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Was it Rochdale where Laws got involved with fans when he was still player-manager?

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I don’t like Dean and don’t rate him as a manager but we don’t have any choice but to stick with him, there’s no way the club can be paying off a manager in the current financial position.

As for the selections, they said on Humberside that it was touch & go whether Sembie-Ferris would be available tonight, so on that basis it makes sense to start with him on the bench, so you prepare the team without him.
Whitehall’s exclusion really surprised me but he has just become a dad, plus he’s been out for several weeks, was he really in the right mental & physical condition to start?

The one that really gets me is why Boyce has been dropped when, for my money, he’s been the stand-out defender this season.

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Rene Artois wrote:

It’s lose and the play offs.

12 points is definitely not insurmountable with 17 games remaining, especially as Tamworth would have 15 games left.

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ironingboard wrote:

Was that the, shouldn’t really mention his name, Darren Deadman game?

It was. Must admit, every time he came back he was fine, and indeed I have a lot more time for him after I saw him referee a Donny game the day after Billy Sharp had lost his young baby. When Sharp scored, he took off his shirt to show a T-shirt with a message to his son, and Deadman made sure he was looking the other way. I know people will say that there’d have been a riot if he’d booked Sharp for it but something not dissimilar happened just this weekend and the ref showed the player a yellow card.

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You might be right. Would have been one of his last games for us.

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64 wrote:

That late goal was so deflating after a proper rear guard and mighty lungs from Andy Keogh,if I remember rightly.I just didn’t think Oldham would score.

And they shouldn’t have done – there were two clear fouls on Joe Murphy in the lead-up to their equaliser.

Not sure about the Andy Keogh comment but our goal was an Oldham OG.

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It’s gonna be a tough match and I would go so far as to say, if Tamworth win this I think they’ll go on to be league champs. They just keep winning and with that record, would be deserving of the title too.

Reminds me of *that* game against Oldham in 2007. We were neck & neck with them going into the game and that late Oldham equaliser, against our 9 men, with all the injustice of that match, really felt like a huge blow for our promotion hopes.

Yet fast forward to the end of the season and it was Oldham who never really recovered. They only got another 27 points in the final 20 games of the season, meaning we finished 16 points above them.

It just goes to show that, important as tonight is, nothing is decided in January.

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Good luck to him, he deserves to be playing regularly based on his showing in an Iron shirt. St Johnstone’s a good move, he should be a starter there and can make a difference to a struggling side.

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inspector, lesgeo

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Yeah, should say that this change only currently applies to the North & South leagues.

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Friendly Lamb wrote:

Now a few people are getting their nickers in a twist, rightly so, over Tuesday’s rescheduling, coming with very little notice. I have to agree, it does seem like Tamworth have got the rough end of the wedge on this one. I noticed Feb 13 was available for both clubs.

League rules usually require rearranged fixtures to be scheduled for the next mutually available date, so the clubs may not have had much choice. Obviously, SUFC cannot impose the date on Tamworth, it has to be agreed in concert with the league.

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Stunning goal. To be fair, even when playing defensively at Scunthorpe, he would get into decent positions but his finishing was always woeful. But a change can do you good and hopefully it will have made him a better player for us in the long term.

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64 wrote:

Notice how the German’s treat their audience with respect and assume they have the language skills to understand English, we Brits should really be ashamed in that respect. If a German player couldn’t speak the langauge hear,we’d have a translator if they interviewed him in German al hell would break loose, Farage would drop his binoculars into the Channel with rage at us re-joining the EU

It’ll be interpreted consecutively, i.e. after he’s finished speaking.

Dier’s accent is quite a common phenomenon, it’s called “mirroring” I think. It’s definitely not confined to footballers. It might involve a shift in accent, or some other behaviours that “mirror” the person you’re talking to. I’ve definitely done it – some of my family are from Tyneside and when I’ve spend a couple of days with them my accent definitely shifts some way up the A1 from North Lincolnshire towards Newcastle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring

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64 wrote:

I believe gifts over a certain are taxed ,it’s unearned income.I could be wrong but Stew himself could be taxed ,he’s not a registered charity and earning £20k basically

I reckon that would only be the case if it goes into his bank account, whereas if it’s through the Just Giving platform (or similar) and it goes directly to the nominated recipient, then I doubt it would be an issue.

