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Unpredictable, that's what you are .... - Devongone - 29-04-2019
The results in this league are as unpredictable as some of the managerial decisions are unfathomable. I took one look at Saturday's team and lost faith in next season before this one had ended.
Has anybody got any idea what John Sheridan thinks he is doing. He's kept us up. Hooray. But on Saturday in a game that didn't much trouble the greater scheme of things he decided to use FIVE on-loan players. To them he added Robbie Weir who won't be with us next season unless we have to keep him as part of a new form of FA punishment being handed down for the miscellany of inadvertent persistent misdemeanours to which we are fatally attracted. So we end up with Shaw, Kiwomya and McKay as our hopes of scoring a goal, and Carter, Chapman and Weir as the means of supplying it. What the f*** was my reaction? Number of minutes afforded to the younger players on the fringe/s of the squad was 10 if Joe Rowley is still on the fringes (and surely he was the single player we needed to give time in the CENTRE of midfield?)
Now had we put Lee Shaw on field with Boden and Denton in the hope of him re-discovering his goal touch and creating a potent force for next season, I could have understood. But what do we learn by playing McKay - don't ask his dad to book the away trips? We had 7 efforts on goal in a game in which we could have treated our travelling support to an attacking display. (The way to thank the supporters for travelling is by rewarding them on field with a good game IMO!)
But I clearly don't understand football at all. Gary Hill is a successful non-league manager but as usual on Saturday he studiously avoided putting Michael Cheek and Danny Kedwell on the field at the same time for long ...... but this time he did manage to field Whiteley. Kedwell and Cheek together with Whiteley coming from midfield would be such a potent force ..... and I don't think they've been on the field together for more than a few minutes all season. Are these players paid more if they do a full game and Ebbsfleet can't afford all three? Then as if to add to their own confusion, Ebbsfleet only bother paying their players once a storm breaks over the issue anyway, and then as the final piece in the jigsaw of defeat they are so cleverly crafting for themselves, on Saturday they left out their keeper Nathan Ashmore who gets good ratings every week. So 5-1 wasn't that much of a surprise and provided an excellent context for Zavon Hines who RETIRED mid-season to come on as sub in the 81st minute for Bromley and grab an assist. Gary Hill said later, "There were a few changes today for certain reasons; we have to look at the situation going forward with players financially."
So Nathan Ashmore and Michael Cheek are two of those looking for a club next season? No wonder we can't predict the results.