FACQ4: Havant & Waterlooville v Torquay 7:45pm 20/10/21

Cheers Jon

Unfair to pitch a couple of inexperienced teenagers into that rubbish and expect them to transform things.

We need at least one of Hall and Lapsle, preferably both, to be competitive.

King's Lynn are rubbish, but they must be rubbing their hands in anticipation.

I listened to the BBC Devon commentary and their verdict was damning.

If they perform on Saturday like they performed today then this team will show that it simply isn't good enough to stay in the National League. Like you, Jon, I want to see this with my own eyes before casting judgement. With three clubs being relegated, and Dover are clearly one of those, then we may escape by means of there being two worse clubs than us. But it will be a close run thing on our current form.

I'm rather looking forward to being proved hopelessly wrong and us ending up in the top half by the middle of May 2022.

Time for some Voodoo magic Stefano 🙄. Amazing how we have regressed in just a few short months but not surprised just as i wasnt surprised by the performance or result last night. Once teams get into that losing and poor performance rut its difficult to get out of and it will need one or two strong "experienced" player signings and some careful man management to change things for the better.
Not a fan of lambasting players as not good enough publicly as GJ did a few weeks back as it can destroy confidence and unity. I thought that was a mistake and was pandering to supporters "what they want to hear". You signed them Garry!
We can all dream of getting back into the football league but in reality we missed our opportunity and in any case i fear we would have struggled at the next level and we will continue to languish at this level or lower for years to come.
The last time we were promoted from this division i can recall the relief that we had done it and that those in control would realise just how precious that achievement and status was and we would never ever be in the position of losing our league status ever again. How wrong you can be and now were back to "our" level it looks as if were making the same mistakes again and could easily end up slipping back to our lowest ever level.
All caused by a very successful season. Now thats a paradox if ever there was one

I think you may be right when you say it was pandering to supporters, equally he was probably trying to hide his embarrassment at finding his signings are not up to it.
I think the most likely thing that happens when managers resort to that kind of comment is that they "lose the dressing room" and there is no way back from there.
when that happens you either get rid off the manager of get rid of the players, and it is considerably easier and cheaper to get rid of the manager.

We were never going to catch Chesterfield anyway, so good luck to them in the third round, which of course they have a chance of winning because the top clubs aren’t arsed with the FA Cup anymore…an experience we’ve never enjoyed! 

Of course the FA Cup will have faded from our minds when the next Cup competition comes along…the FA Triffid or something? I’m also sure that certain members will be sat on the edge of their seats picking their Psoriasis scabs off their body (one of my few pleasures in life now) awaiting the news of which non-league shit-hole we’re headed for! 🆘