A manager with huge passion but little experience. A very limited playing budget.

What was the realistic expectation at the start and during the season?

After four games scoring for fun and playing genuine champagne football - probably winning the league at a canter.

After the slump in the middle - back to back relegation.

More recent run of hit and miss....mid-table mediocrity.I

Without significant investment in the team, is anyone brave or optimistic enough to go above "mid-table mediocrity" for next season too?

I can only revert to my most hated current cliche "it is what it is".

Great win tonight. Was a pretty full on terse and tense derby with plenty of snap and snarl.

Story of chances tonight. Shay has three in the first half and scored two. They had two free headers and missed both.

Saw the red card near the end but having had a player count up we had 8 outfield players at the end?

Saw the sin bin earlier on but did I miss another sin bin or a second red?

Obviously we still have serious self discipline issues, but.....

Unbeaten in 2024 😁

Well, who's going to be the brave soul to provide a list of positives from today?

No leadership. No height. No organisation. Passion from probably four players.

Only scored from a very soft penalty. Created little to nothing playing bottom of the league.

I may have misheard but I thought the crowd was announced as 225? Did 100 people spend the whole game in the toilet? Lucky them if they did...

No wins since the end of October and today was just embarrassing.

Yes, the manager may not be paid. Yes, we may have trouble recruiting players. Yes, the playing budget may be low.

But surely now even the most blind optimists must realise "The Emperor has got no clothes on"?

We got there in the end today 😁

First half was pretty dire but those magic moments from Brennan. Again. He's just absolute class. Silly sending off - was looking on the cards for a while and would have saved by a substitution. Sheerwater were better than I thought they'd be. A decent and commendable win today.

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We just had a bad day at the office in an otherwise good season so far. Didn't have any luck. Far too many passes a few metres too long. Ref was pretty tragic. Spelthorne had huge centre backs and we seemed bereft of ideas on how to best them. Shay, Coleman and shorts had (comparatively)  quiet games.

One of them things....

Entertaining 😊 - and after the last two, that is a wonderful thing.

Spirit is good.

Swelling numbers in the Bog end.

Some very decent new players. Coleman. The little number 7 and of course the goal machine we don't mention by name in case PSG come knocking.

Enough little clangers to keep things interesting.

Having Jason Statham as our new manager rivals Wrexham 😁

Would like to see us chatting to Dan Purdue if he's available again. Bit more height and command between the posts.

Evening each,

A good friend of mine is a Ks season ticket holder so I get along to their games too when I can. At the last game, they had a merchandise sale (t-shirts and polo shirts with embroidered badges and last season's shirt) all priced at £5.

Appreciated that T&M shirts and stuff are available online ( but I assume made to order?) , would there be demand if the club shop stocked a decent design T&M t-shirt or two and a decent polo? The Ks polo was, I think, £13 before the sale.

Copyrighted logos a problem and would there be an "exclusive" deal in place with the online manufacturers ?

Seven goals
2 penalties
3 red cards

Still not quite sure how we lost today....

Fair play to Alton for digging in with 9 men.

Is it me or do we seem to have slightly lost the spark from the Croydon and Balham games? Switching across the flanks and playing champagne football. Compared to the utter dross of the last two seasons it's great to watch but we obviously don't want to be capitulating from such good positions.

Ok, we were 3-1 up but I wasn't sure how.

Their number 7 was a class player.

What does that Brennan bloke think he's doing constantly putting the round thing between the white sticks?

Doesn't he know that's banned at IF?

Joking aside, he looks like a class player - wonder how long we'll keep him for.

Thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment level on Tuesday night. Fair play to Balham for coming and having a go. Also for having so many digs at goal.

Could be an interesting rollercoaster season with a lot of goals. Hopefully 😁

Safe travels to the hardy souls who are going today.

Going to be enjoying watching Bexy and The Hornchurch Boys at the "home of football" this afternoon.

Agreed. The ref absolutely killed the game. The first yellow for Gordon was an absolute no but the second was an absolute yes. To be fair, we actually did ok with 10 men. Was great to see Reese score and was a decent move. First half was probably more entertaining than half of the season. Although normal service was resumed in the second half.

The Facebook post on the "Official" FB page was certainly interesting. Re-posting from the programme yesterday. What kind of reaction did they expect from people? To then say it's a family show and we'll start banning people? Tensions and opinions from the fans are rightly running high. Still no answers just more empty and meaningless platitudes.