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Too little too late though really isn’t it? Other clubs like Stevenage (who were below us in the table after the Oldham win) made pretty impressive signings in the first week of the transfer window and are now 9 points clear of us. We’ve dawdled around, sold last season’s top scorer and ended up 7 points from safety.
Doesn’t really matter who we sign, the club is rotten, we’ve won 5 games of competitive football in 49 games since March 2021!
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I wonder if he can take a “penalty”, thats if we ever get into the penalty box and gain one!
Guessing this is tongue in check as only three teams in League 2 have been awarded more penalties than us this season (we’ve had 5)!
There have been murmurings of a gentlemen’s agreement made with Bristol so that he doesn’t play. Then again, this is Joey Barton we are talking about.
Isn’t that against league rules? I recall West Brom / West Ham being investigated for not playing Snodgrass after he transferred from one to the other.
Rules state that “no club shall enter into a contract which enables another party to that contract to acquire the ability materially to influence its policies or the performance of its teams in league matches.”
Unless that’s only in the Premier League and doesn’t apply to us.
Can’t believe we’re not about 4-0 down, Watson keeping us in the game.
Absolute men against boys, it’s as if we’re playing against a Premier League team. None of these players are National League standard let alone League 2.
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Just had a look at completed transfers (BBC Sport) and if, as suspected, we can’t pay a fee for players the only two lost possibilities for our needs seem to be McPake (Tranmere) and Agard (Donny) and both look better bets than us. Loan signings seem to be kids which is probably not what Hill wants. No money and few prospects isn’t a very attractive proposition. Now if we were paying BIG money with the promise of ambition and a brand new stadium to play in then…………….
Stevenage, one of our only hopes of catching to avoid the clutches of relegation, have signed Ed Upson, Michael Bostwick and Luke O’Neill on frees or on loan…all experienced league campaigners. I would take all three! Guessing we’re much more in need of a Striker/CB though.
Come on Sanfran, you already know his answer. It starts with C and ends with d!
Anyone else feeling that 2-0 is incredibly harsh i feel like we have been the better team
Really? We might have had our fair share of possession but I can’t recall a single decent chance being created.
Pugh and Gallimore have been awful in midfield. How are they keeping Beestin out of the team?
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1-0 down against the best defence in the country with no strikers on the pitch. Can’t see it happening, cheers Rory for your polo hands.
Have just seen the starting lineup, dear lord we’re in for a tonking. Thinking we’re all of a sudden Man City and going for zero strikers on the pitch!
Good riddance to one of the worst strikers I’ve seen in an Iron shirt. Can’t control a football, can’t pass, can’t shoot, barely wins any headers for his size, tries taking on the world with the ball at his feet…can’t believe folks on here see anything in him. Kyle Wootton was/is twice the player and that’s saying something!
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Don’t shoot the messenger BLT, just posting what the rules are supposed to be according to the EFL. It seems we broke two of them with no problem so I’m still confused. Hope the club and the EFL know what’s going on. Of course if the loan was repaid ……………..!!
No shots being fired here Tash…I was confused in the summer and I’m just as confused now. I’ve read the same on the EFL website and if we are indeed under those embargo rules then surely we’ve breached it multiple times already??
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Wilson has played in more than one first team game this season.
And if what Tash has said above is true, how did we hand out two year deals to multiple players in the summer (Millen and O’Neill spring to mind)?
It’s good that we’re getting more possession under Hill and not the usual 30% like we were under Cox, but jeez we’re so poor in the final third! Stevenage had much better chances than us and were only whiskers away from scoring on multiple occasions…any high ball over the top and we were a complete shambles.
January can’t come quick enough, CB (to replace the truly dreadful Taft) and a decent striker are a must.
Great start…absolutely pathetic defending from O’Malley and Pugh!
Ben May still knocking about or has he been locked up for more toilet seat thefts?
We got rid because he was shite and an absolute calamity for us (along with the rest of the defence) in our League 1 relegation season. If anyone had told you back then that he’d be a Premiership defender they would have been laughed all the way to the mental home! Fair play to him though.
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I don’t see Hill being much of a mug, quite the opposite. If Wilson was tearing it up in training and better than those already in the squad then I’m sure we’d be seeing more of him. We’re not, which to me suggests he’s not ready yet.
He’s always been shit. Can’t control a football, can’t finish, can’t pass. The odd occasion he does bring it under control he either tries taking on the world, trips over his own feet or plays the completely wrong pass! I’d rather Jarvis and Scrimshaw started.
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Based on last week and this – how close does Jarvis have to be to score?
Why the heck didn’t he just head it in!?
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So joint top assists per minute in the league across an entire season isn’t a major contribution? How can one contribute any more, considering nobody else in the team got anywhere near those stats?
Find some of the comments above a bit baffling, Hakeeb couldn’t have done much more for us in his final season…he registered 0.4 assists per 90 mins which was the joint highest in League 1 that season!
Why don’t you give the juicy insight, or are you bound by a high court gagging order?
Realistically think this was the best appointment we could have hoped for from the available options (Nige was never going to come back!). Hopefully he’s able to put some fight and determination in this squad and tells Swanny where to go if he tries to do any meddling!
Really wanted it to work out for him but he just hasn’t been good enough from day 1. Will be very interesting to see who comes in but my money is on Swanny taking the cheapest route possible and that’s promoting McMahon.
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Correction: Millen skinned for second goal.
Think Watson should have done better too, wasn’t exactly in the top corner.
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Well here we go again then, absolutely shocking defending!!
McAtee scored one solitary goal under Hurst…I’d say he played his best games for us under Wilcox.
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If we lose on Saturday that will be ONE win in 27 games of football. An absolutely ridiculous stat that would surely mean the trigger being pulled??
That’s quite the stat, but makes 100% sense. Teams don’t really have to defend against us…when was the last time you saw someone break the offside trap bearing down on the keeper in a 1 vs 1 opportunity? Probably Eisa vs Bradford last March…which is how far you have to go back for our last win prior to the Tranmere game this season!
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