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Post by headstone on Jun 24, 2020 7:27:17 GMT
Interesting that the article is by Terry, I don't think we've heard from him at all during the last two or three years of belt-tightening. I hope he is sincere when he says the aim is to get back into the NL.
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Post by daveu on Jun 24, 2020 7:30:34 GMT
Sadly, we were beginning to look like relegation fodder towards the end of the season. Not literally, but bottom of the form league, it wasn't a good position to be in. Unlike most people, I thought that was a blip. It's easy to go bottom of the form table if you're on a bad run, but most teams have a spell like that during the season. Doesn't make it relegation form. Actually, coming when it did, it probably did us a favour. At least we're not struggling to raise a team for the playoffs.
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Post by 61666 on Jun 24, 2020 7:52:54 GMT
Terry's article pretty much all that most sensible fans could hope for. Build a base of loyal players, add local ones, careful with money. Reading about Boreham Wood's season ticket plan yesterday shows just how much the club is paid for by one person. 500 season tickets at £15 = 75k, which is no recipe for seeing through a season. And they don't get gates of 500 anyway! As for the Stones, hindsight suggests we were promoted to the NL too early. Had we lost the Ebbsfleet final, chances are we would have had a very strong season in the NLS the following year and probably gone up as champions. Gates would have been well over the 2k averages and infrastructure given time to develop slowly. Every chance we would not have found the NL anything like as challenging. Such is life...
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Post by Sennockian69 on Jun 24, 2020 11:46:23 GMT
Having broken the nose of flat 4's boyfriend on Sunday night you maybe able to hear me on prison radio shortly.[/quote] Can you tell us more? [/quote] WTF
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Post by Sennockian69 on Jun 24, 2020 11:51:28 GMT
Interesting that Terry described last season as a great disappointment. Some earlier posts on the forum have gone nuts when that view has been expressed. Anyhow, glad that Terry feels the same as me. Also happy that the club has decided to commit to the best motivated players they can recruit, rather than just rely on those who want to tag on a bit of football training after their day job. My view exactly ! Rather recruit good players than good amateurs.
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Post by garstone on Jun 24, 2020 12:08:45 GMT
Interesting that the article is by Terry, I don't think we've heard from him at all during the last two or three years of belt-tightening. I hope he is sincere when he says the aim is to get back into the NL. If anybody hasn’t listened to Oliver on the Kent Non League podcast he also said that the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t affected the fund raising ambitions or plans to develop the stadium. They still want to increase capacity to 5000 with 1000 seats and bring it up to Football League requirements.
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Post by butlerisalegend on Jun 24, 2020 12:13:04 GMT
Interesting that Terry described last season as a great disappointment. Some earlier posts on the forum have gone nuts when that view has been expressed. Anyhow, glad that Terry feels the same as me. Also happy that the club has decided to commit to the best motivated players they can recruit, rather than just rely on those who want to tag on a bit of football training after their day job. My view exactly ! Rather recruit good players than good amateurs. Of course the answer would be to recruit full time players IF the budget allowed it is a no brainer. However the counter argument is and has been raised many times previously is that are we going to be able to recruit better players than the best available part time players with the budget we have? We will see. On this seasons offering I would say no and it is going to be even tougher with the current situation.
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Post by Nick on Jun 24, 2020 13:22:53 GMT
A few supporters actually believe that the club can recruit better players if we offered twice weekly evening training sessions rather than three times weekly morning training sessions.
There is no way anybody can prove or disprove such beliefs, although I suspect nws may give it a try.
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Post by pedant on Jun 24, 2020 13:28:25 GMT
Interesting that the article is by Terry, I don't think we've heard from him at all during the last two or three years of belt-tightening. I hope he is sincere when he says the aim is to get back into the NL. If anybody hasn’t listened to Oliver on the Kent Non League podcast he also said that the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t affected the fund raising ambitions or plans to develop the stadium. They still want to increase capacity to 5000 with 1000 seats and bring it up to Football League requirements. Haven't heard the podcast so may be responding to your words rather than Oliver's but its easy to have "ambitions" and, when you're looking for other investors, even more so in a financially challenging period, what else are you going to say?
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Post by steveh21 on Jun 24, 2020 13:28:51 GMT
A few supporters actually believe that the club can recruit better players if we offered twice weekly evening training sessions rather than three times weekly morning training sessions. There is no way anybody can prove or disprove such beliefs, although I suspect nws may give it a try. The reason it is argued Nick is because it has worked for years, five of the top six in NLS used this model and good partime nonlleague players who do not live and breathe football and have other jobs cannot make daytime training. Pretty simple really :-)
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Post by pedant on Jun 24, 2020 13:37:39 GMT
My view exactly ! Rather recruit good players than good amateurs. Of course the answer would be to recruit full time players IF the budget allowed it is a no brainer. However the counter argument is and has been raised many times previously is that are we going to be able to recruit better players than the best available part time players with the budget we have? We will see. On this seasons offering I would say no and it is going to be even tougher with the current situation. If you take into account Bill's and Terry's words then the alternative to the route the Club has chosen would be the best available part time players with an even smaller budget as we apparently lose the potential income from the facilities for the training nights.
Fortunately, better people than me, with access to all the figures, and financial interest in the outcome have made the decision.
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Post by jdl on Jun 24, 2020 14:00:01 GMT
On a purely practical level, how do 'full-time' players (ie those with enough spare time to train three mornings a week) live off 'part-time' wages (ie not enough to live on)? Especially in the high unemployment, post-lockdown world we are about to stumble into.
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Post by jdl on Jun 24, 2020 14:07:17 GMT
I know very little about football training, but surely it's possible to do a mix of morning and evening training? For instance, morning training could concentrate on individual coaching, when only the 'pro' players are in, whilst evenings are spent on team development, when everyone is present?
Although, now I think of it, I suppose there's not really any need for team-based training, as we clearly haven't needed to practise set-pieces, passing, attacking, etc for years...
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Post by Nick on Jun 24, 2020 14:13:37 GMT
A few supporters actually believe that the club can recruit better players if we offered twice weekly evening training sessions rather than three times weekly morning training sessions. There is no way anybody can prove or disprove such beliefs, although I suspect nws may give it a try. The reason it is argued Nick is because it has worked for years, five of the top six in NLS used this model and good partime nonlleague players who do not live and breathe football and have other jobs cannot make daytime training. Pretty simple really :-) Simple yes. If only football management was thus.
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Post by steveh21 on Jun 24, 2020 14:27:23 GMT
I know very little about football training, but surely it's possible to do a mix of morning and evening training? For instance, morning training could concentrate on individual coaching, when only the 'pro' players are in, whilst evenings are spent on team development, when everyone is present? Although, now I think of it, I suppose there's not really any need for team-based training, as we clearly haven't needed to practise set-pieces, passing, attacking, etc for years... Not fair on players who have to be there in the morning AND the evening.
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