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My expectation when appointed was that we were within touching distance of the chasing pack come January.
That expectation has been met and surpassed with the improvement with fitness and performances too.
Best manager we could’ve appointed at that time and gives us a fighting chance at least.
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Brilliant result; such a relief to see out of the bottom 3 aswell.
Hill is working minor miracles since he’s been here: players actually look fit (which is a joke when that’s an expectation) and great to see us go for the 3rd and kill a game off.
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According to the chief executive,
we had 400 responses or there abouts, from the fans survey, 200 of these apparently stated that they would not return due to COVID concerns.We are roughly 800-1000 supporters down from our usual average attendances for the past 25 years, some of these will be staying away due to the shite football, a substantial proportion will be staying away because of Swann.
The club/Swann are unwilling to see what is happening in front of them, therefore they have no hope of remedying the situation. Token efforts of goodwill are now transparent as nothing comes to fruition from them, the shareholder/season ticket meetings have appeased the growing sense of unrest amongst the fan base for now.
Personally, I have given up hope of anything substantially improving now under the Swann’s. It is looking increasingly likely it will be non league football for us next year and we all know that we won’t be coming back anytime soon.
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Good header of the ball and his sliding tackles are usually second to none. However, the main reason for him being so good at them is probably because he gets turned so often. Perhaps injuries have taken their toll? Him and Taft are not working as partnership for me at the moment either.
Saying that, Seen enough of him to know he’s a decent defender at this level as he’s previously performed well. Hopefully Hill can get him firing on all cylinders again.
Can’t disagree with what’s being said above.
Thought the conditions dictated for the most part the tone of the game. Best 1st half I’ve seen from us in a long time and we deserved the goal. Weirdly, Millen has a fantastic delivery on him, great ball and a good finish from Jarvis who overall had a decent game.
So disappointed we didn’t get the 3 points but Bradford had the chances to win the game and we rode our luck again. Hill is definitely starting to get a tune out of this team though and there were times when we would have folded under Cox and lost that game. Plenty of commitment and desire on show- just need the players to start believing in themselves to go out and finish a team off.
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Think a postponement is definitely on the cards, and in all honesty, wouldn’t be a bad thing for us.
Gives Hill another 10 days working with the players and 1 less game to lose before the January transfer window.
Desperate thinking, but that’s where we’re at.
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More than happy to take a point from that. How the hell Orient didn’t bag 4/5 I’ll never know.
Taft and Onarisie were dog mess tonight. Why do players like Taft regress so much whilst at the club?
The midfield diamond seemed too congested and no-one really knew how to play their position. No centre mids we’re covering the wide areas and left Thompson/Millen exposed all game.
The only real positive I can take from tonight was Scrimshaw’s Performance when he came on.
Alcazar- show me one post where anyone thought this would be a miraculous turnaround? Hill’s got some job on his hands and it’s damage limitation till January. Stop pinning this on the manager when he’s had 3 league games ffs.
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Brilliant news.
The boardroom has lost all vision and direction (other than down), something had to give.
Simon can hopefully become the bridge between boardroom level and supporters and go some way to bringing an identity back to the club.
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I’m not sure how long I can buy into the not fit story for Kenyon, he couldn’t get near the number 8 for their equaliser and he wasn’t exactly full sprint.
Still gutted after yesterday’s game. We are so far below the necessary standard, it’s scary.
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You can’t go to the games if you expected a bounce with this lot.
If Hill keeps us up it’s a minor miracle.
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Nowhere near good enough. Don’t care what anyone says- we are 3/4 signings away from staying up.
Shocking.
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350 sold so far.
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In fairness, we had a loan GK who was meant to first choice for the season and got injured after 45 mins. Up to that point Rory had not really shown enough to be deserving of a start in the team.
Thought it was common knowledge that he was told he could find a new club?
Decent enough point in the end. Disappointed we couldn’t keep the ball better as we did in the first half
Created more chances than usual, but just seemed to run out of stream and ideas.
Good to see an extra 500 home fans on the gate. Hopefully a few more positive results and we can return to the dizzying heights of 3k
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Would prefer a 4-4-2. Just a question of who goes on the wings.
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Be interesting to see how we line up. No Davis limits the opportunity for 3 at the back; Despite Cox’s thoughts, Rowe is not a centre back.
Watson
Rowe
Onarisie
Taft
O’MalleyPugh
beestin
Perry/HackneyLoft
Jarvis
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How time and hindsight improves the rose tint on those specs. Godden, Wootton & Goode had plenty of chances here and did little to impress. Arguably both Godden & Wootton were lucky to get the contract extensions they did. Godden eventually found his touch and Wootton his level. Goode has improved from donkey to passable L1 CB. No doubt those calling for the moving on of Hallam, KDT, Green, O’Neil et al will be claiming we made a big mistake letting them go in the unlikely event that they come good elsewhere.
Exactly.
Wootton in particularly had a good opportunity here whilst in League 1. He just wasn’t good enough, at the time. He also failed to impress at numerous loan spells in non league.
Luckily for him, it’s clicked at Notts County and he may well be ready for another crack at league football.
The Charlie Goode story truly baffles me though. Couldn’t believe it when I saw him On MOTD the other night.
Fair play to him.
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B team boycott.
The competition has been ruined, you only have to look at how many clubs have had record low attendances since the reforms. Need to kick out the B-teams and get rid of the group stage.
I put that to Swann last night. The response was it’s hurting our club by supporters not going.
Totally missing the point once again.
Just back from the meeting with season ticket holders. ( much preferred having 30 in a room as opposed to 150)
Put to him the question about the missing 1,000, which was the main theme of the evening; can’t say I’m overly enthused about the efforts going on behind the scenes to entice fans back. Seems to be solely reliant on Hill turning the form around.
Definitely still believe Swann doesn’t understand the resentment built towards him and where it’s come from. Until he, and his staff, accept the reasons behind this and try to address it, we are going to struggle to average above 3,000.
There was the odd useful insight, but like most others, it’s actions rather words which are going to sway my opinion from now on.
