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art vandalay

Dire first half but we came out with the right attitude in the second. Stubbs was excellent, good play by Taylor on both goals, another solid game for Kinsella, Dulson put in a shift and I thought Pett helped to keep it simple when we needed it.

art vandalay

I thought Taylor was really poor when he came on, he didn’t close them down or anything. And I always think it’s questionable to be changing centre halves near the end when you’re defending a result.

Perhaps not too different to the Bromley game then.

art vandalay

Great guy, always affable when I spoke to him. RIP.

art vandalay

Our record at bringing young players through has generally been pretty poor, so if MM helped make changes to improve that, fair play to him. I guess the next five years will give an indication of how successful that’s been.

art vandalay

A good win, especially as we’ve got some tough games coming up. First half was tedious, no lack of effort from us but precious little of any merit with Miller, Archer and Thomas making little headway and having to contend with poor balls forward. I thought the subs made the difference for us and we ...

art vandalay

We were just poor against ten men, especially in the second half, playing the long ball and giving up possession. Fair play to Bromley, they played some decent football throughout.

art vandalay

Enjoyable game, everyone put a good shift in although I can’t help feeling that we’ve seen the best of Taylor and he still has 18 months on his contract. A very good first half from us and we should have been ahead. In the second Reading were just starting to get on top and we were done for pace at ...

art vandalay

That was proper football and by far the best game at WR this season. A great first half from us, exciting to watch, Miller, Archer and Thomas all looking a threat, Bennett very tidy at the back and Kinsella covering a hell of a lot of ground. And fair play to Sohna for a steady performance at full-b...

art vandalay

That’s our best half this season by some considerable distance. What’s happened? Passing it to our own players! Movement up front!

art vandalay

Great result. Yet again, it gives us some breathing space and a few more games for Flynn to work out his best side & formation. And good to see Thomas in the action. Who’d have thought he’d have to wait until October for his third start?

art vandalay

The one thing I take issue with, like Ihearye, is the comment about not wanting to spend a minimal amount to generate 'only' £100k. He then says that we cannot afford a CEO as this would cost the same as a good player in salary (maybe around £100k?) and so would take away from the playing budget. S...

art vandalay

It’s an interesting interview but it shouldn’t take the board being backed into a corner for them to discuss matters that happened four or five months ago.

art vandalay

Sohna started the first two games of the season and we were a mess defensively. He strikes the ball well but there are probably other aspects of his game that leave us a bit exposed.

art vandalay

Bennett and Young do seem to have a whiff of Richards - Taylor about them.

art vandalay

Flynn’s talking out of his arse. There wasn’t any negativity from last season - we had a good go at overcoming an incredibly bad start to the season, but it wasn’t to be. The negativity only began when things subsequently started to fall apart.

art vandalay

Not yet, but not far off. Games are awful to watch and our performance has been poor at every home game so far. We’ve seen a few good patches of football, today for example, but this has been more than outweighed by our rank crapness over the majority of the game. All three games we’ve won had an el...

art vandalay

More garbage and no indication that we’re making any progress. Max 4 more games for Flynn at this rate.

art vandalay

There’s a newsletter? All I get is an email with the match preview.

art vandalay

Interesting and he does make some valid points, but it also comes across as petty at times. Fundamentally, comms from the top level of the club have been awful but there doesn't seem to be any desire to correct this, and it gets perceived as arrogance by fans. As has been mentioned, we are only told...

art vandalay

We played in the Welsh Cup in the late 80s as Kidderminster had been doing it with some success. It didn’t work for us though and the Conference weren’t happy at the cup taking preference on Saturdays. I think our most notable run was before that, maybe late 70s or early 80s when we lost narrowly at...

art vandalay

I think there have only been 2 or 3 waterlogged in the last 25 years. No point wrecking the pitch just to play this game. I remember a game against Southend that was postponed less than 1 hour before kick-off and it was throwing it down. Wasn’t it also Southend when we had an abandoned game when a f...

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I’d be disappointed with the Trust if they turned down an offer to contribute 50% of the cost of the review. I’m sure it could be raised from members. It just all comes across as petty squabbling and self-defeating and, ultimately, the club & fans won’t benefit if the review doesn’t happen.

art vandalay

There’s a legacy, often amongst senior non-League clubs, of using the freehold of the ground as security for borrowing. All too often it ends with debts becoming unmanageable and the club has to sell the ground to stay afloat. Classic example is Worcester City, once a leading team, big ground, good ...

art vandalay

A battling 20 minute display and 3 welcome points, giving Flynn another breathing space to try again to sort out the obvious mess. Over the whole 90 minutes though, I thought we were relegation standard, which is pretty much how we’ve looked over the five home games as a whole.

art vandalay

This is what happens when you have characters like James Young and Mark Halliwell thinking they can dictate. Calling out the board in a public forum and making demands on how the club should be run. The board have said up with this we will not put. This could backfire in a catastrophic way……: I mea...

art vandalay

Even if the club is up for sale surely it would still be worth having this external review carried out and then this can be used as a basis for a new owner and the Trust to move forward? Not wanting the review comes across as the board not wanting it to be made public just how far they’ve allowed th...

art vandalay

One if the confusing things for me is that, as I read it, the trust where looking to have external people come up with ideas and put forward proposals. The fact that the board have blocked this I fail to understand. By all means consider and reject any of the output, but to block the gathering of i...

art vandalay

Not surprising but massively disappointing. The board are a bunch of amateurs who IMO are more concerned with retaining their own status than in progressing the club. It really beggars belief that they’ve turned down this opportunity.

As I view it, this makes their position untenable.

art vandalay

Again, why do you blame Bloxham? He has one vote, the same as the rest of the board. Always baffles me as well. What really concerns me though is the thought that they actually don't realise that anything is wrong - and I have definitely heard that this is the case. Agreed, but the Chair is the fig...

art vandalay

Still waiting for a full explanation by someone at the club why it was deemed necessary to enforce a complete rebuild. Right now this is looking like one of the worst decisions in the last 25 years.

art vandalay

Christian Norton has signed for Bala Town in the Welsh Premier after scoring two goals for Chester in National League North last season.

art vandalay

I used to know someone in the backroom staff and he said other teams didn’t like defending the PRE due to the slope and it was especially difficult to get the ball out of the corner nearest to Parklands. But this is all something to use to our advantage. I’m pretty sure that the year we won the Trop...

art vandalay

Never a dull moment in Flynn interviews. This week he’s going big on The Hill. I know there’s a slope at Whaddon Road but I don’t think I’ve ever heard any manager cite as a significant problem. Flynn seems to think it is for some our current crop of players though. Those players need to grow a pai...

art vandalay

I‘m not going to let a late goal change my overall view, which would certainly have seen the team booed off. Overall, it was a very poor game, we were really poor and didn‘t in any way deserve three points. First half was absolutely shocking, we were completely static. We picked up after the break w...

art vandalay

Jeez, what a complete bag of sh!te.

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