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  • in reply to: Cox Still Here ? #215432
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    I am puzzled.
    Has the Swann family been tragically reduced to the status of paupers?
    As far as I am aware there appears to be loadsa money still – it is just that it is only peanuts now being directed towards the football project which now bores them.
    Previous losses seem to have been recouped.

    When the going gets tough – the ‘tough’ go absent?

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    in reply to: Cox Out #215260
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    Yes, Alcy.
    Sounds roughly right. 700 from the league leaders and 1,647 diehards.
    FG were the best team I saw last season and seem to have improved.

    in reply to: He may well go! #215256
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    If Swann goes and the club goes under – what difference will that be to Swann staying?
    Based on that thinking – I prefer to see him depart.

    Muses. I wonder if Fenty might be available …

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    in reply to: Harrogate match thread #215244
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    I think you meant to say that he is in the same category as Dickie Rooks and Ron Bradley.

    in reply to: Cox Out #215159
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    Newey and Cooper suggested that finding a manager might be a problem.
    This is not so. There are scores of experienced managers who think that they’ll never get back into the league and will take us on as a longshot to resurrect their career.
    If you were ever get to see the list of applicants you would gasp at the number of well-known names – desperate to get back into football.
    We need someone who is intolerant to lackadaisical effort and who will gladly put juniors in when more senior players do not deliver.

    Yet again, we have to look at the dismal quality of loan players on show.
    None of them is worth a place. I warned pre-season about the dangers of continuing with this failed policy.

    The real problem is centre midfield where we are hopelessly inadequate. They are so bad, the defence is wrongfooted far too often. The same inept CM means that we do not construct decent forward moves.

    Green allowing that cross to be made showed a couldn’t-care-less attitude which has to be expunged.

    If Cox goes and a new manager can’t turn it around – there will be only one person left who’ll be 100% at fault – and who will then not be able to argue otherwise or try to divert blame.

    Anyone want to guess the next home attendance, BTW?

    in reply to: Cox Out #215141
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    That’s FIVE, BTW.
    Cox cannot and must not survive this horror.

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    in reply to: Harrogate match thread #215064
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    If Cox has learned from Tuesday about the need to create chances – there is some small cause to be a tad optimistic.
    I hope Manny is fit!

    in reply to: Harrogate away, time to show our fury as supporters? #215063
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    Wootton was rarely played as a CF but pushed out wide – something which ruined better than he.

    As for the Chairman departing – it is most difficult to see us ‘out of the frying pan and into any fire’.
    We are a club dying on its feet. We have a wealthy owner, uttering platitudes when bottom of the 92 and losing fans for fun – who to me, seems unbothered by this current disastrous situation.
    If this assessment is in any way correct – it is hard to see what type of new chairman might be expected to do worse.

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    in reply to: Shareholder Meeting #214947
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    Always cover your back. Cass is right.

    in reply to: Rotherham in the tin pot #214944
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    Still this total anti-Hippo stuff. He’s certainly no world-beater – we all know that but – give the lad some credit when it’s due.
    Never having seen him before, there’s more than a few who’d have praised him for last night.
    He’s an honest player who, if he can be a bit better with the final pass, can be an asset.
    He has surely outplayed Green this season but I certainly do wonder how he gets away with all of the foul throws when hurling it a distance.

    Loft. Same issues with those who gave him no credit last season. I saw a pretty decent-looking CF last night.

    I suspect, however, that this may have all happened as the higher division side perhaps offered a bit more space than we tend to get in the 4th Division. We shall see at Harrogate.

    in reply to: Rotherham in the tin pot #214896
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    If Cox wants to play 3 CBs – and we need a holding midfield player – let’s try Davis in that role.

    in reply to: Rotherham in the tin pot #214876
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    Yeah. Good performance from the team – it may sound daft – but 4 – 1 was very unfair on us.
    Ref was below standard and demonstrated double standards.
    Hippo best display of the season.
    Loft held the forwards together.
    Movement and forward passing movements were the best of the season by far.
    Hallam showed some real intelligence up front and crossover movement of Hippo and Green confused defenders. When did we last do anything like that?
    Match fitness approaching for Loft, Thompson and Hallam.

    A small shoot of optimism sticking its head up from below ground?

    in reply to: NEWPORT away #214731
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    I thought that with the second goal, it was a question of CM leaving defenders stranded.

    in reply to: Wilson #214631
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    BFB makes a very strong point – one we have become all too familiar with in recent seasons.

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    in reply to: The club is dead until Swann leaves #214560
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    We weren’t terrible but, yet again, incredibly ordinary.

    in reply to: NEWPORT away #214557
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    How can the manager fail to resign?
    What other honourable course has he remaining to him?

    Mr Swann – please put the club up for sale. It appears to be the only thing which can save us. On our current path, the club is not heading just for another relegation – but extinction.
    Everything you touch seems to be turning to ashes.
    Perhaps you may care to read my advice to the manager.

