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Collier looks a good player but he has not established himself as a first choice first teamer yet. That will take time. He may do it, he may not. I didn't say there are no good players in the reserves but it is easy to look good when you are playing inferior opposition. This coupled with the poor results of the first team makes it appear to many that the reserves are better and should replace the firsts. However, and without wishing to be rude, anyone who thinks it is that simple wouldn't know a football if it was painted green and put in a pile of peas.

I don't disagree with your general point Colin, but have to say Nathan today looked good, very confident and seemed to fit in as a first team player today.

Nathan is a good player, no question. But that is exactly the point I've been trying to make. You can take one player from the reserves and place them in amongst the experienced lads and they will be fine, maybe even look better than the others. But for people to come on here and question dev, to suggest making whole sale changes on the back of the reserves beating little more than decent sunday outfits is laughable.

We will come good, the players we have are too good not to get back to form.

Some of the earlier postings on this thread were pathetic. it seems that a number of people expect us to be knocking on the promotion door year after year. We have a great little club that is forever punching above its weight.Ddev and the players have done tremendously well over the past 5/6 seasons. We have strived and won many more games than we lost.

So we are off to a slow start, nothing new in that.

On the 18th November 2006 we were 14th in the Ryman Premier, having just lost at home to Ramsgate 4-1, where did we finish up..... 1st!

It took us a while to get going in the next two seasons in the Conference. Remember, we were looking to consolidate in 2007/08 ...and finished 3rd. Perhaps we should regard this season as the `season of consolidation` that we never had.

This season we started off with a string of injuries, and a couple of suspensions, that meant we have never had a settled side. Normally you could turn up at a game and know probably 10 of the starting line up - not this season.

So it would appear that Jamie Collins didn`t settle in, his collapse at a pre-season friendly didn`t help. And of course he just had to score for Newport when he could hardly find a pass to save himself whilst here, very few of Dev`s signings have proved a `bust`, however apparently we made a profit on the deal so other clubs must think that he's worth it. I have also heard rumours that clubs are sniffing around for several of our other players. I'm certain that Franchise Norbiton wouldn' mind spending a few quid on some of our players.

If you don`t think that Dev isn't working his socks off to get things right on the pitch you don' t know him very well.

I would hope that the critics who jumped on the band wagon after the Sutton defeat ( I didn't see it, so can't comment on the game) that were picked up by the Rich & Twick and Radio Wey, are back on here complimenting the team on two good performances since than, a point at Eastleigh and a demolition job on Maidenhead. I doubt it though, too quick to criticise and too slow to praise.

Not sure I agree with all of the above but hey..this is a supporters forum and people are entitled to their opinions. Particularly if they pay their money to watch the games every week, pay subs to supporters clubs, drink in the bar, chuck money in the bucket for injured players etc etc etc etc

With reference to the supposedly evil "critics" on this thread following the game v Sutton. At least 5 of them were amongst the last 20 or so supporters waiting for the very last hampton player to leave the field on Saturday.... good 10 mins after the end of the match. The reason was to applaud the players nd show their appreciation at the much improved performance. As mentioned before, just because the club is small with a low budget doesn't mean that the paying supporters cannot get annoyed at a run of below par performances.

Fans get frustrated. Being refered to as "cowards" in the local press is weak. If that is the belief of the club then this site/forum should be closed asap

The big problem we have is that there seems to be a difference in thinking of the fans who have been here for 20 years or so and the people who have been coming for a couple of seasons. Obviously they have only known success so they have different expectations to the longer standing fans.

I can accept that performances have been poor and Dev has said as much, and I can be as critical of the players as anybody if I think it is deserved. But I think a lot of people need to look a little closer at what is going on at the club. Dev has worked miracles on a small budget, a lot of our players could have done an Innsy and got paid twice as much playing elsewhere. Don't think the opportunity hasn't been there for them. But they love the club and they are loyal to Dev. If the success of the last few seasons does anything, it should allow the players a bit of a bad run without getting a load of stick. They will come good.

BTW, I think what Dev was saying in that article was that if the fans want to talk to him then he is available after games. There are fans who talk to him and the players regularly. You will find that they are usually the most critical of all. They know if they have been playing badly and more often than not will apologise to you for letting the fans down.

Well said, the most intelligent post on here for months.
I thought the H&RB supporters during and after the Sutton game were extremely upbeat and supportive considering. Even the posts on here at the time were probably just out of frustration at the teams performance. What would be the point of saying it was a good performance when it wasn't?
If you accept the plaudits when it's all going well you've also got to accept what comes when it ain't so good.