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come and join us

come and join us

your going the right way

 

 

sung to the tune of Salvation Army theme song.

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come and join us
come and join us
your going the right way


sung to the tune of Salvation Army theme song.

Surely that should be you're, not your.

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You question the quality and team spirit but yet your not in the dressing room and from the sounds of it you have not watched the first team train. The quality is definately there its just a question of desire and belief.Remember a lot of players have came in this summer and it has taken time for them to settle. In time it will click and im sure the quality will come through. Injuries etc have not helped the management team. I suggest you support the boys playing and try to be positive its still early days yet.... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/boxing.gif" alt="" />

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next you will be saying bring back greene, like i have for weeks. but like i also said a little birdie tells me he will be at chesham next week,crazy who we will end up with now

Heard Greene has got the Chesham job

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i told ya now we are fu..ed, certain relegation now as jesus will get even longer now as we have to find a manager when we had the ideal one in waiting, the club is a mess at the moment sort it out

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To say the club is playing above themselves is unfair. We had a very bad time when Mr B*****y was in charge and dropped from Prem(now Conf Sth) to Div 3. We have taken our time and are now back where we belong. Lets not forget we got to the round before the quarters in the trophy and should have won the league (still can't believe our drop in form) in the last few seasons. One bad season in the last however many is not the marque of a bad team. Changes are needed but lets not forget we have changed things before and they have worked. We have a reasonable set up with a loyal, yet small, fan base and our own ground. It will get better and we may get relegated but keep the faith and believe. We've been higher and we've been lower, we've seen it all and you take the rough with the smooth.
Lets not forget we used to play and compete in the league with Woking, Wycombe, Yeovil and Stevenage Borough. Maidenhead were our poorer cousins and we could dispatch teams with ease. We lost class players like Yates Smith Hill and McCulloch but replaced them with Butler, Gilman, Woods, Bally, Jonah. We had gaps in between that were poor, lets take it that this is a gap and see what comes when the changes happen.
Woody, you need to understand this is what happens in football. Slough are not the side they once were, Maidenhead are above all of us and we may even have to play teams like Eton Wick in the league soon.
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Nice post fuzzy

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just league positions and cup runs for the season so far. you must admit Slough are not as good as last season neither are WEFC but Mr Mudge has got Burnham playing pretty neat football. Go watch them, they are a very young side with Ex Slogh And Windsor lads fighting for their places.

We had a good cup run last season too, but our league position wasn't great - just like Burnham this season (played 10, won 5, lost 5).

Tough to put the local teams in a list as I'm unsure how Maidenhead and Burnham would fare in this league. It may well be that there's not very much at all between Maidenhead, Slough, Windsor and Burnham at the moment.

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It may well be that there's not very much at all between Maidenhead, Slough, Windsor and Burnham at the moment.

You have to agree with this comment. Worth remembering that Maidenhead is not in Conference South on merit, having been spared relegation on a technicality after finishing in a relegation spot. Cup runs are not a good indicator of absolute performance level either, and you always should question club management when the players perform better in cup games than league games.

At the end of the day, comparison of the local teams is a matter of opinion, but none of them has exactly covered themselves in glory in any of our lifetimes, whilst clubs like Wycombe and Wigan have moved up the pyramid, and grown and kept new support. All of the 'SL postcode' teams are, have been, and will continue to be mediocre mid-level non-league nonentities. It's not a criticism, just a fact. But you support your club for what it is, not for what it might be in your fantasies.

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All of the 'SL postcode' teams are, have been, and will continue to be mediocre mid-level non-league nonentities. It's not a criticism, just a fact. But you support your club for what it is, not for what it might be in your fantasies.

You may well be right in your prediction but your statements about what people support, is that really true? Don't most fans support the dream rather than the reality? Otherwise why do gates go up for the later cup rounds or if the team is in with a chance of winning things?

And sadly, it seems that the only way that clubs can break free from what somebody described as their natural level, is if somebody with a lot of money and a desire for success comes along and throws it at the problem. And look what can happen then - Hearts Management anybody or just as bad, what happened to Slough and other clubs - "Ooh look there's a football club, let's pretend to be football fans, buy them and rip their ground off for development......."

Hopefully Windsor are at least spared that!

