I notice two other Chippenham legends were in the crowd yesterday. A  coincedence probably. Rudges none appearnce at the telephone is probably best explained here - and I see Barnes has gone.
http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/10233551.CHIPPENHAM_TOWN__Redditch_reverse_is_bitter_pill_to_swallow_for_Bluebirds/ 

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Interesting to see after numerous comments about communication etc that yesterday's match report is already on the clubs's website. So whoever organised that well done and lets hope it continues.
As to the game itself was going to post when I got home yesterday but lost for words. Even now the only word I can think of to describe what we saw is CLUELESS. Eleven individuals running around seemingly not having a clue what anyone else is doing. Can't fault the effort each individual is putting in and even though Tindle was unfortunate with the own goal he was my MOM based on effort alone.
One point our little group was discussing was the strange team selection, again. You are home desperate for 3 points against one of the few team now below us and you play with one out and out striker where you have two sitting on the bench. Griff is not a miracle worker and can't do it all on his own. Isn't attack the best form of defence and lets face it the way our defence is performing best stragegy is to keep the ball as far away from them as possible but you can't do that with one attacker against 4/5 defenders which was the case yesterday as the ball just keeps coming back.
Report says Kite replaced the injured Rudge so that begs the question when did he get injured and was that the reason for his woeful performance when he was on the pitch? If he was not fully fit he should not have picked himself and although there may have been doubts about Kite's fitness isn't this young lad from Cheltenham a centre back. Lets face it he couldn't have done any worse and to date the only "work experience" he has had is experience sitting on his backside. Bet Cheltenham will be very grateful for that. But then again maybe Rudge was doing the lad a favour not introducing him to the shambles that was going on out on the field.
The only positive I can think of yesterday was the size of the crowd. Still a good crowd compared to some other clubs in the league but I fear if the away games coming up are lost just how many will turn up for the next home game. Been supporting Chippenham now for some 13 years and in that time had a few ups and downs but this has to be the worst yet.

I have to disagree with Ballinger not being a loss, he was the only player we had capable of causing defenders problems with his pace and direct running. As for his futsal duties we did know about this when we signed him, simply sounds like the Chippenham dressing room isn't as a good place to be as Frome's.

I do agree with "inthebox" however, what is the point of coming to Chippenham on loan, unless it's to experience a relegation battle, feel sorry for him as it couldn't have been enjoyable being sat in that dressing room last night, especially as it's not his fault.

Somebody pointed out yesterday that nine of that team were here last season so it could be argued that the fact that we're in this mess is hardly surprising. For too long we've been Chippenham Town Social Club where you get picked week in, week out regardless of form, tactics (sorry, forget we don't have any) and should we stay up, still think we will although it'll be tight a new manager and a turnover of playing personel is required.

The Park idea will hopefully yeild results in a year or two and even if we had the next Messi there do you think Rudge would give him a chance, he hasn't shown a fondness for developing youth, complete opposite actually....

Other than the performance what concerned me yesterday was the state of the pitch, playing two games a week on it is having an effect still with what we're playing at the moment it's not going short of manure.....

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