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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 7:32:24 GMT
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Post by happyclapper52 on Aug 25, 2017 7:50:22 GMT
No it isn't ! We are playing probably the best team in the League away with 3 strikers injured.
Will obviously have to dig in and work hard though !
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Post by devavictrix on Aug 25, 2017 8:03:09 GMT
No it isn't ! We are playing probably the best team in the League away with 3 strikers injured. Will obviously have to dig in and work hard though ! Alright McCarthy, chill out. |
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Post by Al on Aug 25, 2017 8:07:17 GMT
A point at Aldershot would be a good result.
We have to beat Macclesfield on Monday though. Like I've said on DC1. 6 points from the 9 on offer will only be good enough. Fail to win any of the next 3 and he needs to go.
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Post by Lobster on Aug 25, 2017 8:08:56 GMT
To be fair to him he's been asked by the reporter if it's a pivotal game and I think he's dealt with the question reasonably well.
What I don't really like is him still going on about the Solihull postponement. It's almost like it's being used as a ready made excuse for a poor start. I get that it was disappointing but it was nearly three weeks ago and it's time to stop feeling sorry for ourselves about it.
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Post by Anders on Aug 25, 2017 8:20:04 GMT
To be fair to him he's been asked by the reporter if it's a pivotal game and I think he's dealt with the question reasonably well. What I don't really like is him still going on about the Solihull postponement. It's almost like it's being used as a ready made excuse for a poor start. I get that it was disappointing but it was nearly three weeks ago and it's time to stop feeling sorry for ourselves about it. A few weeks ago he completely played the Solihull stuff down and said that on the pitch it hadn't affected us. |
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Post by rcb on Aug 25, 2017 8:23:59 GMT
Does anybody actually know any of his pre-season targets? He always seems keen to claim, always after the event, that he has achieved his targets. Bit like expecting to be allowed to place your bet after the roulette wheel stops!
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Post by sqzl on Aug 25, 2017 8:29:01 GMT
To be fair to him he's been asked by the reporter if it's a pivotal game and I think he's dealt with the question reasonably well. What I don't really like is him still going on about the Solihull postponement. It's almost like it's being used as a ready made excuse for a poor start. I get that it was disappointing but it was nearly three weeks ago and it's time to stop feeling sorry for ourselves about it. A few weeks ago he completely played the Solihull stuff down and said that on the pitch it hadn't affected us. Just a quote: “I expect us to have the amount of points I thought we would after 10 games. If we get it right this weekend we could have a lot more and be sat much higher up.” ''The Chester boss says that the postponement of the opening day clash at Solihull Moors still rankles with him and believes that has hurt their plans so far.'' Two things that strook me, first one being that he did say Solihull hadn't affected his plans/prep. More majorly though, it's as if he's written us off for the Aldershot games when planning his '10 match point target' To say he expects us to get our point target after ten games, but if we 'get it right' this weekend, presumably meaning we win? Then we could have much more and be sat higher. To me that makes it sound as if he isn't marking that game on his tally for any points. You simply shouldn't say that in an interview for me, fans will pay good money to watch that match, regardless of who they are, we want a win. |
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Post by CH3STER on Aug 25, 2017 8:48:43 GMT
What do you expect him to say? The players have already mentioned in interviews it is tough to play at home because of the negative atmosphere. Why would he put more pressure on them by coming out and saying "4 points this weekend or I'm out of a job".
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Post by tarvinblue on Aug 25, 2017 8:55:48 GMT
Most of us agreed that 12/13 points was a minimum target from first 10 games, therefore he needs 9/10 points from the next 6 games. That will be 3 wins and a draw. That's just to meet the average points score for low mid-table. With this in mind, he needs three points on Monday. I'd like to think this is also the minimum expectation set by the club. Usual McCarthy contradiction of post-Solihull it didn't matter but now it's a significant deal.
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Post by rcb on Aug 25, 2017 8:58:14 GMT
Apparently "we are streets ahead of where we were last year." I wonder if anyone still believes that?
I like his pre-season quote; “We’ll be ready for every game and every battle in this league and we’ve done everything we can to close the gap on the top sides in this league. We’re up for the challenge and we’re all excited to get going.”
Perhaps he feels all the top sides are at the bottom, in which case we are closing the gap!
I certainly was very excited to get going. Like a party balloon I became inflated with expectation with us being "streets ahead", " ready for every game" and "up for the challenge." Unfortunately my party balloon has burst and it only took one little prick.
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Post by Matt on Aug 25, 2017 9:02:54 GMT
All very negative really, I've stuck by him many times but there's only so much one person can take. That interview just sums him up really. The "oh it's ok if we get beat" attitude... please leave.
