Colchester to run the rule over trio (From Gazette)

We are scraping the barrell now. Im all for youngsters but you do need some experienced players. This club is going from one extreme to another.We desperate need a goal scorer and a good midfielder but reading the story no way will I be spending my £24 in the west stand next season. I will be catching the train to other destinations.

Agreed. I think the club are in financial trouble and Cowling wont put any more money in. I see Richard Keogh has left Carlisle for Hoofroyds Coventry on a 3 year deal. Now we know why Ward didnt go for him!

Has anyone ever watched James Walker play? If you compare both players you will think Clive Platt is now electric lightining. I saw Walker play for Southend and he was just so awfully slow and cumbersome. That says it about all for me what Ward knows about certain players. Ive never been so peed of before a season has started than this one. Mr Cowling you will slide down a lot quicker than you ever will climbing back up again. Play this game of trying to stabilise a sinking ship like you are and you will be finished. Seing some of the teams that have been assembled by Swindon,Brighton,Pet
erborough ,Southampton, I see us having little chance next year. Even teams like Carlisle Exeter Brentford have made some good additions to their squads so im still hoping for at least one good signing that will help to improve our squad and make me feel happier.

Like i said before, don't lose faith before the season. I think fresh blood to the team is a good idea. Who knows, they could be very good players. Saves us wasting money on prutton and lisbie, who were earning fortunes. We have to stick by Ward, and not write him off. I'll definately be there next season as i have bought a season ticket and i am a LOYAL fan, that wont travel to other 'destinations'.

I also have got a Season Ticket as I am also a LOYAL supporter why wouldn't I get a ticket. I have been supporting Colchester United for years I would never turn my back to them and go and support another team, can't stand it hearing all these negative comments. Up the U's

exactly, lets get behind colchester and SUPPORT the players and the team, instead of slagging them off.

You lot dont start moaning when the team strugles and gets relegated. We got told quality was more important than quanity. These players are worse than we already have. Platt is a cart horse but James Walker is a Awfull. What was the point of getting rid of Vernon then who was twice as good. Yes its down to paying Blue Square wages. I want my team to do well but im not like you wimps that will accept anything put in front of your noses without a say. If you buy a bad car you moan the same with a football team.

Seriously crazy what you on about. i think you are 'crazy'. You wont be saying this if we get promoted next season would you? all i am saying is that don't lose faith. theres no point going to the beginning of the season, and you have already lost faith. Are you serious about Vernon, hes the most pointless player we have had. P.S don't call me a wimp, your the one who's a glory hunter.

Steve86 wrote:
Seriously crazy what you on about. i think you are 'crazy'. You wont be saying this if we get promoted next season would you? all i am saying is that don't lose faith. theres no point going to the beginning of the season, and you have already lost faith. Are you serious about Vernon, hes the most pointless player we have had. P.S don't call me a wimp, your the one who's a glory hunter.

No I wont be getting excited next year because if you think promotion is on the cards then you must be joking. I agree Vernon was not up to Div 1 standard. The point im trying to say is that James Walker is far worse just awful, and to think about signing players like this is a backward step. It would have been far better to sign just two quality proven players a midfielder and a goal scorer than three to five run of the mill players. Dont tell me the players are not out there because two are available just down the road. To me this is bad judgement and only heightens the prospect of sinking deeper into trouble. Its like rowing out into the middle of the ocean then making a hole in the bottom and sinking. Im not a glory hunter by any means but what I like to see is good managment skills and decent business sense. Its obvious Robbie has had his fingers bitten by not paying enough attention ,reason he is now getting involved more with the club on a different level. If Mark Tierney goes as expected it will spell disaster as he was the saviour on so many occasions in defence last year. Good players sense whats happening in the club and naturally want to move on to better prospects and clubs with ambition.

However bad these new players may be, they can't be as bad as Rooney, Terry and company. And they won't cost as much either.

Im fed up of these people who quote "Loyal". If people like Crazy and me do not want to waste money then we dont have too. Does"nt mean we are not supporters. I have been a supporter for the last 28 years. Surely we are the sensible ones that we dont just pump hard earned money into the clubs coffers when we dont agree with what is going on. We will not finish in the top ten next season and its the sensible supporters like Crazy and myself who can see that. If you lot want to get your season tickets, etc then thats up to you but I dont agree with the appointment of Ward, I dont agree with the signings and I think the club has gone backwards overall since Cowling has been here. If I want to watch average players on a crappy pitch I will go to Mile End Rec on Sunday Mornings. I hope next May I am proved wrong, I would love to be, but I guarantee we are in for an average season at best.

Im fed up of these people who quote "Loyal". If people like Crazy and me do not want to waste money then we dont have too. Does"nt mean we are not supporters. I have been a supporter for the last 28 years. Surely we are the sensible ones that we dont just pump hard earned money into the clubs coffers when we dont agree with what is going on. We will not finish in the top ten next season and its the sensible supporters like Crazy and myself who can see that. If you lot want to get your season tickets, etc then thats up to you but I dont agree with the appointment of Ward, I dont agree with the signings and I think the club has gone backwards overall since Cowling has been here. If I want to watch average players on a crappy pitch I will go to Mile End Rec on Sunday Mornings. I hope next May I am proved wrong, I would love to be, but I guarantee we are in for an average season at best.

