Predictions

[Gurnelista]

alcazar wrote:

Would that it were so.
When you’ve supported this club for as long as I have, you’ll realize that disappointment is the name of the game.
From selling promising players on the relatively cheap, as soon as the first offer comes in, to failing to sign a decent player or two when we could. Jamie Vardy, anyone?
And as for having a poor season, we are on non-league. And we have been lower.
Every week we play non-league sides and watch non-league standard officials make the same mistakes over and over.
Even our manager is the same… makes the same mistakes, refuses, or can’t seem, to learn.
Yet we keep going because it’s our team.
When I started supporting I had no idea of the name of the manager or directors.
But I do know we’ve had some poor ones… of both.

The aim should be to fail better each time. Last season we failed pretty well. Hard to see us failing better this season. We’ll either go up (success) or it will be a worse failure, and Butler will go.

[Iron-awe]

alcazar wrote:

Where have I said that IA?
We have certainly suffered from some directors who thought it was okay to lend the club £10k, get free hospitality while they serve, then take the £10k back and move on.
What, precisely, have they done for the club?

… and other clubs haven’t done those things then? We are no different to how lots of EFL or ex EFL and indeed non league clubs have and are being run in the past and today. What do you suggest us and all the other clubs should do, what’s your wonderous alcy plan to make us different to the majority? Stating the bleeding obvious and banging on about it isn’t a plan BTW.

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[Sanfran49]

Alcazar – whose shift / Section Leader in the Lab were you on ?

[PhilAnders]

Easy:
Play 442 = win
Play 433 = win or draw
Play 532 = lose
Play 541 = lose heavily

As Butler likes to switch it about in a game
5 at the Back for longer than last 10 mins when we are 2 goals up, draw or lose

I’m going to keep stats on these formations/results this season.

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[BigLeftToe]

We played 5 at the back for the 3-1 win at Boreham Wood which was one of our best results and performances away from home last season…which shows it can work at times. Doesn’t seem to work all that often though and would prefer not seeing it.

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[Awaywego]

Re, first ten games thread 64.
You do tend to make a fool of yourself 64 don’t you have any memory at all.

[alcazar]

Sanfran49 wrote:

Alcazar – whose shift / Section Leader in the Lab were you on ?

My shift leader was Keith Norton, Trevor Credland was top man, A shift.
Keith then moved to days, and Les Oakton was moved to our shift.
Ed Burton, deputy shift leader.
You might also know Rog Winfrey, Tev Cunnington.

[alcazar]

Iron-awe wrote:

alcazar wrote:

Where have I said that IA?
We have certainly suffered from some directors who thought it was okay to lend the club £10k, get free hospitality while they serve, then take the £10k back and move on.
What, precisely, have they done for the club?

… and other clubs haven’t done those things then? We are no different to how lots of EFL or ex EFL and indeed non league clubs have and are being run in the past and today. What do you suggest us and all the other clubs should do, what’s your wonderous alcy plan to make us different to the majority? Stating the bleeding obvious and banging on about it isn’t a plan BTW.

Not interested in “other clubs”, that’s just another form of “whataboutery”.
It was poor when we did it.
End of.

[Iron-awe]

So no alcy master plan well what a surprise but you keep spouting the obvious that applies to a large majority of clubs but just keep hammering on about ours because you don’t know any other way, really constructive alcy and of course entirely pointless. It’s a theme running through a large amount of your posts wether sporting or political, I guess it’s just your way eh.

[lesgeo]

There will be loads more competition in this squad to help bring out the best from some pretty decent players.
Will that be enough to offset the departure of you-know-who? – Well. That’s where I start to get a bit edgy.
Top half.

[lesgeo]

Almost certain not to be able to make it on Friday night.
Anyone know where there might possibly be commentary?

[alcazar]

Iron-awe wrote:

So no alcy master plan well what a surprise but you keep spouting the obvious that applies to a large majority of clubs but just keep hammering on about ours because you don’t know any other way, really constructive alcy and of course entirely pointless. It’s a theme running through a large amount of your posts wether sporting or political, I guess it’s just your way eh.

As 64 said to you in another thread, “play the man, not the ball, eh?”

You want reasoned argument when you yourself don’t do so?

