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Guitar Ray

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  1. Those great big massive ones…….ususlly obscured by your dark glasses……🕶️
  2. You mention the Carol/the owners a couple of times but the DoF would’ve had major input on any sacking and subsequent new manager. On the face of it there was a bit too much shall we say loyalty shown to our previous recent managers when looking at their results prior to being replaced. We can speculate whether this was down to Carol, the DoF or both, but ultimately in my view if the DoF says he’d rather not appoint Crosby then Carol would’ve listened I’m sure. Moore was always going to be seen as a big name appointed mainly to quell the unrest. Time will tell on that score.
  3. This list lays bare what we all know, that recruitment has been shambolic. The fact that Flitcroft got lucky with a couple of loans doesn’t conceal the fact that our squad was miles away from where it needed to be going into this season. It’s Sexman levels of delusion to expect so many untried players to come good. For a guy who’s been involved in football for as long as our DoF to show such a stunning level of incompetence is unbelievable, yet here we are.
  4. Well said. He was an outdoors guy who loved a walk up Hamil Road, he also knew how to look after his employees, plus his other big hobby, watching hours of YouTube videos of obscure footballers.
  5. As bad as Jones was he’s been thrown to the dogs being picked at LB. Our options on the left side of defence dictated by the shortcomings in the squad, which go back to one man. Forget Dan Jones, the real villain of the piece is our DoF for not addressing the issue after Benning left.
  6. You’re right in saying that they had 2 sent off but you can’t tell me we were worse in that game when 11 v 11 than we were yesterday. I was a both games and know what I saw. No idea what you mean by that last sentence. No manager can do wrong when the team are winning so what would anyone be wishing for?
  7. You could look at the other way and say Carol wasn’t ruthless enough by showing too much loyalty to both Clarke and Crosby. If she was really ruthless both would’ve been gone in the January and any new manager given time to recruit a few of their own players rather than hanging on until the window had shut. More importantly, why think Carol made the decision? Flitcroft would be responsible for hiring and firing the manager. Carol would be consulted but the DoF would most likely decide. Don’t forget it was Flitcroft who supposedly recruited Clarke in the first place.
  8. Moore sounds like a beaten man in his interview.
  9. Fair comment. Fans protests and the inevitable relegation will hopefully open her eyes but sadly it could’ve been so different if we’d added a couple of players in the summer.
  10. We’ve just watched an admittedly decent Oxford side make us look like a pub team. Maybe our DoF can offer some spin as to why Oxford players were individually so far ahead of ours it was embarrassing.
  11. Compare today to a far more even game at their place so what’s happened in the interim? Quite simply David Flitcroft, master of all things football, has taken us backwards through his sheer incompetence.
  12. No, they’re still fine. We’ll be relegated and my drinking will be moderated…..a little bit.
  13. They say laughter is the best medicine, this may be true, but it hasn’t healed the cuts on my hands from when I fell up the steps going into the Hamil last week.
  14. Am I missing something? It’s a fair old jump from incompetent to evil.
  15. Carlisle will be having a serious crack at bouncing back at the first attempt. Paul Simpson: Carlisle United's League One struggle highlights signings importance - BBC Sport WWW.BBC.CO.UK
  16. I’ll be sticking to my new pre-match routine for this one. Bacon and tomato oatcakes and a large whisky chaser for breakfast, light lunch followed by 3 or 4 pints, then whatever beer I can fit in up at the fanzone before kick off and at half time. It’s really made a big difference, and whilst I’m not seeing much of the games I’m enjoying them much more.
  17. Evil? Stick to the facts, which are that he’s not the best when it comes to certain crucial aspects of his job description.
  18. We were fed that line after promotion but after the first season it shouldn’t have hampered us to the extent it has. Not withstanding overall deficiencies in the first team squad, we’ve basically been crying out for a couple of decent strikers since gaining promotion. Proctor and Wilson were never going to play enough games for one thing. If we had 2 forwards capable of scoring say ten goals a piece this current team would be fine, not world beaters but steady enough, simply having that threat takes pressure off the rest of the team. As it is we’ll still need to sign a couple of forwards to survive in League 2 never mind challenge for an immediate return.
  19. I’ll disagree on that one.
  20. Has it been established that those figures are genuine though? I thought it was just some saddo with a bit of time on his hands dreaming these figures up whilst sat on the toilet with a phone in one hand and a vape in the other.
  21. Chances are £4500 & £4300 doesn’t get you an awful lot at this level. Plenty of clubs will have players on 5 figure weekly salaries.
  22. That may be true, who knows, but then we still have to pay some sort of remuneration to Crosby and his staff.
  23. If he keeps us up given where we are right now it’ll be an amazing achievement. I think the 5 year deal was almost an admission from the club that we were likely to go down and gave an assurance to Moore that he’d be given time to rebuild if the worst should happen.
  24. If it was as simple as that there’s no way we’d be replacing Crosby and his staff with Darren Moore and his, we’d have no choice but to go for a cheaper option. Also, Flitcroft himself said we missed out on countless targets, 9 strikers(?), the vast majority not down to money. In fact in the last 2 January windows we’ve hung on for players until the 11th hour only to see the deals fall through leaving us up 💩creek because we’ve had no contingency plan in place. That’s rank bad planning. There will have been strikers out there to fit any budget, there are rumours that Uche is on a fair wedge plus we seemingly paid money for Loft who the DoF said we’d been monitoring for months. Carol would’ve had little if any say in either deal other than perhaps deciding they were both very nice chaps with all the right values before she signed the cheques.
  25. Hopefully take a bit of heart from the clean sheet last night and build from that. If, and it’s a big if, we can score first then the atmosphere won’t get killed stone dead like it has in recent home games which should help the players no end, at least until the last 15 - 20 minutes of the game when everyone will be clenching their buttocks if the score remains a goal or 2 in our favour…..
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