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Let’s hope we’re going out to score rather than to stop them scoring?

Gk Campbell

Rb Rose
Cb Evans
Cb Boyce
Lb Denton

Rm CR10
Cm Ewing
Cm Beestin
Lm Eze

Cf Whitehall
Cf Howe

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One to keep an eye on?:

Real Bedford FC

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Tamworth’s pre-season friendlies:

LICHFIELD CITY 0-1 TAMWORTH
QUORN 1-1 TAMWORTH
WORKSOP TOWN 0-3 TAMWORTH
BANBURY UTD 0-1 TAMWORTH
TAMWORTH 0-2 BARROW
TAMWORTH 3-2 STOKE U21
TAMWORTH 5-0 FLEETWOOD TOWN U21
TAMWORTH 3-0 ASTON VILLA U21
LEAMINGTON 2-1 TAMWORTH

[Capitals, apologies – copy & paste-ish]

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Awaywego wrote:

Ain’t bet in years on footy, are they paying places Rene and if so how many.

I’ll stick place odds up tomorrow.
Apparently there has been a lot of bets on Boston to secure a place – third highest bet selection / placement in the NL.

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The opening day results of last season’s promoted newbies to the NL:

Oldham 3-0 Braintree (17)
(18) Yeovil 0-1 Hartlepool
(19) Boston 0-3 Rochdale
(10) Tamworth 1-1 Sutton

Finishing positions are in brackets.

A point will be a great result on Saturday.

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Awaywego wrote:

FourFourTwo have us down to finish 8th in the league, I’ll be disappointed if we just miss out on the playoffs if they’re correct.
But will do all the same.

Matches the bookies thoughts:

York City 7/4
Carlisle 11/4

Forest Green 8/1
Rochdale 12/1
Southend 14/1

Hartlepool 33/1
Scunthorpe 40/1

Gateshead 50/1
Sutton United 50/1
Altrincham 50/1
Halifax 50/1
Tamworth 50/1

Morecambe 66/1
Solihull Moors 66/1
Woking 66/1
Yeovil 66/1

Boston Utd 80/1
Eastleigh 80/1

Aldershot 100/1
Braintree Town 100/1

Wealdstone 200/1

Brackley Town 250/1
Boreham Wood 250/1
Truro City 250/1

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Tour de Poland started today.
The 82nd edition.
Only 8 stages.
A mere 1,075km.
This is the 28th event of this year’s UCI World Tour.

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Tamworth 11/10
Draw 24/10
Scunthorpe 22/10

[Sun 3rd Aug]

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Rene Artois wrote:

Lost at home 0-3 against Tamworth a couple of weeks ago.

Worksop 0-3 Tamworth
Worksop 1-1 Scunthorpe

Hopefully, we’re ready for the off next week?

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Rene Artois wrote:

Underwhelming might be an over exaggeration?

We’ll get a shock when we come up against the NL teams if this is the standard / level of prep!

Sat, Jul 12th – Cleethorpes (A) – 2pm
Tue, Jul 15th – Crowle (A) – 7pm
Sat, Jul 19th – Gainsborough (A) – TBC
Sat, Aug 2nd – Worksop Town (A) – 3pm

So, where are we now?

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Awaywego wrote:

We where only told yesterday that we had the fanbase.

Championship 2010-11 ave Att: 5,548
NLN 2024-25 ave Att: 4,117
We have a limited fan base.

We had a bigger average attendance than all but 3 clubs in the NL last season.

We did

We had the income from said attendance.

Directors subsidising to the tune of £65k a month?

We have a squad that is now deemed big enough to compete in another cup that we didn’t have to enter.

A ‘competition’ to give game time to the ‘B’ players who aren’t featuring weekly in NL games.

Those games will be better than drop of the hat behind closed doors friendlies for the ‘stiffs’

We have a wage cap that allowed us to keep Whitehall and Roberts.

the same that allows the majority of ‘supporters’ to flail our keepers and as the season progresses, a few more players, in public stocks.

The two keepers are experiencing all the fun of the fair – but only as Aunt Sally!

Can’t really remember ever having ‘our’ club.

True – but there appears to be issues with allowing the Trust to purchase shares.

In house ‘fighting’ (directors), FC1M, Trust etc

It looks as if we will never become a community owned self sufficient entity?

We are in the NL and no one should expect world beaters

Yet people berate the ‘budgetary’ players that we have on the books.

I will give is forgiveness when the team go out and put in and give 100% but end up not getting a result

Blood, sweat & tears and everyone is ‘happy’ – you can’t give more than your best.

We can forever carry that boulder up the mountain it’s what most football clubs do.

And yet we were possibly hours away from being a non-entity.
We can’t allow that to happen again

On surviving relegation you’ve set the bar to low, that will affect the attendance and the income, mid table would be ok but let’s push on.

