Focus shifts to local scene
After Kogalo’s ignominious exit from the CAF confederations cup, they will be seeking to redeem themselves starting this week. On Wednesday they face off against defending champions Tusker and on Sunday they face arch rivals AFC leopards. These are not easy matches and could not have come at a worse time. “It is going to be a tough match, but I believe we have to respond after a series of poor results. The players have taken their weekend loss to Ferroviario positively and are keen to revamp their league campaign with a mid week win against Tusker,” said new team manager Tom Ogweno.
After the lackluster display in Naivasha a week ago, fans will be hoping that the team plays with some sense of urgency. And there is nobody better to light a fire underneath the players than the fiery Bobby Ogolla. He is the best man for the moment. Cameroonian Anaba Awono with his fatherly demeanor and lack of eloquence was seemingly unable to inspire players as evidenced by their disinterested performance in Naivasha.
With the previous technical bench swept aside and a new team in place. It is critical that fans show some patience. Ogolla and Ogweno have been in charge of the team for less than 10 days. Let us given them sometime to settle in.
Yet there are a myriad of problems to solve. Ogweno said: “We noted a lot of mistakes against Ferroviario and we have been working round the clock to rectify the loopholes before the Wednesday match. We wasted a lot of chances despite the fact that we created a lot of chances and we dedicated two days to work on finishing because if we take our chances we can beat any side.”
Perhaps most glaring is the lack of goals. The team is seemingly unable to score goals. Part of the problem is the inability to create clear-cut chances. What seems to be happening in midfield is just a series of hopeful balls played to the strikers. Perhaps this is why fans have been asking for Rama Salim whom fans see as a potential playmaker. The strikers themselves have been unable to show poise in front of goal resulting in a series of missed chances. That lack of poise has extended to penalties where Kogalo players have shown an inexplicable inability to score from the spot.
Of course a significant issue is that fact that much of the squad has not played together for long enough to build cohesion. Bobby Ogolla touched on this: ““I think we should be starting our games with the strongest line up possible and leave that thought of a super sub.” Aside from a starting eleven, Ogolla should probably work on finding combinations that work. 2 years ago, Blackberry and Baldwin Ngwa developed a telepathic understanding thar resulted in a hatful of goals. JBO should seek to identify combinations of 2 or 3 players who can combine well.
I LIKE THIS ANALYSIS – THE TEAM IS UNABLE TO SCORE GOALS. GOR PLAY HAS BECOME A BORE AND WATCHING THEM YOU ARE ALMOST CERTAIN THE SCORELINE WILL BE EITHER 1-0 OR 2-0 , NOTHING OUT OF THE BLUES…….HONESTLY EVER SINCE GEORGE BLACBERRY LEFT GOR MAHIA , I THINK WE DO NOT HAVE THE CALIBRE OF STRIKERS THAT WILL TURN THE CLUB ROUND. GONE ARE THE DAYS OF PETER DAWO, HEZBORN OMOLLO, WILLIAM OBWAKA,DAN OGADA AND THE OTHERS WHO WERE ‘GUARANTEED’ MATCH WINNERS….WHERE OR WHEN WILL WE GET SUCH PLAYERS ? ? ? ? ?
You have a hard task ahead
The team is playing well and will soon start winning games.
The issue of goals is a problem even for the country. It is nothing peculiar to Kogalo. Which striker other than Oliech can you count on in the whole league when it comes to Harambee? The top team has eight goals in five matches. The team that is second has five goals. The bottom team has four goals. Look at any other leagues and you will agree that this is poor. The top scorer after 30 games last season had 12 goals.
We have had injuries to Selenga, Hugo, Lavatsa, Kiplagat, Kevin Ochieng, Kevin Omondi and these are the guys we depend on for goals.
Like someone posted earlier, look at the other teams play and you will surely believe in our team. Once more let us not always have our glass half empty.
We have good players, let us pray that we can get a good team out of them. Let us trust that we now have a coach who understands and shares our dream.
Another thing that must be looked into with urgency is taking penalts. Let Bob train atleast two pple who we can trust with penalts. take van persie of arsenal or rooney of MAN-U anytime there is a penalt its them to take. we cannot afford to be missing such golden opportunities. Rama can take penalts very well with intense cauching. Gatuzo and one of the strikers must be able to net any penalt. this is where we are going wrong. Bob please take this penalt issue as ver urgent.
