I appreciate what Steve Evans did for the club at the time - he gathered a great team together and it was a fantastic journey to witness. Would he have managed it without the money he had to spend? Personally I don't think so.
What I didn't enjoy was his style of management, which I felt was like bullying at times. Sure, some players need that type of management to get the best out of them, but others get destroyed by it. Players like Charlie Wassmer for example who appeared to have potential, but seemed to get on the wrong side of Evans.
If we had shed-loads of money again, I'm sure SE could get us back into League 1, but I reckon many others could too, including Yems.
I'd rather not have all the baggage that comes with Evans thanks.
Hopefully Stevenage will stay in L2 despite Steve Evans. It will be nice to bait BFB again. The team has too many long trips already.
Yes I know they’re not everyone’s favourite team, but we do need local games…or rather, we’d prefer local games. Hoping Gillingham and AFC come down🤞🤞And maybe Bromley or Boreham Wood coming up?
I appreciate what Steve Evans did for the club at the time - he gathered a great team together and it was a fantastic journey to witness. Would he have managed it without the money he had to spend? Personally I don't think so.
What I didn't enjoy was his style of management, which I felt was like bullying at times. Sure, some players need that type of management to get the best out of them, but others get destroyed by it. Players like Charlie Wassmer for example who appeared to have potential, but seemed to get on the wrong side of Evans.
If we had shed-loads of money again, I'm sure SE could get us back into League 1, but I reckon many others could too, including Yems.
I'd rather not have all the baggage that comes with Evans thanks.
I get Evans is a polarising figure but what I find hard to swallow about some of the commentary I read about him is stuff like this - that he “destroyed Wassmer”. No purchase in reality. I saw many of Wassmer’s games for Crawley and he was a talented player yet with also clear weaknesses, he wasn’t really quite physical and imposing enough to kick on. Evans in reality gave him a great career chance but at the end of the day he was no McFadzean. Wassmer has had a long career since Crawley and would have kicked on to League football if the ability was there.
Evans has certainly done regrettable stuff in his career so I think it’s fair to criticise him for that. But stuff like he destroyed Wassmer is totally made up, even if he couldn’t manage to improve him as a player. Many other managers also tried afterwards.
I appreciate what Steve Evans did for the club at the time - he gathered a great team together and it was a fantastic journey to witness. Would he have managed it without the money he had to spend? Personally I don't think so.
What I didn't enjoy was his style of management, which I felt was like bullying at times. Sure, some players need that type of management to get the best out of them, but others get destroyed by it. Players like Charlie Wassmer for example who appeared to have potential, but seemed to get on the wrong side of Evans.
If we had shed-loads of money again, I'm sure SE could get us back into League 1, but I reckon many others could too, including Yems.
I'd rather not have all the baggage that comes with Evans thanks.
I get Evans is a polarising figure but what I find hard to swallow about some of the commentary I read about him is stuff like this - that he “destroyed Wassmer”. No purchase in reality. I saw many of Wassmer’s games for Crawley and he was a talented player yet with also clear weaknesses, he wasn’t really quite physical and imposing enough to kick on. Evans in reality gave him a great career chance but at the end of the day he was no McFadzean. Wassmer has had a long career since Crawley and would have kicked on to League football if the ability was there.
Evans has certainly done regrettable stuff in his career so I think it’s fair to criticise him for that. But stuff like he destroyed Wassmer is totally made up, even if he couldn’t manage to improve him as a player. Many other managers also tried afterwards.
Yep, fully accept I may have mis-judged Charlie's situation, but I watched him too, home and away, and that's my opinion.
However, another example could be BJA. Clearly, we wasn't the finished player when he joined us and threatened the cars in the car park more often than he did the goal. He probably needed time to develop and fair enough, perhaps Evans felt he couldn't give players the time to do that - as we see with some people who love to roll out stats, managers don't get time to develop sides if they don't win matches.
I'm not sure you did, he really called him out after the 6-0 loss at Morecambe, for an error that led to their third goal - as if the whole result was his fault. After that, he didn't play again for months.
