Excellent article. If you drop specific references to Billy Bingham and flags, then I could easily believe it was written about any number of clubs at Step 4 and above.
Thanks, Peter. Of course, this suggests it's rather endemic at this level. I welcome fans of other clubs to weigh in. An Arsenal-supporting friend of mine pointed out that Mikel Arteta doesn't reveal any injury info either (for the same reason). Maybe that's where Andy Woodman got the idea from?
Actually Peter, I was thinking of teams nearby to my West Country base. Such as Bath City, Chippenham Town and Larkhall Athletic. But you've made me realise its the same for anyone trying to sell themselves....push the good news and hide the bad. Heck, we even have governments doing that!
I can remember when it was standard practice to bring a pen along to football matches. You would buy the program which would have the full squad for both teams listed then when they were reading out the team selections just before kickoff you would annotate the squad list in your program with the numbers of the players selected.
I personally think the lack of information is damaging. It's not just they're not sure if they can release it or not they're deliberately withholding information e.g. how long was Charles-cook signed on for until it was announced? What exactly would Wealdstone have done differently if they knew more in advance? They won anyway. And the fans were all voicing their worries that we hadn't signed a keeper.
Also injury news, why not announce the expected time out for a player? Every other club does. Why does our management think that it'll have that much of an impact on the result of a match when you have leagues from the Premier league all the way down to the lowest eps that don't think the same and prefer to elieve the questioning from the fans. What edge does Woodman think it gives the team not letting anyone in on injury news? If it gave an advantage the Pep and Klopp would be doing it
Excellent article. If you drop specific references to Billy Bingham and flags, then I could easily believe it was written about any number of clubs at Step 4 and above.
Thanks, Peter. Of course, this suggests it's rather endemic at this level. I welcome fans of other clubs to weigh in. An Arsenal-supporting friend of mine pointed out that Mikel Arteta doesn't reveal any injury info either (for the same reason). Maybe that's where Andy Woodman got the idea from?
Actually Peter, I was thinking of teams nearby to my West Country base. Such as Bath City, Chippenham Town and Larkhall Athletic. But you've made me realise its the same for anyone trying to sell themselves....push the good news and hide the bad. Heck, we even have governments doing that!
I can remember when it was standard practice to bring a pen along to football matches. You would buy the program which would have the full squad for both teams listed then when they were reading out the team selections just before kickoff you would annotate the squad list in your program with the numbers of the players selected.
Seems quite quaint looking back.
Thanks Peter…..yes it has been discussed in forum, minuted and sent on to the Club representatives.
Chris Bush, injured foot at home apparently.
I personally think the lack of information is damaging. It's not just they're not sure if they can release it or not they're deliberately withholding information e.g. how long was Charles-cook signed on for until it was announced? What exactly would Wealdstone have done differently if they knew more in advance? They won anyway. And the fans were all voicing their worries that we hadn't signed a keeper.
Also injury news, why not announce the expected time out for a player? Every other club does. Why does our management think that it'll have that much of an impact on the result of a match when you have leagues from the Premier league all the way down to the lowest eps that don't think the same and prefer to elieve the questioning from the fans. What edge does Woodman think it gives the team not letting anyone in on injury news? If it gave an advantage the Pep and Klopp would be doing it
Regards the seats in the stand this is a direct cut & paste from the July supporters meeting -
3 - Broken seats - RSG they have been replaced during the close season
Indeed, which begs the question why the flag is still there.