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  • in reply to: Is That The Best We Can Do? #319830
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    Or May Day & Grace Jones for all you Bond fans out there!

    in reply to: Wealdstone #319697
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    York, Rochdale, Carlisle. 4/5 changes = squad rotation.

    Iron 4/5 changes = weakened team!

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    in reply to: Fifth place guaranteed #319640
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    Monkey Magic! 🐵

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    A general “dumbing down” of a significant percentage of the population?

    The silicon chip and now AI means you don’t have to think too hard anymore. Let’s face it, you don’t need to count out your money to make a purchase nowadays. Just wave your phone or a card at a machine!

    Everything needs to be pigeon-holed or labelled. Housing shortage? Immigrants! Long NHS waiting lists? Immigrants! Job losses? Immigrants! Easy scapegoats fuelled by the likes of Farage and the gutter press.

    I was driving down the A68 through County Durham last week and there were lots of Union Jacks and St George’s Crosses flying in places such as Tow Law and West Auckland. Absolutely no asylum seekers anywhere near yet they feed off the rhetoric.

    Impoverished former mining towns of course, but they are flying the flags of the country whose government sold them down the river decades ago. Crazy!

    Strange days!

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    in reply to: Kier Lier Pants on fire #319630
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    Et tu, Fansy?

    Farage is sharpening you a knife as I post.

    in reply to: Just floating this idea… #319587
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    We had grass on the pitch at the start of the season!

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    in reply to: Wealdstone #319555
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    Nowt wrong with your maths ‘tash!

    Beat Eastleigh and we finish on 85. Southend can only get 84 and FGR are effectively out of it as they can only get 81 and we can’t catch Boreham Wood.

    So basically next week’s games will decide whether we play Southend at home or at their gaff.

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    in reply to: Wealdstone #319548
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    Who’s saying we’ll win the playoffs?

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    Wasn’t Roberts injured for the playoffs last season?

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    I predict we will lose at Wealdstone, beat Eastleigh and finish 7th by virtue of our poorer goal difference.

    Most likely face a trip to Boreham Wood in the QF.

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    It would be bloody scary!

    in reply to: Jimmy D at Spalding #319335
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    Seen Chester have moved into the playoffs fair play to them, what a time to hit form after the torrid start they’d had.
    Wonder what the board think now about moving the manager on at the end of the season.

    They’ve done a massive U-turn Awaywego. My mate tells me that SuperCal is no longer getting his P45,

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    in reply to: Totalitarian dictatorship. #319333
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    Arriving much faster than even I envisioned.

    In the USA.

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    in reply to: Butler keeps winning #319332
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    It was this current board that sacked Jimmy after achieving 2nd place have you forgot.

    Not quite!

    Dean was dismissed after losing the playoffs.

    Butler was retained after winning them.

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    Well thus far Butler has led us to 23 league victories this season. 50% win ratio. We’ve lost 9 and drawn 12.

    Yesterday we effectively relegated the club that won the NLN last year. They have lost 23 drawn 12 and won just 9. So quite a nice symmetry there.

    Doing more right than wrong it would seem.

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    Witnessed my second Scunny defeat in a week as I’ve been to watch the egg-chasers lose 44-19 to my lad’s old club Tynedale.

    I’ll take a less than convincing 1-0 win after that debacle at the Heed last Monday. Must show some sort of character?

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    Don’t be so negative I-A!

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    We’re short on CBs. Evans has been out for a while, Boyce looks like he could be. Barrows will have to sit out the final league games. Belhouan and Horton FB’s filling in at CB. Defence has looked shakey for a while now. We look vulnerable from corners and Nicholson’s long throws yesterday had us in panic mode.

    Apart from that!

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    in reply to: Gateshead #319037
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    The thing about giving bench warmers game time is that it’s fine as long as they play as a team. Yesterday’s starting XI played like they’d just met. There has to be some sort of formation or tactic.

    And when the substitutions are made they need to be to change the game for the better. Not to give Pat Jones game time by bringing him on at RWB when we were crying out for a wide left attacker!

    Oh, and yesterday showed Butler why he should have kept Nicholson at the club.

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    Three generations of Northumbiron in attendance today. Luckily for new grandson he slept through most of it.

    Totally selfish on my point but this was the only game we could get to as a family this season, so to say it was a disappointing afternoon is an understatement.

    Okay shuffle the pack a bit, but even though we’re guaranteed a playoff spot there’s still work to do. Carlisle, Forest Green and Boreham Wood all dropped points today, so another away win would have put us in a really good position to get that third or fourth place.

    So from a personal point of view this wasn’t a day to experiment. No real tactics on display, anonymous performances, poor passing, sloppy defending, no real attempts on goal until we were 2-0 down.

    Away support magnificent once again. Deserved better.

    Yeah a bloody awful afternoon, but that’s Gateshead International Stadium for you!

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    I’ve only travelled 20 miles and I”m pissed off!

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    in reply to: Gateshead #318976
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    Only just realised Smith was playing! Pat Jones on for him please Andy.

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    Where’s VAR when you need it?

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    He’s playing the second half first by the looks of it! 🤔

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    Playoffs guaranteed!

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    Well after tonight’s results we only need a point from Friday’s game to guarantee a playoff spot.

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    in reply to: Halifax Away #318519
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    Credit to Butler! he doesn’t even know how the playoffs work.

    You win games. That’s about it!

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    in reply to: Ode to Embuggerance #318517
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    It would seem that you have far too much time on your hands already!

    in reply to: Non-League Football Comedy #318469
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    Not a patch on Mike Basset fighting with Scunny Bunny!

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    Now we’ve got him back ffs play him

    Start him up front, central… he’ll have a point to prove.

    With Roberts right and Jones left?

    Sounds great if we play the ball quickly to feet or into the space. But of late we’ve been punting it aimlessly upfield from the back.

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