Back of the Dolman

Yes I wasn’t particularly replying to your comment, I was more backing what you said

Fixtures haven’t been released yet !

No effort was made by the club to give the team a chance of staying up. I think next season will see a very tough championship and after such a torrid season I think the side will need to start well and build confidence. They will be seen as a scalp to take by others so they will have to be mentally and physically up for the battle. I’m not convinced I’ve seen enough from the manager to suggest she is the right fit but I think you have to give her the chance to get the team going again. Interested to see the attendances next season, bound to be some drop off due to relegation but how big a drop off will be interesting.

I agree partly with the points you make, however he made a rod for his own back by trying to implement a style that didn’t suit the squad. I think that was a poor decision and rather naive. He was always going to be judged more harshly due to the way NP exited but I don’t think he helped himself in the early stages here. He tried to change too much too soon, whether there was pressure from above to do that, who knows

It concerned me that it took so long to make the change. I’m not against LM, he’s in charge now so regardless of what people think about his appointment or the way NP was treated, you have to move on. I’ve said before on here that good coaches will adapt and deploy tactics suitable to the squad they have at their disposal and it took too long to go to the style that suited this squad. I have also been concerned that in game adaptability and change hasn’t happened when clearly things weren’t working. Like I said I’m not against LM but I’m yet to be convinced

Went against his footballing ideas to save his job more like

There’s such a gulf between the teams but there seems to be very little organisation out on the pitch. You can be poor but at least be organised. Is Smith the right person to be leading the team next season ?

They just look so weak physically compared to Chelsea. I see no game plan apart from defend and sadly they’re not very good at that

Have we touched the ball in their half yet ? When we did we created something !

I’m exactly the same

I didn’t start on you but you felt the need to be abusive ! If the club is so vile then why have anything to do with it, including being on this forum ? You’re making spurious comments about how you’d tell me to go **** myself and how vile this club is. It’s not big and if you weren’t entertaining me I’d put you on ignore X

And you have the audacity to call other people keyboard warriors You my friend are the Hulk Hogan of keyboard warriors !

Your attitude stinks and I’ll leave it there. Not a lecture just a genuine observation from your recent comments.

You’re posting on an open forum so ultimately it’s got something to do with everybody reading it. No need for anybody to make offensive comments and ultimately if you didn’t want anyone else to form an opinion or contribute to the thread then private message.

Well you saw a victory so surely you must see that as a good finish. I don’t think TGH would have had such a game changing affect that it would have been any different. Andy King came on after 81 minutes for a farewell appearance, he was one of the five allowed changes we made so I’m struggling to see your issue really. What has Mebude done for this club, the two careers at this club and their input are not comparable

Well TGH has been injured for a start and perhaps bearing in mind LM sees the players day in day out and knows what injuries and niggles they’re carrying he saw no real need to take any great risks with TGH. Yesterdays game against Rotherham would have no bearing on next season, it was a dead rubber game

Do you think Manning would find out anything he didn’t already know about TGH if he’d been on the pitch yesterday for the number of minutes Andy King was ? It was the right thing to do in the circumstances and I’d imagine that the majority of supporters yesterday would think that

Sadly it doesn’t appear much effort was made by the club to keep them there

Some talk that Kelly is off to Newcastle

It’s all part of family day, was the same yesterday for the men’s fixture

Thanks for the info, I was wondering if they’d get access to the Bristol Saracens car park for some extra spaces

I can’t say I watch all the ladies matches but they clearly try but the truth is the club have set them up to fail this season. The club are lucky that so many people are willing to go and pay to watch a no contest. Even with relegation confirmed and 3-0 down it’s still 5 at the back with no real attempt to get forward. Change formation and have a go and give the fans something to cheer. For those of you with greater knowledge, do you see Lauren Smith as being the right coach to lead next seasons campaign?

I fancy this, what’s it like for parking etc and how much is entry ?

I wouldn’t be so sure, I’m sat at home and can hear them monotonously drumming. Its nothing but attack versus defence in this second half, absolutely no outlet for City to get the ball forward to and relieve some pressure.

I think you’ll find a lot of people here, myself included are not just considering King’s impact on the pitch. I think it’s guaranteed that he will have had an excellent effect on our younger players as somebody they could look up to and learn from.