Re: [ Tues April 5th ] v Arlesey KO 7.45pm SL1DC Away
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:21 pm
Post 60.......did we lose last night OD2 

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Not sure how I'm deluded. A few weeks ago I was one of the lead voices on here championing the fact we should be delighted with the play offs when people were moaning we weren't going to win the league.SouthRushdenJFC wrote:That's a stupid post. The issue stopped being about a single game when posters started calling for wholesale changes. A season is eight months long, to build a club from nothing a lot longer. Yet we have the most ridiculous posts after a bad run of six games.BartonRaz wrote:I don't want to fan the flames but many of those appealing for calm on here weren't at Arlesey last night. Just an observation.
A year ago today promotion was secured from the UCL. If anyone was offered play-offs going into April they'd have all took it, perhaps not OD#² but he's deluded.
And yup we did, and I personally haven't criticised one player nor the managementcorby diamond wrote:Post 60.......did we lose last night OD2
Can a factual remark be stupid?SouthRushdenJFC wrote:That's a stupid post.BartonRaz wrote:I don't want to fan the flames but many of those appealing for calm on here weren't at Arlesey last night. Just an observation.
Not sure how making the observation I did has ended up with me being encouraged to join the board.Pigman wrote: If you want to influence that, become a member and stand for the Board, elections are coming - I'm sure your application would be gratefully received by the current Board who are keen for some new/fresh blood!!
Yep, for the reasons I alluded to.BartonRaz wrote:Can a factual remark be stupid?SouthRushdenJFC wrote:That's a stupid post.BartonRaz wrote:I don't want to fan the flames but many of those appealing for calm on here weren't at Arlesey last night. Just an observation.
SouthRushdenJFC wrote:You should all be glad you have a team. Bad spells are going to happen. They happened for Rushden & Diamonds, they happen for all teams. It's how you react to them that defines a club and at the moment there are too many knee jerk reactions calling for the manager to be sacked, calling players rubbish.diamondsteve wrote:
I think you two are from the "be glad we have a team" group . Zzzzz you could copy half of that post and post it in the next or so when we have a bad spell.
Forget what others think dowlo. We the loyal fans know what's going on and it's a bit more than going through a bad spell.
Losing bunting is massive for us. We had a spine in the side finers ,dolman ,bunts (you could always hear bunts bolocking the team) Lorraine which never stopped running and well could say Berwick as he always gave 100%. Now we have a side without a spine and I think that sums it all up.....
You for example Steve, 11th March you hailed the signing of Elliott Sandy as "massive", yet on the 12th you were asking what he was doing on the pitch. Stevenson 's signing got you "so excited" and you commended Peaksy on"a great bit of business" in January.
Yet here at the beginning of April everyone's rubbish.
Quite clearly you don't have a clue what's going on, evidenced by your quoting of a spine of five players, three of which are still in the team, one is injured and the other has only scored two goals in ten UCL Div 1 games.
We all know sport is emotive but everyone needs to keep a bit of perspective.
The alternative is to put yourself up for the board and change things from within rather than moan (stupidly in most cases) from without. management, players and board are there to be shot at. they know that when they take on the role, but I've yet to see anyone post a credible alternative.
I find this ridiculous, especially as it is twelve months to the day since promotion from the UCL was won.