Not really a time for poems Gary
cos I'm feeling sad for the club 
but to coin a phrase from someone 
who was much cleverer than me 
we keep doing the same thing over again 
isnt that the sign of insanity ?

went today hoping to see the improvement mentioned after the hythe game unfortunatly disappointed played on the floor yes,but no end product no real penetration until leon came on nobody looked remotely like scoring.hastings deserved to win ,but not a very convincing team as for us well those of you who were there saw that the hastings goalkeeper only had one decent save to make on an easy afternoon for him.very poor.

Just when you hope things mught be picking up, and this game comes along.
Two poor teams but one team wanted it more, we could have been two down inside five minutes but for some woeful finishing. First half showed all the signs of being a nil nil draw, neither team after our poor, start worked either keeper, some of our passing was woeful, one player, who I would not name because I do not feel it right, was particularly guilty and personally speaking I would not be sorry to see leave, but then saying that none of our front line covered themselves with any glory, you have to feel sorry for Jamie he just does not get any service at all and is being made to look as bad as some of his forward teamates, I do hope he sticks it out but would not blame him if he decides this team is not for him.
The second half started a little better, but not a lot, when Hastings scored their goal you just knew that their was no way back for "Tooting", until that is when Leon came on then inside a couple of minutes, twice he nearly bought us level.
The penalty whilst just, was unfair on "Tooting", as it flattered our opponents who were not much better than us.
I was going to book my tickets for "Guernsey" tomorrow, that is once again on hold, if this is how we are going to perform, my money will be better off in my pocket.

We won 2-0 last Saturday Gary.

Just what are you trying to say "Fretters" 

Gary you make loads of sense and MikeM is fast catching you up . There appear to be me more names on this site starting to express a regular objective view. What i find is really strange is that some seem to still be blindly following Frank when even a decent coach with loads of know how like Hamms cant see what he is trying to do. I can understand loyalty.but ....Geez talk about how to ruin a team in 12 weeks! 
 

Let's forget about the manager for a moment & talk about players. There is no point in playing Jamie Byatt up front on his own. He needs another striker up there with him, someone who he can feed off. Ideally two strikers & he can  play just behind them, that's where Jamie is dangerous, but I don't think the manager would be that adventurous.

I don't think Hastings were poor. They were solid, well organised and deserved the 3 points. We, on the other have have some good skillfull players who like to do a trick but team play is non existant. I feel sorry for Jamie playing on his own up front, we are not using him well, he needs the ball to his feet and for him to run onto intelligent through balls but we don,t seem to have the players to do that. This has to come from the training field and from the management who have to pick the players to do that job. I don't think the budget has anything to do with it, if other clubs can put out a decent football team with a fraction of the money that we,ve got, then why can't we ?

alanj wrote:

The penalty  was unfair on "Tooting", as it flattered our opponent

Don't you mean 'Flattened' Buddy ?
 

Evthedog at least agrees that the previous regime should have had till xmas. I agree with Ev too that the 15 game run was shocking but i felt the loss of the keeper was the contributing factor. Lets get a comparison at the end of this month but i doubt if we will be in a play off spot as we were the same time last year.
Good passionate debate chaps we all just want the best for the club .

I was waiting for somebody to suggest that Hastings were not as poor as the majority of our correspondents seem to feel.
And I agree with you Andy

In fact I will go further and suggest that most of the teams we have played so far this season, even/including those in the bottom half of the table, have been much better organised and more committed that we saw last season when I fully agree the standard in Ryman Soith was really dire (which you may feel ultimately cost Craig & Adam their positions -sadly)
Feel free to disagree chaps.

Now we have largely stopped the aimless long ball forward I don't see too much wrong with our play except.......it simply does not generate enough goal scoring chances.
And ultimately that is what it is all about. Certainly if you don't score a goal in 90 mins you will not win any matches (I got that wisdom from page 1 of 'The Bunty - Football Coaching for Girls' that is, as always, my guide in all footie matters)

I can only report from my position by the side of the dugout that there was not lack of detailed analysis and coaching input.  Let's see what the expected strengthening of the side brngs and of course the return of missing influential players.