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Fifth place down to twelfth place split by a mere 4 points.

It looks as if the fifth, sixth and seventh places will be decided on the last day of the season.

A cesspit of a league where anyone can beat anyone else.

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cassidystash wrote:

sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

cassidystash wrote:

Followed by a win at Hereford making it a sequence of 4. To be a winning sequence of 3 the following game would have to be a draw or defeat bringing the sequence to an end – it wasn’t. Rene’s explanation was quite clear.

You’re right he was quite clear, he stated that we had not won three games on the bounce, I’ve proven that we have!
You’re as daft as he is.

It’s OK, the rest of us understand.

Nursey will be round with SNOT’s mid-day meds pretty soon.

@ SNOT – however you want to look at it, we haven’t won two on the spin since last year.

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sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

Rene Artois wrote:

Winning Sequences.

We’ve won the following number of games on the bounce:

2 wins = 4 times
3 wins = none
4 wins = once

Surely if we’ve won 4 on the bounce once then we must have won three on the bounce at least once!

The sequence is ended by a defeat or a draw.

4 times we’ve won 2 games – then the third game was a non winning game. End of sequence.

Once we won 4 games – the fifth game wasn’t a win. End of sequence.

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Rene Artois wrote:

Maybe he was on a hallucinogenic drink / drug cocktail?

Promtion: highly unlikely.

Take the Farsley double header Christmas / new year festival mash up out of the equation – and the last time we won two games back to back is December 2nd! Three months ago!

He’ll survive to the end of season regardless.

New contract – NO CHANCE!

Winning Sequences.

We’ve won the following number of games on the bounce:

2 wins = 4 times
3 wins = none
4 wins = once

If we were to drop down to fourth place or below, then we’d have to win 3 games on the spin to win the play offs – 1/4s, semi & final.

You might say that it only takes a minute to win it or every dog has its day etc
But we ain’t being consistent or good enough to better a league of part timers on tuppeny ha’ppeny budgets.

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Maybe he was on a hallucinogenic drink / drug cocktail?

Promtion: highly unlikely.

Take the Farsley double header Christmas / new year festival mash up out of the equation – and the last time we won two games back to back is December 2nd! Three months ago!

He’ll survive to the end of season regardless.

New contract – NO CHANCE!

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Going, going… nowhere?

[Rene Artois]

1-1 is the shortest priced score-cast at 11/2

1-2… 12/1
0-2… 22/1
1-3… 33/1

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a?) player power – the players want Jimbob out?

b?) the board don’t want promotion in order to stabilise financially and on the pitch?

c?) Jimbob didn’t have back surgery, he was abducted by Tamworth supporting aliens, ‘reprogrammed’ and was then returned to earth on a self destruct mission?

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Just Iron

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We took a wrong turn!

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Beyond ‘a little edgy’ – I’m now rather anxious!

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Are the players our current worst enemy?

Are they ‘on strike?’

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Rene Artois wrote:

Predicted points accrued from the remaining games:

H – Curzon Ashton = 0
A – Scarborough Athletic = 0
A – South Shields = 1

H – Alfreton Town = 1
H – Chester = 1
A – Bishop’s Stortford = 3
A – Spennymoor Town = 1
H – Banbury United = 1
A – Warrington Town = 0
H – King’s Lynn Town = 3
A – Southport = 3
H – Hereford = 3
H – Blyth Spartans = 3
A – Gloucester City = 1

21 points.

Total points = 82

Weighted points each season of the 7th placed team in the league.
(Last season was the first one over 46 games)

22-23… 68pts
21-22… 69
20-21… Covid
19-20… Covid
18-19… 71
17-18… 69
16-17… 80
15-16… 69
14-15… 76
13-14… 76
12-13… 76
11-12… 72
10-11… 71

Tamworth will be promoted as Champions.
Personally, I hope we don’t finish as runners up or third.
I think those teams that play in the Playoff Semi-Finals have an advantage and are ‘in the zone’

Play offs will be an absolute lottery!

Here’s how one site sees the final table looking:

https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/national-league-north/league-table/predicted

Risking being titled a part again here… hey ho.

It saddens me deeply that we’re turning out the performances and results that we are.

If it’s ’player power’ – will they be able to flick the switch and return to winning ways if Jimbob is shown the door?

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Is today what may become known as car crash Thursday?

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Anonymous wrote:

Reds 1-3 Iron

Away end can accommodate up to 1,200

Att: 1,650

I went with a 3-1 win to us back then.
It ended up 2-2.

3 clean sheets and 3 wins on the bounce for them.

