Only Positive Comments Allowed

[ianbees1]

No longer attend games but receive very detailed reports from “Janorak “ who goes home and away. Also read with interest the various comments on the match report thread which often significantly differ!!!

Have read the moaning and whining on here tonight plus the laughable comment that TF has lost the dressing room plus the even more ludicrous call for his head!!! FFS the season has hardly started there are still many points to play for.

We have a team of highly skilled footballers, some are new to the league or indeed the country, some are recovering from injuries whilst others are being asked to play in new positions. You can’t just waive a magic wand and everything falls into place.

The players need to understand how their team mates think and how they play that understanding can only be achieved by playing matches together. From the match reports Marcondes for example is totally useless and should be binned, whereas one poster has put his head above the parapet and made a very good defence of him, strangely it reflects the match report I was sent. I can think of many other players that have been similarly vilified but eventually have turned opinion. Sawyers springs immediately to mind.

The start of the season has been disappointing and we miss both Romaine and Maupay. I note the criticism of the DoF in not getting a replacement for Neil however it was not for lack of effort, rather the issue of greedy agents, I know we also offered decent money for the Charlton lad but guess other possible targets were beyond our budget.

Have no doubt that the component parts of the squad are excellent and, as the players begin to gell and fully understand their roles we will start to click into gear.

It does seem that success is an instant demand, something we have seen in other clubs but have managed to avoid until now, more and more I am reading comments making ridiculously naive posts because we have not started like a train!!

Patience is required, we have seen clubs in the past start on fire but, like the decorations, start to fall after Christmas, both Tranmere and Orient spring to mind and I wouldn’t want to swap places with them!!!!

I have every confidence that we will improve as the weeks go on and by the turn of the year will be nicely placed in the top 10 ready for a push to the playoffs or beyond. The season doesn’t finish for many months, we have the Greek lad to bring to the party plus the other forward due in January, injured players are returning and those tired from international duty are getting some game time.

As a rule my glass is somewhere between half empty and the dregs at the bottom but having watched us for 60 years I can’t believe some of the negativity that’s now running riot, remember the days of Mike Everett??? This team has the potential to be very special and I would far rather have a quiet start and build to a crescendo next April than the other way round.

Keep the faith this team potentially is the one that can go all the way

Your mention of Mike Everett made me realise just how far we have come and sent me to a new level of positivity.

 

[smiffy superbee]

Despite a slow start and finding goals difficult to come by ....
we are (after 7 games) the only team in the bottom half that has let in 6 goals or less.
So, for me, a few more CLEAN SHEETS and we'll shoot up that table.....assuming of course we occasionally score the odd goal or three!

 

[Delbee]

Very interesting post in the Sun and front page of GPG

BORDER BATTLE Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen and Hibs join cross-border reserve league with Brentford and Huddersfield

They are due to play each other twice the top two play off in a final

Good developement for the squad, I wonder if it will increase with extra teams joining

 

[wibs]

Afobe out for the season for Bristol City so one less team for us to worry about stopping us getting into the top 6

 

[GP200]

..............sun is still shining.................

 

[wibs]

Only the top two in the league have conceded less goals than us this season

 

[smiffy superbee]

Only the top two in the league have conceded less goals than us this season

Excellent, with another CLEAN SHEET (v Stoke)......not necessarily for the purists, but an essential base to build on if we are to get consistently good results in the future.
As we improve offensively we'll start to shoot up that table. COYB's

 

[GP200]

...............another away win.........

 

[Humblebee]

Only 6 points off the play-off positions.

 

[sonofabee]

Noorgard and Said both looking like quality players they are second half today

 

[Kingston Bee]

Sergi continues his great start to the season with 2 more assists.

 

[Tom the bee]

Only 6 points off the play-off positions.

:bound:

 

[Isleworth_Bee]

Only 6 points off the play-off positions.

Loads to play for and we havent really got out of first gear yet. A win on Wednesday will be huge.

 

[liverbee]

Greta Thunberg

 

[liverbee]

Only 6 points off the play-off positions.

