Kidderminster Harriers v Torquay United

Post by **Scott Brehaut** » 01 Nov 2014, 17:03

brucie wrote:If he hasn't got a budget why has Berry been signed until the new year then? Do you really think people are going to turn up when we are losing six out of seven - you are nuts.

He's on non-contract terms - he doesn't play, he doesn't get paid. Anybody who thinks we will be getting a keeper in on terms like that is also nuts.

No, I don't expect people to turn up, but if they don't then they can't expect new players to magically appear and play for free....

Chris B · Post by **Chris B** » 01 Nov 2014, 17:05

Highlighting where Hargreaves seems to be going wrong doesn't mean I think there's a better option out there for us. His fixture scheduling rant and failure to put Courtney Richards out of his misery at Alfreton were massive errors of judgment. I do, though, think the side suffered greatly when we lost Duane to injury. He was just growing into the central role and attacking presence we need and Bowman has disappointingly failed to.

There's no denying momentum plays a bigger role with a young squad and, as CH suggests, we were always due a few rockier patches of form, but the losing run looks likely to run far longer than the earlier winning streak. The damage of an FA Cup exit, potentially two embarrassing televised defeats after our trip to Barnet, and the increasingly likely loss of our talismanic captain in January are in danger of turning our season into a fight near the bottom of the table.

hector · Post by **hector** » 01 Nov 2014, 17:18

It's not so much losing that I object to but when you see Western League players like Niall Thompson and Ashley Yeoman starting, then defeat is pretty much inevitable. Just don't understand the team selection at all. It makes no sense. You don't need to hear the rest. Nicholson scoring is pretty much par for the course and I don't begrudge him his goal at all. Did he celebrate? Or do the modern thing of not doing so?

tufc si · Post by **tufc si** » 01 Nov 2014, 17:19

My first attempt at writing a match report so please be gentle!!

Okay here goes - Apart from the last 5 minutes, we were at best, woeful.

Thanks for reading!!

Gloomy Gull · Post by **Gloomy Gull** » 01 Nov 2014, 17:26

Dutchgull · Post by **Dutchgull** » 01 Nov 2014, 17:40

tufc si wrote:My first attempt at writing a match report so please be gentle!!

Okay here goes - Apart from the last 5 minutes, we were at best, woeful.

Thanks for reading!!

Class !!

Post by **Scott Brehaut** » 01 Nov 2014, 17:48

tufc si wrote:My first attempt at writing a match report so please be gentle!!

Okay here goes - Apart from the last 5 minutes, we were at best, woeful.

Thanks for reading!!

TL:)R

tommyg · Post by **tommyg** » 01 Nov 2014, 17:57

The most frustrating thing is it sounds like Kidderminster were in first gear all afternoon and didn't have to play well to earn the win. By all accounts, we were awful for 89 minutes but would have snatched a point had it not been for a wonder save in the dying moments.

Just like last season, I have more confidence in Downes scoring than any of our strikers. I understand the budget is tight but surely there is space to bring somebody in on loan. Hargreaves utilised the loan system quite effectively last season even if it didn't change the end result. Coulthirst and Goodwin were good temporary signings and added more firepower to an impotent attack. Hopefully Hargreaves is reading his contacts book on the journey home because we need reinforcements to shake up the squad.

Burnhamgull · Post by **Burnhamgull** » 01 Nov 2014, 19:04

tommyg wrote: Hargreaves utilised the loan system quite effectively last season even if it didn't change the end result. Coulthirst and Goodwin were good temporary signings and added more firepower to an impotent attack.

Don't forget, Hargreaves brought in a load of dross before finally getting lucky with Coulthirst. Goodwin had a few good moments but was overall a very average player.

Remember these....

Callum Ball
Jayden Stockley
Adebayo Azeez
Paul McCallum
Aiden O'Brien
Enoch Showunmi
Conor Wilkinson

To be fair, I'm not sure how many of these were brought in by Hargreaves, I know Ball was a Knill signing but Hargreaves used a scattergun approach to recruitment in my opinion.

Eventually he found somebody decent (Coulthirst) but it was way too late.

Rjc70 · Post by **Rjc70** » 01 Nov 2014, 19:06

Most of them weren't Hargreaves, but a couple of them were half decent.

Mattpuma · Post by **Mattpuma** » 01 Nov 2014, 19:24

Mccallum was a Knill signing and was a decent player. Sadly he got injured. The rest listed were god awful though.

