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Post by Better things to do in life on Jul 19, 2019 7:49:53 GMT
Tbf oldboy I tend to agree with around 50% of your views and disagree with the other 50%. I must admit to be a shade nervous about some of the reservations you have expressed about the quality of the team recruited and the quality of performances to date. I want you to be 100% wrong again. So do I Nick, so do I.
Johns recent KOL is designed to stop us worrying, and that all is going OK, but the fact he had to post it in the light of some dubious PSF results shows that may be concerns.
How much better if his article had been "lets not get carried away by our convincing thrashings of lower opposition in the PSF, and good results against weakened NL sides, the NLS will be much harder".
The first NLS games will show for sure, but it really looks like we still need 2/3 more GOOD players and we although JS2 may be happy with work rate, teamwork fitness, organisation etc, I think we do need to see some more quality from this squad, individually and as a team, to be more optimistic about our chances of making play-offs. Only Jake Cole seems to have shown that so far.
Without that individual and team quality, we will struggle to make mid-table, but lets hope it starts to emerge more against Daggers and Southend, and comes alive against Weymouth for that 8-0.
BTW, not panicking, just still "a shade nervous", to echo Nick.
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Post by pedant on Jul 19, 2019 10:03:18 GMT
Just watched the low lights of the game!! Pennell for one of the goals looked like he had the touch of a man who has never seen a game of football, Clovis looked like he had been shot with a tranquilliser dart just before the other goal and number 10 Ayuk well 🙄 I don’t know if I should be worried, or more optimistic, or disheartened or what!! Just one win in pre season would be very welcome. I found it interesting that the Club decided to change their StonesTV coverage from the usual 'highlights' to 'key moments'.
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Post by daveu on Jul 19, 2019 10:33:16 GMT
Just watched the low lights of the game!! Pennell for one of the goals looked like he had the touch of a man who has never seen a game of football, Clovis looked like he had been shot with a tranquilliser dart just before the other goal and number 10 Ayuk well 🙄 I don’t know if I should be worried, or more optimistic, or disheartened or what!! Just one win in pre season would be very welcome. I found it interesting that the Club decided to change their StonesTV coverage from the usual 'highlights' to 'key moments'. Not sure that's a club decision. Maybe he likes to have a bit of time to enjoy his summer rather than spending it all editing highlights for us. After all it's a volunteer run service and is basically one person doing it. That's why it's outrageous that the National League get the footage for free and then put an embargo on clubs releasing it until after their highlights show.
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Post by pedant on Jul 19, 2019 11:15:11 GMT
I found it interesting that the Club decided to change their StonesTV coverage from the usual 'highlights' to 'key moments'. Not sure that's a club decision. Maybe he likes to have a bit of time to enjoy his summer rather than spending it all editing highlights for us. After all it's a volunteer run service and is basically one person doing it. That's why it's outrageous that the National League get the footage for free and then put an embargo on clubs releasing it until after their highlights show. I'm not "sure" either, and in no way was I knocking what was presented to us by StonesTV.
But the StonesTV 'film' has no title other than Dover vs Maidstone PSF, the reference to 'key moments' only appears on the Club's Official Site, both in the heading and the description. Still looks like a Club based selection of wording to me.
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Post by butlerisalegend on Jul 23, 2019 21:18:47 GMT
Most of those APPEAR to be fairly underwhelming really ....  🤔  Matt McClure must be getting on a bit now, seems to have been around for a while.  Released by Aldershot I assume ?? Yeah hes been released Rather worrying but Aldershot fans seem to be saying he was mostly terrible for them. Yes his nickname was can’t score McClure apparently.....
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