Just to add to my defence. I apologise for not quoting verbatum from the Book of Spike, but something has seriously gone wrong in the last few weeks. We have gone from being a team which was almost a dead cert to at least make a play-off place to a team that will be lucky to win 3 of our last games of which one of those is against the team that turned us over twice in 8 days when we put in arguably our worst performances of the season. Where I decided to walk out early in disgust, which led to me getting more S**t than what the players did on the Forum.
Monday's performance was not as bad as the Hasting's games due to the fact that we did at least score and we did threaten them in the closing 15 minutes, but on the whole based on Monday's performance we ain't gonna make the play-offs and it'll take some doing to turn this team around, this team to me doesn't look like a team that believes it can win.
TB can do it. He's first 5 games in charge when he took over back in Jan 05 proves that he can motivate this team, but the players are gonna have to work harder than they have done in the last few weeks to get those 9 points.
So endeth the lessen!
I don't know why you feel you have to apologise for your opinion Steve ... (unless you have come to realise the error of your ways
). I agree that it would be boring if we all thought the same and as you yourself have said in the past, the whole point of this forum is for people to express their opinions. The "Book of Spike", were such a thing to exist, would undoubtedly disagree with what you said, but avidly defend your right to say it.
Personally, I like to look at things from a more general viewpoint over a period of time rather than reacting wildly to individual results. A couple of weeks ago we were a good side and now, according to some people, its all terrible and everything is wrong. It wasn't just your comments, but other things I have read or heard said since Monday. I was absolutely gutted on Monday, but I don't believe that we are suddenly a rubbish team and that the players weren't trying, as has been suggested by some.
Your reference to the Hastings games earlier in the season is a good example of what I mean. We lost twice in a row to a team down the bottom and the resulting stuff posted on here was, I thought, wildly over the top. We didn't play well, but as some of us said at the time, Hastings looked a really good side who would surely shoot up the table .... that has since proven to be true. I remember some of the postings wrote us off then and yet the team came back to mount a serious challenge .... at least, until the last few games.
I think I probably do agree with you that had Dave Martin been here it ight just have made the difference. I know we have defensive frailties, but Dave always seemed to pull a rabbit out of the hat when we needed it most. In many ways, his brilliance may have camouflaged some of our other shortcomings. He also took pressure of Ryno and I suspect that one or two touches of Martin Magic might just have ben enough to bring us another couple of wins that would have saved the day.
At the end of the day, it looks as though the current team may just not be quite good enough to make it this time. We are however, very close and probably only need two or three changes for next season. We have a good manager who has done a very good job and I for one am 100% behind him. Some of the games at PP have been breathtaking and a fantastic advert for non-league football. Sure we've had a few dodgy games but that's because, although we are
quite good, we are not a
great side. As a lifelong Darts fan, even if we don't make the play-offs, this season has been a defining moment in our club's history and I for one have thoroughly enjoyed the overwhelming majority of it. I accept that after such a great season, it will be a huge anti-climax to miss out at such a late stage, but once over the initial shock you have to look at the bigger picture and things aren't really going at all badly for us. We are just starting out in our new home and I for one am extremely optimistic.
I am sure that I am not the only one who feels this way.
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