and by all accounts its perhaps not as strong a team as in recent years with the team lacking a couple of real quality players.
Don't panic Mr Mannering.
Ron + Tilly will look after us!
Hammo
The problem is we are all better managers than any current manager in the world when we make comments with hindsight.
I think if we as fans are willing to accept Bailey has gone because he wanted out then we have to accept that replacing him like for like may never happen.
Gower has been a solid performer in the first XI for years and likewise a replacement just isn't going to happen overnight.
I think with the club building Fossetts it could in some areas cloud perceptions of ambition, current and future directions that we are heading.
The team now has to mould again and work as a unit which Steve Tilson has been so brilliant at getting us to do in recent years. Most of you indeed support Steve Tilson and rightly so. As in an ideal world he would not have been in a position to sell such influential players!
Fossetts suggests that Ron wishes to go places and I have no doubts he does. But I think the development there is something that should be left to one side at the moment and is much more of a bargaining tool for potential staff in a few years time.
I am guessing that he is working towards a long term plan. As he said, if we don't get promotion this year he deems it a failure. That sure is ambition! That is great to hear that from our chairman. However, when the club sells players that Steve has based a team around it makes on the field business very difficult and achieving success and maintaining it is a damn site harder.
That is perhaps why he said (according to J) that changes would be made if promotion is not achieved and not necessarily with management. But then again you wouldn't put that burden onto a manager and his team at the beginning of a season would you?
I don't think we should be worrying at the moment. Nor do I think promotion is essential. I can't believe that is expected by the actions that the board have taken by accepting bids for our team. If the club are operating at a loss then it is clear to me that by offloading some of the club's highest earner and entering Fossetts playing League 1 football with perhaps the best stadium in the division will soon start to turn around the fortunes of the club's financial position off the pitch which in turn could result in a more successful Southend United Football Club in perhaps 5 or 10 years down the line.
Ofcourse you go on what you see now. But Steve Tilson only has what he is given at his disposal and by all accounts its perhaps not as strong a team as in recent years with the team lacking a couple of real quality players.
Don't panic Mr Mannering.
Ron + Tilly will look after us!
Hammo