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Date Posted: 18:43:30 11/10/08 Mon
Author: ant o'grady (mentalist)
Subject: Re: Wimborne
In reply to: Brian McIntyre 's message, "Wimborne" on 04:13:38 11/10/08 Mon

bryan
As a true fan i hope to c u next tuesday at the game...failing that i await your other comments as you are seemingly so knowledgable and 'in the know' on the beautiful game and all things wimborne...can't wait.
>The leaving of Christer Warren has forced the Board of
>Directors to act to find a new Manager and it is
>clearly plain to see that for a senior club like
>Wimborne Town to appoint two people with absolutely no
>senior management/coaching experience was a recipe for
>disaster. It was clear to me at the end of last
>season, (remember three points out of thirty against
>the top five teams) despite the two incumbents having
>a much larger budget than Paul Arnold ever had, whose
>team played in a Wessex League much stronger then,
>than now against such teams as
>Andover/Newbury/Thatcham/Lymington&New
>Milton/Eastleigh/Gosport/Winchester. After Paul, at
>the start of the new management, it was said that the
>club wanted promotion and that the previous seasons,
>run on a kitchen sink table atmosphere was going to
>change to a professional run outfit and the Echo talk
>is now that perhaps the fans want to see the team play
>pretty football and score lots of goals against second
>rate teams, such as the recent nine game winning run.
>Not one of the players brought in (apart from Pete
>Smith/Kev James/Mark Jones are of the calibre of
>Darren Powell or Jamie Sturgess and Gareth Barnes for
>all his laziness you could get twentyfive goals a
>season from him which we do not have now because Scott
>Joyce has been messed about so much this season as our
>management pair did not fancy him, no wonder he is
>****** off which is clear to see.
>
>Mr Batchelor ridiculous comments to the Echo that they
>did a professional job on Alton (third from bottom
>with two wins only) and he wants them to change from
>their Jeckyl/Hyde form, well perhaps he wants to take
>a good look at himself in the mirror because again in
>my opinion the players do not rate him as a coach and
>that is where we now have a problem because he has
>three 'hats' within the Club and he has told the
>players he fancies the Manager's job himself which was
>met with utter silence! With our Chairman telling the
>Echo that the new man will have 'to work with the
>current situation', does that mean that Mr Batchelor
>intends to continue with his coaching duties?
>
>The Board should make sure that they get the right
>Manager this time, as someone else said to save our
>season, as after today against Hamworthy we have no
>chance of promotion AGAIN this season. As an interim,
>the Board might wish to think about asking Paul Arnold
>to take over the team whilst they select the new
>Manager as he would be able to install the confidence,
>shape and good tactics within our good squad of
>players so that we can have at least a good FA Vase
>run. I for one would like to see Mr Batchelor to do
>the honourable act of tendering his resignation as
>Coach because his 90% of input has got us nowhere. Do
>not anyone say that I do not care as I am hurting
>inside as much as our players are and no doubt a lot
>of the loyal fans that turn up each week and you can
>be sure that our rivals over at Poole are laughing
>their socks off!

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