[Iron-awe]

It’s moaning for the sake of it alcy wether you aren’t bothered about how others run their clubs or not, it’s the way it’s done and unless you know another way apart from the old sugar daddy route which as we know can see you almost lose your football club, I don’t know what else can be done. So stop sulking and give us an idea how to do it differently and if not well you’ll just have to suck it up cos that’s the way it is.

[alcazar]

Played me again?
Give it a rest.

[Iron-awe]

You mean you can’t answer the question so you’d rather hide from your original post, fine you have no answers I await your next attack on the club for no reason.

[Rene Artois]

Chat GPT’s predictions:

CHAT GPT’S PREDICTED NATIONAL LEAGUE TABLE FOR 2026/27

1 Carlisle United
– – – – – – – – – – –
2 Southend United
3 Forest Green Rovers
– – – – – – – – – – –
4 Scunthorpe United
5 FC Halifax Town
6 Barrow
7 Sutton United
– – – – – – – – – – –
8 Hartlepool United
9 Yeovil Town
10 Woking
11 Tamworth
12 Solihull Moors
13 Harrogate Town
14 Wealdstone
15 Aldershot Town
16 Eastleigh
17 Gateshead
18 AFC Fylde
19 Worthing
20 Altrincham
– – – – – – – – – –
21 Boston United
22 Kidderminster Harriers
23 Hornchurch
24 Boreham Wood

[cassidystash]

Boreham Wood in 24th casts doubt on the validity of this IMO.

[Northumbiron]

“Chat GPT still hallucinates on over 33% of complex reasoning tasks. Even GPT-5 gets answers wrong roughly 13% of the time on academic benchmarks”.

[ironfromafar]

Rene Artois wrote:

Chat GPT’s predictions:

CHAT GPT’S PREDICTED NATIONAL LEAGUE TABLE FOR 2026/27

1 Carlisle United
– – – – – – – – – – –
2 Southend United
3 Forest Green Rovers
– – – – – – – – – – –
4 Scunthorpe United
5 FC Halifax Town
6 Barrow
7 Sutton United
– – – – – – – – – – –
8 Hartlepool United
9 Yeovil Town
10 Woking
11 Tamworth
12 Solihull Moors
13 Harrogate Town
14 Wealdstone
15 Aldershot Town
16 Eastleigh
17 Gateshead
18 AFC Fylde
19 Worthing
20 Altrincham
– – – – – – – – – –
21 Boston United
22 Kidderminster Harriers
23 Hornchurch
24 Boreham Wood

Val (chatgpt in my world) must ov been on the sauce with that prediction .. a few strange ones to note

BW bottom
Boston Relegated
Hartlepool not in play offs
Halifax in play offs
and Finally
Scunny 4th … really cant see that one at all and im still saying it will be a roller coaster season finishing anywhere 7th to 19th ..split the difference so lets stick a pin in at 14th

[alcazar]

Iron-awe wrote:

You mean you can’t answer the question so you’d rather hide from your original post, fine you have no answers I await your next attack on the club for no reason.

And again.
Sigh
Are you so in real life?

[Deereyme66]

Chat GPT chatting shit again? AI.

[Iron-awe]

alcazar wrote:

Iron-awe wrote:

You mean you can’t answer the question so you’d rather hide from your original post, fine you have no answers I await your next attack on the club for no reason.

And again.
Sigh
Are you so in real life?

You mean this isn’t real, that’s ok I thought your original post was something you genuinely meant, glad you were only joking

[MK Iron]

Boreham Wood allegedly turned down £1m offer for Abdulmalik and claim he’s not for sale.

They are obviously getting some serious funding from somewhere to beat our playing budget and turn down offers like that on average home crowds of 1100.

Shows what we’re up against trying to get out of this league at the right end.

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[cassidystash]

Read somewhere that the chairman is seriously wealthy. Quoted as saying “we don’t need to sell” Hopefully he’ll see sense and realise money talks, they “can’t stand in the boys way” surely!

[Iron-awe]

Wonder if his investment is in the form of loans like the majority, he ain’t getting his money back on 1100 gates that’s for sure but just putting in against a losing format ( finance wise ) isn’t going to last forever.

