Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:06 pm  

Sorry Phil, but if you think Applegarth is a good coach, then who do you thinks is a bad coach?

Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:10 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I don't get it. Its not like he is overweight.
He has a problem.

Yes I stood on West terrace on last game and he was SR down that side. Watched him closely, he was bent over totally out of breath before he did 5 minutes. It's like he smokes 100 cigs a day.

Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:25 pm  

PopTart wrote:

That isn't what he meant and I'm sure you know it.
Most of the team were signed before he took the job.

I'm mostly OK with the ones he's signed since here.
Not sure whether Proctor was his. I think it was. That signing turned out to be the worst 'top player' signing ice ever seen.

proctor, atoni, langi were his, senior I think then I just don't get the loan deals, gale snd dave were is as was dagger

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Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:17 pm  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

proctor, atoni, langi were his, senior I think then I just don't get the loan deals, gale snd dave were is as was dagger

Proctor was a dud, but I can see why he thought it would be good. Same with Atoni

Once he got some ball Langi proved to be a good signing.
Dave, Senior, Dagger and Gale all good signings to me
I like tge French lads, especially Franco.

On a smaller scale I thought the second row from Hudds was good but needed more time.

The loans were just necessary evils. He had to try something but they weren't here long enough.

So overall I'd say they were good, except for the major bad one.

Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:47 pm  

I don't understand why he kept Proctor in the team?

Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:58 pm  

In all fairness i think Atoni has improved massively since Dave arrived

Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:08 pm  

Egg Banjo wrote:

Where I disagree with Phil is that he thinks Bennett wouldn't have got any more out of this squad. We'll never really know, but a top quality coach in all sports makes the 10% decisions - the sort of decisions that turn a tight loss into a tight win, or a thumping into a respectable loss.

Some more composure and better tactics in a few of our close games this season might have seen us take something away from them.

But we had a good quality tried and tested coach who was rousted out of the club by Carter because the players moaned he was too tough on them .So we end up with yes men who have to tread on eggshells lest they upset the team .The tail wagging the dog and there just about sums our problems up , players not match fit not robust enough not enough ball skills , but boy they had a laugh playing at wakey , whilst the fans have had to endure years of life on a cliff edge , well this year that edge has crumble and down we tumble .Its been a holiday camp for far too long and have excepted mediocrity at every level in the club , and that old saying is very true ,that we have reaped what we have sown .

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Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:10 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

But we had a good quality tried and tested coach who was rousted out of the club by Carter because the players moaned he was too tough on them .So we end up with yes men who have to tread on eggshells lest they upset the team .The tail wagging the dog and there just about sums our problems up , players not match fit not robust enough not enough ball skills , but boy they had a laugh playing at wakey , whilst the fans have had to endure years of life on a cliff edge , well this year that edge has crumble and down we tumble .Its been a holiday camp for far too long and have excepted mediocrity at every level in the club , and that old saying is very true ,that we have reaped what we have sown .

Do you mean the coach who advised Scruton that if he wanted to improve his game he should leave his wife?
Good coach but a very strange man at times.
And Smith walked.

Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:24 pm  

PopTart wrote:

Do you mean the coach who advised Scruton that if he wanted to improve his game he should leave his wife?
Good coach but a very strange man at times.
And Smith walked.

Pretty sure it was said in jest as Scrutons wife was working for the club and Smith at the time

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Re: Phil Seymour : Sun Sep 10, 2023 9:17 pm  

Egg Banjo wrote:

Pretty sure it was said in jest as Scrutons wife was working for the club and Smith at the time

Scruton didn't take it that way.