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And a convicted one at that, served his time though, and we all deserve that second chance.
Second chance? Mr 4 names…..
Operating as a Director, using different names, when he was banned from being a Director for 6 years?
That’s really taking your second chance isn’t it!!
Only watched the YouTube eight to nine minute highlights so far, kick off times being unreasonable.
The winning teams seem very incisive in using the wings.Same here .. extended highlights only as KO times are dreadful ..
US and Korea looked tasty.
Jocks tomorrow morning 8am KO i MAY MAY tune in as i cut the grass today so tomorrow morning is free.
I shall be going to sleep in an hour or so & getting up at 1.30 to watch the mighty (?) Scotland. Back to bed @ 4.30 and then for a round of golf @ 7.30.
3-1 to the boys in blue ❤️
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Who was the first player to make his Iron first team debut who was younger than you? Loanees excluded. As far as I can tell and recall, mine was Neil Pointon.
It’s going to be a bloody long close season, isn’t it?
Surely Positive Dave as to be that person.
Arm round the incoming player with that thumb in the air photo, so he can show it to his family that means more to him than any football club. Or is that the Carlsberg advert.Any football club is correct.
Sadly, it seems to be our turn to have him!!
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I’m with Stu 👍
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What just like Matlock have.
Totally different circumstances, and we aren’t talking about Matlock are we.
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I think the interesting thing with the goals discussion is that most people are understandably focusing on replacing Roberts, but for me the bigger issue is actually what happens in midfield if Roberts, Westbrooke and Ewing all leave.
Roberts is the obvious headline loss because you’re talking about goals, assists, set pieces and somebody who could win a game out of absolutely nothing. You don’t replace that easily at National League level.
But I’d argue Westbrooke and Ewing leaving together could be just as damaging to the overall team.
Westbrooke gave us control. Ewing gave us physicality and balance. One helped us play, the other helped us compete. Take both out and suddenly you’re not just replacing players, you’re replacing the platform the team was built on.
Looking at the season as a whole, I actually don’t think scoring goals was our biggest problem. We scored 77 in the league which is more than enough to be competing at the right end. The concern is we conceded 62. York and Rochdale were down around the low 40s. That’s a massive gap. We were already too easy to play against at times and too many games became basketball matches.
Roberts could get away with that because he could produce moments that won games. If he’s gone, you can’t just rely on having another shootout every week.
For me the recruitment priorities are:
1. A creative midfielder who can dictate games
2. A genuine goalscoring wide player
3. A defensive midfielder with legs and presence
4. A commanding centre-halfI actually think the central midfield rebuild is more important than replacing Roberts directly. Without Westbrooke and Ewing there’s a danger we become a side that works hard, runs around a lot and competes physically, but struggles to control games.
Butler deserves a lot of credit because a newly promoted side finishing 5th and reaching the play-off semi-final is a very good season. But if we want to move from being a play-off side to an automatic promotion side, we need to become harder to score against and better at controlling matches, not just find another winger and hope he scores 20 goals.
The positive is that I genuinely think we’re closer than some people think. The negative is that replacing Roberts, Westbrooke, and Ewing properly is probably the biggest recruitment challenge Butler has faced since taking over.
I can’t agree that we scored enough goals. We did early on in the season, but we stalled badly in the new year.
Butler did better than many expected last season, but he will have one hell of a job next season and I’m still not convinced he is up to it.
As posted earlier, we need goals form defenders, midfielders & strikers. That’s a lot to find in a single close season.
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Surely the “proof” is that Yeovil announced a signing of a player we’d had on loan all season, but we’ve said nothing about not re-signing him?
That’s not proof the club knew he was joining Yeovil,it’s proof he is joining Yeovil only
Do you think he went to the Iron and said I’m negotiating with Yeovil while he has an offer on the table?
Might just have done so.
If he thought we might increase our offer.
So far we’ve “allowed” two to escape, but signed no one.
Bargain basement again?It’s not even the end of May yet. Lots of clubs will lose players in the coming weeks, but will not sign others until they have gone. Many contracts run until end June as well.
We don’t have a very good record of getting in players early, but it is somewhat unfair to start haranguing them so early.
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He went back to his registered club at the end of his loan.
Why would we comment on not signing a player??
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Beagrie was awesome.
A 4-0 win at Exeter on a beautiful Saturday afternoon was probably his best performance.
We played like Brazil that day.
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Unless I’m missing something, he’s saying goodbye because his loan has come to an end following the conclusion of the campaign and he’s under contract at Leeds United until 2028…
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story 😉
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If it’s more about budgets how can Boreham Wood be going to Wembley?
Yes, budgets play a part. But so do managers. Our manager must take responsibility for what happens on the pitch – after all, he picks the team & the subs.
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If we play at Rochdale on Sunday as well as we did last night, we have a good chance.
We pressed, we bombarded, we bullied.
Why the hell haven’t we been doing this all season?
It’s also much more fun to watch than the garbage we’ve been served up recently.
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Selective memory again BPG. Laws did a good job, but he did fade towards the end and outstayed his welcome.
As for Butler, yes we scored a lot of goals pre Christmas – were riding high. Recently, we have been shocking and are certainly not the form team for the playoffs.
When I stated that we were not scoring enough goals 6 weeks ago I was harangued by a good few on here that it was not a scoring problem, and we had scored a lot of goals. It was that we were conceding too many.
The reality is that for the last few months we have scored far too few goals and conceded too many. Yes we scored early on, but that hasn’t helped us recently.
We are not good enough and it is unlikely that we will go up.
Supporting the team all the way, but more in hope than expectation.
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