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Post by sqzl on Aug 25, 2017 9:17:52 GMT
What do you expect him to say? The players have already mentioned in interviews it is tough to play at home because of the negative atmosphere. Why would he put more pressure on them by coming out and saying "4 points this weekend or I'm out of a job". Not at all, but surely you see why negativity can be frustrating to read. He's practically said he's not expecting anything out of the Aldershot game points wise. To suggest we will exceed his predicted points target if we get a good result at Aldershot means he's got that game as a write off in his predictions, or if you want to be optimistic, he's expecting a point at best. So you want fans travelling to see that match, but the plan is at best to try and nick a point. Let's guess how things will go, sit back, back 4 across the 16 yard box inviting pressure. Get dominated and lose the match. Of course i want this to be wrong, but does anyone truly believe we will go and take the game to them? |
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Post by Al on Aug 25, 2017 9:18:48 GMT
Apparently "we are streets ahead of where we were last year." I wonder if anyone still believes that? I like his pre-season quote; “We’ll be ready for every game and every battle in this league and we’ve done everything we can to close the gap on the top sides in this league. We’re up for the challenge and we’re all excited to get going.” Perhaps he feels all the top sides are at the bottom, in which case we are closing the gap! I certainly was very excited to get going. Like a party balloon I became inflated with expectation with us being "streets ahead", " ready for every game" and "up for the challenge." Unfortunately my party balloon has burst and it only took one little prick. 
That last line!
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Post by steveo1 on Aug 25, 2017 10:08:28 GMT
Get rid, I honestly can't stomach anymore of this bullshit spoken off the pitch as well as the pathetic tactics on it.
The squad isn't to shabby at all, add a centre back and a better wing and we could do well, but until this bloke goes we are staring at the bottom 4 for certain.
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Post by Hannibal on Aug 25, 2017 10:13:36 GMT
Someone on here has said that we expect 12 or 13 points after 10 games which is reasonable, but has the maestro actually quoted a number of points that HE has targeted after the first 10 games. I can't see where he's actually quoted a number, but his maxim of 1.1 points per game would mean 11, which means another 8 points from 6 games, which would be W2 D2 L2. Not really a massive ask.
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Post by steveo1 on Aug 25, 2017 10:22:15 GMT
Someone on here has said that we expect 12 or 13 points after 10 games which is reasonable, but has the maestro actually quoted a number of points that HE has targeted after the first 10 games. I can't see where he's actually quoted a number, but his maxim of 1.1 points per game would mean 11, which means another 8 points from 6 games, wkhich would be W2 D2 L2. Not really a massive ask. He did last season, in fact constantly he would reveal the targets. Nothing so far this season, interesting though he says we are streets ahead, but we have the same number of points after the same games. Please stop droning on about Solihull away postponed three weeks ago, absolutely embarrassing, it's happened weeks ago, stop trying to use excuse for lack of results. We should be looking for 5-6 points with a defeat tomorrow a cert and a win on bank holiday to give us 8-9 points but we are going to be way behind at this rate. |
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Post by embalmer on Aug 25, 2017 10:30:01 GMT
So all of a sudden the postponed Solihull match is responsible for all of our woes? Despite the fact after that postponement he was going on about how it gave us extra time to be prepared for the season and would work in our favour?
Pre-season CFU meeting - "we'll always set up to be positive and go at teams, we're good enough to do that" - "call me naive, but my aim is 3 points per match, we're good enough to believe we can beat anyone"
He quite clearly just says whatever suits him at any given moment. It suited him to bullshit fans at the CFU meeting proselytising about how good we were - now he's in a bit of trouble, all of a sudden 1.1 points is clearly the target and he is pretty much openly giving the players an excuse to lose on Saturday. It's just embarrassing.
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Post by Jack on Aug 25, 2017 10:51:21 GMT
You just can't see him turning this around, can you? I hope I'm wrong but his words and his actions tell the story of a man who has passed the point of no return.
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Post by rcb on Aug 25, 2017 11:02:02 GMT
With interviews like that he was always going to end up at the Deva.
