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Think the absence of Bailo and also Woodley seems to me a pity. We don't have that amount of strikers in the squad !

www.aylesburyunitedfc.co.uk/players/jordan-johnson/

I think this is the guy we have, there is another Jordan Johnson but hes a welsh striker and don't think it was him!

Max Taylor is a winger, Matt Cruttwell is the Back up GK

Taylor has played for Eastbourne Borough first team, not sure if he's ours or dual reg

both are wingers from Eastbourne, checked with Terry, Matt Cruttwell is on there ( now ) presume he was in the U21 squad initially dont forget that all of them would be ok to play Ryman South too

yeah any idea where hes gone?

Rose can play CB with one of the full backs filling in for him

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yeah any idea where hes gone?

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Looks liike Billericay

Would've been nice to keep him to be fair, but can't have them all I guess

Has Allen left? I noticed he didn't play today?

Don't think he'll be there for much longer though!

They've got that Dominic Heaume or whatever his name is who looked really good, and that Ryan Zico Black (something like that). They're the other other two who stood out for me. I know that Heaume scored against Chipstead on Saturday.

Merstham beating Three Bridges by such a large margin did surprise me a bit, it has to be said!

Lee Carey playing for Tonbridge against Lewes Tonight. Dee Okojie also starting.

On the bright sight of life: only 5 points behind the play offs places..............

He's on holiday I believe.

Ah that's good!

I know - slightly embarrassing really! Trouble is, when he's talking, I'm frantically trying to think of another question to follow on with!

I have a few standard ones that I'll use for each interview, just word them in a different way. Then I'll throw in game relevant ones, but each question has to flow from the previous answer!

I think, as almost all do from other forum comments, that Dom's appointment is a bold and imaginative one; and that he stands an excellent chance of creating the long term success which has eluded us for so many years. I don't expect though an instant march up the table. Clearly Dom has firstly to take stock of the current squad. I'm sure he'll do that without preconceptions. He and we might find that some players who have been disappointing thus far this season will improve with different coaching and a new managerial approach. Others might not and will need to be replaced.

I think it a difficult, though not utterly impossible, task for us to get to the play-offs this season. I think an achievable immediate target would be to be no more than 12 points adrift from the last play-off spot at the turn of the year. That would at least give us something to go for in the second half of the season. What I do hope though is to see us (however slowly) going forward in terms of performance.

Horsham wins again

Charlie Farmer signs for Redhill. So much for him taking time out of the game to be with his family. Another bull***t story.

think lot bull poo came from west sussex. not very honest

Very tight at the bottom, just 7 points separate the bottom 9

Be good to start a run on Saturday.

Interesting to see Whyteleafe 4 down within 25mins of their cup game at Billericay tonight. Looked at the team and the team is almost identical to Saturdays team against Hythe in the league. Good omens I hope.

Whyteleafe pulled it back to 4-3 (final score)

I am assuming Nigel or some representative of the club was there last night watching Saturday's opponents? I know Dom used to watch a lot of football during the week, I assume managers still do this even at Ryman level? Keeping in mind they had their first 11 out last night I am sure we would have learnt a lot for Saturday's game. Am I making too many assumptions here?

At this very moment we are in very big trouble: Both East Grindstead and Redhill are winning............

And Hythe now winning. So much for the theory that we will stay up because everyone around us is so poor.

And Corinthian...no more relying on others. Where f****d!

The only bit of good news is that Redhill conceded in the last minute to deny them a win.
Let's hope our goal difference doesn't get a battering tonight.
Now that is seriously pessimistic when you say things like that !

Frankie Sawyer has left Tooting and joined Redhill. He could have a say in our relegation scrap . . .

I know we need to concentrate on our own games but Faversham beat Redhill 3-1 tonight.

4 minutes from time the equalizer 1-1

You're right Lenny but where from? We haven't won in 7, clean sheets are a rarity and we haven't beaten anybody above us in the League since December. It's disastrous.

We've been hearing about 'must win' games since about November. Horsham is a 'must win, must win' game I suppose. No doubt the manager has a cunning plan, as we may well be occupying a relegation spot by then.

