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“Colchester United are extremely fortunate that the Cowley’s agreed to become their management team”
That does smack a little of Paul Konchesky’s mum telling the Kop they’ve never seen class.
Pretty sure your first post was around the day the Cowley’s were appointed? So, are you one of their parents, spouse, sibling, son, daughter, best friend, agent?
FYI We’ve had managers before that at some stage in their careers have managed Rangers, Newcastle, Everton, Aston Villa, Hearts, Leicester and various other top flight teams and three that I can think of that have taken teams into Europe, one even won the European Cup Winners Cup, oh and one that managed Scotland. It would be fair to say that we know when we’ve got a decent management team.
I nearly forgot, the bloke that took Watford into the Premiership then came and managed us before going on to be the England U21 manager.
PS. With regard to investment into Lincoln City, Sportvest Capital LLP is the name of the vehicle that the South African hedge fund manager set up with two other blokes, so they could put money into the club. According to Companies House, that was in April 2016, so just about the time the Cowleys arrived.
OK, so retired South African hedge fund manager Clive Nates bought into Lincoln City in February 2016. The Cowleys joined in May 2016.
There’s a video on the internet of Nates describing how a few months later, DC left numerous messages on his phone because he wanted to buy Sean Raggett but the price tag was £100,000+. Nates told him to go ahead because he would cover the cost.
That’s a non-league manager being told 8 years ago that he could spend £100k on one player. It’s all subjective, but in my book that makes the owner Mr Moneybags. In truth, I don’t think he’s that rich, he’s just lucky. As it turned out it went to tribunal.
Thanks to a single goal from Raggett a few months later, the Imps knocked Prem side Burnley out of the Cup to set up a semi-final tie with Arsenal. The money rolled in and the rest is history. Skill, luck, wealthy owner, a combination of all three, who knows, their record at Lincoln is unquestionably impressive, as it was at Braintree. I’m certainly not belittling their achievements, just pointing out that it’s a million miles from the cash strapped, sell, sell, sell that they find themselves in now.
Their record so far at the U’s has been poor and they have been cut some serious slack, they can shout a lot, but haven’t shown much else. Despite that, frustrations are not with the Cowleys, but with the state of the club they have inherited, which shows little signs of improvement. As of August, it will be their team and the faithful will be fully behind them, but let’s not be under any illusions, their task here is probably much harder than they have faced before and even a mid-table finish would be a welcome relief and a small step in the right direction.
Just out of interest, are you a blood relative of the Cowleys or just related by marriage?
Yes indeed, the bullshit winds me up, it's like they think we are 5 year old, but in fairness that's how the country works, it's bullshit everywhere.
We record this call for training purposes.... no you don't you record it to use it against me if there's an arguement.
If you vote for me I'll... no you won't you've been in power 14 years and done #### all..
Selling Fevs and Mingi is great business for the club... no it's not, but it keeps the wolves from the door.
Last year when we lost the Essex Senior Cup to one step up from a pub team, it was - it's good experience, our players will learn from it... no they won't, most of them have been released now.
It's like a Few Good Men:
Us: We want the truth.
DC: You want the truth?
Us: I think we’re entitled to the truth!
DC: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world where the academy needs to be paid for, the pitch drainage, and all the coaches. Who's gonna do it? You? Mr Supporter? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Fevrier, and you curse the owners. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know - that Read will also be sold, and while tragic, it probably saves the club; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves this club.
I don't disagree with anything you say, but we should remain realistic. If DC and NC were that good they wouldn't be at Colchester, they would still be in the Championship. They had a Mr Moneybags at Lincoln, now they've got to prove they can do it on the cheap.
The simple facts are that they are the best we are going to get and if they can't turn things around then I don't see how anyone else will. Everytime we change managers the club gets further in debt and takes another step backwards. We must have some stability.
The problem is not the manager or the players, and unfortunately the problem is not going anywhere, so the best we can hope for, is to muddle along like we always have done. We've been in deeper shit before.
It's obvious that the money has run out, from now on, anyone who's worth a few quid will be sold and DC is going to have to work miracles. It's not how we want it, but that's how it is. It won't stop me moaning, but if he's got to bring in 10 players for buttons, then he's going to have to take some risks. There are 91 other clubs all looking for the, as yet unfound, star of the future, it's not easy.
We can hope that, one day, the academy actually starts to furnish the team with sufficient number of players that are good enough to get us away from the trapdoor.
