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- 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.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Virtual Feethams
- Topic: Boston v Darlington 20/02/24
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8878
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
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Virtual Feethams
- Topic: Boston v Darlington 20/02/24
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8878
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...
- 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...
- 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’...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:26 pm
- Forum: Virtual Feethams
- Topic: Season 23/24
- Replies: 86
- Views: 41051
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.
There were glimpses from the new signings.
- 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 ...
- 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...