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Post by sam on Jan 1, 2017 15:15:50 GMT
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Post by spooky on Jan 1, 2017 16:10:28 GMT
I think you've done alright there. He seemed to be very knowledgeable when he was Jason's 2nd in command and obviously knows the local scene pretty well. Hope he can keep you in this league so we have more Ridgeway Derbies next season.... (actually hoping that Jason Matthews can keep us in this league too.)
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Post by philstandfield on Jan 1, 2017 17:28:54 GMT
Looks like we have done well to get Craig. Hopefully there will be an up lift in the atmosphere around the club like it was when Sir Jermyn returned . Hopefully the club can attract some of the missing back through the gate and so have not too cut the budget as planned giving the new Manager a chance to perhaps start moulding the team into how he wants it.
Also still plenty of games to take stock of who's here and time to see who he wants to move on at the end of the season and the sort of players to bring in.
Also the article says about other appointments will follow in the future concerning other non playing staff so I take it he will be bringing in his own staff and not be keeping current staff. Maybe a good thing to have a fresh approach with people with no ties to the club coming in.
Will be interesting to see how it pans out.
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Post by seantizz on Jan 1, 2017 18:32:55 GMT
A very good appointment I feel.. Happy with that. He'll know how to organise the side and get the best from them..
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Post by CM on Jan 4, 2017 13:26:50 GMT
Very happy with this appointment. Welcome Craig. UTMs
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Post by dorchesteriron on Jan 4, 2017 23:08:49 GMT
Just read the interview with the Echo about the squad and possible signings. I thought it was quite positive & hopefully he can bring in a couple of decent players that help us improve. Think we all agree that what's need is someone to put the ball in the back of the net. He says he has the contacts so fingers crossed.
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Post by cherrymagpie on Jan 6, 2017 11:16:44 GMT
Just read the interview with the Echo about the squad and possible signings. I thought it was quite positive & hopefully he can bring in a couple of decent players that help us improve. Think we all agree that what's need is someone to put the ball in the back of the net. He says he has the contacts so fingers crossed. I thought that until today! His record at Yate Town was a worry something nobody has mentioned but overall it's decent and WSM very similar to ourselves in stature albeit I believe we are bigger unbelievable achievement in really establishing them. 24 hours until his first game and he's down playing us already earlier in the week it was about getting us back to the conference south and get the crowds back. I'm sorry but we are 6 unbeaten a little bit of a feel good factor Banbury should worry about coming here. Should they not? How many times has Craig Laird himself watched them this season? How can we as fans get people down to the Avenue if the new manager is down playing us? He's seen 1 Derby game where the players gave everything. We as a fan base are very aware on the whole I feel of where we are as a club at the present time he has no need to dampen that quite the opposite making us believe we are going on a journey with him would help. Im sorry but he's giving the players little excuses before a ball is kicked not directly but sub conciously he is. How about a rallying call to the public after a great crowd previous tap into the feel good? How he wants us to play highlight the additions coming in. Re emphasise the good things. After recent games I was positive and really looking forward to Saturday but I'm one swoop same old excuses reeled in long before a balls been kicked. I'll be accused of moaning I'm sure believe me i am not. We get very little headline inches the majority of our fan base will read the echo and will think same old same old? Am I wrong? |
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Post by magpie on Jan 6, 2017 12:19:34 GMT
I was thinking along the same lines as you Cherry Magpie, when I thought that the new manager was down playing us for tomorrow's game when we should be confident going into it.
Perhaps Craig Laird has done this to dampen the expectation on him and the team given the excitement over his announcement as manager. Craig Laird will need time to establish his team and assess the player he feels that he can work with and ones that he feels will need to be moved on and maybe this is his reason for downplaying the game tomorrow!
I am really looking forward to tomorrow's game and getting behind Craig and the team!
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Post by seantizz on Jan 6, 2017 19:40:19 GMT
I thought exactly that as well Cherry... It took me back to the days of Simkin.. And I was a bit disappointed.. Perhaps he's simply picked up on the mantra from the board?
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Post by somerset on Jan 8, 2017 18:26:29 GMT
If I was a Dorchester fan I would not get too excited!
Ive watched both his spells at Bridgwater Town and I'm well aware of his spell at Weston Super Mare.
At Bridgwater he had the biggest budget in the western League, a league where the best players follow the money from season to season. Bridgwater were the biggest club/town in the league and it was just a matter of time before promotion. They took the momentum into the following season and held their own. The football was always pretty basic, typical non league percentage football where the team with the best paid players normally win.
He then took over a WSM club who were spending the most money they ever had in their history, he was able to bring in some decent footballers and was immensely helped by the likes of Bristol City and Rovers loaning WSM their young talent.
WSM had a couple of decent seasons but once Lairds budget was cut, things started to go downhill.
There was a bizarre situation where he quit the club but was reinstated the following day. Eventually he was sacked.
As you are all aware he then turned up at Weymouth as an assistant.
After that he became Yate Town's manager, no trees were pulled up at Yate, quite the opposite it seems, once again he fell,out with a club over his budget, which according to strong rumours was well overspent. I stress that I have no way of knowing if this is true.
