Please help my club

[Guest Reardon was God]

Well I won't say I told you so,it's been on the cards since the Witney game.Playing Daly, who in his time was a fair player, but sadly now is a has been, is a major step backwards,apart from the fact he never could run fast, he doesn't seem to care anymore.

Without going over old ground to much I did point out that quite a few of the players were not even up to this standard,sadly no one listened.To many small guys in one team is not good either ( unless they are all good-which they obviously are not).Have there been moves to replace Pierson and also add a bit more class to the side overall-I doubt it.And finally I did pose the question who or what success have the management acheived in the game so far to warrant the Position of Slough Town manager-I cannot find any reference to them, managering a Sunday side is not the same thing.

So come on committe please help my club and DO SOMETHING before it becomes to late.

[Chris]

I love the way you pipe-up when we lose, yet after Burnham not a word.

[Guest Reardon was God]

Originally Posted By: Chris

I love the way you pipe-up when we lose, yet after Burnham not a word.

The simple reason for that Chris is,that the regulars on here don't seem to really understand the dire straits this team will get us into-so its easier to explain to them after a defeat.Funny how no one as come on and told me the success stories of the management team at other clubs.

[Nathan]

Reardon was God, do you actually have a solution as to how to combat the oh-so-inevitable demise that you seem convinced to going to happen? If so, I'm sure we would all like to hear it.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

RWG, as you seem to know everything I assume you were around 2 years ago when we were relegated from the Ryman Premier, we stuck by the team and club despite conceding 123 goals in the league and winning just 4 games, so don't start going on about how us regulars don't know what can happen if the things go bad!

[richierebel]

Where to start. I have not been able to get to many games the last season and a bit due to work but have been following events on here and it seems such a shame because for once, from the outside at least we seem to be getting things right off the pitch and becoming more professional, by that i mean the management team, a fantastic website that people can sponsor the club through, a pre-season arranged in advance, the same squad of players to play in them rather than bringing in lots of trialists, the stall in the observatory, links with local paper and radio.

Then we get a result like that. That can really set things back, yes we have got 128 or so season tickets sold and the money is there for them, but the floating supporter wont come to games if they see we are back to the bad old days of being a laughing stock and getting thumped.

 

Yes it is just one result but things need to be looked at on the pitch if all this hard work behind the scenes isnt going to go to waste.

[Chris]

Reardon was God, you actually have some valid points in some posts. I totally agree with you about having too smaller players. I think in this league you need tough, tall players to do well. I also agree with you about not being able to get some more players in the team. We should be able to get certain players ahead of the likes of local teams like Burnham, Hillingdon, Northwood etc (all of which have similar budgets) by selling the fact you will have support at home and away and if you are doing well at Slough the fans will support you in numbers. I disagree with you about Sweetman though.

 

However, it's the way you go about it. Your posts are quite arrogant and come accross like 'I'm right again' and you only seem to pipe-up when we have a bad result.

[Reading Rebel]

Originally Posted By: Anonymous

Originally Posted By: Chris

I love the way you pipe-up when we lose, yet after Burnham not a word.

The simple reason for that Chris is,that the regulars on here don't seem to really understand the dire straits this team will get us into-so its easier to explain to them after a defeat.Funny how no one as come on and told me the success stories of the management team at other clubs.

RWG, I think you already know the answers to your questions but in defence, they were cheap (within budget) and hopefully they were the best choice of the applicants.

[Barry Scott]

Sorry, but I agree with everything Mr God has said so far. This club has been going into the toilet for the last three seasons and no-one has done a damned thing about it and here we are, a new season and the mindless sheep that follow this club swallow the club's line that it's going to be okay soon. We survived last season on a technicality, and if things don't improve considerably very soon, there'll be no reprieves and we'll have a shiny new stadium (yeah, like that will happen) to grace the dregs of county football. And you know what, that's exactly what this [****!!****] town deserves

[GlenW]

i wouldnt say its mindless sheep syndrome. Okay thing havent been good for a long time, dont lets crucify the club or management over one bad result. I still dont believe its as bad as last season and sweetman is not the sort of manager im sure who will tolerate the same sort of performance or result again.

Its just sad i know a lot of people are upset but to vent anger on the management after so much positive things that have been happenning is insane.

Its easy to be a supporter riding on success but to continue to give your support when things are difficult is harder.

Also i know players having a go at each other isnt always pleasant but i would be more worried if they were silent at least it shows they care.

[Barry Scott]

no, it IS mindless sheep syndrome because this club IS in trouble and yet most people on here seem content to slag off anyone who dares speak ill of the people running the club, like Slough Town FC is a sacred deity which is beyond reproach and criticism. When most people I talk to say that we have a decent first eleven and no depth in the squad (which is the general feeling people told me about pre-season), that is not a positive. When we've only won 13 league games in two seasons, had six or seven managers in three seasons and have used well over one hundred players in two seasons, that's not a positive. When NOTHING has been said about the stadium in six months (if not longer), that's not a positive. But then again, the players have been paid on time so there is ONE positive. Give me strength...

