Neither his Roller or Aston Martin have been in the car park for any of the games this season they've usually been there over the previous seasons. Doesn't mean he wasn't there, just an observation, he might have used his bus pass to save a few coppers.

Seen him getting a croggy off a kid on a dirt bike.

You can't fault Raj for the investment he has made this season.

As said the problem seems to be in the tactics, it looks like we are scared of everyone. We have had a very easy set of games, 3 were changed by the sending offs but even up until then we were too defensive. The Racing Post selected us to win the League on the basis we had the best attack in the League, since when we have added 2 further attackers. Sarll has made the defence solid but at the cost of a threat to the opposition.

Perhaps in the past he has had teams that have over achieved using these tactics, he certainly did well to get Woking and Yeovil into play offs but with a team that should be expected to be in the top half and probably top 6 there has to be more ambition. Hoofing the ball to Mani D with no one near to collect the rebound is no good to anyone. It seems we are playing for set pieces as out main threat.

Sarll has done well with the clean sheets but 46 0-0 draws wiill get us relegated.

That's impossible as we've already had 2 wins, a score draw and a loss

Seriously, we've not had the attacking options we've got now for 5 minutes - Charman missed 4 games through injury, Mancini wasn't fully fit, Madine has had 2 sub appearances and Mathurin has just arrived. If the play doesn't change to reflect that potential and someone doesn't start banging in the goals in the next 4 or 5 games Sarll will be in real bother, but at the minute we're 1 win off a play-off place.

Raj was at the Sunderland friendly and Rob Law on Saturday mentioned he was there during the commentary.

I saw him coming out of the offices at the Wealdstone game with Gary Pallister in tow, who seems a fairly regular visitor these days.

I wouldn't go that far. I think we are recruiting better than we have done but let's face it, our standards did drop pretty low so it doesn't take much beating. Still, we've got a bit more quality now, that's for sure.

Pally has been in and around the club since Raj took us on.

Just need a decent Manager now to get these players playing in the right formation with decent tactics and to their potential.

Here we again new manager and you want him sacked 2 months into season and he’s only lost one match. That’s right don’t give him time.

Oh yes then blame Raj.

Wow. Outburst.

Yes it’s not the time to sack the manager yet. From his interviews I get the idea he knows the problem but it’s up to him to work it out. Yes he has done a good job with the defence job done, the ill discipline was better against Halifax but for me we need width. We have nobody on the left. Maybe he should play Ferguson higher up and play 3 or 4 centre half’s and put the new lad on the right. We then get the ball to the wide men and have 4 strikers running into the box. At the moment we have about 7 players all together in a small area on the right so the ball spends most of the time in the air.

The simple facts are so far we've taken 4 points from a possible 12 in our first 4 home games against teams currently sat in 14th, 16th, 18th and 22nd. Scored 1 goal only in those 4 games and that was in added on time, we've had countless disciplinary issues in those games and we are supposed to think that that kind of start to the season is going to impress fans rolling up on matchdays.
We're already 7 points behind the one team who will get automatic promotion from this league, I expect us with the set-up, resources, support and squad to be up there challenging that team for that place, regardless of the "play down" speak from the management.
Hopefully that positive change in results will start tonight and continue at the weekend.

No one can disagree with them facts.
Not even the rose-tinted who live in fantasy world.
Oh we win the next 2
Repeat
Repeat
Time to fcuken shape up from tonite.
No more bullshit excuses.
This well invested team should be competing with tin-pot Gateshead.
Shape up all you non ambitious pretendy everything is on track with hope.
You cranks.

Although i believe he should be given time you cant argue with facts. Its been a piss poor start against fairly piss poor opposition, it needs to change and it needs to change tonight. Its no good fans hanging on to this 1 loss malarky if your losing points left right and centre to the top teams.

I believe a good manager would have our team top 3 easily especially against the teams we have played so its time for sarl to start showing he is a good manager and release the shackles. If were going into games scared of the bostons of this world we might as well pack up, lets have a bloody go at them.

to be fair to sarll a couple of his players have let him down badly in games thats possibly have seen us drop points where points were lost with 10 men being on the pitch for a long period. doubt woking even with their subs would have got all the points if hunter had stayed on. braintree were ther for the taking with 11 on the pitch. halifax, a similar type of side to us was always going to be difficult. given all that might have happened with more points on the board it still does not make us an easy watch and the win at tamworth for me felt like a game i,d watched where we had lost points in the end.

We're 10th, we're 2 points off the play-offs, we've conceded 1 goal in the 470 minutes (plus injury time) that we've had 11 men on the pitch, and that was due to a mistake by a young lad in his first full season as a first team player.

Last season we conceded 82 goals in the league, averaging one every 50 minutes.

Yes, we've only scored 5 in 7 games, but the football in the first 20 mins against Woking and the first and last 20 mins against Halifax was way better than we saw in the first few games (especially against Tamworth), so it's obviously something that they are working on and it's evolving. Making sure we don't get beat while we get it right at the other end is sensible. They have obviously put in a lot of time and effort in getting us organised at the back. Working out how we can keep the vast majority of that, while improving the number of chances created is the fine tuning that is needed. If we can find that balance, then we will hit a great run of form.

Most people were saying at the start of the season that expectations were top 10 or in the playoffs. Now some cranks are calling for Sarll's head because we're not top of the league after 7 games.

When he came in, people said that he had to get rid of all the deadwood. Paterson, Lacey, Cooke, Crawford, Hastie, Wreh and Ndjoli all gone.

Then people said that he needed to solve the leaky defence. As above, 1 goal conceded in 470 mins so far this season with 11 men.

Then people said that we didn't have enough strength in depth. We now have good cover for every position except Left Back (he has said there is one more signing to come).

Then people said that we needed a winger. Mathurin looked pretty good to me.

Now he needs to get the forward line, who are all individually very good players, to click and create more chances. I'm confident that he will.

Your paragraph on top 10 expectations is 100% a false statement.
Most predictions were top 7 at worst.
Nice crank literature by the way.
Wonder we're you got that from.

Yeah we're 10th, 3 points off Boston in 19th place, but hey we'll get I right, or will we?, let's hope so eh, because if we dare say pick up 0-2 points over these next two games we wont be climbing the table that's for sure.
Every team has injuries, suspensions and players who've just joined the club but not all seem to take an eternity to get it sorted.
My patience is waring very thinly, in fact I'm sick of being patient, I really want us to do well but have this nagging feeling that yet again we'll make heavy weather of it all.

I'll see your crank and raise you another crank

Hopefully tonight’s win is the crank that starts our engine.

For some the engine will never be big or powerful enough, yet they’ve only ever ever experienced a 1 litre.