After this 2 games is when we will really start seeing good results, i think we will draw with Tusker and Afc, lakini wanga is on fire. While our strikers cannot score even a penalty.
In the previous post,someone referred to R.M as ‘crap’.Yet another person sensationally claimed that R.M was not ‘gor damu’.Majamaa we need to weigh our words before we post them here.We also have our reservations about certain things /people in this club,but we dont resort to calling them names or dismissing them on filmsy grounds.
Lets’s strive at all times to uphold the quality of debates on this blog,coz after all the objectives of this blog,i believe,is to add value to this great club and build it,make it better and take it to the next level,through a healthy exchange of ideas and positive criticism without exposing and embarrassing ourselves.
My personal take on this R.M issue,is that i highly rate him and consider him one of the best hands for the job.If you may ask me,i would even give him the headcoach position.He is a strict disciplinarian,no nonsense, and gets the job done.His works are well documented.If JBO feels that R.M is the best person to do business with,well and good.Who are we to choose ,for JBO the person to work with?After all it is the shoe wearer who knows where the shoes pinches most.
Ni hayo tu.
@arrumtiddi, hapo umenena kabisa. For once in a very long time you and I, are reading from the same script. Na hiyo ni maendeleo. For God and my club Kogallo
Great piece that simply repeats “WE R DOOMED IF WE CANT SCORE”
Solution
1.GM is not a national team so we can look beyond our borders if our current strikers cant perform.Personally i repeat my admiration for the Djibouti’s lead striker in the last CECAFA tourney who always managed a goal or two despite his team being whipped
2.Of coz GM will never afford a gud foreign head coach as the EC refuses 2 b transparent.AFC collected 1.05M frm their sunday game yet no figures frm our sato game which had more fans
@ODUOR12 we collected 1.5m from the game.
we collected 1.5m and AFc collected same amount while our game had more fans than Afc and muhoroni youth,, something is not right am just saying.
Do you remember that saying; : “be careful not to scrutinize what chicken feed on”? 1.5m > 1.02m.
We are not far behind the leading pack and still lots of matches to play.drows against tusker and afc and a win against ranges will see the team back on track but i’m not ruling out a win against either tusker or afc.if we can score then we are capable of beating any team since the team isn’t conceding many goals.
Afc have described possibilitity of going down to GM on sunday as EXTREMELY UNLIKELY OUTCOME.
Playing unit shoule take these sentiments by our opponents as a motivation and turn around the fotunes of the Club.
Afew weeks ago arsenal looked like they would finish in the mid table in the epl but after a resounding win in north london derby,they look like title contenders.we are not doomed yet and will never be.we just need one positive result,a win and i’m sure we’ll be back to wining ways.i’m not scared of our opponents’ form since form doesn’t play football.hardwork,prayers and confidence are all we need.
Tujitokeze nyayo kesho we cheer our team.
@10 motema pembe,afc collected 1.05million.Nevertheless our figures could have gone way past that 1.5m with more stringent measures at the gate
Ni hayo tu.
@Arumtidi post nog.6 beang that our web is open to everybody i have afeeling that those who talk bad about our super players are funs of other teams preciosly Ingwe,everybody knows Rama Salim and you cant talk nonces about him unles you are jeleous.All will be well in our club God with us.
@ 12 Mcosweto i can now reckon how my real prayers from JO-NDHIWA have managed to turn round your cowardice, fear and despair into hope and prosperity.
You now only need to change your predictions of drawing with the so called AFC and TUSKER into WINNING COMFORTABLY and CONVINCINGLY to tame the pace-setters.
I am intending to convert you into the LEGION OF K’OGALO world of football miracles until you succumb to the very believe that GOR MAHIA is mysterious.
Loan out the excess baggage. If you select the first eleven the rest of 20 plus will always sabotage the team. Get the required number of players and will be easier for the coaches to pick the best. For Matano I still reiterate that he is a good statistician but remember what he said when he was sacked at Leopards: ‘Am a lion full of Ingwe blood in the veins. I will always be available to give my help in any way’. Yeah. Help in any way means getting to divulge top secrets of Kogalo to Ingwe, Sofa, Western Stima and the like. Call it what you can but thats what someone meant by saying he is not Kogalo damu. We will be vindicated.