[GlenW]

well not everyone slags people off who criticise, chris said he agreed with much of what RWG said but the manner with which he expresses himself lets himself down.

IMHO the management team see to have done a lot pre-season in different initiatives, we need a few players but changing the whole team or changing the manager would only add to the long list again of players and managers, the team needs longer and more work needs to be done on defensive tactics(slough have always tended to be an attacking minded team) and defensive football is not always attractive, we need a big defender who can tackle hard.

If after 10-15 games we are still in a mess then maybe its fair to judge but fter two games of a new season its ludicrous.

[brighton_rebel]

I wasn't there last night so can't comment but Barry/Liam if you really think things off the field haven't improved dramatically then you have really lost the plot.

[Barry Scott]

Tell me these things that have changed? We have a youth team! Great, they'll be ready for our campaign in which ever park league we end up in next season! We have a stall in the Observatory? Fantastic, so people who don't care can ignore us further and those that do come along and watch the absolute [****!!****] we serve up on the pitch and never come back, what a great sales tactic! So please, tell me of all these wonderful things that have happened off the pitch that give us all great hope for the future... Actually Warren, you sound EXACTLY like Roy did last summer, funny that isn't it? What did he say "Events on the pitch don't matter, so long as the off-the-pitch stuff is in place?" Well that's really going to help when we're playing park football next season. What you people don't seem to realise is that its results on the pitch that matter and on the evidence of the last two seasons we're a [****!!****] football team with a slightly brighter future because we have a stall and some sixteen year olds. Where do I sign up for that?

[brighton_rebel]

I don't want to keep watching Slough lose week after week, it does my [****!!****] head in - and i have had enough of long trips home totally depressed. But a successful football club can't be built on sand - it needs to be run properly, which is what i believe the club are starting too do.

Shame you missed Saturday as it was a good day out and a good game of football.

Anyway, my reasons to be cheerful are below

 

http://sloughtownsoapbox.blogspot.com/2008/08/reasons-to-be-cheerful.html

[Barry Scott]

but my point is that the people running the club are signing the players and the manager and in that respect they are failing, badly. Hence our combined record for the last two years (and the two games for this season):

 

Played: 86

Won: 13

Drew: 12

Lost: 61

Goals For: 73

Goals Against: 218

Goal Difference: -145

 

So in my opinion, born out of cold hard statistics from the only tangible result of this supposedly well-run club, is that we're crap, have been for a while and well continue to be crap for the forseeable future

[Ted]

To be successful, or even to survive, any club needs to be capable both on and off the field.

 

A few seasons ago we were doing OK on the field (Walsall etc), however off the field disorganisation dragged the club down, leading to 2 seasons of on the field disasters. Off the field I really do think we have made good progress, and this should feed through to improvement on the field,but some progress needs to be made quickly.

 

Like others, I expected that we would show some improvement this season. Last night was only 1 game, but it was particularly dreadful. It is up to the manager and the players to show that last night was a blip. If they don't (and I think we need several players with some skill or passion for that to fully happen), then changes will have to be made. They do however deserve not to be hung, drawn and quartered for one abysmal game. Four or five would be another matter.

[HorshamRebel]

Cold facts - Sweets combined record is

 

Played : 10

Won : 2

Drew : 3

Lost : 5

Goals for : 10

Goals Against : 18

Goal Difference : -8

 

I wasn't there last night, so can not comment on how bad we were, but as mentioned above, Sweets will not put up with non-performances like the ones you said happened last night.

 

It is now how the players react to that debarcle, that is the important thing. If they go out on Saturday in exactly the same way, then yes we are in desperate trouble.

 

One would hope that the players will look at themselves, and say that will never happen again, and fight for every ball from now on, and yes, RWG would be right if that is doesn't stop the rot, either.

 

 

[Barry Scott]

Sweets won't put up with performances like that? In the first half we were awful, and whatever Sweets said at half time made us worse and he had no idea what to do aside from sending Gumbs on when we were already being drubbed. That is not the sign of a decent manager, more one who got the job because no-one was stupid enough to take it. Everyone on here has said he was supposed to have assembled a decent squad, but its paper thin and is full of average players who can't even do the basics like pass, tackle and mark. But I will give Sweets credit, he has assembled a team with fight... as long as that fight is with members of your own team!

[Chris]

ok lets calm down. It's ONE result. This has been the first really bad performance under Sweetman.

 

Things are not all 'doom and gloom'. Blimey were about 100x better off 'off the pitch' than we were in previous seasons and won't have to worry about the money drying up.

 

Yes, results over the last 3 seasons have been woeful, but how can you blame the manager and board for this? They have been here five minutes.

 

Facts are yesterday was bad, we need some more and better players and more competition for places and a couple of players have shown nothing since pre-season to convince me they are any good.