Knaphill

[Mark-Tommo]

As a player i'd admit ive been around abit lol

 

But ive stuck to my management commitments the last 2 years,,,apart from Sandhurst obviously. Their the first side ive left as a management role.

Albeit, on good reasons.

[shutton]

DH is a quality player when motivated. I felt Ruggs was wrong to go to Knaphill, its a poorly run club that have aspirations that are just not realistic.

[Cliff]

Another post slagging off Knaphill FC! It makes me laugh how all these people seem to know how the club is run and what their aspirations are when you have no idea whatsoever! It would be nice to know how you come to your conclusions, Are you a former member? or just completely deluded? Some of this slating is down to pure jealousy of a club who have a bright future, decent facilities etc, they just need to get over what is a difficult time and with Bailey & Ruggles they will get there.

 

By all reports Knaphill are one of the best run clubs in the CCL, one of the best grounds in division 1 with everything about the club as professional as you could wish for at step 6, they even put clubs higher then them to shame, funny how the deluded out there don't pick up on these things. Knaphill would not look out of place in the Premier Division however, matters on the pitch dictate you have to earn that right to and currently in the last two seasons they have hit a brick wall. Without doubt they are not going up this season but I'm sure in time they will rekindle that winning feeling on a regular occasion and push where they were trying to get not all that long ago.

[The Mayor Of Simpleton]

Sounds like major under-acheiving at Knaphill.

 

Is it pure bad luck or a few players not putting a shift in? If it's the former, then luck will come - if it's the latter then you need to jettison the dead-wood.

[shutton]

Cliff, you are the deluded one mate, club has been a shambles ever since first Savo and then Bob left who imho they shat on. Bob dragged the club up to where it is. The ground is average, nothing more. You can spout as much as you like, but those are the facts.

[Cliff]

Savo jumped ship then joined Eversley letting Bob down, Bob resigned due to poor results and had taken the club as far as it could after helping and guiding the club to as you say where it is today and without doubt its most successful period in modern times, does that mean shat on, I call it choice. You are also missing out one person who the club would without doubt not be where it is today, if you know the club that well you will know who I'm talking about.

 

However, new management came in then went on a 16 game unbeaten run which included 13 wins on the bounce with the same squad Bob left behind, that's facts and its called ups and downs of a football club, sorry I don't agree with you saying the club is a shambles, god knows how you come to that conclusion especially how other clubs are run unless of course your a journey man and you've witnessed them all by yourself? No club is perfect and Knaphill are no different, it just amazes me how Knaphill are massive headlines on this forum and not for the first time! must be a popular club after all or are people anti Knaphill?, jealous? Six years in senior football and its had two poor seasons, real shambles that is!!!.....

 

Where do I get my facts from? watching their games and attending AGM's like supporters of club's tend to do. Where do you get your facts from Shutton?

 

 

 

 

 

[ellers]

Knaphill is the best run club I have ever been at and despite me being bitter about being sacked, I don't think your find a better committee in this standard of football, the facilities are good, not great, if they owned the ground and had a bar and also permission to put the floodlights on when they liked, then the ground would be top notch, the aspirations of the club are a little un realistic at the moment, despite the club having a great image there is no money at the club to compete at a higher standard and with current CCL 1 clubs who have healthy budgets, Dave Freeman works his socks off to get sponsorship in and this should be applauded, I think a lot of the negativity is from players and others that have left recently and that is because they had worked there socks off in pre season and 6 games in they needed to find a another club.

 

For the club to succeed you need to do things correctly and be honest with each other, Ruggles and Co have not had a good start and feed back I have from players and people who are still at the club is that they need to get new recruits of quality in ASAP, how ever that is hard at this time of the season but not impossible.

 

The club is a very well run club, they need to have a realistic 2-3 year plan to get promoted and once promoted they will need to be patient and start to build a squad that can compete at the top end of the table.

 

Ok that's my opinion of the club and I'm not bitter anymore and I think I will move on.

 

Good luck to Knaphill for the rest of the season.

[bobuk]

Ellers do you honestly believe you would of turned around? If yes why has the board not backed you I have checked the results from your reign and this was your only bad spell surely there was something else in it other than results?

[duncs]

I think and its only my opinion that Knaphill have made everything they do public as if they are a Premiership club and I don't think that at this level you need to bring a manager in who doesn't know the first thing about the club and then let him bring in all of his mates,the new manager has a massive job on his hands and he needs to be in contact with the players who have the club at heart I know of loads of players who would go back if they were asked,my advice to Knaphill is stop trying to run before you can walk also on the ground(I have been there several times) its ok but thats it its not a Wembley or South Park its just an average place for this standard

[Doorknob]

I think and its only my opinion that Knaphill have made everything they do public as if they are a Premiership club and I don't think that at this level you need to bring a manager in who doesn't know the first thing about the club and then let him bring in all of his mates,the new manager has a massive job on his hands and he needs to be in contact with the players who have the club at heart I know of loads of players who would go back if they were asked,my advice to Knaphill is stop trying to run before you can walk also on the ground(I have been there several times) its ok but thats it its not a Wembley or South Park its just an average place for this standard

 

WRONG!! Knaphill have not made anything public. It went wrong when players were allowed to slag the club off on social network sites, when the manager thought himself as one of the "lads" (a manager needs to manage and not be mates with the players). As an outsider looking in it did not look to good, embarrasing.

