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He talks a good talk....but he also said they'd be going for a win against Brizzle on Monday, so that's blown up in his face a bit
Good mate of mine is a Mackem, I was congratulating him on their play off place yesterday and we got to talking about Wycombe/Ainsworth - they played each other numerous times in League One, including the play off final which Sunderland won. My mate reckons Wycombe were the most horrible team they played against in terms of both style and attitude - time wasting, niggling etc - for years, and there was special joy in beating them at Wembley. In his words ‘even worse than us when we had Alex Neil as manager’.

I haven’t listened to what Dobson has to say but I’ll judge based on what I see.

My mate would like to go to Wembley again, but knows promotion would end in humiliation for them. But they’ve had great fun under Mowbray since Neil left, playing kids and trying to play proper football even when they lose. Good luck to them.
 
Good mate of mine is a Mackem, I was congratulating him on their play off place yesterday and we got to talking about Wycombe/Ainsworth - they played each other numerous times in League One, including the play off final which Sunderland won. My mate reckons Wycombe were the most horrible team they played against in terms of both style and attitude - time wasting, niggling etc - for years, and there was special joy in beating them at Wembley. In his words ‘even worse than us when we had Alex Neil as manager’.

I haven’t listened to what Dobson has to say but I’ll judge based on what I see.

My mate would like to go to Wembley again, but knows promotion would end in humiliation for them. But they’ve had great fun under Mowbray since Neil left, playing kids and trying to play proper football even when they lose. Good luck to them.
Really doesn’t sound good Sb. All this chatter about ‘we do our due diligence’ clearly went out of the window when shear panic set in after the failure of choosing ‘the snake’ and Critchley. Nice to know our senior team are always calm and level-headed. :emoticon-0127-lipss
 
What’s the strategy now? It looks like it was thrown out the window with Ainsworth’s appointment being a short term act of desperation.
Maybe it’s running around head office with your hands in the air screaming ‘Don’t panic Captain Mainwaring’ morning and afternoon.
 
I’m getting word that Shaun Wright Phillips is coming out of retirement providing GA is willing to show him what an opposition goalpost looks like.

l’ve never seen a player chalk up so many kilometres and still fail to find the net. He could be a valuable asset for our juniors, then again he may not.

l know he scored a goal when he first came our way, but ….
Apparently his huge football knowledge and experience has landed Mark W-P a job on Match of the Day on a Saturday night with his Dad! WTF! :emoticon-0121-angry :emoticon-0181-fubar
 
Whoever agreed the Richards deal needs shooting. Taken on loan with an obligation to buy. Surely there must've been a caveat, that he had to make a certain number of appearances. Seems utterly ludicrous to be obligated to take a player who is so frequently injured. Also when he wasn't injured, why the he'll wasn't he playing ? None of the 3 managers this season saw enough in him to be starting him whenever he was fit, something is clearly amiss with the lad. He looked OK a few times when he appeared as a sub, but to be giving a 3 year deal to a player with such a dodgy injury record and who doesn't look like he's gonna fit into Ainsworth's style looks like another piece of **** business. I'm pressuring Les was behind it, encouraged by wart face last Summer !
Exactly this. It's one of the most baffling things in a season full of them. I'd really like to hear GA asked a few direct questions about him. Why was he always on the bench when he looked half decent on the odd occasion he got thrown on in desperation? Is he managing a long term injury problem? Or is it mental issues? I know his mate tragically died and I've got every sympathy with him on that and understand that it might have really knocked him sideways. But he was never picked as a starter even before that. We had an obligation to buy him, regardless of appearances, so someone at the club must have rated him really highly. So why was he never in the starting line up? And what to do with him now?
 
Whoever agreed the Richards deal needs shooting. Taken on loan with an obligation to buy. Surely there must've been a caveat, that he had to make a certain number of appearances. Seems utterly ludicrous to be obligated to take a player who is so frequently injured. Also when he wasn't injured, why the he'll wasn't he playing ? None of the 3 managers this season saw enough in him to be starting him whenever he was fit, something is clearly amiss with the lad. He looked OK a few times when he appeared as a sub, but to be giving a 3 year deal to a player with such a dodgy injury record and who doesn't look like he's gonna fit into Ainsworth's style looks like another piece of **** business. I'm pressuring Les was behind it, encouraged by wart face last Summer !

Any idea how much we had to pay? Could be that we've blown our whole budget for next season already
 
They should do a fans Q and A session - so many questions about where we’re heading and what’s going on. So far very little information apart from us looking like we’re limping into a season that will see us relegated.
 
All these questions of our Board and management (Nobility) could be overstating our position as fans (peasants).
Accept their decisions and keep buying your tickets and merchandise (taxes on the peasants and workers) as you should.

Or line up with/behind Staines for the uprising whenever it happens.
 
Good mate of mine is a Mackem, I was congratulating him on their play off place yesterday and we got to talking about Wycombe/Ainsworth - they played each other numerous times in League One, including the play off final which Sunderland won. My mate reckons Wycombe were the most horrible team they played against in terms of both style and attitude - time wasting, niggling etc - for years, and there was special joy in beating them at Wembley. In his words ‘even worse than us when we had Alex Neil as manager’.

I haven’t listened to what Dobson has to say but I’ll judge based on what I see.

My mate would like to go to Wembley again, but knows promotion would end in humiliation for them. But they’ve had great fun under Mowbray since Neil left, playing kids and trying to play proper football even when they lose. Good luck to them.
I'm still glass half full. Remit was to keep us up regardless of attempting to play anything that resembled football or not. They spent zero money at Wycombe so clear played to the strengths of the players there. I hope we see a change in style next season based on having a few players that can actually play footy, however if Martin signs another contract my glass will quickly become very empty in more ways than one!
 
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️ | [HASHTAG]#Gills[/HASHTAG] have completed the signing of centre-back, Connor Masterson , on a permanent contract. ✍️

The 24-year-old will officially become a Gillingham player on July 1.
 
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️ | [HASHTAG]#Gills[/HASHTAG] have completed the signing of centre-back, Connor Masterson , on a permanent contract. ✍️

The 24-year-old will officially become a Gillingham player on July 1.
What was the actual point of us buying him ? Never given a proper go in our 1st team, another dire bit of recruitment no matter how you dress it up. We are left with 1 match a month Clarke Salter if we're lucky ! Les' legacy really is awful
 
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What was the actual point of us buying him ? Never given a proper go in our 1st team, another dire bit of recruitment no matter how you dress it up. We are left with 1 match a month Clarke Salter if we're lucky ! Les' legacy really is awful

You have to ask wtf do the board do? Everything Les does f*cks us over yet he's untouchable. 8 years and we have the worst team in the 57 years I've been watching them, what an achievement!...
 
You have to ask wtf do the board do? Everything Les does f*cks us over yet he's untouchable. 8 years and we have the worst team in the 57 years I've been watching them, what an achievement!...
I hate agreeing with a post like this because it’s such an awful thing to like about the club you follow so ardently for so long.
But the tenure over the last several years has been a steady decline. I thought the sale of Eze was actually a positive, it showed we were moving in the right direction to manage our finances and capabilities. But it was just a strike of luck and hid the terrible performance of our board and football directorial roles.
It just hid the truth that was going on.