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Post by 61666 on Mar 31, 2019 17:27:07 GMT
We can only hope that lessons have been learned from the Fleet game.
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Post by porkystone on Mar 31, 2019 18:20:29 GMT
Pax gets off & running with an ' assist ' for 'ricay @ Dulwich Hamlet - a far post corner headed in for the Billericay opener. Pleasingly, Magnus Okuonghae got the equalizer in the final minute in front of 3243. Makes me wonder what the gate will be against the Stones next season. Hamlet not entirely safe in NLS, Gloucester & ETU below them in the relegation zone are showing signs of form. Dulwich also have tricky games against Woking & Wealdstone still to play.
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Post by Bernie on Mar 31, 2019 19:01:26 GMT
Billericay are full time. Makes you think. Even a sugar daddy doesn't guarantee promotion from NLS, as Ebbsfleet will tell you. I expect us to do well, but not run away with it. Could be down there for a few seasons.
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Post by La femme de Vic Jobson on Mar 31, 2019 19:16:17 GMT
Much more local for him for a start. Can you imagine having to do the Dartford Crossing and then the whole M2/A299 just to get to training. Poor soul. Professional footballer, only job he has, having to do a commute, my heart bleeds!
As a 35 year 2-4+ hours a day commuter to London or wherever my jobs have taken me that just doesn't cut it, sorry.
Now, as a PART-TIME player having NLS as his pinnacle, of course staying near to home would be vital. That's my point.
35 years of commuting, 2-4 hours per day. Approximately three and a half years of your life. If you didn't have to do that, why would you?
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Post by jdl on Apr 1, 2019 12:56:44 GMT
Billericay are full time. Makes you think. Even a sugar daddy doesn't guarantee promotion from NLS, as Ebbsfleet will tell you. I expect us to do well, but not run away with it. Could be down there for a few seasons. All a sugar daddy does is enable you to buy players most others in your league can't afford. To win a league you need more than that. As well as a few key players, you need a team who play for each other and the club, and a manager who knows how to build a team and get more out of them than their individual talents would suggest. As we have seen, you can't do this with journeymen and loanees. You just end up paying more - for worse football. But you can do it with the right manager - even without the money and the star players. We should learn two lessons from our brief time in the NL: One we all know - that the NL is a huge step-up, more like EFL L3 than the top of the non-league pyramid. But the second lesson, one no one seems to remember, is that our best season was with (basically) our NS team of part-timers. Why? Because the players played as a team and played for their club, and because we had a manager who could produce more from a team than the sum of it's parts. And, I suppose there's a third lesson - if you don't take the NL by storm in your first season, the answer is not to go 'full-time', lose some of your best players, and rely on loanees and journeymen, and then, when that doesn't work, sack the manager who got you there - the answer is to have a word with yourself about unrealistic expectations.
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Post by sword65 on Apr 1, 2019 13:03:49 GMT
Makes you think. Even a sugar daddy doesn't guarantee promotion from NLS, as Ebbsfleet will tell you. I expect us to do well, but not run away with it. Could be down there for a few seasons. All a sugar daddy does is enable you to buy players most others in your league can't afford. To win a league you need more than that. As well as a few key players, you need a team who play for each other and the club, and a manager who knows how to build a team and get more out of them than their individual talents would suggest. As we have seen, you can't do this with journeymen and loanees. You just end up paying more - for worse football. But you can do it with the right manager - even without the money and the star players. We should learn two lessons from our brief time in the NL: One we all know - that the NL is a huge step-up, more like EFL L3 than the top of the non-league pyramid. But the second lesson, one no one seems to remember, is that our best season was with (basically) our NS team of part-timers. Why? Because the players played as a team and played for their club, and because we had a manager who could produce more from a team than the sum of it's parts. And, I suppose there's a third lesson - if you don't take the NL by storm in your first season, the answer is not to go 'full-time', lose some of your best players, and rely on loanees and journeymen, and then, when that doesn't work, sack the manager who got you there - the answer is to have a word with yourself about unrealistic expectations. I don't think we will have to worry about the NL for a few years so plenty of time to learn.
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Post by Better things to do in life on Apr 1, 2019 15:16:19 GMT
Pleasingly, Magnus Okuonghae got the equalizer in the final minute in front of 3243. Makes me wonder what the gate will be against the Stones next season. Hamlet not entirely safe in NLS, Gloucester & ETU below them in the relegation zone are showing signs of form. Dulwich also have tricky games against Woking & Wealdstone still to play. Hate to admit it, but the Ricay probably a good move for Pax. He may well feature in future match reports! The crowds at the Hamlet are staggering. Lets hope they stay up so we can play them next year!
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Post by gary2 on Apr 1, 2019 15:37:03 GMT
the crowds at dulwich are staggering,when you think the capacity is 3000 and 1000 or so spectators wont be able to see sod all
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