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If Ling hasn;t learn't from his time at Cambridge, you won't have any money to spend in January!

You guys havn't seen York City play this season...

They are pure class, and If they don't win the BSBP il be mightily suprised.

Under Ling, we'd have lost that 4-0. Jez has put ressilance into your side. I wish however we hadn't sat back so much in the second half as we put in 100% of our shots!

Should results stay as they are, we've gone up to 4th

and Jez is working with a much reduced budget than what Ling had

I did put "currently"

Why can't people read nowadays

Its what Ling does (use all his budget and not leave any left for loans, January etc...)

He had a set 3 year budget at Cambridge, something like £800k a year for 3 years (a top 8 budget) yet could only manage three releagtion scraps. Jez George (who has no past managerial experience apart from his Youth teams) has had his budget slashed to (what we think is) £500,000 and yet is currently delivering a top 6 finish.

Ling is good in the transfer market in some cases (Saah, Russell, Jennings, Roberts) but awful in others (Clare, Miller, 2 first team goalkeeper we didn't need etc...)

Also tactically inept. You will see some odd starting 11 decisions as a fan under Ling.

Has Ling started using his "thwee ywear pwan" excuse yet? or "this season will be consolidation, we will push on when I get my own players in."

When you start hearing those excuses, you know you've had it!

I don't care if he did well at orient or at Torquay tbh.. Good look to you lot and him.

But when he goes to the press and makes snide little comments saying he had a small budget and no resources (which is a blatant lie, we are one of the best setup clubs in the BSBP) it annoys me.

What annoys me more is Torquay fans who know nothing about our club, then saying were all trouble behind the scenes when the club is at its most stable for many many years!

I love how he claims he had no money, but spent 10k on a striker who has scored JUST 1 GOAL for us.

His 5 players + Carden would have cost the club 2/3 of this years budget under Jez. The guy is clueless he has ample amounts of money, and surely he didn't take the job thinking the conference was stable. Everyone knows half the club in the conference are a ticking timb-bomb all waiting to self destruct.

Hes a duluded man who did well at one club, and now thinks hes the bees knee's. Orient fans seem to think it was all down to his assistant and I agree. He can;t motivate, whens things get tough he turns on the fans and the board...

I had a little respect for him, after all conference is no easy league, until he said his "cv was too big for Cambridge." Cambridge is a big club, we run a huge set-up for a conference team and we invest in our Youth. If he had looked into our youth (as Jez has done) he would have seen Luke Berry, one of the most talented young midfielders I've seen, Jordan Patrick, a busty winger who has easily filled in for Willmott, Adam Marriott, a class but maybe little relaxed attacker, Liam Hughes, who under jez had simply been a revelation... The List is endless!

Our big strength as a club is our youth team, and the players we produce, (Kitson, Ebanks-Blake, Craddock, that chap at west ham whos name i forget) and he totally overlooked that.

Hes a silly man, with a silly attitude.

During Lings tenture the club was pretty stable!

He had a set budget for 3 years, a strong back-room team and a fantastic selection of youth players he could choose from!!!

He had a top 8 budget and all he could deliver was relegation battles. off the field we had new sponsors, lots of generate dincome and a chairman that although is not briallint has been filling in the gap in terms of money.

Ling had a very good set-up.

Deary me hes already started using the phrases "pass with purpose" and "three year plan" i see!

I do feel sorry for you lot. Martin's idea of pass with purpose is get a tall striker, partner him with a little striker and tell the defence to boot the ball up to him. Totally ignoring the midfield.

Have a fun year...

oh dear, I feel sorry for your club now!

Martin Ling is a very good talker, and on paper makes very good signings. He did well at Orient in his first 2 seasons but it went to pot after that!

At cambridge we hoped he would bring some stability to our club, after all his resignation just 9 days in did bring about the fantastic movement of Rolls being shifted from our club! He made some very good signings, Brian Saah being one of his best.

However without his assistant from Orient he was utter tosh! He can't motivate a team, ever. Our performances in 2nd half of games under Ling were awful. His half-time talks must have been pretty poor as we always looked worse after halftime. Winning or not!

When things get bad for poor Martin, his attitude turns into a "i'm right, everyone else is wrong" attitude. Naisbitt (yes a bit of an idiot) was removed from the match-day squad as he voiced his opinion on a team performance while on the bench and from there he lost the dressing room and it went downhill quickly.

I don't think we beat any team in the top 10 under Ling! Then to add insult to injury we were being beaten 3-0 by teams like hayes and Yeading.

Every Orient fan that tells you Ling is a good manager is wrong. It was his ASSISTANT that was the good manager... and those saying Cambridge board has imploded is also wrong. Our board was very stable under Ling, much more stable than our 2 promotion chasing seasons. He also had a set budget that was in the top 8 for the first 2 seasons.

Hes an awful manager. Honestly!

I feel sorry for you guys, but at least now we won't have to pay him for the duration of his contract!