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by H1987
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:50 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Darlo V Scunthorpe
Replies: 72
Views: 7196

Re: Darlo V Scunthorpe

We can’t… can we? This would be the greatest of great escapes. I thought we were dead and buried but this is incredible.
by H1987
Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:07 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Boston v Darlington 20/02/24
Replies: 102
Views: 8877

Re: Boston v Darlington 20/02/24

Also, that vile Hartlepool-ish away kit needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Just as much to blame for our relegation as Gowling ;)
by H1987
Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:07 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Boston v Darlington 20/02/24
Replies: 102
Views: 8877

Re: Boston v Darlington 20/02/24

Sick and tired of saying it but we are asking players to play in positions that don't suit them. Nelson and Main would be best suited in a two up front formation, not all this someone in the hole bollocks that we seem to have persisted with for nearly a year under 3 managers, when it doesn't work w...
by H1987
Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:26 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Blue card & sin bins
Replies: 38
Views: 2043

Re: Blue card & sin bins

The deterrent of yellow cards hasn’t been enough - primarily because they are not handed out nearly enough or quite often officials don’t hand them out to players already booked as they don’t want the drama. The way around that is normalising it and telling people you’re doing it within the existing...
by H1987
Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:13 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Blood on hands/heads must roll
Replies: 180
Views: 12008

Re: Blood on hands/heads must roll

Think we are going around in circles here. Ultimately, Armstrong is responsible for his failures, Gowling for his. Decision makers should be responsible for theirs. Tommy Wright - disaster Two year contract extension for AA - disaster Gowling - disaster We’ve then got the ‘dubious’. The stuff I won’...
by H1987
Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:37 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Blue card & sin bins
Replies: 38
Views: 2043

Re: Blue card & sin bins

I share Postecoglu's view on this. If you introduced it, the absolute shithousery of time-wasting that would ensue in the time the player is 'sin-binned' would be horrendous. For me, the institutionalised time-wasting that has become endemic in the game is absolutely awful and the thing I dislike mo...
by H1987
Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Blood on hands/heads must roll
Replies: 180
Views: 12008

Re: Blood on hands/heads must roll

Those mentioning that AA was hard done by, and you could be right, but I had heard that he was not really getting involved in the training, and involved in his sons move from Harrogate, (true or not? I dont know), but more importantly for me he looked a down, and a beaten man on the interviews in t...
by H1987
Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:23 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Blood on hands/heads must roll
Replies: 180
Views: 12008

Re: Blood on hands/heads must roll

Just had a read over some of the twitter fallouts (I lurk rather than post on there). The keeper coach should be shown the door. Regardless of the agreement (and I think that's an insane agreement to have, I don't see how you can masquerade as a coach when you aren't prepared to go to the matches o...
by H1987
Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Blood on hands/heads must roll
Replies: 180
Views: 12008

Re: Blood on hands/heads must roll

Just had a read over some of the twitter fallouts (I lurk rather than post on there). The keeper coach should be shown the door. Regardless of the agreement (and I think that's an insane agreement to have, I don't see how you can masquerade as a coach when you aren't prepared to go to the matches of...
by H1987
Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:31 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Boost the Budget
Replies: 44
Views: 20564

Re: Boost the Budget

Think it’s a personal choice tbh. I’m not putting more in personally, as I think the reason we are in this position is poor decisions made by the club management. That’s bad for Watson and it’s nothing like his fault, but I’m personally not ok with bailing out someone else’s mistake. If Watson can w...
by H1987
Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:25 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Marske United
Replies: 64
Views: 39393

Re: Marske United

I don’t really understand that part, surely the right thing to do is limp through to the end of the season with whatever you can put on the field (which probably gets you relegated if you have to cut cloth dramatically) and take the relegation. Pulling out of the league should land you as low in the...
by H1987
Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: New Assistant Manager
Replies: 38
Views: 20722

Re: New Assistant Manager

The reception is positive, much as it would have been if these two were appointed months ago. Which they should have been.
by H1987
Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:45 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: JG sacked
Replies: 65
Views: 25297

Re: JG sacked

Said it before and I’ll say it again, sacking AA during the season was a crap decision. If we parted in the summer I would have shrugged my shoulders and got on with it. During the season at this level it’s so tough to change things. In that sense, despite thinking he never should’ve had the job in ...
by H1987
Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:39 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Who next?
Replies: 317
Views: 171010

Re: Who next?

