Macca losing it

Hammered! There would be nothing left of you Billy unless he's advising a few pints?

Sort yourself out McCarthy! A message board is a forum to air views. If you didn't play such crap negative hoofball footy we'd be much more positive and be dejected!!

Facts? Source??

That's true - all down to the lack of moderation.

When managers and owners start getting riled by fans forums it's usually getting desperate - remember SV did the same and Coco The Clown Smith - I have supported Chester for years and can't remember a run of home former like this - and it's these home games that I judge the team on - I haven't enjoyed a home game in months and am getting close to abstaining along with 600 odd that already have - I can get quite wound up after a poor game but only because it's my club that I love - JM is a nice bloke but his total lack of acceptance to the slide has been breathtaking and now he has a dig at the few remaining fans left - so there you go Mccarthy some positives some negatives

50 points is a poor target to meet as we could get relegated on that amount, surely a positive target would be the previous points tally of 54...no one likes getting criticised but in this job its best not to say anything sometimes

If you read this board jon please to take the negative comments in your stride and learn from them (You can't please everyone) we are all supporting you but when you refuse to see what everyone else sees (that's where your right hand man comes in ) maybe you need to take a step back and take those blinkers off ..

Well said.

I feel this criticism of the players and Macca is a little harsh, we were bullied on Tuesday by Cox and his mates and this interview was clearly frustration at the outcome of the result, performance of the referee and the results in the last few weeks. Two points to really consider, 1 Macca is clearly the right man for the job the style of football has been better this year, we have picked up points in games that we have not been able to in the past. The atmosphere is at the club and the ethos he has created is probably the best in the league aside from Lincoln. Give me the community club feel over the big spenders, if Macca was to go who do people honestly believe would do a better job?

2, We are in the national league and players do make mistakes, everyone in their jobs makes mistakes and I am pretty sure know one is doing it on purpose! Give the players a chance, give the manager a chance, get behind the players, the gaffa and enjoy the next few weeks after all it is a long summer.

Questions to ask as a fan:

Have we declined in performance this year? No, vast improvement in the style of football and yes with the poor run that we are on the position that we will end up will be better than last season. That says to me it is an improvement.

Is it about times fans realise where we are as a club? Yes we are a national league club and it will take 4/5 years to get out of this division if we are lucky. Selling players like Sam Hughes is one of the only ways we will increase the playing budget alongside fans turning up and getting behind the side. Would fans really want to adopt a similar stance to FGR or Easteligh? I can remember the controversy over #piegate, imagine Deva chat if we were to become a Vegan friendly club? It would be great to have a FA Cup run similar to Lincoln, Sutton etc. But I would also prefer to be in a situation we are in compared to Southport/Woking going into the final few games of the season.

All in all, football fans love to moan but something to consider the grass isn't always greener we are lucky to have a football club and the previous history of what happened to this club is a prime example of what we do not want to happen again in the future. Give me mid table in the National league with a manager and player that cares about the club than no club at all.

Good luck to the lads on Saturday and safe travel to the loyal followers! #CYOB

Agree with all of this
I wish Jon had not given this interview, it probably would have been better to ignore the repetitive posters who prefer the dark side.
If anything, this will stoke the fires of those with tendencies towards abject negativity, as they will now assume they are being taken seriously. It's important for everyone to be heard, but to put this into context, the negativity is not representative of the majority of supporters of the club, merely the result of a very vocal bunch of individuals who either have an agenda or who simply like to winge


Either way, they are perfectly entitled to voice an opinion , whist others are perfectly entitled to disagree or ignore them. Recognition of such posters by a club official probably adds little value.

Good luck to everyone tomorrow.

Like it or not, A football club is in the service industry, people pay to be entertained, people pay to enjoy the show., you could disagree and say it's a results based business, but did our crowds return when we were pushing for a play off place, no they didn't.
Modern day technology and social media have the opportunity to become critics both good and bad in all walks of life, tripadvisor and the likes.
A lot of companies have embraced these sites, learn from them and taking out the complete guff acted on them.
So if JM is getting fed snippets from down stairs, here's my review of my season so far.

