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I don’t think Solihull are as bad as their current league position may suggest.

They had a penalty saved when it was 0-0.
Moors scored first.
The Southend crossbar was rattled once.
In the 92nd minute, at 1-2 down; their keeper went up for a corner.
Southend cleared, broke and had a tap in to an empty goal.

Match highlights

Dyer says that they didn’t have any control of the game; that they didn’t win any second balls and that Solihull pressed & closed throughout. He also mentions that Moors went direct and basically they couldn’t or found it difficult to deal with.

Dyer reflects

Ok Solihull may have lost all 3 of their opening games.
However, they’ve lost to the teams in first, third and sixth place.

Yesterday, they had more shots at goal [18 v 12] than Southend and more on target [7 v 5] than the Shrimpers.

Friday ain’t going to be a walk in the park!

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Solihull had 18 shots at goal against Southend. Seven were on target.
They managed something we didn’t against them – score a goal.

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The six games:

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Official National League stats:

Iron v Yeovil – 4 shots, 2 were on target. Drew 1-1

Iron v Southend (A) – 4 shots, 1 on target. Lost 1-0

Iron v Eastleigh (A) – 15 shots, 5 on target. Lost 3-2

Well, they must have worked on shooting during the week?

Neglected the defending – lol.

Remember when Shilton was playing? All you ever used to constantly hear was ‘away!, away!, away!’

We need a big vocal keeper who can command his box and instill confidence in his back four!

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WHAMS one an hour on the hour was pretty shambolic.
Not much quality there if my memory serves?
The six he brought in on that Thursday were absolutely awful.
DSF being the ‘best’ of a very, very bad bunch that day.

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ironfromafar wrote:

shite

Butler out .., signings have not been too shabby bu he can not use the personal hes signed hes clueless

Jacob in until can get now out ov work York guy Maynard in to join Butterfield .

Good shout on Maynard.
However; I’m sure he’d want more than Stan is on – then, we’d still have to keep shelling out for Stan’s seeds & plants for his garden each week.

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I concur!
That’d be ‘fantastic’ – annoys me how everything is ‘fantastic’ with the kids of today.

Phone the Doctors.
What’s your date of birth?
Reply ‘123123’
“FANTASTIC!”

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Played 3
Won 3

Top of the League!

[To the Shrimper guys]
Keep on keeping on guys!

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Apollo11 wrote:

Butler is unlikely to last the season, in my opinion, and I’d be mildly surprised if he’s still here at Christmas. Before they’ve even had time to work out where they are, the board is going to have a decision to make.

They’ve no money.
Cheap option.
They’ll keep him – else they’ll be paying two ‘managers’.
One that shouts gobbledegook on a Saturday.
One that shouts at the pigeons to keep them off of his veg plot.

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Keep it cheap. Keep it afloat.
NLN … ok, cheaper wages.
Not my mantra – theirs.

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Iron-awe wrote:

Oh dear AB in for it now there will be some proper hissy fits on here tonight

Oh dear – we lost then.
I was just about to ‘tune in’ to see how it’s going.
Forgot it was an early kick off.
England ‘trying’ to play today?
I could search… but can’t be arsed!

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I find watching any football pretty boring, unless it’s Hercules CF (Alicante) the noisy boys (multi drummers, horns, fan pa (leading the sing songs), the botar, the abuse! Oh the abuse; it’s on a different level to annything in the UK… and the rinsing they give any returning former players playing for the opposition!
Unbelievable atmosphere!

I like a little side ‘interest’ bet and enjoy trying to guess the outcome… to try and ‘spice’ it up.

Just me, set in my ways I guess.

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Awaywego wrote:

It really won’t Rene doubt whether anyone else gives a flying f.
All the predictions unless prediction leagues for a prize are utter bollocks and meaningless, even more annoying is when people name the scorers and even more annoying is the idiots who give a bloody time ffs, I always when asked what’s the score gonna be i say 3-0 quick easy and easily moved on to talk about something else.
Used to bet 3-0 every week at one bit then it’s just a matter of time till it pays out, best season I had was 8 wins, I think anyway.

Eight 3 nils … thumbs up icon

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Talk to yourself Rene :-)

La Vuelta starts today.

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Available at between 7/1 to 9/1 depending upon the bookmaker.

Not encouraging anyone to uptake this or any bet.
Just as a point of reference.

Be interesting to see the profit / loss on their predictions at seasons end (£1 stake each time).

Currently = Minus £2

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If we win today (IF) then we will be 1-1-1 and on 4 points and more than likely mid-table.

Things will not be looking so gloomy then.

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Historically speaking, I believe part-time were ‘amateurs’ and full time were ‘professionals’?

As all in the NL are full-time these days and some with a very decent ‘budget’ – ain’t it about time the Prem & EFL bunged the NL a big fat juicy manila envelope and ‘bought’ the NL off of them?

EFL L3

4 up, 4 down to remove the bottle neck and facilitate the aspirations of ambitious clubs?

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Has the season started for your boys over there IFA?

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25 (?) players this (2026-27) season?

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This level outside of the EFL is no longer non-league, as all the teams are full time “professional” [ ;-) ] outfits.

It’s EFL L3 in all but name.

“Make it so No 1” – JL Picard

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Bishops Finger wrote:

It is ai slop

Agreed!
Far too dark & dismal.
Poor layout.

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Let’s hope that there’s no back stick Tom foolery today.
You don’t (in a way) mind conceding to a worldly… but to sub schoolboy defending is criminal.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Correct he won’t

I’d guess Captain & Vice are bombproof?

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Top level football is not crazy.
Do you feel better now? :-)

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Rene Artois wrote:

Levi would add some bite, passion & desire to our midfield.

Are you sure? 30 appearances in 3 years for Harrogate?

I should have perhaps looked before posting.
Injuries? Out of favour? Not good enough?

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Levi would add some bite, passion & desire to our midfield.

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alcazar wrote:

I’ll see Deerey’s daft one, and raise him 3-0 Eastleigh.

Are we that bad?

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25p on 4-4 anyone? … returns £100.25p

As Les Dennis used to kind of say “if it’s that… I’ll give you the money myself!”

:-)

On a more serious note.
9/2 for the 1-1 draw is possibly the shortest price I’ve ever seen for that match score on one of our games.

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Get those Enhanced DBS checks done!

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Campbell
Starbuck Howe Evans Horton
Jones Rowley Butterfield Beestin
Howe Gale

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Hayfever_Iron wrote:

Rene Artois wrote:

MK Iron wrote:

ironfromafar wrote:

Speculate all you want one line ups but Butler is arrogant and more clueless ..

I have to ask why the feck he started with 3 of his back 4 out of position?

Does he pick the team using a dice?

Magic Robot picks the team :-)

It’s a well known fact that the team is picked using Tarot cards.

Don’t blame Butler, blame neo-occulltism.

Our luck will change and things will come together half way through September.

Do the cards reveal any particular year?

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