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Surely one of the purposes of having a reserve team is to give fringe players, or those coming back from injury, a run out. I may be wrong, but I do not think that has happened on a regular basis this season. Any other way of running a reserve set up is potentially divisive, as it creates a two team mentality. By their nature not many reserve teams are settled sides. Are we saying Slough reserves are just an over age youth team, if so we are looking at this from totally the wrong view point.

 

 

I think we've covered this area before but as far as I'm aware the reserve team was set up as the link to bring players through from the under 18's/youth set-up acting as the bridge from boys football to mens football and not to drop players down from the first team.

 

1st team players who are not getting a game and are in need of minutes are usually loaned out or dual registered with another team.

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It is possible to argue that three successive play offs equals success.---------it is also possible to say that it represents failure in terms of not progressing

 

But on whichever basis not reaching the play offs this year must surely be regarded as a failure..........assuming we dont make them !

 

 

I think SB has also been quoted in the papers as saying that 'not to reach play offs, although not terminal, would be a failure'.

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I think we all need to put life into perspective, there is another word for terminal which is far worse. Just because we dont get into the playoff's this year so what, we are still have a football club that is the main thing.

 

Think of the great time we had in the F A cup, it was the same team that gave us that enjoyment and I loved every minute of it.

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I also enjoyed Corinthian, Lingfield, Eastbourne, Margate (especially that one) Gosport (twice) and then of course Mansfield anyone that was there will tell you what a fantastic day it was and the replay was bloody brilliant as well. Not bad going out to a team near the top of their division on penalties.

 

Not a bad season at all really when you look at it.

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the FA cup run was superb and produced so many memories but unfortunately all the talk when we lost to Mansfield was that we will now go and win the league which frustratingly we have gone nowhere close to doing. can understand both opinions in that it has been a good or bad season certainly could have been much better or worse.

 

ironically at the time of playing Mansfield their fans couldn't be much more negative in their opinions to where their season was going and what their manager was capable of and yet now they look like they will go and win the BSP and return to the football league. crazy how quickly things can change in football

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I also enjoyed Corinthian, Lingfield, Eastbourne, Margate (especially that one) Gosport (twice) and then of course Mansfield anyone that was there will tell you what a fantastic day it was and the replay was bloody brilliant as well. Not bad going out to a team near the top of their division on penalties.

 

Not a bad season at all really when you look at it.

No one is saying it wasn't a good cup run or the fact that they played well against higher opposition, but which would you rather have a cup run or promotion ? ( still waiting for that apology by the way )

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No one is saying it wasn't a good cup run or the fact that they played well against higher opposition, but which would you rather have a cup run or promotion ? ( still waiting for that apology by the way )

 

That's it in a nutshell, Hotspur, at the start of the season if we were choosing between a good cup run and promotion. 95% of us would have said promotion.It now seems that the goalposts have moved and it is the cup run,that certain supporters want.

 

It doesn't bother me,if we don't get promoted,as this division has a lot of local derbies and thus it is less travelling and so saves petrol and costs.

 

It does bother me,though,that the standard of football is quite poor. Given Slough's proud history and that most of our supporters remember Conference football and if not that, Ryman Premier football, then can someone answer why, our all around good guy/Chairman is spending his hard earned cash on a team that is not fulfiling it's potential.

If we don't want promotion, we might as well have saved a lot of money and slashed the budget Steve B has had this season,to start to build a team from scratch ie younger less experienced players and players coming to the end of their football career.

 

Is three time play-off losers,success? This season looks like we are not going to make the play-offs. I sincerely hope we do but things are beginning to look bleak.

 

In the big scheme of things,football is just a silly game and doesn't matter a jot. Most of us go there to escape our boring lives and our tedious jobs for 90 minutes of entertainment plus at non-league level it is supposed to be a grounded,honest experience,where people play not just for monetary rewards but for trying to reach higher than their talent allows

Burnham to their credit have ....so far.....over-achieved. Slough, I'm afraid,...so far have under-achieved, no matter how you dress it up.

 

However a post script to this note is that, perhaps the cup run is a blessing in disguise given that the petition is growing.

The club's profile has risen from out of the shadows, by Slough getting into in the first round of the FA Cup.

So perhaps Steve Bateman will be a lucky manager because of this achievement.

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Yes, the cup run this season was good for us on so many fronts (with regards to getting none regular supporters / followers 'talking' about Slough Town FC again). I mean, down my local, around the time of the Mansfield game, people were talking about Slough Town and not Premier League / Championship. From then onwards (after the Mansfield game) my drunken conversations with these people included Slough Town (I got like, how did they get on yesterday / theyre playing in the week (and knowing who we were playing) / oh, theyve got Burnham on boxing day, I'm going to that.....), so it was good to diverse from their normal premier league football talk.

 

OK, what I am trying to say (poorly) is that the FA Cup run got people in the town talking about the Rebels again (even people who I know used to follow us in the Wexham Park days).

 

Saying that, on the flip side, I personally dont see these none regulars turning up each week whilst we are stuck in this division. People have short memories, like anything, only turn up when teams are doing well.

 

Take Reading for example (on a bigger scale granted), when we played them in the FA Cup in the early 90s (ok they were at Elm Park) but they averaged around 6k a game, but now they have nearly 20k a home game. Where we these fans every week.

 

Burnham, probably having their highest average gate this season than ever, why, because they are doing well.

 

I do think people will be more interested in following the Rebels if we (a) are playing a higher level of football ( b ) actually playing it in SLOUGH.

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I'm loosing the will now !!

 

3 spirit, it you mean me as one of the fans who has moved the goal posts etc etc, I was just pointing out that we had a good cup run, that I enjoyed, so the season wasnt all bad !

 

Hotspur, you have the advantage on me as I dont know who you are but you as a regular supportermust know where I am at home games. Come and see me tomorrow, convince me you are not "Hotspur2" and I will apologise !!

 

 

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THE MAN IN THE ARENA

 

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

 

Theodore Roosevelt

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