I appreciate what Steve Evans did for the club at the time - he gathered a great team together and it was a fantastic journey to witness. Would he have managed it without the money he had to spend? Personally I don't think so.
What I didn't enjoy was his style of management, which I felt was like bullying at times. Sure, some players need that type of management to get the best out of them, but others get destroyed by it. Players like Charlie Wassmer for example who appeared to have potential, but seemed to get on the wrong side of Evans.
If we had shed-loads of money again, I'm sure SE could get us back into League 1, but I reckon many others could too, including Yems.
I'd rather not have all the baggage that comes with Evans thanks.
I get Evans is a polarising figure but what I find hard to swallow about some of the commentary I read about him is stuff like this - that he “destroyed Wassmer”. No purchase in reality. I saw many of Wassmer’s games for Crawley and he was a talented player yet with also clear weaknesses, he wasn’t really quite physical and imposing enough to kick on. Evans in reality gave him a great career chance but at the end of the day he was no McFadzean. Wassmer has had a long career since Crawley and would have kicked on to League football if the ability was there.
Evans has certainly done regrettable stuff in his career so I think it’s fair to criticise him for that. But stuff like he destroyed Wassmer is totally made up, even if he couldn’t manage to improve him as a player. Many other managers also tried afterwards.
Yep I agree. Charlie looked promising but didn't really make it. I don't think Evans destroyed him.
Yems would never do that to a player,bawling them out in front of the crowd even subbing them early in a fit of pique.Oh hang on!
The difference is that John Yems and will Ferry sorted out their differences and I believe that Will has learnt from the fall out and become a better player.
I appreciate what Steve Evans did for the club at the time - he gathered a great team together and it was a fantastic journey to witness. Would he have managed it without the money he had to spend? Personally I don't think so.
What I didn't enjoy was his style of management, which I felt was like bullying at times. Sure, some players need that type of management to get the best out of them, but others get destroyed by it. Players like Charlie Wassmer for example who appeared to have potential, but seemed to get on the wrong side of Evans.
If we had shed-loads of money again, I'm sure SE could get us back into League 1, but I reckon many others could too, including Yems.
I'd rather not have all the baggage that comes with Evans thanks.
I 100% agree with this statement, obviously Evans was the manager at the time we were promoted into the Football League and had those 2 FA Cup runs, but he doesn't seem like a particularly nice person to me and there was the whole tax-dodging scandal he was involved in at Boston United where he was very lucky not to go to prison for. Also he just happened to be in charge when the substantial financial backing happened and I think hypothetically Yems and quite a few of our recent past managers would have achieved promotion with that squad back then.
If the club was ever thinking about bringing Evans back as manager I think I will let my feelings known strongly about it. Thankfully can't see it happening though
Yems would never do that to a player,bawling them out in front of the crowd even subbing them early in a fit of pique.Oh hang on!
The difference is that John Yems and will Ferry sorted out their differences and I believe that Will has learnt from the fall out and become a better player.
Yes indeed, I think they agreed to move on pretty quickly from it and I'd imagine both probably would have learnt a lot from that situation. I find I learn a lot more from mistakes than I do when things do go well (even in the last couple of months with issues related to our club and how I can better support the team) as you learn more about how to deal with things better if that situation was to happen again.
Of course in the match after that incident happened Ferry went on to produce his best performance for us which was so encouraging
Wassmer was okay as a squad player, but I never felt confidence in him as a first-choice centre back we could rely on when under pressure. One very big exception to that was an away game at Dagenham; he scored our goal and it earned a point. Ultimately, it was a point we needed to go up to league 1. Also, he and MacFadzean performed heroics in the first half when we were really under the hammer. But that was the only time I felt he performed above average (N.B. I didn't go to many away games).
Looking him up on Wiki, I see his only league football after us was a shortish spell at Dagenham. I've no doubt he's a fairly decent player at non-league level, which is still a decent achievement as he's likely to be in the best few hundred centre backs in the country.
If Evans "destroyed" him (and I don't believe that to be the case), then perhaps he didn't have quite enough resilience to cope with such handling. There's no shame in that.