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GK Campbell

RWB Ogle
CH Boyce
CH Evans
LWB Kelly

HM Pugh
RM Ferris
CM Butterfield
LM Wilson

CF Whitehall
CF Fitzsimons

Throw the kitchen sink at em!

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Nuff said.

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Games played to date against teams occupying places 3rd to 7th in the league:

P7 W3 D1 L3 GF 9 GA 7

Iron 4-1 Scarborough

Chester 2-0 Iron

Brackley 2-0 Iron
Iron 1-0 Brackley

Chorley 1-1 Iron
Iron 3-0 Chorley

Curzon 1-0 Iron

It’s a lottery!

At the moment, you’d hope to meet Chorley in the SF.

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NLN Champions (31st Jan):

Tamworth: 2/7
Scunthorpe: 5/2

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Amended:
Head: 1-1
Heart: 1-0
Gut: 0-1

They need a week recuperating at Club Tropicana!
Heads are sheds!

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At this level, formations are pretty irrelevant.
It’s 11 v 11 on a fixed size pitch.
It’s a game of running.
Running to get back and behind your opponent when they’ve got the ball.
Running forward in support, on overlaps, in to space and getting beyond your opponent when we’ve got the ball.
If you don’t run and don’t work hard enough – then you’ll be inviting pressure on to you and not creating any outlets.
You’ve got to run further & faster than your opponent, win more challenges, win more headers, have more shots, make more successful passes.
It ain’t rocket science.

Mentally, our players are shot now.
Jimbob doesn’t have the technical & tactical knowledge to get the best out of them on the pitch – and he certainly isn’t qualified as a psychologist to sort their heads out and transform them in to Spartans

How things are shaping up, the play off game/s will be a David v Goliath event… we know how that ended.

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Gurnelista wrote:

SODIron wrote:

That said, sacking JD when you’re second in the table is probably a little extreme, would be seen by most football pundits as a knee-jerk reaction, and would likely be out-of-character for the new board. We have to remember, Tamworth are on an incredible run of results and are top because they are winning every match they are playing.

Most teams have a bad spell during the season. If we can get over ours and have a storming finish with a day out at Wembley…

The Final isn’t played at Wembley.
Highlights of last seasons final:

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The problem is, our ‘play’ is all in front of the opposition… easy to negate.
We don’t have anyone who gets down the sides or behind.
Pace kills.

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Can we afford to (£)
Can we afford not to (non promotion)
It’s a double edged sword.

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A lot of people thought that we should have commissioned Admiral Nelson for the voyage in to and return from the abyss.
There was a strong aroha for the young sea pup.

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At the beginning of the season it was fortress Glanford Park, the impregnable citadel of iron – now it’s more Thornton’s Glanford Park, made of chocolate which melts when the heat is on.

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We’d all like a Sierra Cosworth but all we can afford is an Austin Mini Metro.

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The yokels be sharpening their pitch forks.

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They silenced us last night!

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The Oedipus effect is shaping our season.

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Anyone else got a bad feeling about this?

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Rene Artois wrote:

sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

Tuesday the 30th.

Jimbob, our “Puppet Master” will be pulling the strings as we start to “Klaw” our way back to the top of the table!

Things ain’t so “(Ben) Grimm”

Jimbob’s more like Fingerbob.
As effective as a football manager as Basil Fawlty was as a hotel manager.

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Rene Artois wrote:

sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

Tuesday the 30th.

Fingers crossed that there’s no Storm Sue or Storm Johnny or even a “Hyperstorm” (Sue & Reeds grandson) battering the AA next Tuesday.

A couple or eleventeen (Worzel) of you may have me down as “Doctor Doom” but don’t be fooled by that “Fas(s)aud”… I’m just an aging “Silver Surfer” who wants us to be “Victorious” in every game.
Come tomorrow, and there are just Four Fantastic days to go until we battle the “Galactus” known as Tamworth.

Jimbob, our “Puppet Master” will be pulling the strings as we start to “Klaw” our way back to the top of the table!

