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Post by Tim Munslow on Oct 5, 2017 19:06:02 GMT
Anyone thinking of going to Shawbury next Saturday shouldn't!
Shawbury play at Ludlow Town's ground, which is Bromfield Rd, Ludlow, and for satnav users the postcode is SY8 2BN. I intend going and may have spare seats: anyone with a WR2 postcode that fancies a lift please send me a private message.
I think you can access the stadium via the Rock Green roundabout on the A49, going left on to Henley Road, but I haven't been there before so don't rely on that 100%.
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Post by The sound and the fury on Oct 7, 2017 17:42:41 GMT
Well that was fun. Abject doesn't get close. Truly atrocious "performance" against a side who just wanted it more. Shawbury won every challenge all game, often illegally it must be said, but they were gifted two goals and outfought City.
Quite why Hughes still thinks he can play is beyond me, especially at the expense of Reyno who was only on the bench. Hughes' legs have gone, he doesn't make the runs or pull defenders around like Reyno does. We started sloppily with nobody seeming up for the game, and they walked through for the opener on 16, Albert Alexandru certainly ain't a right back, no positional sense at all. Then Danks had another brain fart and stamped on his marker, straight red. Idiotic. Alex Tomlkinson equalised with a good finish from 15 yards on 37 minutes after Hughes' pass deflected nicely for him, but then City failed to clear a set piece and a cracking volley put the home side back in front. You'd expect City would have worked out the swirling wind was making direct football difficult and that passing it around and using the pace of Sarmento would be a better option, but no it was hoof and hope for the rest of the game. Reyno was on at half time for Tomkinson rather than Hughes, but he hardly saw the ball as the only plan seemed to be to lump it towards Hughes. Yes Shawbury were very robust and a tad naughty at times, but if City have any aspirations of promotion then you have to be up for the fight on wet and windy days at supposedly lesser sides. We lost this before we kicked off because the team seemed to think it would be a stroll. Snape has all the tactical nous of roadkill, and someone needs to get it into Hughes's bonce the he needs to hang 'em up now, he's a liability on the pitch. Not good enough.
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Post by The sound and the fury on Oct 7, 2017 17:45:14 GMT
And don't even start me on Baldwin's contribution. About time someone wiped that smug grin off his face and got him to do some work.
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Post by genghis on Oct 7, 2017 18:31:21 GMT
Well that was fun. Abject doesn't get close. Truly atrocious "performance" against a side who just wanted it more. Shawbury won every challenge all game, often illegally it must be said, but they were gifted two goals and outfought City. Quite why Hughes still thinks he can play is beyond me, especially at the expense of Reyno who was only on the bench. Hughes' legs have gone, he doesn't make the runs or pull defenders around like Reyno does. We started sloppily with nobody seeming up for the game, and they walked through for the opener on 16, Albert Alexandru certainly ain't a right back, no positional sense at all. Then Danks had another brain fart and stamped on his marker, straight red. Idiotic. Alex Tomlkinson equalised with a good finish from 15 yards on 37 minutes after Hughes' pass deflected nicely for him, but then City failed to clear a set piece and a cracking volley put the home side back in front. You'd expect City would have worked out the swirling wind was making direct football difficult and that passing it around and using the pace of Sarmento would be a better option, but no it was hoof and hope for the rest of the game. Reyno was on at half time for Tomkinson rather than Hughes, but he hardly saw the ball as the only plan seemed to be to lump it towards Hughes. Yes Shawbury were very robust and a tad naughty at times, but if City have any aspirations of promotion then you have to be up for the fight on wet and windy days at supposedly lesser sides. We lost this before we kicked off because the team seemed to think it would be a stroll. Snape has all the tactical nous of roadkill, and someone needs to get it into Hughes's bonce the he needs to hang 'em up now, he's a liability on the pitch. Not good enough. When a friend of mine text me the score, I thought he was taking the piss. I checked the twitter feed afterwards and found out he wasn’t. I hope the team issues an apology for what sounds like an embarrassing performance. All jokes aside, Snape and Hughes shouldn’t be managing the team. I can’t afford to be patient with them, not at the level we’re playing at. It’s promotion or bust for me. Very surprised to hear about Danks. I don’t think i’ve seen any other instances of him being ill-tempered yet. Apparently there was a fight amongst supporters after the match too. Were any City fans involved? |
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Post by alwaysnextyear on Oct 7, 2017 19:04:31 GMT
It was as dreadful a performance as I've seen in long time. I was stood there in the driving rain, watching very low level football, and thought to myself, if the Board are happy where we are, I certainly wasn't ! The weather was awful, the football was awful, and the officials were awful. Shawbury just wanted it more from the start, the ref let them get away with putting it about and the game became niggly, Danks got himself sent off as the ref lost control. Sadly the quality of the ref was in keeping with the quality of the football. It was a dreadful performance against a limited, hard working team.