The return to Bridgwater Town was billed as 'the second coming'! but never materialised. Yes he had to work on a very limited budget with a young side. But there was no footballing philosophy, no signs of a particular tactical approach and some real desperate attempts at getting results with diabolically bad football.
Rumours of dressing room fall outs, even family fall outs ( two of his sons played for the club) and constant high scoring drubbings made watching Bridgwater Town a totally desperate experience. A traditionally well supported club saw attendances dwindle to an all time low. The fans accepted times were hard, but couldn't accept the abysmal style of football being dished up on a weekly ( twice weekly!) basis.
A statement by Craig Laird saying "he was in this for the long term" was clearly not to be the case, after several more big defeats and the club facing inevitable relegation it seemed that the next thing Craig Laird would face was the sack. But then Dorchester made the brave ( I must say strange) decision to appoint him as your manager. You know the rest!
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Post by DT1 on Jan 9, 2017 15:34:15 GMT
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Post by Dayvan Cowboy on Jan 9, 2017 21:21:53 GMT
If I was a Dorchester fan I would not get too excited! Ive watched both his spells at Bridgwater Town and I'm well aware of his spell at Weston Super Mare. At Bridgwater he had the biggest budget in the western League, a league where the best players follow the money from season to season. Bridgwater were the biggest club/town in the league and it was just a matter of time before promotion. They took the momentum into the following season and held their own. The football was always pretty basic, typical non league percentage football where the team with the best paid players normally win. He then took over a WSM club who were spending the most money they ever had in their history, he was able to bring in some decent footballers and was immensely helped by the likes of Bristol City and Rovers loaning WSM their young talent. WSM had a couple of decent seasons but once Lairds budget was cut, things started to go downhill. There was a bizarre situation where he quit the club but was reinstated the following day. Eventually he was sacked. As you are all aware he then turned up at Weymouth as an assistant. After that he became Yate Town's manager, no trees were pulled up at Yate, quite the opposite it seems, once again he fell,out with a club over his budget, which according to strong rumours was well overspent. I stress that I have no way of knowing if this is true. The return to Bridgwater Town was billed as 'the second coming'! but never materialised. Yes he had to work on a very limited budget with a young side. But there was no footballing philosophy, no signs of a particular tactical approach and some real desperate attempts at getting results with diabolically bad football. Rumours of dressing room fall outs, even family fall outs ( two of his sons played for the club) and constant high scoring drubbings made watching Bridgwater Town a totally desperate experience. A traditionally well supported club saw attendances dwindle to an all time low. The fans accepted times were hard, but couldn't accept the abysmal style of football being dished up on a weekly ( twice weekly!) basis. A statement by Craig Laird saying "he was in this for the long term" was clearly not to be the case, after several more big defeats and the club facing inevitable relegation it seemed that the next thing Craig Laird would face was the sack. But then Dorchester made the brave ( I must say strange) decision to appoint him as your manager. You know the rest! Thanks for taking the time to register for the forum purely to write a really long, negative post on the new manager to get the feel good factor up. |
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Post by CM on Jan 10, 2017 10:58:01 GMT
Which applicant who got spurned for the job do we think this is then?!  |
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Post by somerset on Jan 10, 2017 17:02:58 GMT
Thanks for taking the time to register for the forum purely to write a really long, negative post on the new manager to get the feel good factor up. No worries, I had some time on my hands! Next time I will write a load of bullshit, that will cheer you up. |
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Post by tom on Jan 14, 2017 19:21:39 GMT
As to tsof question as to which applicant who got spurned, well reading all of the above I will go for Cherry 🍒
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Post by somerset on Jan 26, 2017 20:33:18 GMT
I'm just a football fan fella, someone who knows the West Country football scene quite well I see you have now got a couple from Eastleigh on loan, laird had one of them at Bridgwater,along with about 10 other loan signings. None of them made any impact at Bridgwater whatsoever. Lairds assistant at Bridgwater left to be a scout at Eastleigh, there's your link. |
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Post by tom on Jan 28, 2017 19:43:21 GMT
Might be getting the wrong vibes regarding some of the comments towards Mr Somerset, yet at a guess, may I mention the obvious elephant in the thread, Somerset, are you Trev Senior?  |
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Post by somerset on Jan 28, 2017 22:07:03 GMT
I know he used to manage Bridgwater, but as for your question, the answer is no!
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Post by somerset on Aug 27, 2017 12:34:09 GMT
Which applicant who got spurned for the job do we think this is then?! I just thought I would pop back to this forum, I hate to say I told you so, but I did! It was obvious to me and other people I know, that Craig Laird was not the man you should have appointed as your manager. Two good seasons in fifteen ( when he had a massive budget) does not qualify someone as a good manager in my book. I see you are leaking goals for fun, no surprise, he can't spot a good player, let alone organise a team. I've no doubt the excuses will now be coming out, not enough money, individual mistakes blah blah. Bridgwater Town in the first 6 months of last season were a complete joke, they probably conceded 60 goals in the first 20 games under the management of Laird. I know players who played in that team, they said the lack of coaching skill was frightening. Anyway, I could go on, but I would be accused ( again! ) of being negative! Good luck for the rest of your season, think you may need it. |
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Post by hasbeen on Aug 27, 2017 21:55:38 GMT
He is not the man Dorchester need !! Got to go !
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