There is nothing special about Tusker or Ogwang. Someone is worried about Wanga. Don’t be. Wanga is not as lethal as Baraza yet Baraza has been tamed. Wanga had to score because most defenders have not played against him for some time hence did not know how to contain him. Come our match against them he will be kept under lock and key and I clearly see victory against Ogwang with 2 goals from Masika’s blunders (he conceded one penalty against Ulinzi and gifted Muhuroni with the one goal last Sunday).
Tusker is not any threat to us at all. In other words the question of a draw against these two does not arise. We are collecting 6 points and will be 3rd on the log by Monday next week. This is not mere rhetoric; it is a statement based on fact.
@arrumtiddi since even mad people from every market place can access this blog it is high the ADMIN should opt for subscribing the true K’OGALO bloggers by registering them as members at a fee.
This can truly transform the debates and discussions into a sober and comprehensive approach just as witnessed with @ kosero being able to accept facts from others for time in 2012. I just pray that his GOD will guide HIM to blog better as we look into his very club GM brighter future a head.
NA MUENDELEE NA HIYO MTINDO MPYA
some one is asking why we collected the same amount of money as ogwang while they were fewer forgetting that in ogwangs match russia was 200/=.tell gormahia fans like kosero and others to pay 200/= and they tell you most gor fans live below the poverty line.yet they want a foreign coach while kosero once ridiculously came up with the idea of buying zeddy a probox.
BY NOW
1)bobby and ogweno should have reviewed clips from the DSTV cup and noted down the teams weakness.
2)our strikers should have reviewed the same tapes but this time focusing on pamzos defenders and sharing notes on how to exploit their weaknesess
3)our defenders should have also reviewed clips on tuskers forwards and noted that paul were uses one foot,mukaisi has a poor first touch and work on modalities of neutralising them.
this is what even mourinho does before meeting his opponents and dispatching them with ease.
@19 wuonpap i have never been able to differentiate this guy @ Kosero with ZD. Sometimes he comes out in his very true picture especially when SoNy is achieving good results and GM is in turbulent waters.
And he will always point fingers to some us for destroying GM simply because we could not allow mediocre performance from ZICO.
I have made several disparate attempt to convince @Kosero to cross over and join his colleague in “GOR-B” as he is fond of calling SoNy but the GUY simply stays put; NOT EVEN ON LOAN OR FREE TRANSFER..!!!
OKOTH,PLIZ LET US NOT BE DISTRACTED BY THE SQUIRREL AS THE ANTELOPE ELUDES US.what i suggest is any fan who has access to DSTV-DVR to be recording our matches and opponents games and passing the dvd or tape to our bench for them to work on our weaknesses say the next day .this might help us catch this prized antelope that has eluded us since the 90s.we should start by searching for anyone with the device to record tomorrows match and hand the tape to bobby or ogweno by thursday midday.let us put our words to action.
Can we name that “operation catch antelope”?
time is not on our side fellow fans,we better turn our words to action.jackowili,mwakio,koth,ogango,arumtidi and the rest can we look for ways of getting tomorrows clips.we can also search for ogwang vs muhoronis clips and hand them to the bench before friday.
@ 21 OKOTH JABILO i once said that this blog site is like a market place down in our villages and as such it must have people from all walks of life including the mad ones like @ Ja ngere who has now disappeared and hibernated in the bush.
This human being called @ Ja ngere will only re-surface like some wild ghosts when GM will is settling down and wreck havoc for issue’s that are not worth tabling for discussions at all.
I DO WISH THAT WITH THE TENURE OF JBO WE WILL REMAIN A VERY UNITED OUTFIT WITH A CULTURE OF TEAM WORK IN 2012.
@17 you said wanga is not a lethal striker but he has scored many goals this season, while our strikers cant even score a penalty. we have good strikers but they are scared of making blunders because of fans like you who will go to their face book page and curse them out (matusi). we need to give this team some time, like i said a month a go it will take us like 8 or 9 games to find a winning formula and another year or 2 to win kpl.this guys are new to each other, Afc is winning but they dont play very well their defence is weak. we can beat them. Matano is not a kogallo. i hope bobby will watch him closely.
BRING ON TUSKER
On my bucket list this year, Godwilling, is a maiden trip to Kogelo, the ancestral home of Mama Sarah Obama, the third most powerful person in Kenya after Mwai Kibaki and RAO. My itinerary also includes tracing the roots of where my favourite club derived it’s name.
