Confidence In Buckle No3

Dave, I'm not sure those options especially reflect confidence in Buckle, because they are mixing up confidence in he manager and confidence in the team (and with it all the other issues inherent in a sport where, as Merse often points out, there are opponents trying to stop you achieving what you want to achieve - here I specifically mean the quality, or lack of it, in this league).

So for me, I still don't think that, overall, Buckle has what it takes as a manager. However, I think the squad will make the play offs thanks to the things he DOES do well, and in spite of his (more numerous, in my opinion) flaws, and because of the relative weakness of the rest of the league. From that point, we may well get promoted. That wouldn't necessarily be enough for me to say Buckle is a good manager. Just as no promotion doesn't necessarily mean he's a bad manager.

Does any of that even make sense?!

Don't know which option to choose to reflect that, but that's how I see it.

Fonda there is a difference between being unwanted and simply not agreeing with, if at the very start of Roberts days at our club, I allowed myself to worry that my opinions were not only in the minority, but also unwanted by some, then I would not have had the satisfaction of saying I was right from the start.

We all are entitled to our own views and as long as we believe them, or are prepared to put our hands up should be be proved wrong, then that is all that can be asked or expected by anyone.

Like you said, we as fans are all equal and just because one may feel they don't have faith in the manager, they are no less a fan for having the balls to stand up and say so.

Sorry Dave, didn't mean to suggest my personal opinion was unwanted, merely that anyone who questions the methods and quality of the manager is automatically branded some kind of rebel-rouser. I don't mean just here either. Only those with the incredible patience to maintain total positivity at all times are acceptable 'supporters'. Ours is not to question. It is to watch/endure and hope.

The players being selected at the moment are one-dimensional and the manager is a waffler.

There are players at the club who are capable of lifting the quality of performance but they are not being given the chance to do so.

I'm becoming more convinced that the people who say that the manager has his favourites, who will start every game come what may, have a point.

Time for a shake-up or we will not even make the play-offs.

Agreed, I cannot remember the last time we came from behind to win a match and the worrying thing now is we rarely score from open play. Buckle really must now take the bull by the horns and play the younger more creative but frustrating in the squad as the likes of Roscoe and Carlisle dont seem to be cutting it.
Mussy Danny and Mat Green should now be given their chance to oust Buckles favourites.

Its very interesting how opinions change, I suppose they always will I have no problem with that. What has always amazed me though is the "it’s not the manager’s fault it’s the players” attitude. Sorry, never quite got my head around that one.

We have more than enough quality to get us out of this league nowhere near enough of the correct type of motivation. As people have said before nobody has a right to walk this rapidly improving league but motivation is a big factor in providing confidence to make players think they can.

Am I part of the Buckle out Brigade? Yes I am. But if you are part of the charge you must display an alternative as that is they immediate issue faced by a board when they act to pacify support. Truth is I don't know so I can understand the board standing by their man until the end of the current campaign. But I would be more than willing to take a chance as I feel PB is more than happy to take a non league super wage for as long as we let him this season and beyond and who can blame him for that? Not even me. I'm struggling to believe though that our passionate board wishes us to be an established non league outfit.