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alcazar

[PhilAnders]

All my posts this summer have been to do with the iron. For the past couple of days, I’ve been looking at what our rivals have been doing over the close season and how my take matches that of the bookmakers and chat GP. At the end of my deliberations, I don’t think there is any one team in this league that will match the achievements of York or Rochdale. I think the league is more open and I suspect 97 points will be enough to win it probably with half a dozen defeats. 95 will secure 2nd place and 92 the third. Other play off spaces will go to teams in the high 80’s. Who are those teams? Well, I don’t think it’s Carlisle or Southend for the top spot. Money talked last year , and it will this year so Borehamwood and FGR have the owners with the cash do I’ll go for them as 1 and 2, but which way round, I don’t know. I can’t see Barrow or Harrogate challenging for the top spots , but they will challenge for a play off space. From those coming up Fylde’s points and goal scoring record in the NLN will stand them in good stead and they will challenge for a play off spot, Worthing may. Kiddy and Hornchurch will do well to stay out of the bottom 4. I see ourselves, Carlisle , Hartlepool, Halifax and Yeovil will be in the mix for 3rd place and the other play off places. Solihull or Tamworth may well be in that mix, depending who recruits the best loanees from their League neighbours. We may well find that the top 12 all have 75 points plus and the play off places only decided on the last day. The bottom 4( or perhaps 6) may well take some thumping this season and 46 points may well secure survival . We may well have a good idea where we might finish by the end of August, by the end of the first weekend of October we will have a very good idea, having played 8 of the forecast challengers in the first 12 matches!

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alcazar

[Awaywego]

Need to look some more PhilA no twelfth place as got any where near 75 points no eighth place team as ever got 75 points.

[PhilAnders]

Further to my analysis of our rivals, come some tactical appreciations. We have the capacity to provide a serious goal threat for 90 plus minutes against every NL team, including all those considered to be potential champions and playoff contenders and by serious goal threat I mean 3 or 4 goals. By the same token, our defence has the potential to leak 3 or 4 goals against these sides. On the whole defensively we are slow and vulnerable to balls over the top of our center backs and to pacey wing play. Often conceding at the back stick from the cross with no full back in sight. To me this is because Denton and Starbuck don’t appear to recognise the danger down the wing on the opposite side, when they are tracking back. Whilst Barrows does see the danger, he is not fast enough to get back to challenge effectively. JB can lose his concentration at times as well. Thus, I would play Ogle or Rose at Right Back and Horton at Left Back because these players defend the back stick better. I think, if they are fit our Captain and Vice captain will be the first choice CB’s.
Against, the better teams, two defensive midfielders would prevent us being stretched. Richards, Rowley and Rose could do this job, and the third midfielder must be attack minded. Alfie Beestin for me and Butterfield if the ball needs spraying around. Otherwise Gayle, but I think Brennan and Smith could fit in here. The wide players for me would be Luke Brennan and Pat Jones, although I think there is a role on the right for Dec Howe, and Hurst could step up. Smith looked good on the left pre season. Whitehall, seems nailed on for every game , so I’m delighted that Hugh Parker will be coming in to challenge him, because sometimes again, his concentration levels drop. In my opinion, the midfield and defence are geared to get the ball quickly to our explosive players, and that is what makes us a massive threat, to every NL defence. If we can press our opponents, keep our concentration at the back and get the ball forward quickly to our explosive players we will have a very good season. And these are our controllables. Shit Refs, opposition GK’s having a worldy and us missing sitters are not, if we don’t go up automatically we don’t want it to be a controllable ( like leaking goals in the last 10 mins) that stops us!

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alcazar

[alcazar]

Iron-awe wrote:

alcazar wrote:

Iron-awe wrote:

You mean you can’t answer the question so you’d rather hide from your original post, fine you have no answers I await your next attack on the club for no reason.

And again.
Sigh
Are you so in real life?

You mean this isn’t real, that’s ok I thought your original post was something you genuinely meant, glad you were only joking

It must be an amazing talent to be able to know what everyone else “means” by their posts.
That or an amazing level of arrogance.

[Iron-awe]

All the body swerving you care to employ won’t get away from the point about your original post stating the obvious about the majority of football clubs being funded by directors loans and Scunthorpe United be no different to the majority which was my response , I questioned why you had made the post specifically about our club’s directors past and present and not all directors of clubs in general. We ain’t any different to the rest alcy and you never addressed that point apart from the “ I ain’t bothered about other clubs”, which is laughable and you know it is, anyhow carry on having a go for the sake of it, we all get our rocks off in different ways I guess.

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