A FEW THINGS HERE
But Heathcote is confident he is still the man to lead the Robins to Blue Square Premier survival.
Good, I'm glad to hear it. However, please lets make sure we don't get confidence and stubborness confused
"When this club were fourth bottom of the Unibond, who was brought in to turn things around? So if I was good enough for the job then, why should I not have the self-belief to think I can get it right this time.
Abso-f**king-lutely Graham! I still (just about) believe in you for one, so why don't you. Why all the other teams are getting better and we can't tripe? Why the negative sides? HAVE SOME BELIEF IN YOURSELF, HAVE SOME BELIEF IN THE PLAYERS YOU HAVE and finally, HAVE SOME BELIEF IN US! We know the league is difficult but any criticism you are getting is because people think you have given up the ghost of trying to get at teams, making Moss Lane a fortress etc? We can't win attacking so we'll just try and compete and die a slow painful death.
As remarked by a cambridge fan tuesday, any other club in the country and you'd be crucified. Maybe GH should go play football manager for a bit until his confidence comes back.
"Some fans have got short memories," said Goodwin.
"They need to look at what we have achieved at this club over the last five years and not be so negative. Graham is Altrincham FC."
NO NO NO NO NO AND NO! Graham is not Altrincham FC, neither are you Geoff, nor is anyone individual, be it Jackie Swindells, Noel White, John King, Ken McKenna, Keith Davey, Dennis Birch, Hughesy or anyone else you care to mention. In my view this is the one factor that needs to be addressed.
And I can assure you, fans have long memories. We know what the Unibond league is like, we know what the winding up orders are like. Going back there is the last thing anyone wants but the fans are growing tired of the negative defeatist outlook currently given, and by that I mean the (on the face of it) managements attitude that we can't attack cos we'll be picked off so trying to use any of our attacking players is a no no. And nor will fans accept that we are a conference north club, never have, never will and it was your leadership with that attitude that got us back to where we are. We have to have that attitude, no matter how far we travel, how hard it is or how arrogant opposition directors are.
In my view, the last 5 years of this club are as much a success story as any of thh 70s and 80s, but we can't just say that is enough. Do you think anyone kept the faith just so we could come so far and fall back. To suggest that people are negative is bizarre, it exactly the opposite that is causing the problem.
"Clearly we have major problems up front. We have always relied on Colin Little to score goals so when he had a tough time we were always going to struggle.
Well, that's easily solved, if we're having problems up front playing with 2 strikers lets just play with 1 all the time instead (preferably the one with least goal scoring threat). That will increase our chances of scoring
"The solution now is to borrow some players from league clubs but that's not a long-term solution, it's just a stop-gap."
Stop gap it is then, but let's at least try and believe we can stay in this division. Our ambition is only to finish 5th from bottom, not an unrealistic expectation is it!
I've left a lot out of this post but that article is one of the most embarrassing pieces of drivel in this clubs history. If you pull your heads out of the sand for long enough you will realise that peoples heads aren't in the clouds.
Furious.
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