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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2017 7:34:16 GMT
Just wondering where everybody thinks Chester will end up this season? Hopefully things will change with the new man in charge  |
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Post by Hannibal on Oct 11, 2017 7:43:01 GMT
18th
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Post by Djruss on Oct 11, 2017 8:14:08 GMT
Stay up.............................. JUST.
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Post by midfieldgeneral on Oct 11, 2017 8:42:38 GMT
Stay up by the skin of our teeth, if White plays to his potential or we get a targetman from the lower leagues.
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Post by billyw on Oct 11, 2017 9:21:11 GMT
Impossible to predict at this stage. Last November we were 7th from top and ended up just avoiding relegation, so there could be a reversal of fortunes this season or is that just wishful thinking.
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Post by JonahCFC on Oct 11, 2017 10:19:03 GMT
I'm normally really positive when it comes to Chester but I can't see this group of players getting us out of the relegation zone. MB needs a target man and a few quick wingers I reckon to see us start climbing the table.
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Post by rcb on Oct 11, 2017 11:52:36 GMT
Very difficult to make a reasoned prediction when there is no publicly known target by which to have a reference point. I have no knowledge of the original target of getting back to football league status within 10 years being changed. If it has then I would be grateful to know.
It seems we have taken on an image as a bottom of the barrel struggling club, with attendances down and still falling, whilst oncosts continue to rise. More money has been made available to strengthen the playing squads twice, and Burr and McCarthy have both been allowed to totally squander these funds.
I think it is about time we had a clarity in terms of our long term mission together with shorter term targets. Asking for new fans to join the cause, or indeed lost fans to return, is somewhat like expecting tourists to get on a plane when the destination is unknown, and probably not enough fuel to get the plane to the next airport anyway.
As things stand, in my uninformed capacity, McCarthy staying past the end of last season has doomed the club to relegation. I hope Marcus Bignot has greater knowledge and reason for optimism than I have.
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Post by oldnotdecrepit on Oct 11, 2017 12:10:27 GMT
I believe the manager only has a contract until the end of the season? If that’s true we’ll be lucky to stay up, he’s hardly got an incentive has he?
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Post by Firestick Frank on Oct 11, 2017 12:20:05 GMT
I believe the manager only has a contract until the end of the season? If that’s true we’ll be lucky to stay up, he’s hardly got an incentive has he? Err, surely that IS his incentive? |
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Post by Dodge on Oct 11, 2017 12:21:16 GMT
I have confidence in the players, but we desperately need wide players, otherwise we're doomed.
The only other thing is, who goes down instead of us? Guiseley, Solihull and Torquay are three that you can foresee making the drop, but as you look up the league there aren't many struggling teams that don't have the resources to change their fortunes. The teams a lot of us expected to struggle, Halifax, Woking, Dover, Bromley, as well as the promoted sides are all doing really well.
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Post by billyw on Oct 11, 2017 12:21:20 GMT
I believe the manager only has a contract until the end of the season? If that’s true we’ll be lucky to stay up, he’s hardly got an incentive has he? Conversely you could say this gives him more incentive - if we stay up, he has a new contract, if we go down, he's out of a job. |
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Post by Wortleyblue on Oct 11, 2017 12:21:54 GMT
I believe the manager only has a contract until the end of the season? If that’s true we’ll be lucky to stay up, he’s hardly got an incentive has he? My understanding is that it is initially to the end of the season with both parties having the option to extend it. To keep us up would be great on his CV so he does have an incentive |
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Post by Hannibal on Oct 11, 2017 12:29:10 GMT
I believe the manager only has a contract until the end of the season? If that’s true we’ll be lucky to stay up, he’s hardly got an incentive has he? Conversely you could say this gives him more incentive - if we stay up, he has a new contract, if we go down, he's out of a job. Even if we go down he has to be given a chance to build his own team unless he proves to be a complete dud like the previous incumbent. I'm quite positive that we can build a bit of momentum, but it's all contingent on us getting through on Saturday. Lose against Kiddie and it will look desperate. |
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Post by dmcnally on Oct 11, 2017 12:30:44 GMT
14th
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Post by Rio Doherty on Oct 11, 2017 15:16:22 GMT
Hard to predict at the moment but 16th wouldn’t be bad at all.
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Post by rcb on Oct 11, 2017 15:20:11 GMT
I believe the manager only has a contract until the end of the season? If that’s true we’ll be lucky to stay up, he’s hardly got an incentive has he? With that logic that means you feel McCarthy had tremendous incentive and we were high flying really. In reality the long contract gave his so much security he had no incentive whatsoever. |
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Post by btb on Oct 11, 2017 15:20:48 GMT
I'll say we'll finish where we are now. There's no money in the pot and several players within the threadbare squad just aren't up to it.
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Post by blue4life on Oct 11, 2017 15:58:36 GMT
Mid table.