Eight off top.

 

[Humblebee]

We only lost 1-0 away to the team that is now 2nd in the table......

 

[cromerbee]

Only 38 points from safety.

 

[GP200]

............first class train home...........

 

[horshambees]

The other night I bought a programme /teamsheet from a youth cup game in 1984 and I now have a programme /teamsheet from every BFC game i have attended, where one has been issued, since my first game in 1972.
My thanks to Steve in the programme shop for supplying me with an A5 piece of paper with some names typed on it.
35 years I have been trying to get this item, 35 years and mission accomplished.

 

[wanderer paul]

The other night I bought a programme /teamsheet from a youth cup game in 1984 and I now have a programme /teamsheet from every BFC game i have attended, where one has been issued, since my first game in 1972.
My thanks to Steve in the programme shop for supplying me with an A5 piece of paper with some names typed on it.
35 years I have been trying to get this item, 35 years and mission accomplished.

lol

Good stuff.

 

[WarrenBee]

Grandsons 6th birthday party tomorrow.

:banana: :bound:

 

[sonofabee]

Home by 9

 

[The Pipe]

Can’t beat a defeat for the shear enjoyment of reading the comments on here, arguing panicking and generally blaming everyone for the result, get a win and it’s all pretty mundane!!!!

I don’t attend games so only see matches on TV if either a live game or not in a Tuesday, I agree it’s not clicking yet for us but in the few games I have watched I have seen enough to know we have a good squad of players but for a multitude of reasons the cohesion is missing at present.

I am still firmly of the opinion that we will steadily improve, international break might help, and that we will be comfortably mid table by Christmas and from then on start to pull ourselves up the table.

The league does not finish in October and we have seen so many occasions that the table at this juncture bears no relationship to how it finishes.

To those currently calling for the Managers head and sweeping changes to the team I can only say be patient as a top 6 finish is still very much in our sights and rather than a quick start leading to a fade after Christmas would prefer an innocuous start and then firing on all cylinders in the second half of the season

At the end of October last season Leeds and Borough were points clear Villa were around 8 points adrift and Norwich similar with Wigan and Swansea in 6th and 7th and Brentford 5th. Very different come seasons end!!!!!

Believe people, we will get things together and by April some of the comments spattered like confetti on a wet day across numerous threads will look pretty silly

 

[kevalutonbee]

Dear Mr Pipe,

Can I just remind you that posted rationally in the cold light of day on the GPG or any other BFC related message board will not be tolerated

Yours a fellow GPGer

 

[mhead bee]

Can’t beat a defeat for the shear enjoyment of reading the comments on here, arguing panicking and generally blaming everyone for the result, get a win and it’s all pretty mundane!!!!

I don’t attend games so only see matches on TV if either a live game or not in a Tuesday, I agree it’s not clicking yet for us but in the few games I have watched I have seen enough to know we have a good squad of players but for a multitude of reasons the cohesion is missing at present.

I am still firmly of the opinion that we will steadily improve, international break might help, and that we will be comfortably mid table by Christmas and from then on start to pull ourselves up the table.

The league does not finish in October and we have seen so many occasions that the table at this juncture bears no relationship to how it finishes.

To those currently calling for the Managers head and sweeping changes to the team I can only say be patient as a top 6 finish is still very much in our sights and rather than a quick start leading to a fade after Christmas would prefer an innocuous start and then firing on all cylinders in the second half of the season

At the end of October last season Leeds and Borough were points clear Villa were around 8 points adrift and Norwich similar with Wigan and Swansea in 6th and 7th and Brentford 5th. Very different come seasons end!!!!!

Believe people, we will get things together and by April some of the comments spattered like confetti on a wet day across numerous threads will look pretty silly

I can be guilty of venting frustration after a crap result before I calm down and become rational again, however some of the garbage that comes out from the same people is quite ridiculous. Some of them still don’t get what we are all about and think sacking the manager is the answer to any poor result.

