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another fed up fan wrote:

Nothing but admiration for those who have travelled twice hopefully rewarded with a decent showing
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Photo shoot of the crowd, salute these great supporters on the web site / programme?

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Weekend away?

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Life was so much simpler back in the 60s 70s 80s

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Yet conceded more than one goal away from home on just the one occasion.

Spit(mis)fires 1-2 (Hard as cast) Iron

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Simply for reference purposes to give an indication as to how the ‘professionals’ see the potential outcomes.

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Tuesday 21st October

Eastleigh 1-2 Scunthorpe

They’ve only kept one clean sheet from six home games.

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64 wrote:

Evans fault this one.

Agreed.

Having said everything:
Still only lost one in the league.
Joint third lowest goals conceded.
6th most goals scored.

We think we’ve got it bad?

Poor old Aldershot; joint second highest scorers in the league on 28 goals, just one behind Carlisle… yet, they’ve conceded 33 goals, sitting in 19th place on just 13 points from 15 games.
They’ve scored more goals than league leaders Rochdale!

I think we’re doing fine.
Mistakes happen – let’s not crucify the players.
They are doing better than we expected.
Well done AB, staff & players!
UTI

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Starbuck was in advance of the sneaky throw in.
Benehouan continues to worry me.
Evans major faux pas!
Benehouan could have had a second bite at the cherry but he’s flat footed, too slow and doesn’t close down.
Rory, unsighted, makes a good save.
Fortune didn’t favour him (Rory) and it ricochets to their guy.
Horton thought he’d heard a Who? He arrives on the scene with the sweet trolly. Main course already served and digested.

I can’t apportion blame to Rory.
The back four have to stand up and be counted.

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An off day and currently fourth in the table (Carlisle 2-1 FGR at the moment)
We’re in the mix!

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Top 7 finish odds – Fri 17th Oct:

Forest Green 1/16
Rochdale 1/14
York City 1/10
Carlisle 1/7
Scunthorpe 1/4
Southend 1/3
Boreham Wood 1/2
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Halifax 5/2

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Rene Artois wrote:

Boston 1-2 Iron

I’m going Pilgrims 0-2 Iron now.

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6 points.
Boston 0-2 Iron
Eastleigh 1-2 Iron

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Halloween, Bonfire night, Black Friday, Christmas… expensive time of year.

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Plymiron wrote:

Anyone know a good hotel in Blackpool. UTI

Black Swann or summat?

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From the King’s Lynn thread:

I had a very strong feeling that it’d possibly be Blackpool.

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Awaywego wrote:

Tad expectant on the crowd there lads their highest crowd up to now is 2200.
And they’ve only given us 650 tickets.

3,865 is their record attendance at the Jakeman.
A heavy party / nights drinking for me when I posted… a tad carried away.

I’ll still go for a 2-1 win to the Iron with a crowd of 2,650

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Solution?

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How some react to our ‘goalkeeper crisis’… the dynamic duo need to enter the arena wearing cheekpieces, eye shields, a visor, blinkers, a hood and a tongue strap :-)

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80 balls.
Blackpool, Notts County, Gainsborough, Tamworth away.
1/20 chance of one of those being drawn.

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Awaywego wrote:

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Not sure on that, he’s seen the NL cup games which hasn’t worked.
Needed a stronger line up from the start which I wanted in the first post.
But credit for not being stubborn and doing the big change at halftime,

hopefully another lesson [not? (RA inserted) ] learned,

and I can see he has learned overall and I am liking that.

Iron v Cumbrians starting X1 ?

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Get out of jail card played.

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2 games on the spin – 2 of our best players on the bench.
So, AB hasn’t learnt the lesson.
For me, you’ve got to start every game with your strongest X1.

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Iron 3-0 Lynn

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Deereyme66 wrote:

No reason to believe they will score more than one (does anyone?), and I foresee at least two goals from us. 2-1 Iron.

You were correct about them only scoring the one goal

Our two goals were both sat on the bench at kick off… Dan & Dec!

I’m sure AB will have learnt a valuable lesson – start with your strongest available 11.

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Northumbiron

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H Carlisle 0‑1 L
A York 3‑1 W
A Southend 2‑0 W
H Boreham Wood 1‑1 D
H Truro City 4‑0 W
A Forest Green 1‑1 D
H Wealdstone 2‑1 W
A Brackley 1‑1 D
H FC Halifax 1‑1 D
A Sutton Utd 3‑2 W
H Woking 3‑1 W
A Tamworth 2‑1 W

One defeat in 12 games – and that was today’s 0-1 defeat after going down to 10 men in the 40th minute.

I’d like a Ferrari (not really)… but I can’t afford one.

AB & the boys are doing brilliantly.

Scunthorpe UNITED.

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3rd best defence in the league.
Only conceded 10 goals in 12 games.
Only conceded more than a single goal in just one game – and that was in a 3-2 away win.
We have a budget.
The team is exceeding most people’s expectations.
Let’s celebrate the team’s & AB’s successes.
Nobody is perfect and everyone in every walk of life makes mistakes or perceived mistakes.
Scunthorpe UNITED.

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It’s a funny old game. FGR also lost their unbeaten start today; going down 0-1 at home to Rochdale.
Put that game to bed and move on to the next one.

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Northumbiron wrote:

Bit of player rotation going on. Dec and Dan only on the bench. Rowley not in the squad.

Zoiks!
I’m sure AB knows what he’s doing.

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Promotion last season.
A 53.85% win rate whilst in post.
What more does AB have to do to convince people?

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Andy Butler 53.85% win rate at Scunny.

Mark Hughes 41.95% win rate at Carlisle.

Has a little of the ‘Adkins Magic’ rubbed off on to Andy?

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