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Apologies, just looked at the official site. I want to know how somebody who works from home can leave a job for “family reasons”?

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Who is he/was he?

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One of the things I like about Roberts is that in the time he has been with us I feel that he has become more of a team player. A reason why AB has made him club VC? It may be part of his/the teams game plan to get the ball into the danger area quicker, rather than shoot speculatively from distance, especially now we have a goal poacher like Howe

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There are a couple of Fans with Tourette‘s Syndrome in that stand, I’ve seen them with their carer who struggles to keep them quite during a minutes silence.

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There are a couple of Fans with Tourette‘s Syndrome in the Moritz, I’ve seen them with their carer who struggles to keep them quite during a minutes silence.

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Well done Joey Dawson! This doubting Thomas delighted to eat Humble pie this evening. The next 4 games will show us exactly where we are in this division. Glad that we have defenders coming back ( JB should have completed his head injury protocol by Wednesday) and Whitehall is being nursed through. Happy days !

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Well that’s a bit of a shocker, selection wise. No Captain dependable, presumably Starbuck is at CB with Scales at RB. Whitehall on the bench (expected)but Joey Dawson starting!!! I never saw that coming, like most I thought he would be toddling off on loan next week for a bit of game time elsewhere. Personally I would have thought Carlton and TSF were above him in the Striker pecking order. Anyone else any thoughts on this?

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I could cope with Carlton instead of TSF. What I couldn’t cope with is Beck as his style of play slows us down. Truro have only just gone full time professional. They are still learning the ropes to that. As an added handicap, their away games involve substantial travelling so even coming up today they will be a bit leggy. We need to attack with pace, and their defence and defensive midfielders need to be running around like the proverbial blue bottomed flies! If we play at a high pace and press , then they will crumble. Play at Becks pace and they will get something from the game!

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If you follow the Mantra, Attack is the Best form of defence, then, to a certain extent, having a couple of just about OK GK’s fighting it out for the number 1 slot should be fine this year if we are considering mid table safety the aim. However attack is only our best form of defence when we have our best 10 outfielders on the pitch and our scoring/creative 4 of Roberts, Whitehall, Ewing and Howe are on the pitch. What contributors are highlighting is that the GK’s and back up strike force /creative midfielders are nowhere good enough to sustain a promotion challenge and should long term injury rob us of one of the creative 4, we could struggle to survive outside the relegation places!

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I did mean Chadwick, apologies.

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AB is right to seek new signings. Both the substitutions during league games and the NLN games show that we have 14 decent outfield players. We are particularly struggling for a back up holding and a back up creative midfielder, as well as options up front with Carlton struggling for form. Dreze and Chapman can’t cut it and I would send them back. Beck, Brogan and Dawsonh don’t provide with options either!

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Each team is allowed 3 opportunities during play to make substitutions. Half time does not count towards the 3 opportunities. If extra time is played in a game a sixth substitute is allowed! Teams are also permitted a concussion substitute ( a 7th in an extra time game) but the opposition are permitted a further substitute to square things up.

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I don’t think you can ever score to early, but it can change a teams mindset. For the team a goal up away from home, shall we stick with what we’ve got ( a fatal error with 80+ minutes to play) for the team a goal behind , we need to be more attack minded ( which can leave them open to counterattack!).

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What I would do if on the NL Board

1. Back the Referees decision in both games.
2. Given the late suspension of play in both games, Reinstate the results at the times of suspension as the final results and declare both fixtures completed ( Starbuck and Horton have thus served their disciplinary suspensions).
3. Refer any disciplinary action to the relevant committee for further consideration. This effectively separates any punishment on Wealdstone for not completing the fixture from the result of the game and allows them to plead mitigating circumstances for the mental health of their players in not completing the fixture. Any fine or points deduction is then mitigated in accordance with their supporting evidence.

This creates a split between what happened at Eastleigh (Referee Abandonment) and against Wealdstone (Refusal to obey Ref’s instruction to play). It sends a message to all clubs that getting a game called off won’t necessarily get you a replay and more importantly, ignoring the Ref’s instructions will lead to punishment beyond the points played for on the day. A Fine and a 3 point deduction should effectively take this play out of the Gamesmanship manual.

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For those that are interested, it was a “meat” pie. I use inverted coma’s because we have all experienced Football ground catering where the amount of meat can be questionable as to both quantity and animal of origin! I remember thinking that the Southend catering outlet had missed a trick not serving Jellied Eels. I recall having Black pudding and Mushy Peas at Bury!

