Answer Me This

Well what a difference a week makes. And at the end of it all the Chairman Ron Martin decides to call a Q and A session. In my eyes, and these are eyes that haven’t been critical of the chairman, board or manager (until last week), he’s got a lot to answer for. Losing three nil to fellow relegation battlers Hartlepool United wasn’t a good start. We now need six wins from twelve games according to Tilson. This is achievable and it’s important that the next five games are against teams who are in and around the relegation zone. It would have helped getting some sort of result against the Monkey Hangers, as we would have overtaken them. An important game against Exeter City tomorrow is a must win. Exeter are one place above us in the league and these are the games we should be and need to be winning.

Macca hasn’t helped us again with another match ban after receiving a red card last week, Jeff’s still out after his red card against Charlton. We’ve got the players to fill in though even if Granty is coming back earlier than he should be from injury. I think him and Moose are a capable and skilful midfield. Sometimes Grant can be lazy but he’s learnt the defensive skills he needed to adopt to his game with a few central defensive roles earlier this season. Even if he did score an own goal every time he was playing there. Moose bleeds for the team and he is by far the most skilful player on the pitch I think he is very under-rated; I’ve liked him since he was a youth team player. They are an inexperienced midfield pairing but with the ever-improving Damien Scannell and Francis Laurent, whom I would expect is going to start on the opposite wing, having regular first team starts then it is an exciting attacking midfield.

They say football is unpredictable and who’d have said at the start of the season assistant manager Paul Brush would have been sacked and replaced with the notorious David Webb. We’ve been here before with Webby and it hasn’t always turned out roses, but I wonder whether this is strategic and thoughtful planning from Ron Martin, or whether it’s resorting to ‘what we know best’ tactics. It will be interesting to see what comes of it but it is definitely a surprise and may be the change I was alluding to in my last post, even if it isn’t as drastic. But answer me this Ron Martin, when are we going to see long term contracts signed by players and transfer fees from the ones we move on? Without this the club has an unstable future.