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BigLeftToe wrote:

Smoke and mirrors… don’t get too excited after playing two of the worst teams we’ve ever shared a pitch with. Wouldn’t read too much into it.

Agreed – don’t get too excited as the teams we’ve played have been garbage. However, our style of play has definitely changed.

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64 wrote:

too much slow mo ,too much misdirection by poor managers and players away from their own failings, fans who know nothing about the rules egged on by awful TV pundits and you get the perfect storm. “that was never a red” when a player gets a second yellow and off etc, usually after a yellow and several more chances given by the ref . VAR has made it worse, ages pouring over a slomo that takes all context away which leads to hours of TV discussion and ultimately blaming the ref from both sides.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67696001ears

The top level of the sport is becoming a different sport. Unfortunately due to its TV ubiquity the perceptions and opinions around that filter down to our level.

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64 wrote:

Quite uncomfortable to watch

Brutal.

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backofthenet18

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ironfromafar wrote:

… be interested to see JDs next move for Saturday after last nights debacle.

From the sofa to the TV unit to get the remote control.

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Ferrite wrote:

Sounds like the sort of story you’d hear in the pub and I’m all in favour of those!

It’s plausible, which is why it would never pass pub muster.

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Ferrite

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Ferrite wrote:

Who knew at the time that that game, and perhaps Whitehall’s red card, would be such a turning point in our season?

…what has gone wrong? How has Dean managed to get so little out of this team since New Year?

Pure conjecture this, of course, but is there anything in the fact Whitehall was an expectant father with a baby due very soon, at that moment? Perhaps he wanted paternity leave which was argued against ‘for the good of the team’… and then Dean took time off on a matchday to go to his brother’s wedding… Double standards, unrest gets in and sets in…

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Iron-awe wrote:

… was always going to be a long way back…

It wasn’t. They were in the driving seat to control the division and go up as champions at the first time of asking – but they’ve blown it.

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Awaywego, Deereyme66, lesgeo, cassidystash

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Rene Artois wrote:

Are they thinking that if they play poorly enough for long enough then Jimbob will be sacked?

It’s more likely that they’ve been told the club can’t actually afford to pay the promotion bonus Hilton promised, and that the club can’t afford new contracts / improved wages.

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ironfromafar wrote:

I see Gareth of Ironarmy fame is adding more game time into his YT vids…

He needs to think carefully about this as, for legal purposes, YouTube is considered broadcasting and he doesn’t have the rights.

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Sanfran49

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64 wrote:

I got a couple of lines in and stopped

Maybe he should have done the same.

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Cliff Byrne's Right Peg

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Presuming this is genuine, that’s several times now Hilton has had a pop at Simon Elliott.

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I don’t want to resort to hoofball, but I would like to see something more direct than we’ve had. We lost the game for whatever reason at South Shields (that first goal was ridiculous), but I think we looked a little closer to some sort of balance between footballing styles during the first half.

The link-ups by McIlinden and Denton down the left were very promising, and they look like they could get into a bit of a groove and be productive. I was impressed with McIlinden – movement and a little bit more speed of thought.

We’re definitely lacking a striker, an ‘old fashioned’ fox in the box.

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Will we?

No.

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Rene Artois wrote:

Alfreton will beat us Saturday.

Get Torpey in with Butler assistant.

That’s an extra wage, though.

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sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

… that’s quite a big hotel…

Either way, you’re right!

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sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

120 bed hotel on 3 floors, that’s quite a big hotel.
The company submitting the plans already own Taco Bell and Burger King.

But does ‘bed’ mean ‘bed’ or ‘space to sleep’? Does the 120 mean 120 bedrooms or sleep spaces for 120 people (therefore potentially 60 beds and therefore (you’d assume) 20 rooms per floor not 40..?

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Apollo11 wrote:

Looks like there’s to be another drive-thru fast food or coffee joint, adjacent to what is currently Burger King.

… a Starbucks.

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Looks like there’s to be another drive-thru fast food or coffee joint, adjacent to what is currently Burger King.

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inspector wrote:

Bookies prey on people. People lose billions of pounds each year and those sums go to the bookies and their shareholders. As a generalisation, the rich get richer and …!

You could say the same about HMRC.

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Has anyone UK-based out there actually been able to watch any Saturday 3pm games, using a VPN / proxy server?

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I don’t agree with this. Even at their worst they don’t look like a side who don’t give a toss. It’s a team selection, tactical and onfield decision-making problem. Too much cut and not enough thrust, as they say.

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Overstretched? Complacent? Ignorant?

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If they’re unattached to any other club, it’s not a transfer is it?

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Personally, I felt we lost out in the midfield battle against Boston in the second half and that cost us.

We are lacking some serious beef in midfield.

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cassidystash

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…he appears to be a diminutive poacher striker stuck in target man type body…

That’s a good way of putting it. I do think there’s a very decent player in there – but (despite being top scorer) you don’t often come away from a match with the impression that he’s turned in a really good performance.

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cassidystash wrote:

Beestin and Wilson both available for his position so don’t need DSF IMO.
I’d like to keep Smith though.

Neither as good as Smith.

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Absolutely a key player. Returning to his parent club would be a severe blow to our promotion chances.

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Rene Artois wrote:

From a legal eagle / eager beaver site:

“Is doxing illegal?

Dependent on the circumstances , doxing may constitute an offence under a number of UK laws. It can amount to harassment, malicious communications, computer misuse offences, data protection. It may also include blackmail and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, if the consequences cause “psychological harm that involves more than mere emotions such as fear, distress or panic”.

In this case it would be considered harassment.

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At least we avoided Whamageddon.

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I also know that Simon Elliot has not and will not put a penny of his own money into the club, this came directly from James Moody… … I doubt Simon is taken seriously, I think he’s just there because she felt fans wanted it.

So, as I have asked before, what does he actually contribute?

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