Wrexham FC owner speaks out after dire start to season
Published Date:
25 September 2008
WREXHAM owner Geoff Moss today revealed he will be holding talks with manager Brian Little to analyse the club's poor start to non-league football.
Wrexham FC Supporters have vented their anger after two disappointing defeats in the space of four days and Moss admits he is not happy with the club's mid-table position and has criticised the style of football Wrexham are playing.
Little's position is not in jeopardy, according to Moss, but the pair will sit down in the next few days to discuss plans to boost Wrexham's bid to get back into the Football League.
"After a promising start to the season, things have deteriorated and performances have not been acceptable to anyone at the club – manager or the board," said Moss today. "It has not been as good as we would have wanted by a long way.
"The manner of the way that we have played, I really don't like. Long ball football is not enjoyable for anybody, and our away performances in particular have been disappointing.
"Fortunately, results partially went our way on Tuesday and we are only five points off the play-offs. But the way we are playing, and a 3-0 defeat at home, is not acceptable.
"I want to sit down with Brian and look at what we can do, the ways forward and how we can improve and what he has in mind.
"It will be 12 games after this weekend's home game against Torquay United, six home and six away.
"It is time to take stock, as you would do with any business, and look at what progress we have made. We will analyse how it has gone."
Stressing that Little, along with previous manager Brian Carey, had been given the full support of the board in the quest for success, Moss added: "I don't want fans to think it does not hurt us – it does every bit," said Moss.
"Brian has had a good budget and brought in the players he wanted.
"We have backed Brian, and Brian Carey, so no-one can accuse us of not trying to support them."
Wrexham followed up Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Grays AthletIc with another poor performance against Rushden and Diamonds when they slumped to a 3-0 defeat in front of their own fans at The Racecourse on Tuesday night.
Little insisted he would not walk away and wants to revive Wrexham's fortunes.
And after seeing Wrexham lose their fourth game in five outings, Little admitted that supporters were right to criticise but he drew the line at personal abuse: "We have lost the last two games so it was a tough night for everybody, probably more tough for me than anyone else," he said.
"It was a bad night again, that's two consecutive games. I fully understand and accept the situation. You can't expect to be where we are in the division and not have criticism.
"You have to accept in the current situation there is criticism. Abuse is different to criticism.
"A group of people behind used the odd swear word but generally what they said was strong and forthright, and I accept their opinions."
Wrexham trailed 2-0 at the break and the third goal came from a free-kick which unmarked Rushden defender, Chris Hope, headed past Gavin Ward from inside the area after being left in acres of space.
Disappointed with the defending for the goals, Little could not believe it was the same side who had recorded some impressive results earlier in the campaign.
"If you look at all three goals they were defensive mistakes," said Little. "We have a board up, a system up, people to mark people, but the last goal especially so, he wasn't even marked.
"It is almost unexplainable because they know what to do, but when they don't do it, it makes you look a bit silly – me especially so – and that is the hard part for me.
"Massive individual errors are giving the team an uphill climb and obviously you are struggling to play.
"I understand people saying we are not very good, but I genuinely know the team is better than that, they have proved that in other games here, but at the moment they are pressing the self-destruct button all the time.
"Everyone has worked hard but nobody is pulling each other along, and no two units are working at the same time together.
"That obviously makes me look very silly from my point of view. I know we practice these things, put them on in training and know they do them there, and know they have done them in certain games this season.
"But in the last three weeks we have under-performed too many times.
"They are all gutted now but it is a little bit too late to be gutted again.
"We are getting a bit of reaction after a game whereas we need it on the field of play."
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25 September 2008 12:06 PM
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