To be honest I really don't care what other people think. Col U are my team period. I won't be watching anyone else this season. I will not be travelling elsewhere glory hunting or getting a "freebie" for a championship game because my missus works there. I will not slag off my team (only to me mates).
If we play like garbage all season I will have still had fun watching the odd ocassional goal. We've got a cracking new ground and it's about time people got a grip.
As for being in "financial trouble" do me a favour...you've just got to look at the Saffend for that :(
I'd rather be a fourth division or conference side with great cup runs than aspire to be another Wimbledon.
Just feel at this moment in time it's best we look in the reduced section.
Up the U's!

Feisty CBC wrote:
To be honest I really don't care what other people think. Col U are my team period. I won't be watching anyone else this season. I will not be travelling elsewhere glory hunting or getting a "freebie" for a championship game because my missus works there. I will not slag off my team (only to me mates). If we play like garbage all season I will have still had fun watching the odd ocassional goal. We've got a cracking new ground and it's about time people got a grip. As for being in "financial trouble" do me a favour...you've just got to look at the Saffend for that :( I'd rather be a fourth division or conference side with great cup runs than aspire to be another Wimbledon. Just feel at this moment in time it's best we look in the reduced section. Up the U's!

Your childish comments regards me just show what sort of person you really are. Regards me watching other games I can thoroughly assure you it does not effect my support for Colchester United in any way. Most football managers watch other games to keep tabs on players they may be watching but it does not mean to say they are supporting them. I go and watch other games because of the love of watching football and to compare teams. I wrote on here early part of last season and said at the time we were not good enough to go up. The abuse I got back from the likes of you was ridiculous. I had seen Swindon,Huddersfield and Norwich both play a few times,way before we played them and could see that they all played good football. Nothing wrong with that just an honest opinion which was true. You believed and wrote on this site saying the Us were playing brilliant. Ive been around to long to know different that we would not make the play offs and struggle so it came as no great surprise to me we never made it. Regards finances believe me the Southend chairman has ruined that club and if you still want a team to support like Colchester then you do not start doing what Mr Cowling is now trying to do. Dont get me wrong I love young players coming through the ranks but you need some good quality experienced players as well. If you sell your top players like Southend have then your team gets weaker. Whats happens support goes down with less revenue and you get relegated. No one is slagging the team of its a word called being ambitious. If you want to pay £24 for a seat to watch a player called James Walker play then you more stupid than i thought. This guy at 22 has had more clubs and trials than ive had hot dinners. I know he is only on trial with us but surely the club can do better than this. We all know how weak we were end of season and with the better players either gone or leaving we need to strengthen. The outlook to that looks unlikely we will sign any further players to improve the squad. Finally you mention we have a cracking new ground. Well my honest opinion to that again is that I disagree. I suggest you do a bit of travelling to other new grounds recently built and do some comparing. I actualy visited the Ricoh Staduim Coventry last season when I had to go there for a business meeting in the confrence centre adjoining. What a lovely staduim and no wonder it must have appealed to Boothroyd. All enclosed if it rains you keep dry not like at Colchester in the west stand you get soaked with it being so open. Fantastic loads and loads of parking all solid tarmac not bloody pot holes and mud. The concoarse underneath is full of shops and places to sit down and eat. What is Colchesters just a rough old breeze block walls not even painted with a snack bar that rips you off. At least clubs like milton keynes,brighton and Southends proposed new staduim look like works of art. No wonder the ground has no feel to it with open corners and just looks half finished with a crappy bumpy uneven pitch that is worse than a park pitch.

Absolutely clueless ;p
Apart from the "half finished ground, fill in the corners" tripe. Your take on the Saffend woes is laughable. The reason they sold their best players is because they have no disposable cash. Hence them constantly in the High Court to face money demands. Having been in a transfer embargo for months now they can only sign loan players. With players currently being unpaid you will see the current exodus continue. Should I really have to explain this to you? If you need more information google it! Visit whatever game you want to but don't go slagging off the team, supporters and chairman before the freaking season has started!

Feisty CBC wrote:
Absolutely clueless ;p Apart from the "half finished ground, fill in the corners" tripe. Your take on the Saffend woes is laughable. The reason they sold their best players is because they have no disposable cash. Hence them constantly in the High Court to face money demands. Having been in a transfer embargo for months now they can only sign loan players. With players currently being unpaid you will see the current exodus continue. Should I really have to explain this to you? If you need more information google it! Visit whatever game you want to but don't go slagging off the team, supporters and chairman before the freaking season has started!

The reason Southend are finding it hard to survive now is because the chairman Ron Martin never reinvested the money he got for players from two seasons ago but adopted a policy of bringing in non league and loan players people like Vernon that were no good. Thats the reason the position they now find them selves in.. All im trying to say is that I do not want to see that happen at Col Utd but it will do if we do not take the action that is needed. Nothing wrong having a couple of non league players but you do need some quailty in the team to make it up and so far this season that has not happened. We need a goalscorer big time. It may still happen yet, but not with signing players like James Walker. Its just a point im making and not slagging off the team.
Yes Colchesters new ground is a big improvement on Layer road but it still falls short of being fantastic. Its not a cracking new ground as you suggest anf if you done some travelling instead of staying in your beloved town of colchester you might just see what I mean. Its been built on the cheap without being half finished. The pitch was awful, so uneven and badly drained.