In the meantime, as long as we survive, that's a victory in itself. Anything else is a bonus.
I'm guessing that when DC said some of the contracted players were free to leave, that would have included Conner. His face doesn't seem to fit, which is a shame.
I'm not really sure what sort of players DC wants, but if they have to run through walls and be in bed by 9pm, then that could rule out a lot of class players like Cureton, McGavin, etc.
The Sutton fans weren't joking when they said Goodliffe missed a lot of games in the last too seasons. I count 47 games, but most worrying is that it looks like he ended last season injured.
"I found out that I had a bit of a knee injury, which we needed to sort out before I could play any games"
“I was out injured for 17-21 weeks, with recovery and rehab work"
Ironically he's probably the reason we stayed up last season. He was a former Sutton player of the season, but on top of the two injuries mentioned previously, he also missed 16 games last year.
I don't know what the injury was then, but all bets relating to knees are off.
So that's a defender with glass knees and a striker that never scores.
On a brighter note, if we got around £400k for Fevs and Mingi, I'm guessing we've still got at least £395k left.
How long before we find out Matt Macey has a grass allergy?
3 goals in 47 L1/2 apperances (for good teams) is way short of Tom's, Samson's and Bradley's records, so I'm assuming he's must be more of a winger than a striker?
Two year contact is a great opportunity for him, I hope he can fill Fevs boots.
You've got a long way to go to be as negative as I've been on here over the last 20 years!....but somebody has got to counter balance Durham!
In all seriousness, I agree, it cannot be good starting the season with so many late signings and a bunch of loanees, but we are where we are and can only hope that it gels quickly. I fear that if it doesn't start well, a bunch of strangers will not have the bonding to ride through a prolonged rough patch.
If the Cowley's make a success of the coming season, from the position we are in now, then they will deserve legendary status.
You can’t really blame Noah for taking his time. Loyalty is OK up to a point, but it’s obvious that long-term lucrative contracts are not top priority when it comes to spending cash at Col U.
What does staying at the U’s actually offer him. It’s not just the money. He’s only got a relatively short time playing professional football and realistically, the way the club is run, he’s far more likely to suffer relegation than enjoy any success. Add to that his own ‘fans’ that cannot wait to shout abuse at him because he’s not Pele.
There is no continuity at the club, it has all been destroyed. There cannot be any team spirit if every year we are selling off players to pay for the ‘facilities’, and relying on 5 loan players every season.
If he signs now, he doesn’t even know who half his team mates will be. Except that it will be a dressing room full of journeymen. I believe there’s been 8 managers since he first played and once again the nucleus of the team has been destroyed. It’s a shite way to run a football club, that not surprisingly doesn’t work and will only ever attract players that want to play for themselves not the club.
If he had bought into the Cowley dream, that must have been dented when we started the fire sale. As things stand, he must be looking at another year of struggle where a disproportionate amount of expectation will fall on his shoulders. If it doesn’t go well, once again, he will be the person the fans vent their anger on.
I hope he stays, because I think if he got to play in a good team, he could become a very good footballer, but I don’t blame him for looking at other options.
May be he was at his grans funeral, or his girlfriends ultrasound, or at the palace seeing his uncle get the OBE, or he has a cold, or his car wouldn’t start, at the dentist with toothache, at the blood donors, doing jury service, I’m sure everything will be fine
It's a long story, but one day last season I ended up in the north of England with nothing to do, so I went to watch Hartlepool v Aldershot.
I learnt several things from the experience:
a) Non-league football must be avoided at all cost, it is still complete shite.
b) The numbers of Aldershot away suppporters are absolutely incredible and put us to shame.
c) I'm now officially old, because the music over the tannoy was far too loud.
d) Looking forward to seeing Chay Cooper play, I was shocked at the groans from the pools fans when he was brought on as a sub. Sadly I don't think he's good enough at the moment. Hopefully his move will give him the chance of regular football.
e) Hartlepool doesn't get any better and I'm glad I come from Essex.
Begining to wish I hadn't thought of this, as it might stick!
We should be grateful for a Desperate Dan, it's better than the numerous 'Minnie the Minx' appointments we've had in the past.
He can toughen up the squad by teaching them to shave with a blowtorch (don't try that at home kids). Can you imagine nowadays, something aimed at kids where they promote hair removal using a blowlamp! The no-win-no-pay brigade would be scorching their nippers on purpose just for the compensation.
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