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[ESSEXURs]

With our current run of form (or lack of) this is going to be a must win game.

You have to wonder what goes through the minds of most of the squad who should have pride
in their club and give 100% every match for the supporters who follow the team despite
their abysmal performances.

The comments relating to the likes of Chair, Willock and Dickie earlier in the season
relating to potential transfers out seem to be now in the dim distant past.
If they are not playing for the club/supporters you would have thought they would at least
wish to put themselves in the shop window for a potential move.

They have managed to get us down to our beloved 16th place and I am beginning to wonder
if this lot have a masochistic pleasure in flirting with relegation each season.

Are they paid too much now too soon and there is no incentive to play well and you
must also wonder about the "injuries" that seem to follow half the squad.

Is it time to condemn half the side to the B team and put in some new young players who
are still, from the odd game I have watched, giving 100% on a fraction of the wages.

I think it is time for Critchley to visit the broom cupboard and sweep away the rubbish.

[steveqpr881]

I just wonder what the root cause of our demise is, after a good start under "Pete" Beale.
Because the change of manager hasn't made a blind bit of difference.

[steveqpr881]

With our current run of form (or lack of) this is going to be a must win game.

There's some hope for us, Essex; they struggled to beat The Phony Hoops at home 1-0 on Sat.,
having done them over 3 or 4-nil at the Arthur Daley Used car Showroom (formerly the Mad Stad)
earlier on this season. Fingers crossed....

[Kerrins]

Under the New Manager the players appear to me not to be putting in the effort.

This is the Third time now that Critchley has either blasted the players in
public/threatened to wield the Axe/ change personnel.

A truly bad sign of low morale. Never the less I take some comfort from the theory
that no club in any division topping the league in October/November has
ever got relegated

[ESSEXURs]

What I find difficult to comprehend is what can possibly happen other that
half the team struck down by a terminal injury to make them go from a successful
team playing in a way that promised top six at least, to the shambles of a side that we see now.
Did someone axe their sweeties allowance?

It would be nice for the players to explain what the hell has changed to produce
their current performances.

The other aspect is the deafening silence from our owners. Is relegation tax deductible?