I ask for your prayers and journey mercies as i sojourn to this great but tiny village.
On the form book, Tusker are the favourites on Wednesday, but I have a word of caution for our detractors. Don’t right us off yet. We are equally determined to overturn our poor runs. The Saturday debacle is now behind us. If the words of the assistant coach, TO is anything to go by, then Gor fans should expect good results on Wednesday.
Behold, next Sunday is like no other. We will have a date with our perenial rivals, AFC Leopards. Buoyed by the current form and being the leaders in the log, ChUI is sparing no effort to humiliate us more. I also have a word of caution for them. In the military parlance,General Nkaiserry once remarked; our pants ( trousers) may be of the same size, but if each of us removes his pants, you will discover we are not the same.
@25 Motema Pembe it is wrong for you to imply that I am one of those spineless fans who insult players. Table your evidence sir if not then you ought to graciously apologize to me. For your information I do not believe in insults whether to an older person or to the young. I simply don’t play in that league and the last person I will insult is a player.
Go through my article again for I can see your message may be no different from mine. Let us avoid sideshows and listen to Wuonpap: time is not on our side, let’s focus on the antelope.
@25,motema,how did you come to the conclusion that @17jackowili is one of the fans who usually goes to players’ facebook pages and abuse them?I have read through @jackowilis’ notes and to be honest,i havent found even a single line where he abuses players or advocates for such a thing.Infact,(and this is very well documented elsewhere in this blog),@jackowili is one of the most steadfast supporters of this team,even during the lowest of moments,besides he always come across as a mature,level headed and cool guy.I am not holding brief for @jackowili(i havent even set my eyes on him),but that is the truth of the matter.The ‘hansards’/’archives ‘ of this blog will bear me witness.
@wuopap no24,i may not be in a position to have the clips made,but am very willing to contribute something ‘small’towards the realisation of such a noble idea.Please furnish me with details on how one can chip in something ‘small’.My contacts are rama9001@yahoo.com
Again this calls for our organisation as stakeholders for GM.A while back the idea of forming Gor mahia bloggers branch was mooted but somehow guyz developed cold feet.Individually we can help this club,but as a group we can be so influencial and have far reaching implications not only in Gm but in kenyan football as a whole.Food for thought for my fellow bloggers.
Nî hayo tu.
Ati one blogger says we pay subscription to this site to show loyalty as fans. We are the real stakeholders here! Thats far fetched. Lets be careful in what we advocate for.
@Jackowili i do apologize i miss spoke about the facebook incidence, Let all pray for Gor to beat Tusker.
To speak the truth…the fielding of players has been awful…let’s start a fresh…Rama should start ahead of abondo…Mosoti is a good defender all he needs to work on is speed…..owino anguyo juma and Nasio backline will be good…..we can loose all our matches but it’s time we stated clearly that form is temporary and class will forever remain permanent
@Motema Pembe apology accepted. Thank you. About the video recordings to be reviewed by our tech bench, can someone contact Mike Okinyi of Citizen and Victor Ogalle of KTN? I believe their input can see us go a long way.
@Arrumtiddi I am humbled by your input and views regarding my position. Thank you. Let’s continue with the forward match to restore Kogalo’s pride.
@29,Eblazing,i think i agree with @18,Ogango trailer’s views that we have people subscribe to this blog by paying up.This will not only help us separate wheat from chaff (real kogallo fans from the many pretenders)we have here)It will also be a source of revenue for the club.You see,so many people talk tomatoes on this blog.We want to discuss ‘real gor mahia issues’ here, not mundane things like what one had for supper yesterday,or peoples’ blood colours.So Trailerman @18,i support.
Ni hayo tu.
Wuonpap @19 please note that Kogalo fans paid 200/- at Russia and all Terraces.
I was supporting the idea of Matano but i feel at the moment it’s best to leave him out. There are fans who will bring forward all sorts of claims if we lose with him on the bench. We have to first continue with civic education to our fellow supporters to accept that in future even a ‘Shemeji’ can coach Gor. We have Lavatsa, we have Wekesa, we had Masika, we had Obwaka, Shikanda and i’m sure many more Shemeji’s before and they played their hearts out for our club but we are too quick to judge when it’s convenient for us.
