Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:12 am  

BroncoBen wrote: Nothing for 5 days now!!! Yep.....it's all gone quiet on twitter, email, the broken banner on the club site & which hasn't had a update in 8 days...... Loubser is CEO, but I fail to see who he oversees in that role.....we have some community coaches, the Colemans and a bunch of players.... Compare us to Barrow who have events, and a news page updated daily, with a regular twitter feed including match highlights, sponsors picking man of the match and updates from their ladies games too...... Not sure where Hughes investment is going other than AFC Wimbledon's back pocket and wasted on a CEO's wages we don't f&%$ng need!

BroncoBen wrote: Nothing for 5 days now!!! Yep.....it's all gone quiet on twitter, email, the broken banner on the club site & which hasn't had a update in 8 days...... Loubser is CEO, but I fail to see who he oversees in that role.....we have some community coaches, the Colemans and a bunch of players.... Compare us to Barrow who have events, and a news page updated daily, with a regular twitter feed including match highlights, sponsors picking man of the match and updates from their ladies games too...... Not sure where Hughes investment is going other than AFC Wimbledon's back pocket and wasted on a CEO's wages we don't f&%$ng need!

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 8:43 am  

It feels to me that they have given up, the move is not working (see <1K vs York). They needed to build on the Widnes game and they did nothing much to do that.

Really need to be promoting the Dewsbury game right now and nothing, I do hope they have deals on, I might go to that game as its the long weekend

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 9:09 am  

Frankly, it's pathetic. No respect for the club's history or fans.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:14 pm  

Part time club with no game on the weekend so radio silence for a few days doesn’t overly concern me. Now making almost no mention of a game (Fev Rovers) or the Reserve team or Academy matches does strike me as odd. Clearly it’s a litany of losses which looks bad but we are where we are - can’t just pretend they didn’t happen. Agreed they should get busy on doing what needs to be done to get the Dewsbury game sold. The Bradford one needs selling as well but I think we know how that one goes- it’s Dewsbury that is the make or break.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:18 pm  

Narcissist or not, it is hard to comprehend just how dumb Hughes must be to get us to this state.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:46 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

Narcissist or not, it is hard to comprehend just how dumb Hughes must be to get us to this state.

He refuses to admit he is wrong. It's not a matter of dumbness, more a matter of denial.
It starts with wrong appointments......look at this statement from pre-season

I’ve appointed a young, highly spoken of, Head Coach who is impressing me with his enthusiasm during the transition to part-time and I am genuinely delighted with the squad we have assembled on the budget we have allocated him. There are some very talented players in there alongside the experienced older heads that every team needs to bring on the younger players. We’ve also got a number of hungry ‘project’ players that could prove to be astute signings from the league below us.

Who the $√€k speaks highly of Coleman in terms of 2nd tier football? Even in the 3rd tier he was rubbish and now he's employed 3rd tier players......the panic signings of late aside, he had from November and this far were hurtling towards the trap door.

November 24th was the last time we heard from the owner.......0-5 in the league, out of the cup, borrowing loan payers from skolars for the first team and reserves, crowd numbers nowhere near what was expected, no staff in key positions, disarray amongst rival supporter groups with many long term fans alienated or worse, banned......

He's not dumb. He's spending money on this and will see the empty seats and our position in the table.....he will just never admit it's his fault. EVER!

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:31 pm  

orangeman wrote:

Who the $√€k speaks highly of Coleman in terms of 2nd tier football? Even in the 3rd tier he was rubbish and now he's employed 3rd tier players......the panic signings of late aside, he had from November and this far were hurtling towards the trap door.

6 games (and 6 defeats) in Mustard is offering up the excuse that the players on the pitch only trained together as a unit for the first time the day before the match. Who's fault is that ? This is not an excuse that can possibly wash again.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:35 pm  

Interesting to read this again Orange. In terms of Coleman I think Skolars fans generally felt he did a decent job with minimal resource. If that is where we are then he may turn out to be a good fit, although it pretty dispiriting stuff for a relaunch which anyone could see coming a mile off. One thing is certain he was not ‘highly spoken of’ on here. The concerns coalesced around his record of losing more than he won year in year at the level below. Well here we are- he still has a little time. Things may turn around a little.
As to the squad DH may have invested very little in which case it may be true he was impressed with what he got. IIRC the issue of the lower league ‘projects’ was brought up on here at the time. Many of us were unable to identify the subtle difference between the lower league projects and the lower league players full stop who seemed to flood in on a weekly basis over the closed season.

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:42 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Interesting to read this again Orange. In terms of Coleman I think Skolars fans generally felt he did a decent job with minimal resource. If that is where we are then he may turn out to be a good fit, although it pretty dispiriting stuff for a relaunch which anyone could see coming a mile off. One thing is certain he was not ‘highly spoken of’ on here. The concerns coalesced around his record of losing more than he won year in year at the level below. Well here we are- he still has a little time. Things may turn around a little.
As to the squad DH may have invested very little in which case it may be true he was impressed with what he got. IIRC the issue of the lower league ‘projects’ was brought up on here at the time. Many of us were unable to identify the subtle difference between the lower league projects and the lower league players full stop who seemed to flood in on a weekly basis over the closed season.

The point is Mustard is a league one coach, and is being found out at the higher level. I don't believe DH hired him on the assumption we would be in League one next year (in which case it would be a good signing). But the squad we have would struggle right now vs swinton, rochdale, doncaster, which is very worrying.

Our entire season seems to be based on being slightly better than Dewsbury and Workington, but we are allready two points behind Dewsbury... Ominious times

Re: Help Needed...can you assist? : Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:53 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Interesting to read this again Orange. In terms of Coleman I think Skolars fans generally felt he did a decent job with minimal resource. If that is where we are then he may turn out to be a good fit, although it pretty dispiriting stuff for a relaunch which anyone could see coming a mile off. One thing is certain he was not ‘highly spoken of’ on here. The concerns coalesced around his record of losing more than he won year in year at the level below. Well here we are- he still has a little time. Things may turn around a little.
As to the squad DH may have invested very little in which case it may be true he was impressed with what he got. IIRC the issue of the lower league ‘projects’ was brought up on here at the time. Many of us were unable to identify the subtle difference between the lower league projects and the lower league players full stop who seemed to flood in on a weekly basis over the closed season.

Of the L1 coaches in 2021, which would have been considered WORSE than Coleman. When appointed he claimed he wanted to lead us back to superleague....
His win ratio in the third tier since 2015 was akin to about 26%.......I am in awe he got as many years as he did at skolars, but for him to get lucky and then sign his crap squad from last year is unacceptable.
As you point out, projects is a luxury we didn't have when relaunching.... He was a bad appointment and when compared to Ward, it makes me think Hughes is winding us down so he doesn't feel guilty about pulling the plug