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Brad Halliday named tonight in the League 2 Team of the Season:

 

Just give it to Halliday at training and save everybody the embarrassment of “celebrating” yet another failed season in the arse end of league football.

 

No need for an awards night. Just invite Brad to the fans forum and give all the awards to him there.

 

The midfield has been truly abysmal since we lost Doyle and Jones…never had a midfielder live up to their presence since

 

Have to say I agree, and this is what I don’t get with those complaining about protesting and complaining to Rupp. Imagine going to the same supermarket all your life and they start sell out of date products and endangering you and your family, do you complain or leave it be because you’ve always gone there? Of course you complain or something will go wrong, just like if we celebrate what has gone on the powers that be will think all is fine while we sleep walk to oblivion. It seems like the protests have died a quick death, but at least showing that were not happy through things like this is a good way to provoke and demand further action without risk to the club.

 

Stupid decision really. Why hire a hotel, let them take a big cut of the cost and all the drinks profit when we have our own space with a bar and catering ?

 

I know we say each to their own etc, but any fan contemplating actually paying money and attending this event to celebrate and applaud a season of mediocrity and huge underachievement should be publicly named & shamed. You are all what is wrong with this club, enabling Sparks & co to get away with their pathetic running of the club

 

Why are they holding it at an asylum seekers resort when the club has perfectly good banquet facilities of it's own?
They could hire in a very good gourmet catering company and still offer the whole thing for a decent price nowhere near £65.

 

Halliday has rightly and expectedly dominated the awards tonight. Well done Brad, 100% deserved.

 

Gilliead has had a good season, but after him and Halliday there are no other contenders

 

Kind of surprised we're bothering, to be honest.

Richmond would have had this shitshow cancelled by now.

 

Nobody in their right mind should even consider buying a ticket for this. It's something everyone should boycott.

 

They must have been a bunch of pretentious idiots then. Clearly more money than sense if they pay that

 

No I don't work for the club.

I really don't understand what is so wrong about people being able to have an enjoyable evening if that is what they like to do without being told they should be named and shamed. If you, Steve or anyone else doesn't want to acknowledge the junior, women's and disability sides don't exist then that's up to them but it is wrong to criticise others for wanting to be celebrate them. Some people like to go with their child as it's a chance to meet the players. It seems to be ignored that I have criticised the club on many occasions on here, if I think the club has done something wrong I'll say so.

The reason I've been able to comment on bits around the ticketing and how it will work is that I work in sport and i've worked with a few different ticketing companies. Through that I knew our previous deal was expiring and the reasons why we might have decided to change mid-season. I posted a while ago saying that the club weren't being entirely truthful about why they were changing supplier, I've criticised the comments from ticket office staff blaming the system when that isn't the issue it is either poor planning or poor training or both.

 

Just had a look at the Cedar Court menu. Most expensive starter - £9, main £18 and all desserts £7, so the most a 3 course meal would cost you is £34.

 

They will be cancelled otherwise Rupp would have to show up and then face the fans. Like the players he will bottle it. So they will be cancelled as suggested by the OP.

 

I would say that in a 2 man midfield playing a 523 system you need at least one runner who gets up and down the pitch. Gillead ticks that box perfectly. He’s good at running with the ball, he’s a tidy passer (nothing spectacular but retains possession) and can put a tackle in and win the ball back. I have no issue with him in midfield.

The issue for me is the player alongside him. If you have a runner like Gillead than you need a good quality ball player alongside him. Smallwood shows glimpses of this but not as consistently as I expected. McDonald has also shown in patches what a good ball player he is at this level but apparently isn’t fit enough to sustain it in a full season. So that is the role I’d be more focussed on addressing in the summer.

I’m not saying Gillead is perfect but in L2 I think he does the job well and if we can get a partner alongside him who can pass forward with a bit of incision then I think it can work.

 

According to everything I can find and across various sites so may not be fully accurate he has 7 goals and 6 assists across the 200 appearances.

That's a goal involvement every 15.38 games (or 3 a season) and considering half of those 200 appearances came in an attacking role I think those statistics are especially poor.

Having said that, I do still think there's a regular role for Gillead in the squad but he'd have to oust Halliday to claim it.

 

You don't want much do you.