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Relegation looms
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Afraid think relegation is nearing closer.
I know I have not been to games but seeing results and where they come from is another question.
Lot of issues to be discussed ie board / manager / future of club / players not good enough for this level.
Did not look good at beginning of season with what we are signing.
Going down will not do anything I feel and nor wood staying up so very difficult times ahead.
Board will not have a meeting with fans so how can we sort this out.
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Paul
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Foley, you were warned of all this ages ago and you were one of the most vociferous people in telling everyone that it was all going to be ok. It’s a shambles and I’m glad you’ve now come to realise this.
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I never said it was going to be okay BTW
I however did say it will be a struggle with what i call non experienced players at this level.
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This side is now in serious danger of going down in history as the worst Kingstonian team of all time.
At the half way point in the season we're on just 12 points, which puts us on track for 24 by the end of the season.
This would actually be fewer than the 2004/05 Khosla/relegation season, when we got 26, and would tie 1978/79 as the worst Ks season of all time by points per game. (1945/46 we had fewer points per game but only because you only got two for a win in those days.)
Relegation is baked in now, there's pretty much nothing we can do to avoid it. It's been obvious all season we don't have the budget we need given the total lack of star power in the squad and the frequent failures to even fill our subs bench.
Today was the 13th time in a row that we've conceded two or more. No quick way to check if we've ever done that before but it's incredibly bad. We're also ten without a win again, which has become all too frequent in the last few years. And we're bottom of the form guide whether you look at 4,6, 8 or 10 games. Sad as well to read Lane's recent comments that the U18s aren't ready and to see that last year's standout Iker left for Beaconsfield without any fanfare.
The biggest worry has to be whether, if we stay in Mitcham, we'll even have the crowds/budget to avoid a second relegation next season. The step 4 leagues are expanding to 22 teams with four relegation places from next season. Given the state of the club, on and off the pitch, I have absolutely no confidence that we'll be able to avoid the drop into county football.
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Simon’s insightful posts are always great
what’s wild is that face Kingstonian look like getting relegated is not even the worst thing that’s happening at the club
the wilful neglect / managed decline is a disgrace. I’m angry and ashamed
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I intend to contact Ben Flatt for a WIAO podcast interview.
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To be honest I will be surprised if we stay in business.
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Its the 1st day of the New year, we are 9/10 points from safety.
An impossible task to avoid relegation from this position now.
With respect to them, most of the present squad are not good enough for this level and there is an aire of resigmation about them. Its not their fault, or the manager's.
I wish it was the seasons end, this is horrible to endure.
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We are totally useless at football. Relegation is certain.
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The funny thing is...at times in the first couple of months we didn't look bad at all.
We had a couple of convincing home victories. I also thought in both the away game at Wingate and the away game at Hashtag were were largely excellent, didn't take our chances up front and were a bit unlucky with refereeing decisions.
If we'd won those two games, we would have got 6 points from them rather than 1 and we'd be looking a bit healthier.
And maybe more significantly we would have more confidence, particularly away from home - we still haven't won in the league on the road all season (yet did manage a very well deserved win at Hastings in the cup, our only highlight of the campaign so far).
Despite the results I rather like Lane. It must be really tough trying to build a squad with good quality and good morale when the board are useless and the supporters are increasingly disengaged from the club. I really feel for him as he seems like a good bloke, a hard-working coach and probably a decent judge of a player. The current lot haven't been doing well this season, but quite a few of them, I get the sense that if you put them in a top-half team they'd look pretty good. I feel like Lane might be quite a good manager for the league below, which sadly we may have to start planning for now.
It's not nice to hear all the anger from fans at the end of the game at Carshalton but it's understandable and inevitable. And, quite rightly, it was about the board rather than the manager/players. They are the cause of the malaise.
I hope we can still enjoy a few of our remaining away days. I will miss visiting the likes of Lewes, Potters Bar and Folkestone. I almost feel like we should designate a few good away days as 'enjoy the day out' days and some others as 'display how angry we are with the board' days. We need to force this lot out, but we also deserve to have some fun too.
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I think the Haringay, Cheshunt and Potters Bar were the crucial ones. The first 2 we were 2-0 up in both.
Good point about the players moving to higher placed teams I've noticed Goather Braithwaite has got a few goals for Potters Bar since he left.
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