As for the fight at the end of the match with 5 minutes to go, it was all City fans I'm afraid ! Fight is too strong a word, it was more handbags and verbals between in the blue corner a portly 50 year old regular who should know a lot better, and in the red corner 2 pimply youths who don't know any better. To his credit, non playing spectator Brad Birch stepped in and quietened it down. A fine example from the Club Captain, and well done to him.
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Post by jupu on Oct 7, 2017 19:13:36 GMT
Quite frankly that was as bad as I've seen in a very long time and a total let down for all the City fans there. An apology is certainly due and I think Snape and Hughes should reflect seriously on their capabilities as managers if they are unable to show sufficient nous or ability to win against the bottom team in our league. Quite why Hughes started ahead of Reynolds is beyond me.
The fracas at the end seemed to involve Tony Palfrey and three teenagers, who had been on the cider and had clearly had too many.
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Post by Croc on Oct 7, 2017 19:44:53 GMT
Well that was bloody awful.
I shall say no more...
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Post by Fred on Oct 7, 2017 19:46:59 GMT
Quite frankly that was as bad as I've seen in a very long time and a total let down for all the City fans there. An apology is certainly due and I think Snape and Hughes should reflect seriously on their capabilities as managers if they are unable to show sufficient nous or ability to win against the bottom team in our league. Quite why Hughes started ahead of Reynolds is beyond me. The fracas at the end seemed to involve Tony Palfrey and three teenagers, who had been on the cider and had clearly had too many. Mr Palfrey is a complete muppet. Whatever the teenagers had done, grabbing a youth around the throat and reducing him to tears is pathetic from a grown man !. On the team performance....was like Long Eaton match again but 20% worse and in the rain and cold was a waste of a Saturday afternoon...at least the drive there and back was nice across Clee Hill |
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Post by genghis on Oct 7, 2017 20:06:18 GMT
Oh, I know Tony Palfrey. He’s the guy who tried to get people to boycott New Touch Hairdressers after they wouldn’t cut his lad’s hair.
Regardless of who instigated it, i’m really disappointed to hear of City fans behaving in such a way at an away game. Bad enough the team were in poor form without fans embarrassing big us further.
Reynolds is far and away the cream of the crop of the current squad for me. I agree with the consensus that Hughes starting ahead of him is idiocy.
All in all, very glad I didn’t attend today.
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Post by althom on Oct 7, 2017 21:19:45 GMT
Maybe the Board should give Liam McDonald a call now he's left Solihull, he must have more idea than this managerial pair!
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Post by The sound and the fury on Oct 7, 2017 21:34:57 GMT
Maybe the Board should give Liam McDonald a call now he's left Solihull, he must have more idea than this managerial pair! Think he's out of our league. We're a Sunday team that play on Saturdays. |
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Post by Tim Munslow on Oct 7, 2017 21:35:17 GMT
"We lost this before we kicked off because the team seemed to think it would be a stroll." is teej's summary, and I couldn't agree more. Shawbury were clearly up for it.
One of the worst afternoons I've ever spent watching City : embarrassing. As for Danks: well, I've seen him do this kind of thing more than once and he really should learn to control his temper.
If any good can come from it then perhaps it will be that we won't under-estimate any side in this league again.
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Post by prestonwcfc on Oct 7, 2017 22:05:33 GMT
Trouble is Tim i said that after the littleton fiasco !!
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Post by Mark on Oct 7, 2017 22:49:05 GMT
Not sure how much longer I can be bothered to watch this shite. Only managed two games so far this season. Shawbury and Chasetown and both abysmal performances. For me the fat lady is on stage and clearing her throat. Sorry to say it.
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Post by Noboddy aka Lord Ealing on Oct 8, 2017 7:33:18 GMT
The board don't want promotion. If that were to seem a possibility they would sell players and ensure the club stayed in this league. Your support is wasted.
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Post by Mark on Oct 8, 2017 8:06:27 GMT
The board don't want promotion. If that were to seem a possibility they would sell players and ensure the club stayed in this league. Your support is wasted. I am prepared to go to the occasional AWAY game but only until I get fed up of the “football” on offer |
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Post by dragon on Oct 8, 2017 8:22:42 GMT
Wiki tells me that Shawbury is a Shropshire village with a population of 2,800. Says it all really. How could we have fallen to these depths ?
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Post by oxford on Oct 8, 2017 8:43:47 GMT
It shows what can happen when people, myself included to begin with,ignore sound advice and put their trust in people they thought they knew and could be trusted. Not wishing to exonerate myself(I will carry the guilt for not believing straight away forever, but it won't ruin my life!!) but I think that there is some justification for not believing things in the first instance when accusations come out that shock you. What I just cannot understand though is the way that the penny didn't drop to everyone in due course-And it still hasn't!!!! Worcester City FC-1979- joint best non league side in the land-Worcester City FC-2017- Laughing stock.
