Next Season

[steveshot]

I’d prefer a Matt Gray in charge.
Widdrington has got us to Wembley on the back of 5-6 matches, BUT the big picture over 9 months is a total flop. Unacceptable!
Do these mangers not have periodic performance meetings with the Chairman or do they just sail through the season without a care in the world.
Will the manager get given the money to challenge for the playoffs or just to be in the top half.
Is Aldershot Town Football Club ambitious??????.
Yes that was a serious question!

[Silasgoldeen]

Ambition is a weird word in football. Everyone's ambitious but ambition costs money. So again we go back to that. We don't have enough to justify anyone talking about being ambitious. So you're stuck in a holding pattern.

Until the complete collapse I think a lot of us had made peace with an entertaining but annoying team but the late season disaster-class is tough to watch. I honestly wasn't bothered over the winter when results weren't going our way because I thought we were playing better than the results suggested and it'd come round. But nobody can say that now. It's been absolutely terrible. Like everyone's forgotten how to play at once.

I honestly don't know what to think. I feel like Tommy, Hugo and the team must be able to see the same things we see, but maybe the players are just beyond help at the moment. You can't just flick a switch. There aren't many options at many positions. And going to Barnet away in this form is a hiding to nothing really, especially with two free goals to set them up. I don't know, we might very well batter Yeovil and Spennymoor and have a nice summer. But this has been a diabolical few games.

[Shots2000]

We need a manager who will sore up the back line and who’s gonna to make us hard to break. Matt Gray is available.

I thank Tommy for the memories but it’s not sustainable and he’s been unprofessional. Obviously the Twitter and fan arguments and team selection and stubbornness. Also something for me that hasn’t been mentioned is we let the players celebrate the trophy semi like we’d won something e.g allowing players to get tanked up on beers in front of the fans after Woking even tho we weren’t safe. Yes celebrate but it isn’t the correct mentality for a professional football team imo.

[Money Shot]

Tommy has to be our second most successful manager since we've been in the National League.

I have waited for the Shots for over 50 years to get to Wembley and he is the only Shots manager to get us there.

This season league wasn't brilliant, but stop winging, nit picking and hopefully we'll finish this season on a high.

[Adzy]

Conceding 165 goals in two seasons is not successful. All it will take next season is a misfiring front line and we’ll be done for. Why should we take that risk? I’d rather us get in a manager that is able to manage a decent defence and score less goals but actually be in games. We’re rolling over in too many games under Tommy because he is incapable of getting a correct balance.

[steveshot]

Tommy has to be our second most successful manager since we've been in the National League.

I have waited for the Shots for over 50 years to get to Wembley and he is the only Shots manager to get us there.

This season league wasn't brilliant, but stop winging, nit picking and hopefully we'll finish this season on a high.

If we win at Wembley it would be a great achievement but as I said earlier the big picture is over 9 months and it’s been very disappointing.

[DaveC]

Be very careful what you wish for, in my opinion Matt Gray would be a disaster for the Club, I would never watch Shots under Gray and that is after 53 years of support. That is 100% a purely personal opinion but I am not aware that any clubs have been particularly interested in him since he left Sutton. We would be very lucky indeed to ever find a better manager than Tommy, who has done as well as anyone could with the resources he has, but I do feel he may be destined for better things and if he does go I would certainly thank him and wish him all the very best for the future.
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[Mytshot]

Be very careful what you wish for, in my opinion Matt Gray would be a disaster for the Club, I would never watch Shots under Gray and that is after 53 years of support. That is 100% a purely personal opinion but I am not aware that any clubs have been particularly interested in him since he left Sutton.We would be very lucky indeed to ever find a better manager than Tommy, who has done as well as anyone could with the resources he has, but I do feel he may be destined for better things and if he does go I would certainly thank him and wish him all the very best for the future.

Is this another one of those sarcastic posts? I can’t tell anymore

[Josh]

TW just the latest manager taking stick for a below average league campaign. Certainly not his biggest fan. His teams can't defend and he loves picking battles.
However, the simple reality is that we are a bottom 8 NL club.
Wouldn't expect things to magically improve with a new manager.

[Alf W]

Its been years of fighting relegation through a number of different Managers . As disappointed as others at the collapse following the semi-final success. I think the issue has been the way we have capitulated defensively early on in recent games as compared to games prior to the SF. York, Barnet, Rochdale and Boston were always going to be tough opponents but with the exception of the Boston game we were lost early on in the other three. I would like to see the Management team analyse and explain why this happened but the usual post interviews never probe this depth. I think Tommy has given Shots fans many highs and excitement, plus driven significant income above budget and I wouldn't dispense with him. Its not easy when you have the owners of clubs like York, Barnet, Eastleigh, Solihull etc throwing money behind their sides.

[Aldershot_Rob]

TW just the latest manager taking stick for a below average league campaign. Certainly not his biggest fan. His teams can't defend and he loves picking battles.
However, the simple reality is that we are a bottom 8 NL club.
Wouldn't expect things to magically improve with a new manager.

It probably would be a case of the emperors new clothes if he was replaced. Our aspirations as a club seem to be, not get relegated and hope for a cup run.

[chimpster99]

The structure and funding of the club are substandard. I'm not a massive fan of him, but at least he's a disruptor who will challenge and push the Board. Better than a yes-man like Searle or Molesley.

[lowerbourneshot]

Much of the same I expect . Do we get money on Tolaj for Vale going up ?

[chimpster99]

Much of the same I expect . Do we get money on Tolaj for Vale going up ?

We're just measly paying customers / supporters, we're not allowed to know.

[redblueuptoyou]

TW just the latest manager taking stick for a below average league campaign. Certainly not his biggest fan. His teams can't defend and he loves picking battles.
However, the simple reality is that we are a bottom 8 NL club.
Wouldn't expect things to magically improve with a new manager.

It probably would be a case of the emperors new clothes if he was replaced. Our aspirations as a club seem to be, not get relegated and hope for a cup run.

I think we were pretty much told that with the make the club sustainable plan - could that be average/mediocre league seasons boosted by significant cup runs? Admittedly a dangerous game to play.