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The National league have to act fast on this one, certainly before the York and Rochdale game on Tuesday evening, or a whole new area of “gamesmanship” has come into being. Leaving aside the decisions on our 2 suspended games, the league have to give guidance to Referees and Clubs on the following:
1. When a player stays down injured. When should a referee stop the game?
2. Who makes the initial assessment of the injury? The injured players club physio or the Match Doctor
3. Who makes the decision to treat the player on the pitch? Who makes the decision to move them off?
4. Once the player is off the pitch, what are the expectations on the behaviour of the remaining players?
5. In what circumstances should a referee abandon a game?
What sanctions will be placed on clubs who fail to follow protocol?

Of course, having done this, the league will then have to draw up a protocol concerning spectators. Far to many games are interrupted because of “medical emergencies” in the crowd!

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Well, when the league finally gets round to considering our suspended games then if they decide the Eastleigh game must be replayed , then Wealdstone will almost certainly argue that today’s should be as well. You could not make this shit up!

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I wonder. Just because the referee didn’t make the decision doesn’t mean that Wealdstone did. There is an England game tonight. Maybe all fixtures have to be finished by the time it kicks off and those that can’t be are abandoned! Then again, I could be talking Bollocks as Aldershot and Brackley Kicked off at 5.30!

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With regards to Eastleigh, League Management committee should have met as soon as it was known that both players involved were recovering. A decision should have been made regarding the status of the result, even if players were referred to the disciplinary committee for consideration. We would then have known how many future games we would be without Starbuck and Horton. It would also have put a stop to today’s shenanagans, as it would be clear and crystal what the situation re abandonment would be.

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I have always liked AB. First met him in the queue for a pie in the away end at Southend on a wet Tuesday night many years ago ( when he was travelling with the squad but not in the matchday selection). He spoke eloquently about pies! As people say, he seems clever enough, he has a football brain and when he tempers his bright ideas to fit the squad he has to work with (5 at the back!), he will be a very good manager!

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I think we are 5 at the back tonight with Chadwick and Denton as wing backs and Robert’s in the “hole” behind Carlton and DW.

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As commented in several posts by many contributors, our players appear to be more committed this season, throwing themselves in front of shots and passes to achieve blocks and disrupt the opposition. I think this sort of game lends itself to the sort of “knocks” we have been seeing. Makes me proud of the team to see them all putting their bodies on the line as they put in their “shift”.

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Back in the John Gayle days , Forrester and Eyre were both looking for his knock and flicks forward, while Alex was looking for his hold up passes back into midfield. Teams found it very difficult to play against. 25 years on and I think today’s footballer is looking for the ball to feet, and that’s the way they are taught to play.

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Given the injuries, I’m not optimistic about today. A decent crowd, but A poor game, a draw or a single goal defeat

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I find it strange that Fitz’s howler for the Chester goal in the play off final is never mentioned. I’d presumed because we won. Thus, While we are winning I’m prepared to extend the same goodwill to Campbell.

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I’m favouring a draw 1-1 Robert’s to score.

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Just read the BBC update. Football debts ( and HMRC) have been paid and the club is signing players. They are not hanging about!!

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Morecambe have 5 players under contract. They have 8 that extension deals were activated, but not fulfilled as wages for July were not paid. Two of these players found other clubs. I presume that as the wages for July and probably August have been paid by the new owners these players have returned to training. Training was suspended at the end of July because the insurance ran out. Presumably that has now been paid by the new owners. The club had a number of young players on youth details and I presume they to have returned to training. Thus without resorting to loans or free agent signings the club could fulfil its fixture on Saturday from within its own resources. That said no club trading took place in August until Monday or Tuesday. On presumes that, being professionals, the players did there own training runs and gym work and so in theory , are match fit. However, it’s a new manager( who presumes has watched videos from last season of the players in action) who will not have had time to coach the team into the style he wishes to play. Thus an “undercooked” team including a few young debutees will take to the field on Saturday. That said, they will get tremendous support from a bumper gate of the faithful. Logic says that Morecambe should lose, but it’s football and who knows!
Morecambe’s punishment for their infringement of league rules will be announced after the appropriate “hanging committee” has met. It is likely to be a points deduction and a transfer embargo until all football related and HMRC related debt is settled. Given the depth of Panjab Warriors (The new owners) pockets this will take a lot less time than it took to settle our debt. Then they will make some quality signings to improve the squad. As I’ve said in a previous thread. We need to play the postponed fixture asap. The “high” of being saved will carry them through a few games and then the grind of it all will put pressure on an inexperienced squad, especially away from home. Morecambe will be a different proposition in the New Year!

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Boy, that’s a brutally honest assessment! Wonder if AB would be this forthcoming. Not taking away anything from the Iron performance, you still have to beat whoever turns up to play, and we certainly did that. Possibly if Woking were as shite as Ardlet believes, we should have had a couple more!

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Decision time at Morecambe. A new manager, who does not know the squad, and a squad with only 9/10 experienced professionals, the rest being youth team (or if they can sign them in time) former Triallists if they play the game in front of a bumper crowd or postpone and take a few more points deduction. I’d play I think.

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