Arrogant and Disrespectful!

Arrogant and disrespectful! That’s the general view of Appleton’s team selection today. I’m not sure who it’s more disrespectful to Cray Valley or our own fans!

If you’re going to put out a side like that then you really ought to let the fans know before they shell out on a ticket and give up their hard earned money and time.

The bizarre thing is that recently Appleton spoke of the importance of trophies and he was speaking about the EFL trophy. He put out a stronger starting eleven against Villa U21 than he did against Cray Valley in the rather more prestigious FA Cup!!

Some fans are trying to absolve the manager of blame saying the players had their chance to impress. Hello! He picked the team, he left Kirk on the pitch as long as he did when it was clear he wasn’t interested nor capable. He simply wouldn’t get into the Cray Valley team nor would they want him.

Despite all that Appleton had the chances to change things and when he did it was too little, too late.

I feel for Tedic because he’ll no doubt get some criticism. He really should have been played in his proper position before now. The poor guy finally gets to do so but supported by the B team. He got little service after showing great awareness for our goal.

This result and performance was worse than Northwich Victoria. I’m really angry with Appleton who has failed to really convince me. There have been to many good half, bad half games. Games where we’ve had to make subs in order to get the make up of the team right. Games where were chasing it or games like Tuesday, where were comfortably leading then nearly throw it all away.

I had to chuckle when the commentators were saying how he’d won us over! Really?   

Now we face an additional game when we’re already playing catch up.

Appleton is fast turning into the joke figure he’s always been seen as on Charlton Life when he got linked with every job going. He’ll probably be around for some time to come because he’s Andy Scott’s mate and he won’t any more egg on his face.

We’re stuck with him for the foreseeable. Let’s hope we can pick up enough points to stay up and this season it’s not going to be any better than mid table.

The manger has to hope that the rested players put on a good show at Fratton Park or he’ll look even more silly as difficult as that sounds!