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Phoenix
By: AMatthews Date: October 28, 2017, 5:32 am
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So Mr Crosbie comes out to say the Phoenix manager won't be
coming to Ashford.
Not as if Steve O’Boyle has a track record of success (huge
dollop of sarcasm).
In his 1st season alongside joint manager Tony Beckenham Phoenix
won the step 6 Kent Invicta League, his 2nd they finished 6th in
the SCEFL, 3rd he lead Phoenix on his own to win the SCEFL and
then had 2 seasons in the Ryman North with 14th and 8th placed
finishes.
Phoenix are currently sitting 10th in the Bostik South division
No slur on Whitmore but he looks way out of his depth.
However it's Mr Crosbie deserves most of the blame for Ashford's
current predicament as the man with the finger on the trigger.
A fall-out with Lye early in the season over issues that were
apparent in the summer if you believe what's been said.
If there were issues you sort that out in the summer.
Appoint an unproven manager and say kids are the future right
now, even when it's clear they are not ready in any shape or
form for this league and eventually backtrack.
Refuse to spend any money and then suddenly signings arrive
left, right and centre, with a player turnover approaching 40 by
now?! (I'm sure someone will know)
This team is outplayed, out-muscled and outworked virtually
every week, in the process attempting to play a brand of
football that doesn't work with the players available.
Wasn't Jason lauded as a manager known for a passing game?
Baffling.
If you can't see this then I'm not sure what you've been
watching this season.
The loss to Carshalton (albeit the wind played a small part) was
damning.
Ashford barely had a kick in the first half bar for a five
minute spell of pressure and could have been 4-5 down at
half-time if the home team had been more clinical and Aaron
hadn't performed so admirably.
This Carshalton team was beaten by East Grinstead and thumped by
Greenwich Borough.
I don't expect Ashford to pull up any tree's but they look like
relegation fodder at the moment and no it's not early in the
season.
Today's game is 15 of 46 and AUFC are only one point above 24th.
I'm sure the usual suspects on here will utter the "get behind
the team" rhetoric. You can cheer on the team and be a realist.
A shocking concept to some apparently.
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Re: Phoenix
By: philipbarham Date: October 29, 2017, 10:44 am
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We have used 49 players, so far. We used 48 in the 2015-16 and
2006-6 seasons - but that was for an entire season, in each
case, and we're not a third of the way through this season. And
I understand that there are a few more signings arriving in the
next few days. I suppose it doesn't matter, as long as Jason and
The Management get it right eventually.
Yes, we were in a situation where we simply couldn't score
against a 'proper' Isthmian League team, but I like to think
that the lads are a lot more competitive than that, now. Even
the 2-0 defeat to Phoenix Sports was encouraging, in its way. We
went two down, as a result of a couple of defensive errors, but
it seems like we were competitive after that.
It seems, at last, to be going in the right direction.
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