Getting ready for the North

Haha depressing but my mind has turned to Chorley, Stockport etc this afternoon.

It'll be exactly what we deserve though given how we've carried on.

That's what happens when you leave a team in limbo for 3 games, 1 point from 9 and the league table is now grim reading.

We should have headhunted our next manager and had him in charge weeks ago. Now we've given him an even bigger hole to dig us out of

Although I agree, it's a shame it's in the board's hands!

It's not what WE deserve though. The Board must take the blame for keeping McCarthy too long when some of us could see he was useless months ago.

Dead right!
We're already in the position where, in crude terms, we need 42-44 points from 35 remaining games to stay up.
Do we really want to be in the situation where people say "For a Conference North side, Chester have a great community setup"?
I'd prefer "Chester are a decent Conference team and, by the way, their community stuff isn't at all bad"
The priority must be to give us the BEST chance of survival first, the rest can follow once we've achieved some semblance of stability

Still think the new manager doesn't have a massive lifting these players then? Shaw should be playing and has been left with a big mess. 

Keep on kidding yourself. but this current squad is not good enough as we have zero depth in this very unbalanced squad. We are top heavy on strikers with no service, one winger, four defenders including an overweight Astles, a slow McCombe who have to be the slowest pair in the league, halls who is zapped of all confidence and Rowe turner who is garbage, then a toss up of who plays in goal. Turnbull and James are the bright sparks and Dawson and Shaw should be reasonable back up.

We we have a number of players who I wouldn't pick at Sunday league level. The board and McCarthy have got us into a big mess which is beginning to unravel itself. McCarthy got out the back door and picked up a nice pay off along the way. 

Screw up the choice of manager this week and I dread to think what impact it would have on the club's finances. If come the turn of the year our form hasn't improved and we are well adrift of safety then the board will face the choice of either seeing out the season with relegation looking inevitable and crowds sinking towards the 1,000 mark by the end or having to spend more money to make yet another managerial change in the hope they can pull off a miracle - a scenario similar to Halifax two seasons back where they messed up on their appointment immmediately after Aspin left when they appointed the guy who had just left Oldham, and by the time Harvey became their third manager of the season a couple of months later he was left with a huge amount of work to do and fell slightly short.

So it's vital the board get it right this week and, as said, our hopes of staying up will be boosted if funds are made available so the new manager is not restricted to working with what he inherits.

Wait until the manager is appointed

Don't panic

Or alternatively just carry on pointlessly torturing yourselves. It's Saturday, have a Babycham

I feel that we are deluded if we think that this squad is good enough. This back 4 will concede 80+ goals this season. Too many injury prone players, zero creativity and power puff strikers. Dawson would get in my worst ever Chester XI and we don't have a winger. God knows what Mahon is supposed to be doing. Rarely scores and rarely assists. The new manager hasn't got a hope of preventing relegation. Fan-owned is not working for us. Nice in theory, but we haven't got a big enough fan base to make it work.

Fan owned doesn't mean we will never be relegated just as that is true of almost every club in private ownership. Being fan owned means far more than just the results on the pitch. This is our club and I never want a businessman to get his mitts on it again.