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Mbappe wouldn’t have got to most of those flick ons, one spooned off his head about 40yards for a throw in. Rose also struggled massively against their lively winger (who was my motm) and they coped with our horrendous (and dangerous) pitch much better. Do feel for Rose though he’ll learn from the match and work on his positional play

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Do hope Whitehall is Ok because the reserve option isn’t going to help. Not too much damage done thanks to Fadeera.

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Rene Artois

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Pettiness aside, well done to Butler and Scunthorpe on a good result, could’ve been a banana skin but did well. It’s coming together nicely.

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Awaywego

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Important we head into March with a run of form. A must win for me. Keeping pressure on Chester would also set up that home match to be a cracker – potential sell out with all the offers.

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We should be looking at league two squad player loans who are used to the more physical demands of lower league football. Done right we can add sufficient depth where needed. A substantial injury to Whitehall and/or Roberts and we’re done for.

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I’m assuming a lot of old debts kept coming out of the background thinking they’d lost their money and now they’re after it again. Not something Michelle & Co could liabilitise for at the time I guess.

Season tickets must be 2,000 x £250.00 avg so £500k of the £1.2m turnover if we say another 1,000 from match day sales (assuming under 12’s free) then that’s another 23 games by £20,000 so £460k, the rest must be sponsorship, exec boxes (although they don’t appear to be fully utilised most match days) all in that would be another £250k – don’t know if that’s any good or not. If we have players on £2.5k per week you can understand the squad not being that deep, should use the loan market more.

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Ah right, got it. Thanks

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Interesting about the sale of GP. I assumed that it could not be sold as it was a community interest. Is it the case that if they have consensus they can agree to sell GP and the land? Does this have stipulations that it must remain a place of football (loosely speaking!)
Selling GP is not mentioned

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March is the month – look at the run of fixtures. If we get through that month with a decent set of results then the top spot is ours to lose.

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Something like 3155 with 26 away

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Good result but a hard watch after the first 10 minutes.

How much is the pitch playing a part for the players looking a bit ‘leggy’. It is an absolute disgrace and must be affecting the players. Some things you can’t go cheap on and the pitch is one of them.

At least they now have a period of rest now with no game in the immediate future.

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another fed up fan, cassidystash

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Should change the back 4 and we’ll be quite solid,. I sense we are on the cusp of a championship run. We’ve got a lot of home games coming up and a few easy aways.

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When you say hostile takeover, of what? The business isn’t really a business that is investable right now so have the existing board split over something? Has the new CEO gone off in a different direction? Has Scunny Bunny instigated an MBO?

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I wouldn’t want to be part of any club that would have me as a member

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Awaywego

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They had a good cup run and are doing well in the league? I thought you were only allowed one?

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Rene Artois

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Fitz was ‘enjoying a drink’ in a pub in Notts last night, hopefully he recovered in time. I don’t blame him mind, you need a coping mechanism in this league.

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He’s up there with one of the worst signings for the club. Unless he is given penalty duties (and even then it’s not guaranteed) I cannot see him scoring a goal for us.

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Spennymoor beating Rushall 5-0,

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Williams missing again in squad line up. Not in the 5 named subs

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Awaywego

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If we didn’t have Fitz we’d be mid table at best. Some of the saves he makes are league class. There has been the odd clanger but few and far between. If we lose him next year and we’re still in this league then the sort of keeper who we’d attract would be of significant lesser quality.

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Iron414, inspector, cassidystash, Rene Artois

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If he’s good enough he’s old enough, I think he’ll be good for us

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All Beck needs is 1 goal to get going, however as he’s not on a 4 yr contract we’re unlikely to see it here.

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Awaywego

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They said promotion is a must this season. Another season in this league serving up dross is going to be the death knell of professional football for the town.

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Awaywego

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The score is 0-0 when matching the two. Both are very limited but we are in a terrible league so we aren’t going to have decent managers knocking on the door.

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Sounds serious, never nice when players sustain serious injuries. Was the dodgy pitch to blame?

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We’re heading into postponement season with the clubs having difficulty preparing/protecting from the weather (we’ve always had issues at that away end which gets no sun). Our fixtures will start to pile up as well, do we look to bolster the squad as we’ll be hitting Saturday/Tuesday consistently (should be an advantage against the part timers). I’m assuming that as our home form on Saturday is poor that the Tuesday results are good.

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Best first half performance for some time, the subs sort of put paid to any shape and attacking intent second half but the first half made up for it. 9/10 performance 1/10 pitch quality – looks dangerous to play on

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I really do not understand the lack of utilisation of the loan market. I would hope, heading into winter, we look to bolster the squad

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We’re lacking goals and creativity, Roberts gives us both. Butterfield’s stats last season were remarkable (even when he slowed down)and Roberts this are good. I can’t see Williams being fit long enough to get any consistency and if we get £80k for him (just a guess) then another year in this league will cost double that when fans lose patience.
What I don’t understand is where are the loanees? We were told the squad would be supplemented with loan players, have we had any? Would be a bad move to let him go unless it’s silly money being offered.

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Awaywego

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Hereford got a tonking, and were the better team v us last week. Curzon could have been well clear but now slip up conceding for fun. It’s a very poor league so there are still opportunities for us. We’ve played by far the worse football I’ve ever seen us play and we’re one win off top! We need to start scoring more freely and from other players to maintain our chances

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