If you like peace and tranquility then this is the place for you, not the busy hustle and bustle of other places I have been too, but the staff welcome you with a friendly smile usually, apparently there is a grumpy chap on the main gate , but I usually park up the road.
Don't worry about getting here early and laying your towels down on the sun bed as there is plenty of room for all guests.
Food is generally the same each time, pies, sausage rolls etc, but be quick as they are usually sold out, drinks are served in plastic cups or have the bottle tops taken off so you can't use them as missiles, this is all a bit 1980s for me and maybe we should move with the times a little. If you choose the all inclusive option you can have the a la carte meal in the " legends lounge" not used that but I hear it's reasonable for the people that can afford it, maybe the hotel should give some away in the half time draw during the bingo occasionally to let people get a feel of the place, they may even go on to use this facility paying cash in the future, just a thought.
On to the entertainment, some performances are better than others, there have been a couple of juggling acts on and I can't make my mind up which is best though, the young lad will be here next season, and the other lad has got a stint in Tenerife planned, so good luck to him.
A couple of guitar players were here last season and were dreadful, they have obviously had lessons and have improved immensely this season, I look forward to watching them next season. There is a strongman on every night, who I have to say is many people's favourites, his act is an unusual one,he just sort of stares into space a lot and everything people throw at him, phone books, house bricks, leopards, he usually returns them from the direction it came at twice the speed, he is only a young lad too and I have been impressed with him, he couldn't go onto playing the palladium or anything but maybe the Rotherham hippodrome one day.
There is a singer who had a lovely voice, and can sing all manner of songs, the entertainments manager has had him doing a Stevie Wonder medley for a while now, but I think it's all agreed he is much better at doing Otis Reading. He has had a number of record labels sniffing around him lately, chances are we have seen the last of him before he does his UK and international tour, just hope we can hear dock of the bay more often than superstition before he leaves.
There is an group of street dancers that all seem to know what they are doing individually but It doesn't quite work when they come on together, the timings out, the steps are bit ordinary and the little guy does occasional get his solo breakdance routine ( his windmill is awesome) but the rest of the time it's all a bit flat and predictable at times. This hasn't helped by the dance captain having a fall out with Equity over biting another performer at another venue, but he has been in and out of the troupe a while now with one injury or another.
A couple of young lads who are supposed to be brilliant dancers have been brought in, but we have hardly seen them at all, perhaps they get stage fright.
There is the grand finale of the acrobats, who have split opinion, one is solid who although his tumbles don't seem to get much height he nails the landings more often than not and you can see how hard he works on his act, he has got steadily better this season, I think by the introduction of a new trainer, but no one seems to know what he looks like as he has had a bit of tv work, this year. The other lad, well he spends more time on his arse and arguing with the hotel inspectors than concentrating on his act, he has loads of potential but I can see him playing the Buxton opera house next year as some sort of pantomime villain, oh we all miss the young lad whose somersaults were outstanding before he suffered the bad injury, perhaps the entertainments manager could have loaned in another acrobat from another hotel for a few weeks.
The hotel itself had a big refurb some twenty odd years ago now and the place isn't the same, gone are the gothic features and the atmosphere, replaced by the ultra modern swish breeze block and the rather annoying chap on the PA system who just seems to shout at everybody and then have his own private jokes over the tannoy which nobody seems to understand or more importantly care about, I just put my earphones in when I need to.

Overall I would rate this as a five out of ten, maybe a six at a push.

Room tip: the more expensive rooms get the sun, right in your face usually, I prefer the less expensive room, as many used to do, the party atmosphere in this block of the hotel is trying to make a come back and good luck to them, there are even plans to put some flags up in there next year, should improve it no end, the hotel just needs to fill the rooms.
As a reminder, occasionally there are a group of tourists who although they said they would never come back in million years come back every year, so the place does get a bit busy usually in September or March although for the life of me I can't understand why they all overbook one end of the hotel and leave another block half empty, doesn't make sense to me.

Would I return, I think I would book a week next time as two weeks is getting expensive.

I broadly agree with Midlands Blue above, I feel that the manager has been very unlucky with injuries (Mahon, Akintunde, Killock, Chappell, George and now Hughes) but do feel that he maybe signed too many players that underperformed last season. We sometimes act a small club too, I thought against Forest Green we were beaten by the way we set up, whereas when we were beaten by Lincoln at home we had a real go and the game was fantastic to watch. I feel he would win the fans over if we were to do this than try to stop teams.

I also feel that as a club we don't help him. We don't have a proper football structure in place, there is little support to him (Calum does the youth, CI is constantly away on TV duty, we have no Chief Scout etc etc). I know that the board were offered help in implementing a football structure at the club for free, maybe that offer should be snapped up?

But overall, Jon McCarthy is on a steep learning curve, and I'd much rather have him here than Paul Cox, Ronnie Moore or Steve Burr. He really does need to ignore fans forums though. They are a soup of intelligent people, well meaning wannabee managers, wind up merchants and bad losers. Haters gonna hate Jon.

Mid table with seven games remaining, and forum contributors are suggesting that our manager should be sacked. One of the said contributors also suggests that part of the Sam Hughes potential 'windfall' should be used to pay the manager off. I fail to see how removing JM, and utilising the 'Sam Hughes windfall' to do so would in any way benefit our club in the long term. At the risk of conveniently being deemed a 'happy clapper' (whatever that is) I personally believe that Jon should be judged on the entire season, and not solely on the post Christmas slide. As such, I feel that he has earned the right to take us into next season. Finally, out of interest, who would these contributors like to see appointed to replace JM ? What sort of budget would he be given ? Would an improvement be guaranteed ? What if the club sunk even lower ?

I think people are completely missing the point of his words. All he's saying is that people who constantly post negative comments with nothing constructive are having a bad impact on the club. He's asking for balanced views. He's also said for people with rose tinted glasses to post suggestions of improvements or changes. There are people who can't wait until we lose, they revel in abusing the whole club both on and off the pitch without offering solutions. And when we win they are nowhere to be seen. Match threads when we lose are two or three times longer than when we win. People are taking this as a personal insult when all he's saying is that people need to recognise when the club does well, such as earlier in the season or the community work being done off the pitch, and when things are going badly rather than rant mindlessly about everything, remember the good things that have happened at the club and offer constructive criticism.
We have played badly of late and I have questioned some of Jon's tactics and left some games thinking that we've been the masters of our own downfall. But there are some individuals on here who come across as right nasty people and, although they claim it, don't seem to have the club's best interests at heart. If they did they would actually enjoy us winning. Post something positive for a change, you might like it.