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First game I’ve been since we dropped down to the national league. Thought the standard of football was pretty poor compared to league Two. We just about edged it and to be honest, it would have been a travesty if we had lost. If York are one of the better teams in this league than, we should have enough about us to avoid the drop. We don’t seem to have much strength in depth, hence the lack of substitutions, which is a worry. I was impressed with Apter who seemed to have a bit of raw quality about him and I thought the often maligned Nuttall had a decent game.

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CMC wrote:

1-0 Alty

Not much else to say

How about game over

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Anonymous wrote:

Agreed with Cass

Cribb & Gally aren’t RBs.

Can they play up front!

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And he’s 78. Probably a bit too old to buy a football club!

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I can see what’s going to happen, defeat to Dorking Wanderers on the last day of the season leading to relegation to the NLN

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alcazar

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No thanks

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ironking, Grange Lane Iron, Sanfran49

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Notts County fans don’t seem to concerned about losing him

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I’m afraid the toxic culture at club has been set by those in charge and will only change under new ownership

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BobbyGmeister, Iron-awe

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Agreed, under normal circumstances, most of them would never get near playing in a league 2 football match

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Sharp_Shooter24, ironking, North Lincolnshire Irons

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Very occasional midweek away victories in the early 80s, savoured by the 30-40 diehards who probably just made it feasible to run a Holloways coach. Something would always happen to raise a laugh. Fond memories.

I remember on matchdays Holloway’s asking the 30-40 diehards to chip in a few more quid or they wouldn’t run the bus

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Might not be pointless to the opposition. You could argue that the quality of teams we have put out recently undermines the integrity of the league

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f row crew

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They would have been better dressed as undertakers

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inspector

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So, he isn’t going and we are relying on the kids again next season. When will the penny drop that it doesn’t work.

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lesgeo wrote:

Hmm.
On track for what my ‘boardroom expert’ was predicting – or is Swanny going to depart: unloved, unappreciated and maligned by all those ingrates who call themselves Iron fans?

If he is going, yes, it will be unloved and unappreciated, certainly by me. The club is in a far poorer state than when he arrived so this “ingrate” won’t be sorry to see the back of him

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MK Iron wrote:

Highbury

I think we’ve played an FA cup reply there.

The Southend Stadium is a ground we never played on

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Drill Field, Northwich Victoria?

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Sandheys Park, New Brighton
A couple of guesses, Reynolds Arena, Darlington & Chester City’s Diva stadium?

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BobbyGmeister

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Wembley?

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It’s wrong that the “big clubs” can raid the academies of smaller clubs for peanuts when they are quite happy spending millions on sub standard foreign players

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Sharp_Shooter24, alcazar

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Ffs, down to 10 men. Unbelievable

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Yes, didn’t he invent the telephone

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alcazar wrote:

This club has always seemed to set it’s supporters up just to knock us back again.
They get going, then disappoint.

Supporters of most clubs probably say the same

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Bartoniron66 wrote:

These roles have to be filled for the the academy to stay cat 3, it is an EFL ruling that the academy should have certain roles such as head of recruitment, youth phase and head of academy coaching and others to be filled.

In a few months time we won’t be in the EFL so pretty academic

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Colchester are one of a number of clubs that have been swirling around the plug hole for a few seasons. As we are likely to find out, gets you in the end.

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No really bothered about the cods. Ours was entirely due to our current owners

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No, it was spelt correctly

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Iron-awe

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I counted 6!

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alcazar

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I think we’ll be out numbered

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Our only chance is to bring in a good motivator/organiser and hope that we can squeeze enough points out of the current squad to keep us in touch by the transfer window. Then, Swanns’s going to have to splash the cash. Pay off the EFL loan and bring in some quality to enable us to pull clear in the second half of the season. Will it happen? Nah

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alcazar

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1%?

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