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Post by oldnotdecrepit on Oct 11, 2017 16:39:22 GMT
I believe the manager only has a contract until the end of the season? If that’s true we’ll be lucky to stay up, he’s hardly got an incentive has he? With that logic that means you feel McCarthy had tremendous incentive and we were high flying really. In reality the long contract gave his so much security he had no incentive whatsoever. Conversely, The incentive has been removed, chester get relegated then the manager jumps ship and gets another job with another Conference club. In this game failure often results in promotion to another job. A contract until next season means he has to stay here and see the job through. |
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Post by Jack on Oct 11, 2017 16:44:50 GMT
I think we've all recovering from the McCarthy era, where we were continually told to sit back, shut up and hope for 50 points. It's had a negative impact on our attitudes and our ambition as a club.
Bignot will get us out of trouble, and from that point on we need to start aiming bigger as a club. Macclesfield are the blueprint, we need to stop focusing on what we haven't got, and create an attitude at the club that we're not here to just make up the numbers.
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Post by chesterken on Oct 11, 2017 16:55:20 GMT
I think we've all recovering from the McCarthy era, where we were continually told to sit back, shut up and hope for 50 points. It's had a negative impact on our attitudes and our ambition as a club. Bignot will get us out of trouble, and from that point on we need to start aiming bigger as a club. Macclesfield are the blueprint, we need to stop focusing on what we haven't got, and create an attitude at the club that we're not here to just make up the numbers. Good positive post Jack |
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Post by devadiva on Oct 11, 2017 17:02:34 GMT
I think we've all recovering from the McCarthy era, where we were continually told to sit back, shut up and hope for 50 points. It's had a negative impact on our attitudes and our ambition as a club. Bignot will get us out of trouble, and from that point on we need to start aiming bigger as a club. Macclesfield are the blueprint, we need to stop focusing on what we haven't got, and create an attitude at the club that we're not here to just make up the numbers. Good positive post Jack It’s hard to say but hopefully mid table. On the glass half full side of things the league is quite compressed above us. Unlike previous years there’s no obvious run away group - yet. So we may be able to catch a few of them up. |
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Post by martinblue47 on Oct 11, 2017 17:06:48 GMT
15th
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Post by spencerwhelanleftpeg on Oct 11, 2017 17:09:29 GMT
I haven’t had a chance to watch us since Bignot took over.
I shall be at the Kidderminster game on Saturday so will reserve judgment until then.
As another post indicates you can’t help but feeling that the cup game could have a significant baring on how our season develops. We could certainly do with some £ to strengthen.
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Post by devablue on Oct 11, 2017 17:15:03 GMT
 If we're being realistic, the only team we might be better than in the bottom half are Maidenhead (who are 12th but have started to drop now they've lost their main striker Dave Tarpey). Every other team is either much bigger or has more £££ than we do. Long way to go but my opinion is it's not going to be easy for MB to keep us up this year. |
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Post by Harry Lime on Oct 11, 2017 17:27:11 GMT
The league table may still be that compact at the end of the season that someone could go down with 51 or 52 points. If that's the case, I can't see us staying up.
Looking at the bottom 8 now, most of them have the funds to strengthen. That might be the difference. We'll need one o our strikers to score consistently. Maybe Hannah? He didn't start that we'll two years ago, but then hit form as the season went on. He missed pre-season this time too. Might the the box striker we'll need.
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Post by Deva Chanter on Oct 11, 2017 18:50:53 GMT
I think we've all recovering from the McCarthy era, where we were continually told to sit back, shut up and hope for 50 points. It's had a negative impact on our attitudes and our ambition as a club. Bignot will get us out of trouble, and from that point on we need to start aiming bigger as a club. Macclesfield are the blueprint, we need to stop focusing on what we haven't got, and create an attitude at the club that we're not here to just make up the numbers. Brilliant post - that era undoubtedly infected both the fans and the board room. The shackles need to come off now and we have to start aiming higher than avoiding relegation. Marcus seems to understand this, lets hope the rest of the club now follows suit. |
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Post by agl on Oct 11, 2017 19:41:33 GMT
If we're being realistic, the only team we might be better than in the bottom half are Maidenhead (who are 12th but have started to drop now they've lost their main striker Dave Tarpey). Every other team is either much bigger or has more £££ than we do. Long way to go but my opinion is it's not going to be easy for MB to keep us up this year. Agree with this. We are playing catch up and teams I expected to struggle this year, such as Macc, Bromley and Dover, have points in the bag. |
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Post by chesterken on Oct 11, 2017 20:31:18 GMT
If we're being realistic, the only team we might be better than in the bottom half are Maidenhead (who are 12th but have started to drop now they've lost their main striker Dave Tarpey). Every other team is either much bigger or has more £££ than we do. Long way to go but my opinion is it's not going to be easy for MB to keep us up this year. Agree with this. We are playing catch up and teams I expected to struggle this year, such as Macc, Bromley and Dover, have points in the bag. We have to remember that even teams that are doing well at the moment will have a down turn as the season goes on very few teams will continue at the same level for the whole season |
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Post by catfordbags on Oct 11, 2017 20:52:23 GMT
7th ... not a massive gulf in this league ... just need some confidence and a dollop of luck..
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