I’m only saying that it’s job done if we escape relegation to the NLN – hopefully we have a solid mid table consolidating season. Something to build on for the following season.

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Mat Lock is the incoming Right Back from Brusheya Doormouse AFC.

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unity iron wrote:

Terrace are reportedly taking 7.5% from every shirt sale out of the club’s pocket and have recently threatened to sue the Iron Trust.

Fanbase, who the club announced today are now taking over 5% of all ticket sales.

And with debt spiralling out of control again…

Is it?
How do you know?

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Young Rams v Iron

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U21s? U18s?

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Sky Sports Report

Non League Paper Report

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Unfortunately Deportiva Ceuta Fútbol Club were promoted to the Segunda (equivalent Championship) at the end of last season. We will be playing in Primera RFEF 1 (equivalent L1) again this year.

However, if we end up in the same league in 26/27, then this’ll make for an interesting journey to an away game… lol.
620km from Alicante to Algeciras. (London – Edinburgh 650km)

A Spanish league game on the African continent.

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First 10 games in 2024-25 of the newly promoted teams:

Tamworth 14pts
Yeovil 13pts
Boston 9pts
Braintree 7pts

I’m thinking 9pts for us.
Hopefully I’m very wrong and we tally double that figure.

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Looking at the fixtures, it’s a difficult opening 10 games.
I have a points figure in mind but don’t want to appear to be too negative.

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All hail the king:

Stage 21 Winner:

What a stage!
What a TdF!

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lesgeo wrote:

Well. I know that Rene and you know that and most contributors to Bru know that …

Let’s hope AB knows that.

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Level 9 … 0-3 Level 5

AB should know his starting X1 now.
Hopefully he’ll deploy them for the remaining two fixtures allowing them to complete a full match.
The next 2 games need to be undertaken as if they were league games.

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Fri, Jul 4th – Bottesford 4-0 W
Tue, Jul 8th – App Frod 2-3 L
Sat, Jul 12th – Cleethorpes 4-2 W
Tue, Jul 15th – Alfreton 2-1 W
Sat, Jul 19th – Gainsborough 0-1 L
Tue, July 22nd – Skegness 3-0 W

Sat, July 26th – Spennymoor
Sat, Aug 2nd – Worksop Town

You’d think AB would start these last 2 PSFs with his first X1 and treat them as proper games – only using subs if there’s an injury, performance or tactical reason?

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hairlikecammack wrote:

One thing is for sure, they will put pressure on the keeper with crosses and long throws into the box

Mr Tonks

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1-0… Roberts penalty.

Dakin has hit the post for them.

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Skeg 2-4 Scun

Dakin & Johnson

Eze, Carlton, Howe, Roberts

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Slick vid.
Shirt – my views are irrelevant as we’ll be playing in it.
Designer – anchor?
BDSM connotations?
Next kit – perhaps a fan vote?

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Agreed. There’s obviously a ‘plan’; however, when you are existing on the bread line and living hand to mouth… it can be a struggle just putting the next meal on the table – let alone a banquet for the knights & squires of the manor.

Communication, feedback, transparency, inclusivity etc all needs to improve.

If we still have debt, tell us. Tell us the debt, the amount, to whom and the estimated fulfillment date of that debt. We’re all adults, we manage our own finances, households & investments. We won’t judge. We understand.

Information = understanding = empathy

If we know we are skint, then we lower our expectation levels – not of effort & commitment but of the squad size & capabilities of players we acquire.

It’s a two way street. We give, we need something back… communication & information – and a gut full of effort on the pitch.

If a player leaves their heart & soul on the pitch every game – then you can’t ask for anymore than that!

UTI

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ironfromafar wrote:

MK Iron wrote:

apb wrote:

Can’t have been that bad – Wrexham, Donny and York were all more than happy to have him.

Look at their league standings currently and their collective promotion records over that period.

Tenuous argument given he never got a game with either Donny or Wrexham. In fact his injury cover games for York are the only games he has ever had at a full time professional club apart from the Iron – and York have just shipped him out for the season without recall.

Looks like they have a better back up option.

On the evidence of my eyes and many games for the Iron he does make some great saves but he is poor with crosses, nervous with the ball at his feet and piss poor at distribution.

It wouldn’t be quite so scary if Maison had shown he was any better.

I predict neither will be first choice by Christmas.

With the fickle mentality of football clubs to sack managers nowadays whose to say AB might not be here by Christmas if it goes pear shaped early.

(just having a Jeff Pugh moment) ..onnee kiddin Jeff if you read Bru

Debt (?)
Budget
No mega millionaire proprietors
Cheap option
AB – medium term guardian
He’ll be here for a while – even if we were relegated; which, we won’t be.

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