[ellers]

What's Embarassing Knob, having a twitter account, how comes no one said anything last season when we turned the club round, the lack of your knowledge with regards to my management style and my private life astounds me.

 

As for being mates with the players that's a ridiculous statement, I have never socialised with any of the players at Knaphill except Redders, I only know the London boys from Bedfonts Sports and Jim and Matt Ward were at Bedfont Town and moved to Feltham with Potts and that's how we signed them, I don't know how old you are Knob but social network is nothing but BANTER, end of, tweeting does not stop you performing on the pitch, the one thing I will tell you is that my sessions which were run by my coaches were second to none, the teams we lost to are now all top 6-7 and we should of won at least 3 of the games, we were without a striker for the first 7 games and that was a big factor in us not winning games.

 

I truly believe we would of turned things around as we were signing Ruggles and One other that week but I was not given a chance to turn around a bad run.

 

Under my stewardship the squad was strong the reserves were looking strong too, the youth was decent which is down to Gary who has done a good job, but now they have to rebuild again to turn things around.

 

I wish them luck.

[duncs]

What's Embarassing Knob, having a twitter account, how comes no one said anything last season when we turned the club round, the lack of your knowledge with regards to my management style and my private life astounds me.

 

As for being mates with the players that's a ridiculous statement, I have never socialised with any of the players at Knaphill except Redders, I only know the London boys from Bedfonts Sports and Jim and Matt Ward were at Bedfont Town and moved to Feltham with Potts and that's how we signed them, I don't know how old you are Knob but social network is nothing but BANTER, end of, tweeting does not stop you performing on the pitch, the one thing I will tell you is that my sessions which were run by my coaches were second to none, the teams we lost to are now all top 6-7 and we should of won at least 3 of the games, we were without a striker for the first 7 games and that was a big factor in us not winning games.

 

I truly believe we would of turned things around as we were signing Ruggles and One other that week but I was not given a chance to turn around a bad run.

 

Under my stewardship the squad was strong the reserves were looking strong too, the youth was decent which is down to Gary who has done a good job, but now they have to rebuild again to turn things around.

 

I wish them luck.

not buying it Ellers you were sacked because the club was heading in the wrong direction (same as happened to me at cove)it don't matter what excuses you come out with you weren't up to it full stop.

[Brunty.]

Played there for a short time and I'd say that from a players side ... training, warm up, facilities, pitch ,physio, match day program , website all up there with the best of both leagues. don't know how the club is run behind the scenes so can't comment but very professional from a players point of view.

[ellers]

Ellers do you honestly believe you would of turned around? If yes why has the board not backed you I have checked the results from your reign and this was your only bad spell surely there was something else in it other than results?

 

Definitely believe I would of turned it around, what people don't see is what we was trying to do rectify the problem.

[ellers]

Duncs obviously you have a problem with me, don't know why, however do you think 6 games is enough time to judge.

 

Was you at the Ash game in the Vase?

[duncs]

Do you know something that really fecks me off and that is so called Chairmen who bring in people who know feck all about a club and its players and let them bring in their mates and are then disgruntled when the man they bought in leaves or gets the sack and low and behold takes all of his mates with him,then they expect some poor sod to work miracles and get them back to where they were 2 or 3 seasons ago overnight,sorry but we are only managers not fecking miracle workers

[ellers]

DoorKnob, that's not my twitter account that's Dave Freemans, players can write what they like how can I stop them.

 

Again you really don't know me at all, players dictating the team! I will never be dictated too, nor would my coaches, as for a mole that was players getting upset with MilfHunter and believed he was someone from Knaphill.

 

We can use Twitter as an excuse, but I do not agree.

 

Anyway hopefully in the future I will get the chance to manage in the league again and I will bring you and Duncs in as my assistant and were piss the league.

 

 

[duncs]

Duncs obviously you have a problem with me, don't know why, however do you think 6 games is enough time to judge.

 

Was you at the Ash game in the Vase?

What I have no problem with you I don't even know you I am just telling you the truth, looks like I wouldn't be in the starting line up then

[ellers]

Duncs I agree with what you say there especially with CcL 1 teams, but if you have a budget in a higher league the exodus isn't so dramatic.

[Redrup No2]

Yea DK put these tweets up because id like to see this. The relationship Phil and the coaching staff had with the players was different class. We lost too Mole Valley, Eversley, South Kilburn and Epsom all top 6. Like Duncs said results don't lie and you can't argue that but with that squad we had we would of turnt it Around, we wouldn't of got promoted but I would of strongly fancied us for promotion next year.