    (Incidentally, as with 80%+ of our loan signings over recent years – they are adding precious little to the team.)

    in reply to: Kenyon #214511
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    I tend to agree, BLT.
    Taft would not make it into my 4-4-2 when all are fit.

    in reply to: Cox Out #214184
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    Somebody who can organise and motivate, please.
    Am not asking for a genius – just someone who can do the basics – and preferably, before the next match.

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    in reply to: Port Vale #214180
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    Okay. Very bad timing but I’ve come to the end.
    I said originally – Neil was entitled to stay til October – well the next league game IS October.
    Time’s up.
    Not a great team but a willing one. They just need to be organised and we’ll escape the drop.
    Anybody who is capable of organising out there?
    McMahon?
    Andy Crosby anyone?

    in reply to: Carlisle. #213903
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    The balance may well end up being better than last week.
    At least Millen has 90 minutes under his belt. Improvement.
    Hackney out. Improvement.
    A likely 442. Might well be an improvement.

    Injury list creeping up. Seriously need a high power game behind closed doors to improve a number returning and needing game time.

    in reply to: Bottom 2 #213821
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    There are many hundreds of AWGs out there – all using their democratic right to stay away.

    in reply to: Rory Watson #213700
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    You do make a sound point.

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    in reply to: Rory Watson #213689
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    IF (and a truly giant IF, I admit) the three CBs stay fit, the defence will be basically okay.
    I confess to being a bit underwhelmed by Taft whose form does seem to have slipped since he arrived.
    I do sometimes wonder, however, whether the extent of damage to players is jointly a confidence thing and the systems played.
    The FB issues should, hopefully, soon be remedied.
    Loft and Scrimshaw may well work to at least a reasonable extent.
    We have decent enough midfielders and yet we always look as if the opposition is going to have either a field day or 60%+ possession – or maybe both.
    Non-functioning midfields create unnecessary pressures on the defence and fail to supply chances to forwards. Familiar?
    The biggest single problem we have is in the organisation and selection of our midfield.
    Trying to to be a bit logical – I can’t see why this squad should not survive with a bit to spare.
    One way or another, systems need to be better geared to the players we have.

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    in reply to: Player marks #213588
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    The tragedy is – this was nowhere near our best team.
    Manny back as CB, Rowe to RB (please!), drop Hackney (if at all possible), Beestin AND Perry (I know – not ideal).
    Those changes would make a huge difference.

    This stinks of mismanagement. The team structure was destroyed and genuine attempts must be made to restore it to the previous dizzy heights of adequacy.

    Yesterday was like having only eight or nine men on the pitch. Little wonder so many players ended up with shocking marks.

    BTW – great use of the marking system, Samways. That’s how it should be. Really captured the essence of what happened. (Not his fault but I could not have given Millen as high as a 3.)

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    in reply to: Exeter. #213587
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    I thought Davies was at fault for their first but have just watched the highlights.
    The forward pass was a simply exquisite ‘assist’ and took both GK and Davies out of the equation – leaving Jaye on for a terrific goal.

    No arguments about the other three goals, though. A total disgrace.

    What was the thinking over Millen? I’m not blaming the lad himself coz he was knackered half way through the first half but having a quarter fit defender on the pitch was actually worse than having ten men. It was not just match fitness, either.
    Another week of fitness training may do it for Millen – but he still needs a full behind closed doors game against tough opposition to get him anywhere approaching match fitness.

    An appalling decision. I am assuming Lillis did not pick the team.

    If we are compelled to play Hackney every match for half a season – we are done for.

    If we can play our best team next week – things should change. BTW – why no news on Loft?

    in reply to: Fortress Quicksands Stadium #213488
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    I have tried my level best to take an optimistic view. My mistake.
    Pessimists are never really disappointed.

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    in reply to: Lillis in charge today #213470
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    Absence of Pugh – inexplicable. Is the lad being punished for showing guts?
    Is Hackney really worth a start?
    Will Manny’s return make a difference?

    I await marks for players with great interest.

    in reply to: Lillis in charge today #213468
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    Okay. Had enough.
    Give him two more games.

    in reply to: At what point do we consider the manager is the problem? #213258
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    I meant Taft. Sorry. The brain cell is going.

    in reply to: At what point do we consider the manager is the problem? #213228
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    I am sorry for Neil feeling that he has to play 5 at the back.
    Unless we play 4-1-3-2 with Davis in front of the defence, his options seem more limited this year than last – for some reason.
    He really wants to include Davis, Manny and Loft. I get that. (What he does next week may be more problematic with the sending off.) But who is the third CB he can play? – Not Rowe unless things are very bad.

    Green staying on looked an odd call.
    Hackney did okay in a difficult situation, the like of which he’s never experienced before – but needed to come off at half time.
    Questions can legitimately be asked about what he was trying to achieve yesterday with the decisions we witnessed.