A building year

It just feel like whilst doing ok and as soon as we lose one game it all goes 't**ts' up again and we can't find our way back..

 

Exactly how many building seasons do we have to endure !

 

Jewell also had a terrible start to 98/99, his second season, and that turned out alright.

 

Rupp must be sat in Germany pissing himself, 14,000 people have paid 33% more for season tickets, hundreds have bought 1903 membership and there’s a commercial deal every other day on the back of promotion talk and I believe he’s not putting any money in. Everyone else is paying to rectify the mismanagement since he became involved in the club.

If there isn’t promotion in May, then all of the talk this season will come back to bite Sparks and Rupp on the arse because nobody apart from the most myopic fan will believe anything either of them say. That’s when the relatively small investment to fund promotion will look like small change, lose 4,000 season tickets and you’re £800k down.

 

Spent heavily that season, McCall, Sharpe, Mills, Whalley, Windass, Rankin.
Ok it’s two divisions lower but not one of this season’s signings will achieve anywhere near half as much as even Isiah Rankin.

 

What he has built so far is no better than last season, and his signings are suspect . Saying it is a building year is saying we have wrote the season off all ready and don't expect anything. A few weeks back we were certs to go up, now it's a " building" year.

 

I believe that's the point many are asking were they Adams signings, I would hope so.

 

Funny

 

Think it's far too early to call it a building year. We are 8 games into the league, not 28. Literally a win off the automatic spots. We are just becoming a wasteful side in the last month or so. No goals from Cook since Mansfield on Aug 21st, and all his back ups seem to offer very little.

We currently have 3 of the top 7 shot takers in L2 so far but we have only scored 11 goals, with Vernam top of the shots list with 25 shots, 2 goals. Cook joint 2nd with 24 shots and 4 goals, and Callum Cooke joint 6th with 20 shots and no goals so far. These 3 have had 69 efforts in 8 games and only 6 goals between, it's a terrible conversion rate for the positions these lads get in every game.

You've got to think at some point it's going to fall our way and these chances start going in more often. The table is sort of irrelevant for now, as no team apart from FGR has any real form and you're still likely of moving 4 or 5 places up or down every Saturday.

 

Good post, as you say 8 games into a new season hardly time to be writing us off.

 

Dont think many are writing us off Dave
Just concerned as to how we are going to progress

 

So much negativity so soon, I think I am going to top myself.

 

It isn’t, but the performances have lacked cutting edge and gone a bit insipid, and Lee Angol can’t shoulder all that responsibility on his return.

Once the confidence starts to drop, you are quite often fecked.

 

Let's hope it's not a situation of us having to wait for Angol to return before we get back to winning ways.

I don't think we have lacked confidence just failed to stick our chances away.

 

Writing us off our having concerns for the progress is a little early IMO, we haven't played the 10 games some said they would judge Adams and the club on as yet.

 

Isiah Rankin is the only player I have ever seen go "one on one" with an aircraft hangar and miss. What a waste of £1.5million that was. Ended up at 29 in the Isthmian League for Hendon.

 

Agreed, I don't think I have seen us look a "beaten team" yet (in a league match) and realistically we could easily have another five points if we had stuck away clear cut chances v Walsall & Barrow and defended a corner at Salford. We are hardly basket cases.

 

This is what worries me Biker. The way Angol is being talked about in his absence is putting massive pressure and expectation on his shoulders ahead of his return, and is unfair and unrealistic. It reminds me of what happened towards the end of last season when Cooke was injured and everyone was saying results would pick up when he returned but it didn't happen. Angol has definitely been missed but to expect him to come back into the side and singlehandedly turn things around is just setting him up to fail imo.

 

Realism at last. That's what made you a brilliant military strategist Uyllses.