Magpies 1 Hendon 4 SLPS 04.12.21 [Match report added]

The interview can be found here:-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPfKidp9sf0&t=5s

Yogi has a great point. The interviews at Cuthbury used to be done with a sponsors board behind, albeit in the stands too.

Fair points, Yogi, and thanks for the suggestions.
Typically I have to leave reasonably soon after a home game to send in my report to the N-LP, and, often, take an elderly friend or two home. So it's difficult to find somewhere indoors at that time where it's quiet.
Regarding a sponsors backdrop for interviews, we do have one. If you look at TBTV's highlights you'll see it attached to the fencing to the left of the goal at the estate houses end. Maybe not the ideal place for conducting interviews.
The Club is aware, and Paula has asked for it to be moved to the back of the stand nearest the clubhouse. And, hopefully, the perspex sheeting recently placed on the side of the stand should keep out most of the wind.
It's my first season of filming the post-match interviews as well as conducting them, so please be patient and we'll see what we can do to improve the sound quality.
Graham

Thanks Graham your work is appreciated.
Disillusionedmagpie I am unsure how you can call for the management to be given time to rebuild the squad whilst the also hint at a replacement. If one thing is certain time is something that we don’t have is survival is our aim. Which is why I alluded to the fact the board stick with the management and save funds for the rebuild next season or make a change hope for the new management bounce and hope that a new manager can bring fresh energy and impetus to match the new boards. It’s worth noting that Hendon aren’t exactly title challengers and until Saturday weren’t many points away from the pack we are chasing down yet we lost comprehensively 4-1. The questions to be asked to the board both new and previous are: Is staying this league Our immediate priority? If not why waste funds following the same direction of travel. if it is the priority, then based on all we have seen, do we genuinely believe this current management give us the very best chance of achieving that objective?

They were doing ok, but that’s if we are basing performance on a league that didn’t finish and I imagine everyone knew it wouldn’t finish. So I’m unsure how much of a accurate barometer that is.
Focusing on what’s relevant, the here and now , it’s clear they knew hand that was dealt to them and had 8 months without the pressure of having winning games to get there house in order prior and prepare themselves/ team/club for the task of survival. Having Just re-read Gambo’s post, I think I would prefer my management to do their talking on the training ground and on a day to day basis rather than present a tonne of caveats for their performance, when I’m sure the conversations between the board and management prior to the season consisted of the budget restraints but also the objective of staying up, so I’m not sure this should be continually used as explanation for the current league position. If you take a job knowing you are under equipped then you either don’t take the job or you do whatever is possible to equip yourself adequately. Ultimately, the job is the job, the criteria hasn’t changed since the summer so you succeed or fail on that basis and at this point If the remit was staying up, it looks like a failure.
In any case as I said this isnt advocating a managerial change, I am asking the question of what the new boards immediate priority is. If it’s staying up then it’s would seem negligent and a waste resources continuing on the current trajectory. If it’s backing the current management whatever the results, then I think they need to save as much of their resources as possible, because even in the league below we could be having the same conversations about budgets as we are having now, as there are some very highly geared teams in the league below, not all of them can come up this season and Im sure the management talking about budgets constraints in league below, will fall on less sympathetic ears than it currently does now.

Playing devils advocate magpiesfan, I didnt dismiss it at all, I was just saying those facts should be taken into consideration with that stat line the same way the current lack of results is being mitigated by the budget. As Ive said previously, I'm on the fence regarding the management, have I seen enough to suggest they are going to guide us to success? No. Have they maximised the capabilities of the squad? No. I think we could have seen a better organised, better disciplined and more consistent side irrespective of the players supposed lack ability. Do I think they are performing better than anyone else out there could in the circumstance? No.
BUT.. that said there is absolutely no point making a change for the sake of it. It depends what our short to medium term objectives are. It maybe that the new boards vision is best served by giving the management the chance to grow with the club. My only concern is the calls for more time to be given in order to let the management build a relagation escaping side whilst we continue to loose games every week. If we are hell bent staying it up, the two lines of thought seem conflicted. Thats why I feel this weeks result followed bythe forum will tell us where our ambitions lie.