Brass monkeys Aveley!

[Simon BTFC]

Yeah 4 league games unbeaten in 2003 including 2 wins against top 5 sides and another at a ground where we've never won before.... Complete waste of time and effort!

 

Yes it was gutting to go out of the ESC on tues but this is real football where there are downs as well as ups - and we've seen that this week - an excellent win on sat (albeit witnessed by only they hardcore travelling support) followed by a hugely disappointing defeat on tuesday.

 

 

[Guest]

That said, Rod Moore should wake up - out Calder and put george in charge as caretaker until the end of the season until a suitable replacement is found.

WE SIMPLY CANNOT BE JUST A MEDIOCRE MID TABLE SIDE that performs in fits and starts - why do you think Canvey get so much support ? - Because Geoff King inspires all around him and gets the players going

[Guest]

If C****y get sooo much support, why was there only 400 odd at their last home game?? - Anyway, K's Saturday, so let's continue with our own league placing.....

[Ryan.c]

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I for one will NOT be going to watch BTFC until that twat is history......

I've never understood why people will not attend games because they don't agree with who's in charge. Unfortunately this seems to be quite a popular reason why some people have stayed away lately and at a time when the club really needs it's supporters through the turnstiles. Show me a supporter of any club that is:

1. happy with the/chairman/directors/manager/coach/barstaff/turnstile operator/ballboys!

2. agrees with the managers choice of players/tatics/training methods/eating habits

3. or is just generally over the moon safe in the knowledge that everything at thier club is just wonderful.

 

I think you've got more chance of getting into the Aldershot bar, seeing Ronaldo play at New lodge and Jeff King in a size 10 bikini before saying yes to the above 3! Support the Football Club if nothing else.

 

[jl]

couldnt agree more

 

everyone s entitled to their view but in my opinion if it involves personal abuse and a destructive slating it should be titled and not "anonymous"

 

i think there s been plenty of people who haven't been overly enamoured with the manager at various points in the season (including me) but to my mind the situation has changed a degree as we clearly haven't got a pot to piss in and not every decision with regard to the players is now taken by the manager (eg sale of essandoh)

 

personally i would like someone else to have a bash in charge but the fact remains that regardless of who is in charge there will be no magic wand which will give us a bottomless pit of cash to spend.

 

i think a top 6 finish would be a decent achievement given the size and ability of our squad. we have some good games still to look fwd to including home games against aldershite n c***ey and we need all our supporters to turn up - starting saturday against kingstonian hopefully.

 

cmon the blues

[BTFC Martin]

It doesn't matter if we have a pot to piss in this season or not, you cannot forget about the last 3 and a half seasons. How many players have come and gone and not just the rubbish players.

 

Why should you need to rebuild a team after only a couple of seasons? What does that say about all your previous signings?

 

How can you pay big money (by Billericay standards) for a forward and then give him a free a couple of months later? Infact last season full stop.

 

What sort of manager doesn't take responsibility for the teams performance by saying things like 'the players are good enough, if they weren't it would be my fault' (or words to that effect, I can't remember the exact words) after the Ford game?

 

For those reasons and others is why I have stopped going to away games this season and I really don't miss it. I forget we are playing half the time.

 

I really don't care if I am called unloyal or not a true supporter and I don't care if people go to every game or just a few. If your not enjoying it don't go.

 

For me I just thought enough is enough. Who's knows maybe next season I will start going to away games again.

 

One thing though, I don't agree with personal abuse.

 

 

[Andy Walsh]

I am not very happy with Calder's performance at the moment, but being a true fan that doesn't matter. If you support a team you take the ups and downs and don't give up on them. We have been inconsistent and produced some poor performances but that's not an excuse to stop watching them.

I'm sure Man U don't want to get rid of Fergie despite some poor results of their own this season. They came through there bad patch and are doing well.

Potentially we could finish highly this season, for instance if we won our games in hand we are two points behind Canvey.

Calder deserves to stay until the end of the season and then see where we finish before making a decision.

 

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[Gareth J]

I agree that finishing in the top 6 this year would probably be a good finish, but it could have been so much more, and one top 6 finish in 4 years in charge is not much for any Manager to write home about! He has lost the plot and treats players extremely badly. He should go.

 

I intend to continue going, and wouldn't have it any other way, but if people are choosing not to attend, then as a club we do have a problem - and that needs to be addressed.

[GazzaBTFC]

I think that is nature of some people. I will not turn up until they team improve, the manager leaves, the chairman leaves, someone buys me a drink......(I'm that cheap - lol).

 

I heard that some who turned up on Tuesday will not be going tomorrow 'cos of their disapointment. Okay, I didn't go on Tuesday, had other things to do but I do support the club when I can (which is for most games of the season). It does make me wonder how you can call yourself a supporter of a club when you have that defeatist attitude.

 

And yep, I also agree with some of the things said about our present management but then again, we're not looking at relegation so I'm in agreement with Simon, let GC see that season out and then assess him.

 

What also gets to me as well is the clubs attitude to things said (reasonable things not the slaggings off) on this site. I have posted some things and according 2 jl, I am GB's public enemy no. 1!!! For a reasonable comment!!!

