Chester FC V Macclesfield Town MATCH THREAD

As said earlier I give him 10 games and then if things remain dire he would hopefully resign. Despite his critics Alabi was the difference for us last season. We have lost good players, for various reasons, and it appears we are thin on quality replacements.
However 10 games is fair and if the manager still can't win at home he'll have to do the honourable thing.

Just want to bring it back to the players body language lack of intensity they don't want to play for him. I appreciate the players may not be passionate about pulling the blue and white on as I would or anyone else on here. You can just see it though. You should be wary, scared wanting to do your best for your manager. That's the minimum I would expect. I know all that would have happened is that he would have clapped them and tried to pull out positives in the dressing room. That lack of presence, charisma and never say die attitude will kill this club and group of players

No chance. We don't need to give him any more games. The man was found out before the end of last season and since then we've gone out of our way to delay the inevitible.

We can't move forward as a club without a proper manager in charge of the team. Everybody surely now knows that Macca isn't a proper manager and we're wrecking our season with every week that passes under him.

It was an embarrassing state of affairs at the end of last season. To think it's been so casually allowed to descend beyond that angers me.

Anyone got a link to mcluless's interview today?

These players are much better than they are showing. I'm not convinced by LRT or McCombe and I've lost the will to live with Chappell but you can't tell me this isn't a better 11 than we had last season.

McCarthy brought in his own players and the performances are just as bad. He is the common denominator and he is the problem. A new manager will be able to work with what we've got because it really isn't a poor group of players.

He's deluded.

I will be back wen mcarthy goes,b nice to watch a team managed by a proper manager

Come on Chester board members - wake up and smell the coffee. Macclesfield lost their best players to us, and got two of our rejects. Probably a lower budget than us as well. We completed our deals early, and returned to training early to get a strategic advantage. Macclesfield on the other hand were in turmoil, struggling to assemble a squad until the last minute. They still beat us comfortably today, so other than the manager what reason can you give to the fans?

If you watched Whittaker today floating around the pitch pulling the strings nothing fancy just disciplined and new exactly his role. Our players were swapping positions panicking and lacked bravery to commit to taking on players. You could see how scared they were some people may say it's stupid but I in my opinion that bravery is vital in this league and we just lack it in spades. Sad to see that today

That was shocking, today.
There is nothing wrong with playing a long ball game, if you have the players. eg. 2 massive centre forwards and a midfield that is capable of winning the second ball. It might not be pretty, but it works for Tony Pulis. But to try and play the long ball game, with Chappell upfront and the players we have, is clearly suicide. #
There was no width, no passion and we were second to every ball. There may be a decent passing team, in there somewhere, but these tactics are killing us.

Said this the other week mate. Players don't look sharp and a few look like they're carrying extra weight.

For professional footballers it is not good enough.

Players have played 6 games and he complains of tiredness. Absolute joke. 6 games in they should surely to God be fresh!!

Urgent changes are required. McCarthy needs to go, and we need to get a man in to sort this bloody team out. Short term deals NO MORE 2 YEAR DEALS FOR FUCK SAKE!!!

The thing that stood out for me today was the lack of geeing eachother up for one final push. With 20 minutes to go I would expect at 1, 2 or even 3 down, players to be beating their chests, yelling to eachother, "come on... next goal!" etc.

To fail to score when starting without a recognised striker is predictable and may even be acceptable, but to concede two soft goals and put in another lame passionless display is disgraceful.

We have a squad that has far more quality in it than we had last season, last seasons team would almost certainly have lost all six games with this manager in charge, but its not the players ability as individuals that is letting us down, it is the inability of the manager to set the team up in a way that suits the strengths of his players, to enable them to express themselves and look like they are enjoying playing as a team. He has failed dismally to instil passion and belief in the team. Every manager must be a leader, a motivator, the driving force behind his team, Macca is none of these, the board must collectively grow a pair and ACT NOW before it’s too late to save this season, and more importantly our status in national football, relegation to regional football would be a blow this club would struggle recover from.

Macca is a nice guy, extremely hard working, and has done a lot of good stuff on the community side, BUT this is a results business, and we have more than enough evidence now proving that he is simply not up to the managers job. His time is up; it’s time to go, not in weeks, or even days but tomorrow morning. If the board don’t act immediately then, as a fan owned club, we need an EGM to force the necessary changes needed to sort out this mess before it is too late!

That was rubbish.

Our wingers play like defensive midfielders. I've never seen a team as narrow as we are and it leaves absolutely no option for the man on the ball. It's without question the most frustrating Chester side I can remember watching. Aimless punts or passing into a congested middle where we instantly lose it.

It's not a one off either, this is actually how our manager wants us to play.

I actually don't feel I can judge any of the players fairly, because they're totally restricted by an inept manager. I see potential in all of the summer signings, I think they can all offer something but we will not find out until the board pull the trigger.

Just a quick question, what does he learn from all those hours pouring over DVD's?