Would Steve Watson want the job? Would Martin Gray? They’re more than likely going to get a relegation on their CV. It’s a complete disaster.
by H1987
Mon Oct 30, 2023 5:52 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: GOWLING OUT
Replies: 224
Views: 54807

Re: GOWLING OUT

I genuinely believe we would have picked up more points than this current mess. It’s not an insane compliment, given what the results have been. Rehiring him would obviously be bonkers, but I cannot believe the new manager wasn’t mandated to work with what he has, given the circumstances.
by H1987
Mon Oct 30, 2023 5:46 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Tommy Taylor
Replies: 137
Views: 42706

Re: Tommy Taylor

Robson has gone back. No improvement at all and probably didn’t do much for the young lads confidence either. An absolute shocker of a loan.
by H1987
Mon Oct 30, 2023 5:13 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: GOWLING OUT
Replies: 224
Views: 54807

Re: GOWLING OUT

I don’t think anyone is advocating for AA’s return. I would personally either have gone another way preseason *or* allowed this season - perhaps unless we got into a situation with maybe 10 games to go or whatever and we felt an experienced head/motivator would have been useful in a relegation battl...
by H1987
Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:19 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: GOWLING OUT
Replies: 224
Views: 54807

Re: GOWLING OUT

bear in mind, we have an extremely limited, fan-funded budget We have a top half / bottom end of playoffs budget, but I think you know this but just ignore it whenever it has been mentioned before. a group of badly organised and motivated players lacking belief and fight. A decent manager should be...
by H1987
Sun Oct 29, 2023 2:59 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: GOWLING OUT
Replies: 224
Views: 54807

Re: GOWLING OUT

Yeah, I don't accept the squad was ever that bad. This is a squad that is broadly similar to a side that was topping the table 9 months ago. Mark Beck is not Lionel Messi and Dodds isn't Roberto Carlos. It was (and still is, as a lot are still here) a group of badly organised and motivated players l...
by H1987
Sun Oct 29, 2023 12:47 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Tommy Taylor
Replies: 137
Views: 42706

Re: Tommy Taylor

This decision continues to look the worst of all. Taylor is a perfectly solid NLN keeper. Replacing him with a young kid was, and remains, absolutely barmy. The way it has been done has probably also completely undermined Gowling’s authority if he brings him back.
by H1987
Sun Oct 29, 2023 12:45 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: GOWLING OUT
Replies: 224
Views: 54807

Re: GOWLING OUT

To be honest, I’m very much not at the reactionary end of the fanbase, and I’m that alarmed by Gowling’s changes that if it isn’t prohibitively expensive for the club, I would consider cutting our losses. The entire approach alarms me. This is not how you fight a relegation battle.
by H1987
Sun Oct 29, 2023 12:13 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: GOWLING OUT
Replies: 224
Views: 54807

Re: GOWLING OUT

But you did say you didn’t want to get rid of Armstrong. He won a pathetic 3 of his last 25 games in charge. The mistake was not getting rid of him at the end of last season, and allowing him to spend a record BTB on poor players. At least then if a new manager was appointed in May/June they could ...
by H1987
Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:45 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: GOWLING OUT
Replies: 224
Views: 54807

Re: GOWLING OUT

I have approximately 0 faith in this new management team. I am probably biased though, because I didn’t want us to get rid of AA. I think it’s got to be nigh-on desperation to get rid of a manager mid-season at our level. It’s so difficult to rebuild a squad and to change tactics while only seeing p...
by H1987
Sun Oct 15, 2023 12:29 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Kings Lyn
Replies: 111
Views: 27778

Re: Kings Lyn

Further to my above post, I saw absolutely nothing that suggests I would be prepared to boost the budget *again* for the new manager. For me, as a bare minimum, he needs to prove he can get some results out of a squad that is largely proven at this level. I’m not talking about major success, but tho...
by H1987
Sun Oct 15, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Kings Lyn
Replies: 111
Views: 27778

Re: Kings Lyn

I’ve largely been an absentee fan this year. Was only my second game of the year this season, and that’s after the opening day (although obviously I watch our highlights but you don’t always get the full match picture from them). I’m troubled by what I saw, to be honest. I wasn’t sold on giving Alun...
by H1987
Wed Sep 13, 2023 10:46 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Alun has been sacked
Replies: 330
Views: 67881

Re: Alun has been sacked

1 thing I am 100% sure of is that no "owner" ever has spent the relatively low cost required on a yearly basis to keep the place up to a standard where major problems could not set in. That was expressed by experts as being between £75,000 and £100,000 over the first 10 year period, ie £7,500-£10,0...
by H1987
Wed Aug 09, 2023 9:06 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Darlington united
Replies: 58
Views: 14492

Re: Darlington united

Shocked by this totally unexpected turn of events. It has happened comically sooner than even I thought possible though.
by H1987
Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:26 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Season 23/24
Replies: 86
Views: 41050

Re: Season 23/24

I am, by nature optimistic. We can still aim for a playoff spot. Thank Christ we only have to play Curzon at home once.

There were glimpses from the new signings.
by H1987
Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:25 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Marcus Maddison interview in the Non League Paper
Replies: 49
Views: 10862

Re: Marcus Maddison interview in the Non League Paper

Wholly deserved. I’m not sure I like this ‘mental health card’ stuff btw. Lots of people do have very genuine mental health problems. Marcus Maddison may even have at different stages. It’s not really related to this thuggery though. The guys an absolute cretin. Most young people would kill for the ...
by H1987
Mon Jul 24, 2023 11:13 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Abuse at Scarborough
Replies: 252
Views: 35129

Re: Abuse at Scarborough

The Echo website is a cesspit. The least said about it the better. :thumbdown: Seems to consist of about ten or so very angry, very aggressive people. Frankly, comments should be turned off. There’s no need for it. As an aside to that, the website is borderline unusable on a mobile device due to th...