I’m sadly (very sadly) going to go:

Iron 0-2 Alfreton

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Rene Artois wrote:

Odds on January 24th

inspector wrote:

Tamworth 5/6
Iron 6/4

Odds on 20th February:

Tamworth… 1/5
Scunthorpe… 5/1

Chorley… 200/1
Chester… 200/1

83.3% probability that Tamworth take the title.

Weds 21st Feb:

Tamworth… 1/5

Scunthorpe… 7/1

Chorley… 66/1

Chester… 200/1
Alfreton… 200/1

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The lower down the pyramid you go, the lesser the tactical ability and technical understanding of the players.
We ain’t got the calibre of player to emulate how Real, Barca & Citi play.

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Having a CEO in our ‘glory days’ on £5k a week was an absolute joke!

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Ironawe wrote:

But it sounds like he’s lost the dressing room. The players seem not to respect him (and that is the players fault as well). It’s a difficult one because a long term stay in this division will provide stability but the club as we know it will be a shadow of its former self. I really struggle to stay engaged in the quality of football, officials, pitches, grounds etc I go to every home game even though I have to travel, and watch on NLTV and I can’t believe what I watch half the time. It’s not entertainment, and if this is what sustainability looks like then who is going to be in it for the long term? Maybe 1,000-1,500 hardcore of fans

I can see attendances in NLN next season:

Midweek: 1,500 to 1,800
Saturday: 2,250 to 2,500

Do we really need four stands open for such low numbers?

It might save a few bob?

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WonderGoals wrote:

Thing is with Elliot as we all know isn’t a lone striker, we’ve been saying this for nearly 2 seasons. Why not stick Mcalinden up there with him as a link player ?

Whitehall I fear has had it.

You couldn’t even call our attempted ‘strikes’ in the direction of the away goal ‘shots on target’ last night!

It’s absolutely abysmal that a club that have had many, many great strikers in the past can’t even make the goalkeeper work these days!

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Hars is a good call.
Would he want to drop down to this level though and work with (no disrespect here) limited (ability) players?

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From a neutrals point of view, the game wasn’t too bad.
It was a fairly evenly contested game – both teams making a number of schoolboy type errors and giving the ball away too easily from misplaced passes etc.

We were all over them like the proverbial for the first ten or fifteen minutes. Then the game evened up somewhat.

We seemed to be weaker after the substitutions were made.

Did we deserve to win… no.
Did we deserve to lose… no.

A point would have probably been fair.

Some poor strikes in the direction of the goal from our players.

We desperately need a finisher!

Their lad up front was a handful and quick. He also worked his socks off.

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https://twitter.com/bostonutdstats/status/1759558450365739301/photo/1

A 1/4 Final against one of our bogey teams maybe on the cards?

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Whom would you like in next?

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sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

Rene Artois wrote:

There’s 18 full weeks left on his contract.
What’s he on a week? – a grand?
£18k to pay him off.

You “think” you know the details of his contract!
I can assure you, you don’t, you’re not even close.
It’s better to keep quiet than to lie about something you have no knowledge of.

Two question marks indicate that two questions were asked.

Players contracts usually go up to the last week in June, as the new season starts on 1st July every year.

Perhaps I should have said that there maybe 18 weeks remaining on his contract.

No lies told.

Maybe I’m a million miles out with his weekly wage.

Maybe he’s on £500 a week, £2k a week, £3k a week… I’ve no idea – it was just a guess.

Speculation, have the conservatives made that a criminal offence now?

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Jimbob’s on thin ice:

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Ironboard wrote:

Rene Artois wrote:

SS 1-0 Iron

You must know someone inside the club. Which few players are not interested? Can you name them please?

A strange reply to a score prediction?

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There’s 18 full weeks left on his contract.
What’s he on a week? – a grand?
£18k to pay him off.

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Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

Interesting read on Andy Holt’s Twitter account from the last couple of days with regards to the finance of football clubs.

Without external funding, I can’t see a way into the EFL for us for a very long time.

National League is a good standard and should become EFL 3.
4 up to L2.
4 down to the new National League.

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What’s going to give?

Thought it was Stu, rattling his tin again.

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I feel for the guy.
Was he WHAM’s patsy, earmarked to be SUFC’s last manager?
WHAM was possibly looking at taking the club in to bankruptcy and so wasn’t overly fussed about whom he brought in.
The lads obviously trying and is affected by the performances and results.
Perhaps the ‘ex-league’ players think they know better, think his sessions are poor / too easy / not intense, high tempo enough. We don’t know as we aren’t pitch side at training to observe.
Hopefully he’ll find another club at ‘his level’ and he’ll enjoy the game again.
At the moment, he looks like a tortured man.
Good luck and best wishes to him at his next club.

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