Rjc70 · Post by **Rjc70** » 01 Nov 2014, 19:35

Mattpuma wrote:Mccallum was a Knill signing and was a decent player. Sadly he got injured. The rest listed were god awful though.

McCallum was good. Thought Azeez had the occasional decent showing for us, too. Liked Goodwin. Many are plying trade higher up the pyramid now.

Neal · Post by **Neal** » 01 Nov 2014, 20:28

I blame Rice

And who said I was crazee for having the audacity to say we are actually not that good. Come on own up!

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 01 Nov 2014, 20:35

This old shit again, brilliant. Chris' budget for loanees last season was zero pounds and zero pence. Karl Hawley earned almost £1400/week. Have a guess how deep into the talent cesspool you have to sink before you get to players who cost **** all.
Criticising Chris for not coming up with the next Ronaldo on a zero budget, on loan, at the club bottom of the Football League, is a bit like giving the short order chef from your local greasy spoon the same conditions and being upset when he doesn't win a Michelin Star.

As to today, it was two teams full of totally useless twats, as per. Both their goals were embarrassing for us. One went in at walking pace (although it was from a free kick awarded against Downes, presumably for the heinous crime of being Australian. It can't have been for anything else, because he never got within about 6 foot of their massive striker) and the other involved what must rate as the worst piece of individual defending football has ever witnessed.

Another side who'd get **** annihilated by anyone with even so much as a modicum of application or talent or even just some **** effort, but they breezed past us like we weren't even there.

Seabright - 0 - **** crap. Probably worse than Rice. Decision making terrible. Caught one ball today, and that was only because their striker missed his header. The only positive is that, unlike Rice, when presented with almost two acres of grass to hit, he can hit it rather than punt the ball into the stands.

Tongue - 0 - The worst player ever to pull on a yellow shirt. Embarrassing watching a man who will never be a right back as long as he's got a hole in his arse flounder about and **** it up at every opportunity.

Downer - 3 - Never fouled their bloke for their second goal, didn't even get near him. Made a couple of last ditch interceptions, but that was mostly because the whole team were poncing about like headless chicken all day.

McDonald - 1 - Same as Downes, but tried to get himself sent off after about 20 minutes by flying into a bloke. Good job the referee was as **** shit as the rest, because he missed it and gave a yellow instead.

Cruise - 0 - Why is this prick still here? Play **** Ives, who'll spend the rest of his career at Man Utd, not **** Tom "I haven't got a **** clue what the **** I'm doing" Cruise, who'll spend the rest of his career wiping old peoples' arses, if he's lucky.

Cameron - 0 - Worse than useless. Didn't do a thing for the whole time he was on.

Young - 2 - Scores a couple and thinks he's **** Ronaldo. Shooting from a 40-yarder and getting it nowhere near the goal. Nice one, dickhead.

Richards - 1 - Not as bad as the zeros, but very nearly. Totally ineffective.

Thompson - 5 - Comes out with some credit today, because he was limited not by his own ability, but by the crass lack of talent of others. Blatantly, BLATANTLY put on to run past Nico. Did we get one single ball into the channel for him to run past Nico and onto? Did we ****! Put in a few really neat crosses. Low, powerful, pinning the goalkeeper and turning the defenders. Was there anybody there to finish them off? Was there ****!

Bowman - 0 - If you can believe it, he was worse than he has been for the last few weeks. At least he normally creates a couple of good chance to waste, but he didn't even manage that today.

Yeoman - 0 - Not sure he touched the ball. I know he doesn't get a proper chance in the team, but when it's the same story under about 25 different managers and over the course of 15 years (or whatever), I really can't bring myself to believe that he's the real deal.

Chuck this lot in the bin. 7 losses from 8 now, I think. **** marvellous lads. Well worth the couple of thousand miles we've travelled to watch you in that time.

Matt.

arcadia · Post by **arcadia** » 01 Nov 2014, 20:38

hector wrote:It's not so much losing that I object to but when you see Western League players like Niall Thompson and Ashley Yeoman starting, then defeat is pretty much inevitable. Just don't understand the team selection at all. It makes no sense. You don't need to hear the rest. Nicholson scoring is pretty much par for the course and I don't begrudge him his goal at all. Did he celebrate? Or do the modern thing of not doing so?

To be straight Hargreaves got rid of Nico but replaced him with an player not as good as him.

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