And besides, people do this a lot for raising money for medical bills etc. and I’ve not heard of taxation on that before.

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I’m not surprised at all. What’s strange is that we’ve all known him as a limited midfielder, yet he scored a free kick the other night resulting in him scoring in back to back games. Pugh has 2 or 3 assists to his name and was seen as their key player.

Well if we didn’t need him a couple of weeks ago, what’s changed to mean we need him now? As I said, I’m a fan of him but not sure it’s fair to recall him unless he’s going to start games, given he was on a good run with Hereford.

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I was on the supporters’ coach and we’d got there just before the players turned up. There were rumours of a postponement due to the part of the pitch in the shadow of the stand being frozen. As the players got off the bus, I said to Wayne Graves “you can play on that, can’t you?”, he replied “I can’t, I’m dropped”. Awkward.

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Ironawe wrote:

Southend Tuesday night about 15 years ago. Called off 19.30,

Was that the one where some early arriving Iron fans had been helping to clear the pitch and were offered free tickets for the rearranged game?

I remember going all the way up to Hartlepool one Boxing Day only to have the game called off just after we arrived.

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I quite like Pugh but I was just wondering if I’d missed a bunch of injuries to the likes of Scales/Shrimpton/Law etc.

Butterfield is allowed to play by the end of this week, I think?

Quite agree that having an in-form player is a big asset but having only just extended his loan to the end of the season, I was surprised to see him recalled.

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Torquay at 2pm was a memorably late call-off. Cheltenham went about 1pm too.

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“Before 1950s Scunthorpe United were known as the Knuts. The origin is uncertain but it is generally accepted as being when they won one of the local charity cups. The vicar of Frodingham, the Rev Cryspant Rust said “that indeed Scunthorpe and Lindsey United were a tough (k)nut to beat”. It stuck from 1910ish to about 1950.”

I assumed it was from an early typo before spellcheck was invented.

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They looked a very solid side at our place and I particularly liked the look of the big lad in central midfield, thought he was someone we could be looking at next season. A draw would be a good result, we have to remember that this league is played over 46 games, you win nowt in February!

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Fair enough WG, just making the point that sometimes in negotiations you don’t always get what you want.

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BarnardFoxtonBarker.. wrote:

All this Rene compared how Many goals Tamworth have scored late in games. Seems to me they play for the entire ninety plus minutes. We could learn something from them.

Another way of looking at it could be that they’re having to strive to win games and only doing so late on – is that a sign of a club that is having to do everything to win a game and maybe it’s not sustainable for them in the mid-to-long run?

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ironking wrote:

Yep still scarred by the Wilcox era, of trying to defend a slim lead and bringing defenders on in central midfield for the last few minutes and conceding.

We finished second instead of champions that season!

That’s true although in Wilcox’s defence (and I think he is not respected anywhere near enough) his priority was promotion, not the title, and maintaining the lead over teams in 4th place was the most important thing. Obviously that’s not the case this year but there are still 20 games to go and plenty of twists & turns to come.

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Losing the lead twice and all three points in the 91st minute was hard to take.

I’m old enough to remember when scoring 2 goals in a month was cause for celebration, let alone twice in one half!

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Amen to that LK, can’t believe people are losing their minds about a 2-2 home draw!

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cassidystash wrote:

TBF I only said might and Maxi is better equipped for the job than Boycie IMO.

Fair, it’s just some things really leave a mark on your memory!

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WonderGoals wrote:

24 hour recall option in the loan agreement so he’s there to call upon if we need him

Hereford wouldn’t want to agree with that and so it might come down to either sending him out on loan and not being able to recall him or not getting his wages off the books at all.

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If the league us doing its job as a regulator properly, then wages should be taken into account far more than any transfer fees.

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Be nice to see Sembie-Ferris fully fit, given he says he was suffering from injuries last season.

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cassidystash wrote:

Maxi in front of the back 4 might (only might) have been a better option. The way we were defending a bit more height could have helped.

Good God no, that’s what Wilcox used to do with Boyce in his first spell at the club and it never worked.

I’m not in the Jimmy Dean fan club but he’s really not getting a lot wrong just now, Tamworth’s form can’t last forever, we have to make sure we hang in there and can capitalise when Tamworth have a wobble.

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