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The ‘dot’ is a sign, a sign from the gods!
Behold, he now walks among us.
A true Chthonic deity
Emerged from the depths of Donny.
Rejoice,
For it is the fourth coming…
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Well, plenty to lose if we go backwards! And the reason he might not succeed is lack of money and lack of experience, except with the ladies, apparently. But, at least he speaks nicely.
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New season ticket money will probably be servicing the debts.
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DM – goals and points don’t tell the full story? If you want a winning team they’re the most important elements of it. Never mind the moaning about ‘chopping and changing’, the ‘awful substitutions’, the ‘terrified of losing’ etc. etc. mentioned above. The stats and table don’t lie.
What do you want, lose a thrilling match 3-4 each week and and flirt with relegation?
Everyone wants an entertaining side, but once again, this is NLN, and it’s often not pretty. Then again, football often isn’t. Maybe we get spoiled by the amount of elite footy on tv, especially the highlights which cut out the boring bits.
Sanfran is right about fickle, moaning supporters. But look, all fans suffer. It’s part of the game. And as in football, so in life. The religiously persuaded might think of it as a test of endurance, which He allows us to suffer as part of the trials of life, to humble us and make us more like Him. Those above, so quick to chuck in the towel, turn their backs and run, should pause a moment for reflection and have a quiet word with their spiritual guardians, not least themselves.
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DM – No ideology or art, just realism. This is NLN. Players often miss chances, fall over, or can’t be bothered. Managers often struggle with tactics, and the games are often rubbish. But we scored plenty, and had it not been for a missed pen on Saturday we wouldn’t be having this debate now. FFS, anyone would think we’d just been relegated!
Ironx3 – supporters are often quick to call for a sacking on messageboards and elsewhere when the results start to falter. Fan impatience is legendary, as was the impatience of the last two chairmen. And look where it got us. Even when we had Laws and some of the most memorable matches in the last two decades, plenty on here were calling for him to be sacked!
Course, if Dean left there would be plenty of chancers willing to take over. But forget the ‘promised land’ any time soon. At this level, most would be useless, clueless, and take us back even further.
As for Nostradamus’ prognostications about ‘entering the dark ages’ … after regularly sacking managers for the past decade, that’s precisely where we are now! Surely it’s obvious.
Attendances? In this league ours might be an indicator of superior wealth, but we have big debts, meaning there’s far less available for the club to sign/keep players than some others.
Results? If this, if that…. if my aunt was my uncle she’d have had bollox!
True, the season hasn’t turned out the way we wanted, but under Dean we’ve done reasonably well, despite our impoverishment and near death. But past experience suggests that appointing yet another manager would be capitulating to the same populist impatience and recklessness which helped bring us here in the first place. Stick with him throughout 2024, let him consolidate and build, then review in January.
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Fair comment, but either way we’ve earned a poor reputation for keeping managers, boardroom stability and club finance.
High standards are important, but so is realism. A boy wonder manager with a stellar CV isn’t about to walk through the revolving door, wave his wand, and in a magical flash take the club back to FL2.
But, we did well this season, and we just might do better next time if we build on it rather than getting rid, going backwards and starting over. Failure to get promoted this year is just a bruise, not a tattoo.
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Have you seen the person spec sheets for road sweepers and bin people?
You need a degree to empty bins these days.But not to run a political party like say, UKIP.
Alternatively, let’s aim low and wallow in the cesspit for a decade or two?
If leading the league for a good part of the season, finishing in the playoffs and then going out on a penalty are grounds for dismissal, who of any calibre would want to come here and with hardly any cash to spend? What sort of reputation does it give the club?
In case nobody noticed, it has been the persistent sacking of managers season after season that has contributed to the club being where it is already – in the proverbial cesspit of NLN.
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Good summary IA. Fact is, we’re still not good enough, and had we gone up, we’d have struggled, especially as the budget is said to be a lot smaller next season. The positives are that the club is still there, and despite all the challenges of the toughest season in the Iron’s history, we nearly got promoted.
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Beware of Alfreton, they’re having a good spell.
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The main issue here is the woman’s right to choose v religious patriarchs’ wish to impose their views on women; views based on pre-modern ideas about the creation of life.
The point is this. If abortion were banned, women would still seek it out, and the practice would be driven underground, just as it was in the past, with (usually poor) women enduring some of the most dangerous and barbaric medical practices imaginable, at the hands of charlatans and snake oil salespeople. Once again, it would become a cottage industry practised in back streets by the bad, mad and impecunious. Desirable? I don’t think so.
But let’s be clear, there are still far too many unwanted pregnancies, and the key to preventing many of them is education and contraception. With better education in schools and families, not least in some of the most staunch, severe and fundamental religious communities where contraception and sex are still taboo, women can grow to be confident and educated to take decisions which prevent unwanted pregnancy.
So, forget all the pompous piffle and frankly hypocritical comments about “ideological preference” from the ideologically motivated religious lobby. Instead, JI and others should consider how much their views are shared with fundamentalists of all kinds, especially Muslims, when it comes to basic issues around women’s rights, human rights, democracy and the death penalty. They’d be quite at home in Saudi Arabia; in fact I believe there are some cheap deals to Mecca, currently.
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