Beveree Chat

Tony wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2026 9:02 am It would be interesting to hear the reasoning for Nash being brought back in. Was Underwood being dropped because of the third goal on Saturday, carrying a knock or something else? Sodje and De Havilland not picked in the squad, again injury or something else? And why did Ince not get off the bench in either game? Is he not good enough to face a step 4 team or, in reality, still injured ( I doubt it would have changed much but just highlights again the mystery of his signing)? Whatever we merely postponed the most embarrassing club defeat since probably the VCD FA Cup exit in 2014 from Saturday to Tuesday. The club has to decide pretty quickly the reasons for the dreadful start to the season and if Dowse is the right man to fix it. It's his squad after all. Despite a better performance against Chelmsford it feels we've dropped right back to where we were at Salisbury on the opening day of the season. As far as I can tell a lot of the squad needs to be moved on but in reality with contracts in place that is unlikely to be something that could happen quickly enough. Would a change of manager get more out of the squad? Depends who might come in and with what financial backing. Where do you find better players at this stage of the season? The two loanees so far have been relatively inexperienced and not turned the dial sufficiently. Would a new manager have more access to better players?

Lord Elpus wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2026 11:36 am

Tony wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2026 9:02 am It would be interesting to hear the reasoning for Nash being brought back in. Was Underwood being dropped because of the third goal on Saturday, carrying a knock or something else? Sodje and De Havilland not picked in the squad, again injury or something else? And why did Ince not get off the bench in either game? Is he not good enough to face a step 4 team or, in reality, still injured ( I doubt it would have changed much but just highlights again the mystery of his signing)? Whatever we merely postponed the most embarrassing club defeat since probably the VCD FA Cup exit in 2014 from Saturday to Tuesday. The club has to decide pretty quickly the reasons for the dreadful start to the season and if Dowse is the right man to fix it. It's his squad after all. Despite a better performance against Chelmsford it feels we've dropped right back to where we were at Salisbury on the opening day of the season. As far as I can tell a lot of the squad needs to be moved on but in reality with contracts in place that is unlikely to be something that could happen quickly enough. Would a change of manager get more out of the squad? Depends who might come in and with what financial backing. Where do you find better players at this stage of the season? The two loanees so far have been relatively inexperienced and not turned the dial sufficiently. Would a new manager have more access to better players?

Isn't this a worse defeat than VCD though? I'm sure they might have been in the division below us. I'm thinking back to dreadful exits from the eighties etc...
I don't honestly know where we go from here. I can't imagine this squad is that cheaply assembled and I imagine a lot of them are on contracts. All of which is going to make this season a tad on the tortuous side if the players can't be coached or organised into better results. Who the right management team to do that might be the subject of some debate at the moment. In my view though there is absolutely no point in organising another game for our blank Saturday. Use it for sorting ourselves out instead...extra training, whatever that may entail.

Josh2002 wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2026 12:30 pm In terms of humiliation, the closest I can think of is the 6-2 defeat at Arlesey in 11-12, the season we went down from NLS. However, they were just the one division below us, newly promoted into the Southern League Premier, and went on to finish 18th that season.

BeaverWatcher wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2026 1:09 pm Remember losing to Stanstead after a replay one year, drew at Beveree and travelled to the wilds of Essex / Hertfordshire. They were an Essex Senior League side and we were just embarking on our first season in the Isthmian League Division 1 following promotion the previous season. Not sure if there was still an Isthmian Div 3 back then but that would be a 2 or 3 division gap.

BeaverWatcher wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2026 1:09 pm Remember losing to Stanstead after a replay one year, drew at Beveree and travelled to the wilds of Essex / Hertfordshire. They were an Essex Senior League side and we were just embarking on our first season in the Isthmian League Division 1 following promotion the previous season. Not sure if there was still an Isthmian Div 3 back then but that would be a 2 or 3 division gap.