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He’ll be difficult to forget if he keeps scoring for them.

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Scunthorpe 17/20
Draw 27/10
Sutton 5/2

It should be a home win.

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Iron 2-0 Sutton

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Bhuna5

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Rene Artois wrote:

Howe About That Stan? A Round Peg In A Round Hole!

A cracking goal!

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He scored a cracking goal for Alty yesterday!
If Whitehall goes in the summer – will Stan deploy him as his No 9 next season?
Is Dec on a 2 year contract?

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Bhuna5

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I’d wager the pitch will be done on the cheap and it won’t be much of an improvement next season. I hope I’m wrong. Mr Colby & his gang did a great job back in the day. Such a shame it’s in the mess that it’s in now.

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Bhuna5

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Howe About That Stan? A Round Peg In A Round Hole!

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Rene Artois wrote:

10 of the 19 games have being won by a 1 goal margin.
5 games ended in draws.

15/19 have had tight outcomes.

It’ll be a tight scrappy game.

I’ve seen a 0-1 and a 1-2 AI prediction for the game… we’d be happy with either!

0-3… tight & scrappy… lol

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Bravo!

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10 of the 19 games have being won by a 1 goal margin.
5 games ended in draws.

15/19 have had tight outcomes.

It’ll be a tight scrappy game.

I’ve seen a 0-1 and a 1-2 AI prediction for the game… we’d be happy with either!

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Bhuna5

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1-1 is the shortest price.

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Should We Perhaps Go More Direct?

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A strange evening.

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Terrific thread with many great posts.

Predicted final table:

“Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory… lasts forever.” – The Replacement.

Step up to the plate guys!

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SODIron

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Deereyme66 wrote:

That was a cracking run and goal from Howe yesterday, for sure.

Brackley 0-2 Altrincham … Dec’s Goal

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Deereyme66 wrote:

What’s the C&B?

The CAB is the Citizens Advice Bureau.
They advise recalling Dec and playing him as an out & out No 9.

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No problems encountered by Dan with his Ram here last night.

A 9pm kick off and a finish just after 11pm meant that Dan could Ram a whatever he wanted down his neck before or after the game.

Local Derby – oppo are only half an hour down the road.

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Balanced budget (hopefully) no debt (hopefully) top 7 finish (hopefully)

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Bhuna5

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At least we didn’t lose.
We’ll come good again.
We won’t be promoted this season – however, we’ve laid down a great foundation to build upon for next season

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Did you listen to their commentary Rene?

No, listened to the C&B.

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Dec scored today in Altrincham’s 2-0 win at Brackley.

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I’m still sticking with 1-1

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4-4-2
A big un & a quick un up top.
Or, 2 quick uns on point.

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Sanfran49 wrote:

At the time it was a stupid decision to let him go for next to nothing.

Play players in THEIR position and not the role they get given in failed formations.

ABSOLUTELY!

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Awaywego wrote:

“When Saturday comes”

Not watched that in ages… may give it an airing tonight.

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Yeah, he’s frustrated and I get the feeling that he believes the average supporter doesn’t understand the mammoth job on his hands
His hands are tied, we’ve always being a BB&S club and will continue to be so.
He’s done a magnificent job with the lack of finances & facilities at his disposal
Bravo Stan!
We’re performing better than we expected.
We’ll finish higher than we predicted.
The current run / form is a glitch… all clubs hit a dodgy spot at some point in the season. Except maybe York? Their bad runs occurred in Sept & Oct… two draws on the bounce on both occasions :-)

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“Ambition” – didn’t the Swannster initially have that… didn’t end well.

“Sensible wage budget” – wins you nowt in modern football. You need owners with very very big pockets and even bigger egos. It’s all about money, money, money!

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Deereyme66 wrote:

If we struggled in league 2, which would be highly likely, I can’t see where much extra gate revenue would come from, bar a few obvious bigger away followings, and given our home attendance may well drop with a lowly league position.

The gate receipts aren’t going to be that much different.
Higher level of football = higher entry fee? Times are tough, put the entry fee up too much and it could price some out of attending.

We are also attracting higher crowds now than when we were in L2.
Better to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond?

Additionally, the EFL money at L2 level ain’t nowt to write home about.
TV money? How many times are L2 teams broadcast a season? 1… 2… ?
You’d imagine the money all goes to the home team?
Do less turn up to watch live if it’s on TV?

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Rene Artois wrote:

For anyone who may be interested in tomorrow evenings game:

Tamworth v Alty on Radio Alty

Apologies guys. The silly website I looked at stated that they were playing tonight (Wednesday).
Two players sent off (54th & 57th min) last night. Only 1-0 down when the first was dismissed.

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Bhuna5 wrote:

some are saying, scunthorpe do not want promotion to league 2 as they cannot afford it…

The age old dilemma. Promotion = larger squad, increased wage demands, higher playing costs.
Attendances wouldn’t rise enough to cover the increase in player numbers and subsequent wage bill.
So, what do you do?

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