Things ain’t so “(Ben) Grimm”

“It’s clobbering time!”

UTI !

And there’s the problem… we don’t even have a mere four fantastic players.
Only Fitz, Ogle & Butterfield are good enough.
The Avengers avenged that opening day of the season result.
They weren’t great either but they did what they do… win games.

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Rene Artois wrote:

When two irresistible forces meet 2 immovable objects?

Zìxīang Máodùn

When the two best strike forces meet the best and third best defences in the league.

If there is a positive outcome in favour of one team it will be the result of a mistake.

They are five clean sheets on the bounce.

Iron 0-1 Lambs

Sorry guys. I hope I’m wrong!
UTI.

Sadly; as expected.
Six clean sheets on the spin.

Only Fitz, Ogle and Butterfield are good enough.

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Ferrite wrote:

Rene Artois wrote:

It’s lose and the play offs.

12 points is definitely not insurmountable with 17 games remaining, especially as Tamworth would have 15 games left.

Absolutely not… but we’d be up against it.

Lambs are currently 4/6
Iron are 6/4

Let’s see what tonight brings and then have a look at those odds tomorrow.

UTI

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6hrs:40 minutes to kick off.

Iron: Evs
Draw: 9/4
Lambs: 9/4

1-1… 9/2
1-0… 13/2
0-0… 8/1
0–1… 8/1

4-3… 100/1
3-4… 100/1

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Ferrite wrote:

I know it’s not win-or-bust but..

It’s lose and the play offs.

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Season Ticket Lottery

Add £20 to the cost of a season ticket – roughly equivalent to paying for one extra game.

1,000 ST x £20 = £20k
Drawn home matchdays
23 x £500 (prize) = £11,500 (prizes)
Club = £8,500

2,000 ST x £20 = £40k
Drawn home matchdays
23 x £1000 (prize) = £23k (prizes)
Club = £17k

3,000 ST x £20 = £60k
Drawn home match-days
23 x £1000 (prize) = £23k (prizes)
Club = £37k

4,000 ST x £20 = £80k
Drawn every Saturday
52 x £1000 (prize) = £52k (prizes)
Club = £28k

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They remind me of the old Wimbledon.
The new ‘Crazy Gang”

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Att: 4,671

[Away 471]
[Home 4,200]

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bartonscorpion wrote:

I am worried that this game will end up being a no score draw, this result will suit Tamworth, and it will go a long way to them ending as automatic winners of the league.

PREDICTION – SCUNTHORPE 0-0 TAMWORTH

ATTENDANCE – 5,803.

As many as that?
How many are they bringing?

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Rene Artois wrote:

I’ll have a stab at the attendance.
Att: 1,171

Actual Attendance: 880

A rather disappointing number.
How many did we take?

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When two irresistible forces meet 2 immovable objects?

Zìxīang Máodùn

When the two best strike forces meet the best and third best defences in the league.

If there is a positive outcome in favour of one team it will be the result of a mistake.

They are five clean sheets on the bounce.

Iron 0-1 Lambs

Sorry guys. I hope I’m wrong!
UTI.

Bookies see the home form of Scunny as giving us the slight edge.

Iron: 69/50
Draw: 120/50
Lambs: 75/50

If Whitehall ain’t too rusty, he may Nick a goal to make it 1-1

Head: 0-1
Heart: 1-0
Gut: 0-0 or 1-1

Fingers crossed.

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WonderGoals wrote:

Let’s be honest the squad is a great squad of players for this level but we lack any real depth.

So… it’s not a great squad.

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Ricardo German (age 25), Chesham United & Grenada national team.

24 goals this season. Chesham have played 24 league games and are top of the Southern League Premier South – four points clear and with a game in hand.

The lad scored yesterday:

Chesham United 3 – 0 Walton & Hersham

3′ Lewis Rolfe
43′ Zak Joseph
75′ Ricardo German

Att: 829

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_German

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