Please let us be patient. We say our players can’t score penalties yet in the Peace Cup the game had additional penalties. How many penalties were scored that evening and against Matasi who is being considered the best at the moment?
Tonight we rise again. Tonight we will beat Tusker 2:0
JBO shld include lavasta upfront rama salim to partner gattuso in the midfield! Anguyo, nasio, mosoti, owino backline, mwalimu, ngwa, ballotieno, viera n luckydube! We must down the brewers!
@36, . . .u idiot! Stop choosing the line up for people. Remember that is the work for the technical bench. . .. .mediocre behaviors like this should stop forthwith . . .Nyakemincha alumni, thick skull minus grey matter.
.. . .You are the guys who cause anxiety and unrest among players i.e imagine a Gor player(s) feeling omitted by your so called “line-up”!
@Salapata Salawowo its great to read from you, but is that really you? You could still advice that blogger without calling him those names. However, I concur with your advice minus the not-so-palatable-adjectives.
Are you still at the lakeside?
Salata bwana,thats too harsh!anyway i wonder why somebody will come up with a line up without attending trainings during the week tuwache kujipatia kazi ya watu wengine
I like the attitude of Bob that we have formidable line up and that’s what has been lacking in Gor mahia because we want to justify team selection through recent transfer,Good luck bobby i believe u know Team like the back of your hand
Today’s line up:
First Eleven:
Wycliffe Kasaya, Solomon Nasio, Collins Omondi, Musa Mohamed, David Owino, Collins Okoth, Ali Abondo, Moses Otieno, Baldwin Ngwa, George Midenyo, Ibrahim Kitawi.
Substitutes:
Jerim Onyango, Yusuf Juma,Ivan Anguyo, Moses Odhiambo, Rama Salim,Teddy Akumu, Kevin Omondi
Good luck to team Gor Mahia, JBO and TO on their debut in KPL as coaches of Mayienga Mayiengo Piny- Gor Mahia Kogalo. To the intolerant fans- pls respect is earned so cut off the foul language. World over, its an accepted practice for fans to give probable line-ups. Pls visit these web sites to confirm- Bbc sports/football, sky sports, goal. com. football 365, soccer play, footy latest, footy bible or eat sleep sports to confirm. The tactical and technical aspect of coaching are the two mst important jobs of a football coach / manager. JBO and TO must be able to tactically manage the team before, during and after the game. Though a very intriguing, delicate and dynamic job, we the fans of GOR MAHIA have full confidence in you. The tactical depth of your coaching ability is impressive and so I believe you will be a success wth Gor Mahia. Pls dnt forget that ths team has history on its side, and you helped create that as a player. History to rise from the ashes and to ride all the huddles and cofound its critics. Pls remember your playing days. When you could report for duty for both club and country only to sleep on the airport lounge because of missed flights or bcz there was no connecting flights. When you used the same boots and uniforms for practice and the actual match. Our players need motivational talk JBO, to raise their confidence level and self belief. These past stories of triumphs while facing some of our age-old adverseries will do more than that. None can deliver on this more than you. Tell them abt the Liberian Club- LPRC OILERS and CANON YOUNDE of Cameroun who were bth swept aside on their home turfs. Tell them how the class of 1985 swept all before them in that years CECAFA Club competition held in Sudan. Who did we thrash in the finals- again? Ingwe Leopards, that time boasting among others, the dreaded and bearded JJ Masiga. This we achieved wth a threadbare squad featuring among others new signings William Obwaka, Ben Oloo, Hesborn Omollo and Austin Oduor among others. Therefore people of good intent, this team will rise again like a Tsunami and sweep all before them. Go, go, go, Gor Mahia, for fortune favours only the brave. Gor Mahia the man was very brave and had an indomitable spirit, and so is this Team. Together we shall arise, divided we shall all lose miserably. This is the time for Gor Mahia to rise under tutleage of the Six Million Dollar Man. Good luck.
@Omochura, here is the official lineup for todays match.
Line up:
Wycliffe Kasaya, Solomon Nasio, Collins Omondi, Musa Mohamed, David Owino, Collins Okoth, Ali Abondo, Moses Otieno, Baldwin Ngwa, George Midenyo, Ibrahim Kitawi.
Substitutes:
Jerim Onyango, Yusuf Juma,Ivan Anguyo, Moses Odhiambo, Rama Salim,Teddy Akumu, Kevin Omondi