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A tail off in crowds will be incoming, you can sponsor the shit out of anything but in the end if your product is akin to Ratners you’re going to struggle.
Butler needs to learn and learn quick because missing on promotion is unthinkable.
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1 win in 6, contract extension form.
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If they didn’t think we needed stengthening before then hopefully this is a wake up call.
Conceding last minute to Oxford City at home is just not acceptable, poor management, wedded to a formation that history shows is hard
for the players and produces poor footballNo, there are things that can be fixed, for now it’s a blip however they need to start putting in performances again otherwise the crowds will drop
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Kai Corbett is exactly the type of player Butler should be after, energy aplenty, nice touch with both feet and helped out in defence many times. The fact Dean chose not to play him in those crucial games showed how utterly brainless he was.
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The club said itself they need to get out of this league this season. Butler isn’t going anywhere, and not should he, but he needs to come up with alternatives and also a list of players the club need to get on loan. It been clear for years 3-5-2 is hard for the players and produces poor quality football. We cannot afford to keep rolling out a formation with 7 defensive minded players out of 10 (keeper a given). If he insists on 3-5-2 then Barrows and Denton/Kelly are not the answer
There was a time when playing Newcastle, Oxford, Peterborough meant we actually played Newcastle, Oxford, Peterborough
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We need some loan players with something about them, our first reserves are really poor, not even semi-pro quality. Play whatever formation you want but if you cannot pass a ball 10 yards then it’s time to assess your employment options.
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‘Concentrate’ appears to be a skill this team don’t have
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I can agree that number 1 priority is getting out of this league, have a slightly different perspective in terms of additional revenue, even if it’s just £30-40k could help us get two/three better quality loan players – which we will need sooner rather than later. Also it would be nice to get a cup run because we haven’t had one for years; would be good to get a league club and see more than 45 supporters in the away end
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I don’t think the 5-0 victory against Newcastle can be attributed to the Scarborough defeat. Poor selection and tactics put paid to our undefeated start. We weren’t playing great in the league for a few games prior to the defeat.
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Joking aside I do find it a tricky scenario, short term gain, cheapening of a product with a lack of long term strategy (and no doubt needed to settle debts) v a tempering of the need to sponsor everything, the commercial manager should take care of the product being offered, there comes a tipping point in the strategy (or lack of) that other things get forgotten whilst rushing around for money. By rights the grove wharf stand should’ve been closed on the opening home game, no lights and no running water in the toilets. Getting a local company to sort stuff like that out for a few match tickets is sound business. Charging £20 to read out a message for a young fan is commercially reckless, and when you chase the money like that you might treat those less able to offer financial support more dismissively.
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I think you’re right. There has to be a proper commercial strategy with this, just sponsor everything isn’t a strategy and I don’t know if we have the relevant expertise in the building (genuinely no idea)to formulate a coherent plan. There comes a point when it adversely affects at least one of businesses. Ironically the toilets probably do need a sponsor because it was a complete shambles last time
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The worse bit about today was it had the feel of a Jimmy Dean approach. One blip is fine but we have not addressed the poor forward distribution and general bad passing. Fitness is all well and good but if you cannot do the basics (and there are players in our squad who are in this category) then you shouldn’t be playing for us. It’s time to get a loan player or two in.
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Jeez, why does it have to be rather have this than this…. why can’t we want both, like we’re not allowed a cup run and promotion, yes if it’s a binary choice of course promotion is number one but do we have to discount a cup run because we not allowed to have or wish for both. We concentrated on the league last year after the embarrassing exit, that worked well.
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Aside from a spell at the end it was really poor. Proper lack of quality. Nicholson somehow got worse in the second half kept on only for his throws no doubt (equally ineffective). Take each match as it comes, some we’ve played well other not great but won. This game the worst I’ve seen (I didn’t see Chorley). Butler needs to sort the passing out though, major concern.
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Need to cut out these basic errors in passing, it’s becoming a common trend at the minute, only Beestin is showing a decent first and second touch, Cluinan giving the ball away too many times in dangerous positions, Nicholson and Barrows guilty of poor play hopefully Butler can instil some belief in their ability.
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I predict a comfortable win but echoing the statements on here about poor passing creeping into our game, some of the distribution against Curzon was really poor. Not naming names but it was clear to see on Tuesday. Too many stray passes short and long (some of the long passes gid knows who they thought were in that area of the pitch). Cut those mistakes out and we’re really shaping up.
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