Jacqueline Mary wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:15 pm
I got literally taken apart verbally on this forum last season for raising some very valid points
I think one of the reasons that you seem to attract criticism is because you sometimes sound like you are talking on behalf of other people and other people don't appreciate people speaking for them etc.
Recent examples:
Hitchin fans who attend away games seem almost scared to comment.
Freddie is on eggshells.
Mark Burke does not care about the FA Cup.
Are fans really scared to comment?
From a personal point of view, when we lose I turn my attention to the next game and hope we can bounce back, if I have seen that the players put in a shift and tried, then I don't have to much to grumble about. We don't have a big budget and we don't have 3 or 4 veteran football league players in the team like some clubs in this league, if you take those teams out of the mix it leaves a fairly even pond, I expect us to be competitive but I don't expect us to win every game, having off days is part of football.
If we had a bigger budget I would expect better results and with that of course I would be critical if we were falling short, at the current moment in time though, if we were to lose 4/5 games in a row and we could see that the players were not playing for Mark Burke, I wouldn't be afraid to say OK it's time for a change.
Does Mark Burke really not care about the FA Cup?
He has played for us in some of our FA Cup runs and as a manager took us on a cup run just a few years ago, he's more familiar with the magic of the FA Cup than most, every year we see giant killers in the FA Cup, you will even see a club who are almost bottom of their league go on a run beating clubs from 2 or 3 leagues above yet they will still struggle to win a league game all season.
It is crazy in the way that it makes players perform above and beyond what you would expect from them and the hard to beat mentality that it breads into them, keep in mind that to a team in a lower league than us, we are a scalp, Heybridge Swifts entered the competition 2 rounds earlier than us so they already had a winning momentum behind them when they came up against us and on the day it showed, we fell short, that doesn't mean the manager doesn't care about the FA Cup though, he put a team out that he thought was capable of getting a result, it's wrong to say 'he' lost the potential revenue because it's a team game, the responsibility is shared between the players and the manager.
By all means if you want to criticise people, go ahead but please remember the views you are expressing are purely your own, if anyone else wants to be critical they are capable of doing it themselves and just because they don't - does not mean they want to but are actually just too scared to do so.