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I’ve got to admit I am not trying to think about it because it is making me nervous, I have said for weeks we are relying on other teams and this has gone on for a few years now with players giving up in the last 3 months, so a lot of this has to be put down to the Chairman and I guess a lot to do with new contracts, it came to light with the Dawson / Bishop dip in form in one of the failed promotion bids and has just carried on.

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I can’t understand why Karacan didn’t start yesterday, the game should have been targeted for a must win but midfield was too defensive and after they scored the first goal the team then gave up.
Neil does swap the team about too much even if it is not through injuries, but I have not seen another team get injuries like we do.

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it’s not what money has been spent, it’s how it has been spent, look at Accrington how they have built a team with little income, and even in this division the number of teams that have decent teams who don’t have nowhere the budget that we have had, we have too big a squad with most not league standard, we have a u23 squad with a manager and possible too many coaches if you include the youth team when they could possibly merge together.

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lesgeo, North Lincolnshire Irons

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certainly by this seasons recruitment standards.

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If Neil likes playing exciting attacking football, I wouldn’t like to see his negative boring style.

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He told me the other week he hadn’t nothing to do with any of the signings and wouldn’t have recommended most of them.

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Deereyme66, North Lincolnshire Irons

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I bet Lee Turnbull is laughing his bo***x off.

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The performance today was one of the most gutless efforts I have seen for a long time, nobody earned their money today and to have another game without a shot on target is unacceptable, there was no motivation on or off the pitch today, I can’t fathom out the tactics but it’s certainly designed to spend as much time as possible in our penalty area and not to attack the other end, we are now relying on Exeter, Port Vale or Cambridge to take a minimum of 2 points off Grimsby and we don’t get big defeats from our last 3 games.

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alcazar

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Can you imagine it being called The Coolsilk Stadium

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I think Mike White said yesterday that Peter Swann was going to do a video interview with him today.

Matt about time for another Chairman Podcast.

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Certainly since we lost to Rotherham in the playoffs three years ago the club have gone totally backwards, whether the chairman has lost a lot of interest or it’s the failed new ground I have no idea but it certainly isn’t the best time to support the club.

over the last three years we have had 20% of good signings, 40% of average signings and 40% of awful signings and two years ago those last fourteen games which yielded six points will haunt us supporters for years, this year has been a joke with the summer recruitments, it was a good job we brought Howard, Karacan and Taft in or we would be at the bottom well adrift, like last season we have had numerous injuries and players have been brought back early because of injuries and then they break down again, generally we have a big squad and over 50% aren’t league standard and we need to get rid of these players who need non league football to progress.

three or four players have come through the u23s but with the number of players who won’t make it and the cost have having a manager to run it and extra coaches I wonder if it is too costly to run at the first teams expense, and to me starting the u23s was when we went downhill, regarding this season I think we will creep over the line but if we had two or three games more I think we would struggle and you start thinking of two years ago.

But regarding this season I think it’s the most boring football I have seen for years and tactically it’s been awful for most of the games, we hardly have a shot at goal and give goals away too easily, especially from free kicks and corners, four games this season we haven’t even had a shot at goal on target and two of these games were at home, the only good thing about the season is we haven’t had to sit in the cold watching it.

Will next season be better, I don’t know but it can’t get much worse.

Can Neil Cox improve things, I don’t know but I want him to get a team that plays attacking football rather than sitting back and hoping for breakaways, so tactically he needs to improve things or nobody will be going back to watch.

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Sounds like Cox wasn’t too impressed with players who leaving and some who will still be here.

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but we seem to change the center half pairings every game through either one been unfit or brought back too soon, all 5 have had problems and when was the last time the same two played together.

les I wasn’t being harsh I was just stating fact, everyone knows Rory has played well this last few games but the players in front of him are not, whether it is all the swapping about with injuries I don’t know but the defence don’t look the same without Howard there.

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IRONINTHEBLOOD

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“WATSN—7—Stopped this from being an even worse hammering.good job no Howard !!”

is it just coincidence BS, but since Rory got back in goal we are conceding at least twice as many goals a game, 12 in 5 inc a clean sheet, Howard had conceded 36 in the previous 31 games, he might be playing decent himself but he doesn’t inspire the defence in front of him, Howard organizes them better.

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Iron-awe, cassidystash, IRONINTHEBLOOD, alcazar, Awaywego, inspector, Northumbiron

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bloody hell I was amazed we had drawn two.

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IRONINTHEBLOOD, SODIron

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So that’s a fourth game without a shot on target, one shot off target and 2 corners, all in the first half, not good enough, you have off days but now it is every game.

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We certainly want league 2 quality players, a couple of Bishop and Dawson type players and a prediter to play with Loft would be a start, a lot of players need to go and we don’t want a summer of signing anymore non league players unless from National League Premier, a smaller squad to pay for better players.

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but Tottenham won’t be scared of Forest Green, Morecambe, Stevenage and a few others.

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if we had a team of Premier standard we would still play backs to the wall negative football.

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It’s very rare for a player to renew a contract here unless they are young players.

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lesgeo, Sanfran49

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Win would be nice, Win Win is asking too much.

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bartonscorpion

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when I saw your name as last poster alcy you just knew what you would put.

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Ferrite, Awaywego

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Who when he has played as been one of the best.

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I said a couple of days ago we are relying on other clubs to keep us up, and after 2 years ago I won’t be happy until we are safe.

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North Lincolnshire Irons, alcazar

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BigLeftToe wrote:

We just don’t look like a team playing as a singular unit at all. And I thought Cox had made us more solid at the back? Our defending is embarrassing, especially from set pieces!

though he played well today it’s strange that when Rory is in goal the defence is all over the place and we have started conceding goals for fun like early season, though it was the defence and not Rory today.

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Another shocking performance and the result flattered us, but for some terrible defending for their last 2 goals we could have won it, Watson made some good saves including a penalty but possibly could have done better with the third goal, but our defending from set pieces was comical at times, very disappointing seeing we turned around with possibly our only 2 efforts on target, first half we were terrible and they had corner after corner, a big sort out is needed and Cox won’t be happy.

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but Cox hasn’t had the faith in our players to play real attacking football so he says.

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we are about safe but we technically more relying on other teams beating Southend and Grimsby than us getting 5 points on our own.

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the club needs building around Jem he certainly cares, it’s OK taking the cheap option at the start of a season but it might cost more in January to get away from the bottom than getting a decent team to start with, just need a smaller squad to get costs down.

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IRONINTHEBLOOD

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BobbyGmeister wrote:

Thames A.F.C. is correct NI but that wasn’t the question!

well what was the question he didn’t answer, Thames FC played at the West Ham Stadium which held 120,000, I was only reading a article about them a few weeks ago.

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