Williamson urges fan support
Bobby Williamson has urged the fan base to cheer the players and avoid putting them under undue pressure ahead of the crucial derby on Sunday.
“The team, just like fans, enjoy it more when we win each game, but in football anything can happen, sometimes we win sometimes we lose. I guess you all saw what happened during the just concluded world cup, that’s football.”
Bobby also sought to assuage the concerns of a section of the fan base who think he does not take the derby seriously.
” I understand the derby means a lot to them the same way it means to us but it’s not a matter of life and death! Don’t condemn players on social media, don’t pressure us, rather support us” said Williamson to futaa.com
Coach Williamson has yet to win a derby match and has lost twice, once in the Gol TV shield final and once in the first leg of the 2014 KPL league.
Is there a go-slow at the club ?
Earlier reports posted in futaa.com indicated that certain players were on a go slow. The report mentioned that Kennedy Ayong’, Simon Mburu, Collins Okoth and Eric Okoth were very unsettled at the club after the club officials failed to fulfill promises concerning the sign on fees.
The players are on a go slow of sorts and it has affected the team because none has been paid his sign on fee apart from Gatuso (Collins Okoth) who was paid only part of it, the source averred to futaa.com
Club assistant secretary general Ronald Ngala confirmed the reports whilst revealing that they are planning to clear the debts as soon as possible.
Midfielder Eric Ochieng has now rubbished those reports. Am amazed at how people can be so idle to formulate such misleading reports, I just got a call from a friend asking me if it’s true we are on a go slow and I was shocked! It’s so bad seeing such acts of unprofessionalism.
-The fact that we are going through tough times as a club doesn’t mean we are not doing our best, there’s nothing like a go slow and I am not part of any neither are my team-mates, he said according to the report.
Bobby you not beaten tusker and efusi in close to 500 minutes of play…….A loss to efusi we will simply not take it……..its too painful to loose to mashemeji three times in a row!
you can take that statement to the bank.
Bobby is right, i had said in my previouse comment that the so called gormahia choir members are only good in composing abusive songs, unlike yester years where by fans would sing songs in praise of the team. Those days fan leader Apingo nyawawa would lead the whole stadium in singing praise songs i was
disappointed by the fans who think they are more fans than others by even removing people from their seats.i would urge the teami leader to understand that they are doing gormahia more harm than good.support gormahia .and en bcourage the players but let us learn from the worldcup. If what i saw at the kisumu stadium is what hapens at gormatches then these fans do not support gor.
bobby, AFC only have two matches in the KPL. against GOR and if they win them, they are happy.
They don’t mind Rubbing (kuvuta) Their coaches so long as they beat us.
you will also see @ingo back on this blog.
that’s how serious they are waiting for Gor
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Its Scolari/ Brazil who put a BW/GMFC display in the WC. Winners Germany where organized and dealt effectively with the so called negative play/packing the bus.
To me our head coach has just pychologically prepared us for a loss while hoping for a fluke win.
He is simply playing it safe as fans are getting agitated by poor results.
Clear administrative blunders from EC as usual yet some wail negative energy,negative energy..
Lets pray for a win, from BW’s comments only that will see GM win.
Jakoyo and Odour 12 please give us some peace, you are number one enemy of Gor mahia. Very bad you didn’t even analyse what the coach said, and you are usually the first to comment on any issue, please respect the coach. What we need now is full support for the team and not this nonsense from you. By the way have you ever considered quitting since there is nothing good you ever see about the team?
@ JGJ Facts & being rationale about our beloved club is what will help us not blind emotion.
What BW has done is to shift his excuses from post match to prematch. Simple /brilliant strategy but it won’t wash. More poor results & the evitable will happen. Ball is in his court.
Quit & go where? Why don’t you do the same since its seems you have options.
Post your opinion freely if its sensible i’ll appreciate however divergent not begging for peace and appealling to blind emotions.
ODUOR12 WAHTA CAN AFC SAY THEN, DO YOU KNOW WE ARE ON TOP OF THE TABLE?
TO BW, HE SHOOULD KNOW AFC ONLY PLAY TWO LEAGUE MATCHES ALL AGAIST GOR, AFTER THAT THEY GO TO BED AND FIRE COACHES.
WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THERE IS A DERBY HISTORY AND LOOKS LIKE AFC HAS MORE WINS THAN GOR. WHEN YU COME ON BOARD LOGA HAD PUT US AHEAD OF THEM.
THIS IS WHY YOU MIGHT NOT GET YOUR WISH TOO SOON
“Tunayo kazi moja tu. Tunayo kazi moja. Kazi ni kumpiga. Sababu tunalo, Uwezo tunao na nia tunayo” (President Nyerere reacting to Idi Amin’s invasion of Kagera in 1979).
Reading BW’s comments above, I am reminded of our response to Uganda’s invasion of Migingo Island. This is what we said, “Wewe wacha hiyo ilale….that is just a crop of rocks the size of a football field….mavi ya kuku…..you win some and you lose some”.
Nyerere’s position was that of a man leading from the front and in Gor Mahia I would equate him with David Oti, Tim Ayieko, Len Julians, Jack Johnson and Zdravko Logarusic. These were tacticians who believed that Efusi had only one work …… to be beaten.
