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Yep. Sure he scored a couple against us for Scunthorpe a few years ago.

He’s never been a goal scoring striker.

Who are you talking about ?

(Bad miss aside) I think Lofts playing well today.

Grant and plant at wing back?

He didn’t come in on trial. No way we were beating Derby to that signature either.

You’re bang on. It’s way too late to be bringing in free agents as they’ll be nowhere near ready to go fitness wise.

Based on last week Clark is miles off being match fit and needs to lose a bit of weight.

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Not up to league one standard yet. Needs easing in.

It says that we recruited a striker in loft who isn’t a prolific goalscorer, his stats say it, everyone knows it’s What’s gone wrong is that we haven’t got the right players around him to get the best out of him and we haven’t got a way of playing that suits the players we have.

You’ve answered your own question with that last sentence. That’s probably why he’s gone now. It stops the abuse directed towards him during games. It stops Carol getting stick about him. It (hopefully) galvanises the fans to concentrating on supporting the team. It may mean that the reluctance to buy season tickets because of flitcroft being there isn’t as much of an issue now. It enables the club to now look at building for next season.

Every club is going to go through a bad patch at this level. How the club bounce back from it is key. The calls for her to sell up because of a bad patch and her backing of a dof that she employed sets a dangerous precedence because you can’t go through owners like you do managers.

There was no other option but for him to go. The performance of him and his team have seen us in this mess, staring relegation in the face. The monetary value of relegation alone is a massive factor as well as the lack of trust in giving him another transfer window in the summer. The unrest from the fans over the job he’s done is also a huge factor too, it would affect season ticket sales, the atmosphere at games and maybe have an effect on the team. The club cannot be in that situation of unrest and hostility. It’s ended in the right way, it’s just come too late IMO.

I bet it changed the mood and the topic of conversation for the meeting tonight.

Not sure if there’s a thread for this already. Admin please merge if there is

Funny how everyone seems to forget the bits in front of the defence and behind the strikers. Goals conceded aren’t always just down to the defence and goals scored or created aren’t all down to the strikers. It’s a team effort. We have a poor team that can’t defend as a unit or create chances.

Sounds like a ridiculous idea to me.

I see that Tom Conlon played for England C last night against Wales C team.

Sorry for the triple post. Must have been a glitch somewhere.

I got shot down a couple of years ago on here after yet another appearance by the owners on the pitch. It was during the promotion season IIRC. I just suggested that they should stop being so front and center by seemingly courting all the praise and adulation, because there will come a point when things will turn on the pitch, football fans have short memories and they won’t be interested in what was achieved in the past and will very easily turn on them. We’ve hit that point this season.

I got shot down a couple of years ago on here after yet another appearance by the owners on the pitch. It was during the promotion season IIRC. I just suggested that they should stop being so front and center by seemingly courting all the praise and adulation, because there will come a point when things will turn on the pitch, football fans have short memories and they won’t be interested in what was achieved in the past and will very easily turn on them. We’ve hit that point this season.

I got shot down a couple of years ago on here after yet another appearance by the owners on the pitch. It was during the promotion season IIRC. I just suggested that they should stop being so front and center by seemingly courting all the praise and adulation, because there will come a point when things will turn on the pitch, football fans have short memories and they won’t be interested in what was achieved in the past and will very easily turn on them. We’ve hit that point this season.

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