The positive thing;

When we first came up I was ready to take 4th from bottom, now after a pony start to the season I know we will be at least mid table, oh, and I am having left over shepherds pie for tea, always better second time round with some bisto?

 

[GP200]

.............another away win...............

 

[Humblebee]

Just 4 points off the play-offs.

 

[hypa123]

Just 6 points off automatic promotion.

 

[No_sting_Bee]

.............another away win...............

Two in a row

 

[The Pipe]

Crisis? What crisis ?

 

[JANORAK]

Top half team again (12th).

 

[kevalutonbee]

Keep the performance levels up, increase the chance conversion ratio and someone somewhere is going to get an absolute pasting from us

 

[BlueJayBee]

Keep the performance levels up, increase the chance conversion ratio and someone somewhere is going to get an absolute pasting from us

I can think of someone I'd love that to be.

 

[kevalutonbee]

I can think of someone I'd love that to be.

I can think of two and they are both imminent fixtures (a clue is in my user name BTW)

 

[romt]

Only one point behind where we were at this stage in our play off season

 

[Newport Pagnell Bee]

Only one point behind where we were at this stage in our play off season

Surprising!! If we can continue the development of this team, we're not going to be far from the top, that's for sure.

 

[Andy_Mc_is_God]

Only one point behind where we were at this stage in our play off season

And I'd say it's going to a lower points total for 6th this season as the league's so tight

 

[Invipai]

That season we were inconsistent until that 5 wins from 5 November though, due to our early season form we would need to go on a run to get up there, but that is seeming possible at the moment....this could have been the turning point that we need.

A lot of teams are dropping points though, it's pretty open as a division. We just need to keep up our consistency and we'll move up in there.

 

[GP200]

..............three points nearer safety..............

 

[WisBee]

........Jake Bidwell - once a Bee, always wanted to remain/deep in his heart a Bee.......

 

[smiffy superbee]

Only three teams have conceded fewer goals than the Bees ............that equates to play-off form.

 

[sonofabee]

We've only played really well in 5 of 13 games so far, wait until we really click

 

[Tom the bee]

4 points off POs

 

[Gazza Bee]

2nd favourites to win the playoffs behind that lot up the road.....

 

[Hampshire Bee 2018]

Only team in the division that’ve won their 2 games so far this week.

 

[BlueJayBee]

We've only played really well in 5 of 13 games so far, wait until we really click

 

[The Pipe]

It is a joy reading the GPG this week without having to read comments about changing Managers, players not good enough, formations wrong etc etc

I said a few weeks ago when we were riding the crest of a slump that we had the players that were capable of finishing as a minimum in the top 6, however fans needed patience as the players needed to get used to each other, get used to new systems, recover from injuries and in some cases get used to living in a foreign country.

We have had a good week but need to understand that there will be failures along the way as young players lose form/ concentration or become tired from changing from playing just a few games a season to playing twice a week. No doubt when that happens there will be the normal demands for change and claims that the players/ coaches/ DoF’s ( delete as appropriate) are not good enough

Now I don’t understand all the discussions on statistics and how they prove/ disprove our performances this season. What I do know is that this is probably the most talented group of players we have had post war but that it takes a while for them to gell. I am totally confident that come the second half of the season we will be THE team to be reckoned with even if there are some departures, and that by season end if we are in the playoff positions we will be tne team in serious form. I also believe that this team will not carry the baggage of the past ( unlike tne fans) and if, as I predict, we get to the final then Premier League football will be the opening game at LR

There will be upsets along the way but we have started our upward trajectory for the season so be patient with the coaches and players when it goes wrong as this season will ultimately be the year!!!!

 

[rLewis]

we're going up

 

[A Real Mysteron]

we're going up

Until we lose again.
Then it will be -“I’ll just be relieved when we get 52 points” from some on here.
The GPG is up and down so often it’s a wonder we don’t all have the bends.

 

[rLewis]

Until we lose again.
Then it will be -“I’ll just be relieved when we get 52 points” from some on here.
The GPG is up and down so often it’s a wonder we don’t all have the bends.

that is not a very positive comment