BW is also a man; he should believe like his predecessors and like President Nyerere. To most Gor Mahia fans, there is nothing so painful and demeaning like losing to Efusi. Of late they have got the better of us and come Sunday’s derby, we are the underdogs. By now, BW should have known that De Joghn (or whatever…) is a street fighter. He is ruthless and mean and that is what we should expect come Sunday. However, we cannot run away from fellow men.
BW I don’t envy your position, but as a footballer you have gone through such. You are standing between us and a very charged Leopard. There is no question of win some-lose some, here. You must stand your ground. Just land one mighty punch on Efusi that you are sure to take him to the floor (the way an underdog fights) and pin him there. BW believe…Just believe. The work of Efusi is to be beaten. We have the reason. We have the capability and we have the intention.
Was just wondering. What if we don’t beat Ingwe but win the league? What will people remember? Last year we won the league but lost to some nondescript team which i cannot remember. That shows that the title is the most important unless one is intersted in only two games out of 30.
BW is being himself and any coach worth his salt will talk like that. Ever heard of the Real coach saying that they will beat Barca in the next game? Never.
Unfortunately for OGANGO and ODUOR they are not used to such a coach and thay would rather a drama queen like Loga, Emayel and Ge Jong. Ever heard how Kimanzi and other coaches talk about their opponents? It’s usually with the knowledge that in a soccer game any rsult is possible.
All the same we all hope to win and stretch the gap between us and others.
Just wondering whatwill happen to ODUOR and OGANGO if results don’t go our way!!
I wud like 2 ask fellow bloggers the meaning of supporting the team bcos as far as I know it, 2 support the team is to give the team that needed moral to play to win & if they dont to be with them in defeat & hope to win the next match. I dont think that Efusi will be playing 2 to be beaten by Gor just like Gor also will not be playing to be beaten by Efusi. However much we wud love to win against Efusi it shud not be a matter of life & death. The league is a marathon & every team wants to win .
I once asked do you pay to watch the match or the coach’s demeanour? I do the former!
Dan.O poor “spin doctoring” Ogango & myself have accepted the inevitable that good results are most likely an exception rather than the norm with BW. That said we are praying for a K’galo victory (btw remember we were once allocated GM’s hell branch) so who between us is ready for any result.
Nice rational piece from @BB. Gud point but an AFC will say we beat ’em thrice in a trot.
@ Dan.O why so many ifs?
How can good results be the exception rather than the norm yet we have won more games than we have lost? Maybe I’m not getting something here.
The good thing is that we all want Kogalo to win. From my crystal ball I can see a win for us but at worst the result we can get is a draw
Ok @ Dan.O let me indulge you. Looking @ the bigger picture like you like to advocate. Evaluate our performance this year in all six tournaments not just the league where leading by a whisker/precariously.
Germany beat Argentina by 1 goal to nil. The result is that Germany are World Champs. The rest is academic
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the best we can do guys is to support the team financially. lets support the initiative to raise 200k that has been started by Gor fans towards Sunday derby.
organizers should let us know how we can send money since i want to contribute.We should never gag anybody with divergent opinion
I thank EC for sealing the kits deal
On shirt sponsor i suggest that the EC should approach WOOLWORTHS SHOPS, i belief something will work out coz wpplworts are chains whose HQS are in South Africa n will appreciate associating themselves with Gor Mahia now that Gor is a big brand.
Also i suggest that EC should approach TUSKYS supermarket,FRESHA milk processors, UNILEVER, FINLAY TEA and KEROCHE industry for possible sponsoring, lets use this market research to our advantage.
Lastly GOR MAHIA should relocate to Kisumu and negotiate gate collection sharing rate which is fair, the current percentage payable to Nairobi city county for use of City stadium is exorbitant.yet the county is offering no appreciation at all, ”FOOTBALL IS BUSINESS” is better we go places we can do better business, look at MERU COUNTY the Governor has embarked on ksh 200m facelift of KINORU stadium based on amount of goodwill GOR MAHIA brought while they visited Meru. ”WE NEED KISUMU YOU AND ME”
The wins are so marginal and that is why and how GFC105 managed to pull out a draw before eliminating us. In the meantime Brewkenge fired 6 past Nakumatt before another 2 past KCB in a span of three days while Batoto ba Saitan (to quote Ochigah) also fired 7 past someone. Do they have better strikers than us? A big NO. The Trailer and Oduor12 are only crying out for someone to be held accountable for our goal drought.
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There are lots of idle bloggers in this site.
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Bobby has resigned to fate against AFC that’s why he is saying that it’s not a “matter of life and death”.
In other quarters…yes it’s not, but in this football and especially against AFC is TRADITIONALLY a matter of life and death.
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after all is said, can we all wish Mighty gor all the best on Sunday. Pray, give thanks, Finga kama wewe islam, then watch the game and give thanks for the results
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Posts with personal attacks have been deleted. if you disagree with someone, do so agreeably.
We must support Kogalo whether on the net or live in the stadium. Any negative energy on the net or in the stadium goes a long way to discourage the team.
Let us all support Gor
Thanx admin for deleting all this nonsense,this site is not meant for the nonsense some people are trying to pot ray here,if some of us feel what is happening in GOR now is not what they want they can take a walk we have 16 clubs in KPL they can go to any of them n make it better than GOR.
Thank you admin for deleting Oduor’s comments as they are not helping the club.