Post by hantslondoner on Mar 12, 2024 11:51:21 GMT
This is the lead post on the match thread on the Barnet forum:
'So..... Tuesday sees the bees return to Hive comforts) as we take on McCallum FC.
After hundreds of bees fans turned up and then watched in stunned silence (at Bromley) as the team did not it will be good to be able to focus on the league, which is normally the pat cliche which people use, but with our team in the playoffs it is absolutely true.
After running the club as a NLS outfit on financial terms following Donald Bucks departure to Sunderland, Eastleigh sacked Ben Strevens who had achieved a 40% win ratio with scant resources. His replacement Lee Bradbury was sacked after a win ratio of 35% proving the grass is not always greener, especially when your grass is covered by an airport carpark. After another caretaker spell by Richard Hill who is the Spitfire equivalent of Paul Fairclough in that he emerges from his caretaker shed every couple of seasons, they made the leftfield appointment of local boy Kelvin Davis, who has not had a football role since leaving Southampton over 4 years ago. Results have been mixed with two wins, a draw and a defeat but it has been enough to drag the team 4 points clear of the relegation places.As was the case earlier in the season Eastleigh are a poor team with two excellent strikers in McCallum and Quigley who invariably get them out of trouble. Stewart Donald, who stole our manager and consigned us to relegation, manages his football clubs like a spotty teenager playing football manager buying the two best strikers then leaving the team to scrape around for the rest of the players needed. At Silverlake this proved enough as McCallum and Quigley rescued a point for them from 3-0 down and it as a worry with our patched up defence that we could be in for a repeat.'
With Ars*nal at home Barnet fans are expecting a sub-1000 gate.
Would be a bonus for us to get anything out of the game, but with inconsistency rampant in the league, it's not impossible.
Especially if the team/management read the above.
'So..... Tuesday sees the bees return to Hive comforts) as we take on McCallum FC.
After hundreds of bees fans turned up and then watched in stunned silence (at Bromley) as the team did not it will be good to be able to focus on the league, which is normally the pat cliche which people use, but with our team in the playoffs it is absolutely true.
After running the club as a NLS outfit on financial terms following Donald Bucks departure to Sunderland, Eastleigh sacked Ben Strevens who had achieved a 40% win ratio with scant resources. His replacement Lee Bradbury was sacked after a win ratio of 35% proving the grass is not always greener, especially when your grass is covered by an airport carpark. After another caretaker spell by Richard Hill who is the Spitfire equivalent of Paul Fairclough in that he emerges from his caretaker shed every couple of seasons, they made the leftfield appointment of local boy Kelvin Davis, who has not had a football role since leaving Southampton over 4 years ago. Results have been mixed with two wins, a draw and a defeat but it has been enough to drag the team 4 points clear of the relegation places.As was the case earlier in the season Eastleigh are a poor team with two excellent strikers in McCallum and Quigley who invariably get them out of trouble. Stewart Donald, who stole our manager and consigned us to relegation, manages his football clubs like a spotty teenager playing football manager buying the two best strikers then leaving the team to scrape around for the rest of the players needed. At Silverlake this proved enough as McCallum and Quigley rescued a point for them from 3-0 down and it as a worry with our patched up defence that we could be in for a repeat.'
With Ars*nal at home Barnet fans are expecting a sub-1000 gate.
Would be a bonus for us to get anything out of the game, but with inconsistency rampant in the league, it's not impossible.
Especially if the team/management read the above.