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All of the 'SL postcode' teams are, have been, and will continue to be mediocre mid-level non-league nonentities. It's not a criticism, just a fact. But you support your club for what it is, not for what it might be in your fantasies.

You may well be right in your prediction but your statements about what people support, is that really true? Don't most fans support the dream rather than the reality? Otherwise why do gates go up for the later cup rounds or if the team is in with a chance of winning things?

And sadly, it seems that the only way that clubs can break free from what somebody described as their natural level, is if somebody with a lot of money and a desire for success comes along and throws it at the problem. And look what can happen then - Hearts Management anybody or just as bad, what happened to Slough and other clubs - "Ooh look there's a football club, let's pretend to be football fans, buy them and rip their ground off for development......."

Hopefully Windsor are at least spared that!

It's true that Windsor will in all probability continue to have a ground on crown estate land for as long as the club wants. Of course, that makes the club unattractive to potential real estate developers who prey on clubs by cultivating an interest in football to leverage their property interests. It also means that the management can be somewhat complacent since they are spared the main worry that besets many at this level. It further means the club has lacked a 'galvanising factor' for supporters because its future has never been in doubt in living memory.

The fact is that virtually all clubs at this level have a natural support that consists of a tiny percentage of the available population, they do not attract widespread community support. They also exist in an environment where funding equals success. Consequently, they can only progress beyond their hand to mouth existence through income or funding not generated by their ongoing (footballing) operations. It can't go on like this, a few every year go under, and eventually most will fail. So we should enjoy it while we can....

DECORUM

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Who are the three players then? Personally, I thought young Coyne was a class act.

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You may well be right in your prediction but your statements about what people support, is that really true? Don't most fans support the dream rather than the reality? Otherwise why do gates go up for the later cup rounds or if the team is in with a chance of winning things?

When a team is actually in the later cup rounds, it is the reality. If it was the dream they were supporting, they would all attend the first preliminary round every year.

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At the end of the day, comparison of the local teams is a matter of opinion, but none of them has exactly covered themselves in glory in any of our lifetimes, whilst clubs like Wycombe and Wigan have moved up the pyramid, and grown and kept new support. All of the 'SL postcode' teams are, have been, and will continue to be mediocre mid-level non-league nonentities. It's not a criticism, just a fact. But you support your club for what it is, not for what it might be in your fantasies.

 

A little unfair that quote. Looking at SL teams, Slough made the final of the Amateur cup, semis of the Trophy beat Millwall and more recently Walsall in the FA Cup, they also managed a fifth place the Conference.

Windsor, in the eighties became one of the best and most feared local teams(even managing to stuff Slough at Wexham Park), destroying teams from the conference and even managing an FA Cup 2nd round replay against Bournemouth. Windsor won leagues convincingly amd lead the Premier (Now Conference South) for 12 weeks before finishing 5th. Add in a few BBC cups for novelty value and some very good Vase & Trophy runs.

Marlow managed a third round proper FA Cup game against Spurs.

Don't know what Burnham have managed other than taking Broadley on, which is a feat worthy of much bravery.

Glory is relative, none of these teams are gouing to win the FA Cup but do not take away form any of these temas(or other similar clubs)the relative glory they get.

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i think dave should be given more time. he is a man who knows a lot about the game and is being let down by certain individuals. if things are not good within a month or two,people can start questioning. Remember, it is his first managers job.

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I know what you mean but if we carry on with the same form we are now for a month or two we will be in major trouble.

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I know what you mean but if we carry on with the same form we are now for a month or two we will be in major trouble.

You're doing just fine - keep playing as you are!

PS Just protecting my prediction league investment!!!!

PPS Slough are in about the right place too!!!!

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We have only won 6 league games under Jesus since he took over last year. Just how much longer do we let him take us down?

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Seeing as how we haven't won many games since Woody started supporting the club do we:-

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We have only won 6 league games under Jesus since he took over last year. Just how much longer do we let him take us down?

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you really are slow woody been saying it for weeks, 1 more month and it will be to late they can bring in who they lke and we will still go down

[Woody SUFC]

I was trying to be Positive but it's bloody hard when you watch it week in and week out! Thankfully i've decided not to bother on Saturday!