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Post by jupu on Oct 8, 2017 9:17:32 GMT
The other joint best team in non-league football in 1979 have suffered two successive relegations and finished last season below us in the Conference North.
Back to the present, there have been some really poor away performances this season, including successive defeats by village teams.
At home we are unbeaten and seem able to score goals for fun, but there are clearly deficiencies, maybe both on and off the field.
Hopefully yesterday will be a turning point in our season.
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Post by oxford on Oct 8, 2017 9:29:49 GMT
True of course. They also still play at Moss Lane and are currently 2 levels above us. Not much else to say really.
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Post by jupu on Oct 8, 2017 10:09:10 GMT
You could also say that they benefitted from the transfer of Duncan Watmore to Sunderland for £6.2 million, according to Wiki.
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Post by jupu on Oct 8, 2017 10:21:27 GMT
Or indeed that the three teams that finished below us in the Southern League in 1979 - Kettering, Telford and Maidstone - have all since gone into administration or folded completely, that two of them reformed but no longer play at the same ground they had in 1979.
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Post by genghis on Oct 8, 2017 10:29:19 GMT
The board don't want promotion. If that were to seem a possibility they would sell players and ensure the club stayed in this league. Your support is wasted. I will admit that this has crossed my mind too. I dismissed the thought though, even this board can’t be so craven to deliberately sabotage promotion. |
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Post by Noboddy aka Lord Ealing on Oct 8, 2017 10:36:37 GMT
I'm not sure what your point is. That many teams at this level are in financial difficulties? That's certainly true. Or there are numerous dishonest sh!ts out there who f*ck up clubs? Either way we are where we are thanks to grossly incompetent, and possibly illegal activities, by Boddy, Hallmark and co. This wasn't an 'act of God'. It was, and still is being, perpetrated by local chancers. Knowing that's happened elsewhere is no reason to accept it.
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Post by Noboddy aka Lord Ealing on Oct 8, 2017 10:38:52 GMT
The board don't want promotion. If that were to seem a possibility they would sell players and ensure the club stayed in this league. Your support is wasted. I will admit that this has crossed my mind too. I dismissed the thought though, even this board can’t be so craven to deliberately sabotage promotion. Really? They manipulated our relegation last season into the bowels of Hades. They'll screw things up again if it suits them. |
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Post by jupu on Oct 8, 2017 10:49:23 GMT
The board don't want promotion. If that were to seem a possibility they would sell players and ensure the club stayed in this league. Your support is wasted. I will admit that this has crossed my mind too. I dismissed the thought though, even this board can’t be so craven to deliberately sabotage promotion. I think we were told by the management before the start of the season that the aim is to win the MFL and get to Wembley? |
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Post by jupu on Oct 8, 2017 10:51:55 GMT
I'm not sure what your point is. That many teams at this level are in financial difficulties? That's certainly true. Or there are numerous dishonest sh!ts out there who f*ck up clubs? Either way we are where we are thanks to grossly incompetent, and possibly illegal activities, by Boddy, Hallmark and co. This wasn't an 'act of God'. It was, and still is being, perpetrated by local chancers. Knowing that's happened elsewhere is no reason to accept it. My point was simply to present an alternative point of view to Oxford. |
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Post by oxford on Oct 8, 2017 13:55:23 GMT
I understand that and you are, of course, perfectly entitled to your opinion. I 'm sorry that I put the bit about 1979 down as it seems to have detracted from the main issue.I couldn't care less about any of the other clubs if I am honest. I am simply furious about what has happened to our club and mystified that so many others seem to accept it uncomplainingly.
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Post by genghis on Oct 8, 2017 14:44:26 GMT
I complain plenty, and it is depressing to see the depths that City have fallen. Amazing that up until a couple of years ago I expected to see City playing in the Vanarama National by now. Maybe it’s just a habit I can’t get out of, but I can’t bring myself to give up on the club yet, and will still attend games where I can this season. The club is more than the Board to me. Ask me in May, and I may think differently though. I will admit that this has crossed my mind too. I dismissed the thought though, even this board can’t be so craven to deliberately sabotage promotion. Really? They manipulated our relegation last season into the bowels of Hades. They'll screw things up again if it suits them. You could be right, but the way i’m looking at it is the Board know that support will dwindle even further if the club fail to achieve promotion. Speaking for myself, I will be attending no games at all next season if City are still in the Midland Prem. Hopefully the Board have enough sense to see how critical of an issue promotion is. |
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Post by Brooksiders Return!! on Oct 8, 2017 15:39:21 GMT
Catch 22, promotion relies on spending money, more money than we've probably got, into a division where we will need to spend even more money to stay in that league. And unless there's a huge influx of cash, we won't be looking at any further promotions, as the Board have already admitted that we can't function at Conference League level anymore. On top of that, somehow the club will have to find large amounts of cash to fund any plans that need to be put together for a new ground, and you're looking at 6 figure sums of money for that alone.
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