THE EDMONTON ROVERS FORUM
Comment
Laurence Hughes
Personally I think we might as well do the following for the rest of the season, because nothing is going to change...
a) Keep naming the same 14 every week plus Leon, John (when he is back from suspension) and a keeper (if we can find one).
b) If anybody is running late and we have been told they are 'on their way', then we wait for them and the club pays the fine for the late kick-off (because invariably the player cannot afford to pay it themselves). We must start the match with our 'best players' otherwise we will find ourselves 4-0 down at Half-Time again.
c) If people cannot afford to pay their subs or cannot be bothered to pay their subs, then we still let them play and those of our players who are rich enough to afford to pay their own subs will just have to subsidise the others. We then hope to get some sort of sponsorship to pay for the shortfall. We simply do not have enough players paying their subs to be able to drop players for non-payment. If we bring in new players, they will not pay any money either...as we have found out already this season.
d) We play players in the positions that they want to play in, even if it means that in some matches we are fielding three at the back, seven central midfielders and nobody anywhere else !
a) Keep naming the same 14 every week plus Leon, John (when he is back from suspension) and a keeper (if we can find one).
b) If anybody is running late and we have been told they are 'on their way', then we wait for them and the club pays the fine for the late kick-off (because invariably the player cannot afford to pay it themselves). We must start the match with our 'best players' otherwise we will find ourselves 4-0 down at Half-Time again.
c) If people cannot afford to pay their subs or cannot be bothered to pay their subs, then we still let them play and those of our players who are rich enough to afford to pay their own subs will just have to subsidise the others. We then hope to get some sort of sponsorship to pay for the shortfall. We simply do not have enough players paying their subs to be able to drop players for non-payment. If we bring in new players, they will not pay any money either...as we have found out already this season.
d) We play players in the positions that they want to play in, even if it means that in some matches we are fielding three at the back, seven central midfielders and nobody anywhere else !
Just to let you all know that I was deliberately testing our players attitudes by putting the above on here...to see if any of them actually agreed or not.
I did have one player telling me that we should put up with players turning up late because they have family commitments...I am guessing he was making an exception for Lexton because we know he has to wait for his sister to turn up every Sunday morning to babysit for him ? However, other teams in our division don't seem to have a problem with that. Their players are ALL] there at least 45 minutes before the kick-off for a proper warm-up and to receive their instructions from the Manager, and I bet Broxbourne Athletic will be the same this Sunday.
No other players agreed with my quoted comments above, which sounds good (if they mean it !), so I really do think it is now time we start clamping down on things, especially after Christmas when we will have several new (or returning) players registered. If players want to stroll along on the kick-off, refuse to pay their subs and/or continually drop out of matches on a Saturday night/Sunday morning, then it's goodbye I'm afraid...whoever they are.