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Post by richard on Aug 25, 2017 11:49:34 GMT
With interviews like that he was always going to end up at the Deva. I don't think that some of our younger viewers will get that. It wouldn't matter what the guy says, it will always be ridiculed by the multiple posting anti McCarthy brigade. |
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Post by tarvinblue on Aug 25, 2017 11:54:14 GMT
With interviews like that he was always going to end up at the Deva. I don't think that some of our younger viewers will get that. It wouldn't matter what the guy says, it will always be ridiculed by the multiple posting anti McCarthy brigade. Richard on the defensive again. Got to keep justifying that appointment - right until the bitter end, which isn't far away. |
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Post by blue4life on Aug 25, 2017 12:00:17 GMT
What do you expect him to say? The players have already mentioned in interviews it is tough to play at home because of the negative atmosphere. Why would he put more pressure on them by coming out and saying "4 points this weekend or I'm out of a job". Absolute crap, only person who is negative is the useless one. |
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Post by blue4life on Aug 25, 2017 12:04:14 GMT
"Best ever season" his latest interview 😡
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Post by Al on Aug 25, 2017 12:11:44 GMT
With interviews like that he was always going to end up at the Deva. I don't think that some of our younger viewers will get that. It wouldn't matter what the guy says, it will always be ridiculed by the multiple posting anti McCarthy brigade. So Richard, can you answer this one question for me then?
Are you happy with results and performances at home since the 17th December 2016?
What he says in the Press doesn't matter. It's performance and results ON THE PITCH he should be judged on.
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Post by Cestrian1987 on Aug 25, 2017 12:12:45 GMT
With interviews like that he was always going to end up at the Deva. I honestly think that's where he will end up. He is having a breakdown. |
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Post by bing on Aug 25, 2017 12:16:17 GMT
I don't think that some of our younger viewers will get that. It wouldn't matter what the guy says, it will always be ridiculed by the multiple posting anti McCarthy brigade. So Richard, can you answer this one question for me then?
Are you happy with results and performances at home since the 17th December 2016?
What he says in the Press doesn't matter. It's performance and results ON THE PITCH he should be judged on.
I think I could probably answer that one on Richard's behalf - No. Why would any Chester fan be happy? But Richard does make a good point in my opinion - whatever he says will be ridiculed by some... He's just said we'll have our best ever season - cue ridicule... He says something perceived as negative - cue ridicule. |
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Post by Al on Aug 25, 2017 12:34:30 GMT
All I want him to do is get that team fired up and be looking to get what we can on Saturday and then set us up to try and win 3 points on Monday.
I try hard not to listen to a word he says in the press because he doesn't fill me with any confidence when I listen to him talk. If he talks in the press I want him to be honest and when needed, be bloody critical of performances. He made NO reference at all to that first half v Sutton. The only people who have come out and said it wasn't good enough were one or two of the players themselves.
Talking saying this weekend is not pivotal is quite frankly absurd. I don't expect anything tomorrow, a point would be a very good return for us, but we MUST win on Monday. 1. it will get that monkey off our backs, 2. it will ease a bit of pressure on McCarthy as well, and give the players a boost before the following 2 very winnable games away at Torquay and Solihull.
What I don't want is for us to just sit back AGAIN on Saturday and try to shut up shop for 90min, with the back 4 sitting on the edge of our own box, and the midfield 5 sitting about 5 yards infront of them trying to ping balls 50 yards forward to Akintunde on his own upfront. It's never going to work.
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Post by tarvinblue on Aug 25, 2017 12:40:45 GMT
So Richard, can you answer this one question for me then?
Are you happy with results and performances at home since the 17th December 2016?
What he says in the Press doesn't matter. It's performance and results ON THE PITCH he should be judged on.
I think I could probably answer that one on Richard's behalf - No. Why would any Chester fan be happy? But Richard does make a good point in my opinion - whatever he says will be ridiculed by some... He's just said we'll have our best ever season - cue ridicule... He says something perceived as negative - cue ridicule. People just want honesty and realism. I'd be happy to read his positive assumptions if he came out at times and was honest about performances etc, when they quite clearly haven't been good enough. I would also like to read him take some responsibility sometimes, rather than blame external circumstances - even blaming the fans in recent times. His constant contradictory messages do nothing other than present him in a poor light, re-enforcing the fact he doesn't sound like he knows what he's doing and makes it up as he goes along. I want to believe it will be the best season ever (quite frankly it should be the best season ever with the squad he has) but nothing has yet been evidenced tangibly to suggest anything to back that up. Performances have been on par, if not worse, than last season and we have started, results-wise, in exactly the same way the last season ended. I judge him based on results and performances, not on his deluded positivity. There will come a point when the board will have to do exactly the same. |
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Post by Dodge on Aug 25, 2017 12:42:53 GMT
So Richard, can you answer this one question for me then?
Are you happy with results and performances at home since the 17th December 2016?
What he says in the Press doesn't matter. It's performance and results ON THE PITCH he should be judged on.
I think I could probably answer that one on Richard's behalf - No. Why would any Chester fan be happy? But Richard does make a good point in my opinion - whatever he says will be ridiculed by some... He's just said we'll have our best ever season - cue ridicule... He says something perceived as negative - cue ridicule. I think it's a bit of both, no matter what he says some on here will ridicule him, but at the same time he doesn't always help himself. |
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