[Paul S]

I for one am in definite disagreement with those with the view of not turning up to games either because of the odd poor result or because you disagree with decisions made by those warranting power at the club. ALL TRUE SUPPORTERS *SUPPORT* THEIR CLUBS - have some of you people ever heard the expression "supporting your club through thin and thinner". many clubs would kill for the position we find ourselves in.

With regards to Gary Calder, if feel people have been very critical of him right from day one, which hasn't exactly made his job easy. If you look back over the years he has been in charge i would say that overall he has done a good job. year on year he has gradually strengthened the squad, this squad in my opinion being the strongest since he has taken over, and would have been even stronger had it not been for the forced selling of martin Carthy and Roy Essandoh. He has established billericay as a strong side in the division, and this season i feel we could finish as high as 4th. he has taken us as far as we have ever gone in the F.A Trophy (5th round), and we have also got to the 4th qual.round of the f.a cup for 3 consequetive seasons, which in itself is a difficult task. under his reign we have had far more highs than lows, so i feel people are a bit too critical of calder - especially "anonymous" who is so hard he/she wont identify himself/herself.

lets get behind the lads on saturday and aim for our highest ever finish in the ryman premier. i know that all true fans will be their.

[Simon BTFC]

Our league form has been pretty good of late - since the double defeat to Enfield and Purfleet at the end of October we've played 10 league games, losing only 1. Perhaps the problem is that more of our better performances have come away from home? I think we are better than we were last season, and am confident our final league position will endorse that, and then I think we should be looking to build on that next season.

[c'mon ricay]

calder has been given nearly 4 years

 

he has gone through about 4 squads

 

he is taken the club beyond a highish mid table finish in the league

 

we got to league semi, essex senior cup semi, trophy 5 th round and a few cup final qual. rounds

 

 

 

[GazzaBTFC]

Those that stay away will quite probably complain and blame the club for any financial or other problem the club finds itself in due to their part in a mass exodus....

 

Sick and tired of hearing....."That is why I don't turn up.......".

 

And those people still can 'emselves supporters!!!!!

[Nitetime Neil]

I am probably one of those guilty of not bothering to turn up lately, but it's not because of a couple of poor results, or whetheer I approve of the manager and his team selections or whatever. For me personally, and I stress this is just how I persoanlly feel, I am staying away simply because I do not enjoy watching Billericay play at their current level, ie an upper mid-table Ryman Premier team with unrealistic ambitions of becoming a Conference side. All I seem to see and read about BTFC these days smacks of a club doing a pretty weak imitation of a premiership outfit - if i want to watch that kind of football mentality I'll stay at home and watch it on Sky where it can be enjoyed for what it is, which is what I have done in the main this season! My only real interest lately has been in the cup competitions where there was some genuine excitement, one-off games where anything could happen (and alas at Aveley did..) not the tedium of seeing us huffing and puffing thru league games for the glory of fifth or sixth place. I hate to admit it, but god I miss the good old days (there I've said it!) - dodgy players on next to nothing, struggling on awful pitches at dreadful grounds in front of poor crowds outnumbered by the Ricay faithful. BUT WE HAD SOME FUN!!! If you still believe in the Big Dream keep turning up and supporting, come what may, whoever's on the pitch and in the dugout, but for me, maybe I'll see y'all sometime next season....

[Guest]

Well said Neil, "when the enjoyment goes " you forgot to mention the dodgy music that you played, even that added to the fun, the banter in the "cow shed" was worth the entrance ticket.

[GazzaBTFC]

Okay, I would admit it was more fun in those heady days of yore but that is then. We were all younger and a little more carefree. And we had a successful team (at our level) and that adds to the fun.

 

But things change...the world has moved on. In those days no one had a moblie phone in which to text the scores to absent friends, swearing was frowned upon by all (from what I can remember) and as the team prgressed the games got harder, the results got less satisfactory and I suppose we all got more cynical...Cynicism comes with age. We all get older and wiser (in some cases).

 

We can all look backwards and wish things were the same but that just don't happen. Can't live your life in a time bubble and let the world pass us by. Then again, I would agree with NN, some plans have proved to be unrealistic...Well, unrealistic now. The Club management obviously wanted a successful season (why the plans for a new stadium?) and this was born out by the team they assembled at the start of the season. In my book, it was one of the most immpressive in recent seasons but we have lost our way again (I think the management should be big enough to shoulder some of the blame for that) and people are now harking back to "The Good Old days"...Shame.

 

I think anyone that wants the club to progress further should be applauded and encouraged. I can't fault the management for WANTING to do this. Some of us may question the method but not the dream. And I think most of us supporters would like to see us at least at the top flight of our present standard of football (The Conference).

 

Change comes with out progress as well as with it, some may not like it but it is something we all have to put up with. And we should try to deal with it gracefully, moving with the times, accepting that if we don't agree with what is happening, not to walk away but support the club and make sure our voice is heard. And heard politely but firmly.

 

Thus ends the sermon. Thanks for reading....lol

[c'mon ricay]

not quite on subject but i cant create a new posting so i have to do it hear does anyone have nay idea of who the young player coming from a premiership will be