Shrimper
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Why did we appoint Kevin Bond instead of a proper manager?
I'm shocked sacking Powell changed nothing, just shocked. Who could have seen that happening?...
Why did we appoint Kevin Bond instead of a proper manager?
I'm shocked sacking Powell changed nothing, just shocked. Who could have seen that happening?...
Powell signed a lot of these wasters (Dieng and Mantom spring to mind immediately). He absolutely deserved to get sacked. Get over it.
With us having 4 players not playing in the midfield it would be 7 against 10 so more fair?We’d still lose to them with 10 men.
Allegedly 30 applicants... and one of those could have been me.Oh come on, there were over 30 applicants! We would have had plenty of other options. My gut is that Ron went for the 'Harry Redknapp's mate' showbiz factor. TBF I doubt anyone could keep this bunch up but I do feel Bond was a poor choice.
Exactly. It's Powell's anonymous, characterless midfield that is the main reason for our struggles. It's just a black hole without an ounce of fight, creativity or leadership. A poor team like Wycombe were made to look good by our gutless inability to compete. Summed up by Manton giving up on a ball that hadn't even gone out of play when he turned his back on it.Powell signed a lot of these wasters (Dieng and Mantom spring to mind immediately). He absolutely deserved to get sacked. Get over it.
League 2 is just dire dross week in week out. At least League 1 we had a few big games and could get some better players (allegedly).
League 2 squad will be youth with a few journeymen
Completely not true today. Wycombe pushed forward the entire game, we played like the away team and were absolutely hopeless, so that disproves you theory. It is very much in the mindset.....It's not a mental thing, it's because away sides typically sit back. We don't have any creative midfielders and so we are completely nullified when there isn't space to play (which there sometimes is in away matches because the other side pushes up field).
Completely not true today. Wycombe pushed forward the entire game, we played like the away team and were absolutely hopeless, so that disproves you theory. It is very much in the mindset.....
But people said things would improve and anyone could do better?
Hmm. It's as if sacking him was a waste of time and the real issue is tge shysters we have masquerading as Southend players
Ricky Duncan and Kev where shouting at the midfield to get moving forward and faster right from the start against Wombles.Agree. I noted a specific point in the game - about 30-odd minutes in - that we had just successfully defended a corner, where the ball had gone back into Wycombe’s half, Instead of our midfield pushing up, we sat back and gave them a chasm of space, across the entire middle of the pitch, which effectively invited them to attack again.
That’s definitely a petrified mindset. A mindset which has beseeched us over the last few months.
The thing is, I thought that mindset was Chris Powell’s fault? And yet, he hasn’t been near the team for weeks....
Ricky Duncan and Kev where shouting at the midfield to get moving forward and faster right from the start against Wombles.
Bond was shouting the same yesterday from early on.......BUT the players wouldn't or couldn't do it.
We see it, the management see it but only they can do something about by substitutes etc BUT it is 3 months too late.
With a centre mid of Kiernan, who's a yard off the pace and looks like his feet are made of cement, and Dieng, who I don't think's run faster than a trot all season, what do they expect?
Play the same old **** players, get the same old **** result. Why's Dru not given a chance? Dru And Hyam (if fit), if not Mantom next week please.
Bond TBF hasn't been here long, yet still sounded utterly bemused by just how bad we were yesterday. Has he not watched videos of our recent home games at least? Maher/Duncan have been here all season and should know better.
Usually by Sunday night I've calmed down after each **** perfomance, I'm still fuming right now.
Why do they see it and still insist on playing the culprits ahead of Yearwood. How Bond deemed a McLaughlin who has struggled to find any sort of form all season and a young player completely out of his depth as more appropriate substitutions than Yearwood is beyond belief.Ricky Duncan and Kev where shouting at the midfield to get moving forward and faster right from the start against Wombles.
Bond was shouting the same yesterday from early on.......BUT the players wouldn't or couldn't do it.
We see it, the management see it but only they can do something about by substitutes etc BUT it is 3 months too late.
Ricky Duncan and Kev where shouting at the midfield to get moving forward and faster right from the start against Wombles.
Bond was shouting the same yesterday from early on.......BUT the players wouldn't or couldn't do it.
We see it, the management see it but only they can do something about by substitutes etc BUT it is 3 months too late.
I'm shocked sacking Powell changed nothing, just shocked. Who could have seen that happening?...