Let's not forget that we were unlucky to get a point against Burgess Hill and it took a goal ironically in the same minute as they scored last night for them to take all the points. We know we have performances in us but we've got to take these good opportunities that we're creating, there's an eliminate of luck in all game I honestly believe we haven't had much good luck at all this season.

I suppose it is that bad luck you talk of Lenny why we have lost most of our players.

agree with luck and what overhill say about harder you work the lucky you get. that applys to player manager and club and at mo we wont get much luck. dont think we should write horsham off as they have x hastings player and sure they will come back to get one over on us

doeboy wrote:

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I suppose it is that bad luck you talk of Lenny why we have lost most of our players.

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 Not really, having three different managers this season will be behind that one. 

What a thoroughly depressing season this has been!

We now head into what in my opinion is the most important couple of months in the clubs recent history. I am not exaggerating when I say if we drop out of this league we face ruin as a football club – the drop down from Ryman football to county football is massive and they are tricky leagues to get out of.

To look at the season as a whole it’s quite interesting:

P. W. D. L. F. A. GD. Pts. Ave Pts
Terry. 11. 3. 3. 5. 13. 18. -5. 12. 1.09
Dom. 13. 4. 4. 5. 22. 16. 6. 16. 1.23
Nigel. 14. 2. 3. 9. 13. 23. -10. 9. 0.64

Under Terry based on his average points so far we would have ended up 18-19th in the table but I am still certain if he had stayed we would have picked up and been comfortably midtable. He had a strong squad and a big budget and the squad was underachieving but we created chances during that period and Sawyer and Ade would have started to take them – I think we would have had a far better season than we have had! The loss of players of the calibre of Sawyer and Cook when he left were big losses and Sawyer is the one player I think we’ve badly missed, a mobile goalscorer to take the strain off Ade.

Under Dom we would have finished 12-14th based on his average and our goals for and against are actually pretty decent. In fact if he had won one more game in his time (or the Ramsgate game called off last minute when they only had 8-9 players had been played!), he would have had playoff form. I feel so let down by Dom as I think he would have been good for us and leaving as he did was terrible for the club. I wish we knew the truth about what happened behind the scenes because there must be more to it? Some of his signings weren’t great but Evan, Logan, Brinkhurst, Keehan, Farmer were all good for us and Shelley seemed really good before he suddenly left. Sadly it didn’t work and he left us high and dry – a shame really!!

What concerns me is under Kane our record over the whole season would see us finish below even Horsham! The only two games we have won in that time were a rather fortunate win against Horsham and against a threadbare Ramsgate side who on the day were the worst team I’ve seen in Ryman this season. Our goal difference is awful and the squad is getting weaker by the week and he doesn’t seem to have the contacts to get us out of this mess – I fear we will only survive because 3 teams are even more hopeless than us!

Please Nigel prove me wrong and get us the wins we need! Lets all get behind the team and lets hope Horsham, Ramsgate, East Grinstead, Redhill, Walton etc keep losing!!!

Don't think John Maggs was manager this season?

I don't disagree that Dom leaving hasn't caused problems (a number of players left when he did) and any manager leaving mid season causes turmoil. I only think Dolan and Bankole left whilst he was manager though? King left the day of his first game.

whilst I am not looking to play a blame game (that wasn't the point of my post) I do feel disappointed in Dom as it was an exciting appointment for us and im lost as to why he quit.

Personally I still think Terry should have stayed, I still think he is the right man for us and I think we would have had a better season if he was manager .

I jut really hope the rushed appointment of Nigel doesn't backfire, I'm sure other candidates may of come forward to get us out of this mess.

Dj ... you are right, I stand corrected, (all the seasons seem to roll into one these days) Terry was caretaker manager prior to maggs Appointment last season !! Oop's.....

Make no mistake this will be one of our sternest tests all season.

See Frankie`s trying to make life hard for us tonight

It's happen at last Burgess Hill get beaten for the first time in the league this season.

When you see the prediction final table we will loose all our last 6 games with always 1 goal difference.........

There's some goals flying in tonight South Park loosing 6-0. And Cashalton loosing 4-0

See todays game between our relegation rivals,Ramsgate,and Guernsey called off due to flight cancellation.