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1 hour ago, Spunk Trumpet said:
I’ve been saying it for 7 seasons or so.
Let’s not make out that he’s a great defender even in league 2. Because he’s not.
If he was put on the transfer list who would come in for him?
He can kick a ball. Head a ball. And use the dark arts. Beyond that he’s crap.Isn't that what you want from a defender in league two ?
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30 minutes ago, osprey said:
If Reading get a points deduction we might still stay up 😄
Should have been awarded the points from the abandoned game too vale should have refused to replay it and caused a stink
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1 hour ago, DazFred said:
This happened when Clarke and Crosby were managers.
Not enough blocked crosses and it usually went all the way to the back post for a tap in
I agree you can't allow for Clark being out almost all season but we haven't had a right full back for two seasons since we realised gibbo worrell for how great a player that he was wasn't a wingback and playing him there you weakened two positions has he was our most creative player in attacking positions and on the other side we weren't lucky enough to have the lean and trim twice as fit looking mal benning that dominated our left side for Shrewsbury we had the inconsistent unfit one and failing that it was dan Jones and hes one of the biggest wastes of man juice ever up there with joules an look how good we made him look last week he even scored for fu(ks sake
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43 minutes ago, Howjy04 said:
I think the defensive marking by Vale has been shocking.How many goals have been scored by a free opposition player at the far post?
But that's always going to happen when you have no specialist full backs/wing backs because when whichever midfielder/ winger who is playing there usually gets beaten with ease then that drags the whole defence across to cover leaving masses of space behind and if the makeshift full back hasn't read it and gets in position to cover the back post then there is always going to be unmarked players if they are clever enough to find the space im not going to single out sang even though his highlights reel is woeful because most of the others that have had to play there have all made the same mistakes on the right and left all season
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8 hours ago, Jacko51 said:
If the big lads don’t want replays they could just kick the ball into their own net in the 89th minute. Problem solved.
Why not kick em out of the fa and league cup take the European places that go with them as well they would soon want replays back if they thought some lower league club was going get a piece of there pie 🥧 I know it would never but every football fan should boycott the televised games as that would hit the fa in the pocket when the BBC can't justify paying licence fee money on something no one watches and itv won't pay because there's no premium advertisement money to pay for it greed is rooted in football top to bottom and it's killing the game
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26 minutes ago, Killersrevenge44 said:
I don't want to be shot down for this... But beat Bolton could take it to the last day?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣We wouldn't beat Bolton lads an dads
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9 hours ago, darren1810 said:
Saw the highlights on YouTube of that game. The first Burton goal hit the lads back and went in. He wasn't even facing the goal. The sending off was given by the lino. Must of been an off the ball incident. That killed the game and Burton got a well worked second goal.
I'd swap Cheltenham and Reading at home and Fleetwood away with our fixtures all day long unfortunately.
Why because we've lost to all three of them over the last couple of months two of them after leading doesn't matter who we play we lose 💩
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1 hour ago, Powerline said:
Clarke no better than Crosby, I’ve heard it all now. Clown.
Just going off the stats Clarke 1.7 PTS per game equates to 78pts from 46 games Crosbys 2.06 PTS per game gives him 94 PTS from 46 games that leaves Clarke with a 16 point deficit it's all hyper thetic because neither played 46 games so who knows but on actual statistics that leaves Clarke the second best manager that season by some margin as it turns out they were both sh!te in league 1 both out of there depth
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4 hours ago, darren1810 said:
Going nowhere?
We were 5 unbeaten. Including playing runaway leaders FGR off the park when Clarke went on leave. As for drab and boring , I went to the night away game at Carlisle and we could of conceivably won 6-1 . That was 2 games prior to him going.
If you want to talk drab. Harrogate and Colchester away. Truly hideous. Manager, Crosby.
He came back because having needed 7 points from the last 4 games for automatic promotion we contrived to lose the first 3 and possibly would of missed the play offs altogether had he not come back for the Exeter game.
Just for the record it's my opinion we all like different styles of play and Clarke as a person and his football I didn't like and if your time lines are correct then for the 46 league games that season Clarke record was p 30 W14 D 9 L7 taking 51pts Crosby's record was P16 W 10 D 3 L 3 taking 33 PTS there for Clarke's points per game was 1.7 and Crosby's was 2.06 so had Clarke finished the season on those stats we wouldn't have needed to beat Exeter because we would already have been about 4 or 5 points outside the play offs so why people keep harping on how good he was really hes no better than Crosby and we all know how that's turned out
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31 minutes ago, Guitar Ray said:
Just to correct you, I have no positive bias towards Clarke and I think if you care to read back through various topics my comments would always acknowledge the fact that Crosby played a big part in our promotion. People seem to forget that the manager isn’t a one man band. When Clarke was in charge he had a team of staff along side him, Crosby being one member of that team. Moving along, I also don’t think Crosby was as bad a manager as many are making out. My own feelings being that he was hamstrung by recruitment and having to buy in to the football philosophy of his boss, David Flitcroft. I’ve said on several occasions that if we add a couple of capable strikers to our current, admittedly poor, squad, Crosby would’ve had enough about him to guide the side to safety, albeit probably not challenge for the play offs.
Fair enough I apologise I miss interpreted how i read it it grinds me when I feel that Clarke gets all the credit for promotion as we were going nowhere and if I'm honest playing some quite drab and boring football until his tragic loss and time out from the game and although my heart goes out to the man for what he had to go through i never took to him as a manager with all his arrogance and excuses i also feel that Crosby got a bum deal not only missing strikers as you say. In my opinion the biggest failure was to not recruit any full backs or wingbacks as I would say that more than half the goals we have conceded have come from teams targeting which ever square peg is in the round hole waiting for the inevitable mistake which opens us up and leaves the whole defence vulnerable and not to mention that 80percent of that team have no desire fight or backbone or are just 💩
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8 hours ago, Rampant Zebra said:
I wasn't even aware of Clarke other than seeing him play for us for about 5 minutes until it was rumoured that he was going to be our manager. I asked someone who knew him what he thought and he wasn't very complimentary. I also read into his history at various clubs on the internet and concluded that he is an average manager who has a massive opinion of himself, a massive chip on his shoulder about the fact that he didn't do as well as a footballer as he thought he should and an inability to recognise his own failings. Cheltenham Town fans seem divided on his merits too incidentally. . I wanted him to be a fantastic manager and propel us to greater success on the pitch but that didn't happen.
Well said I'm of the same opinion I have a family member who worked at Walsall with him and said that most people were glad he left
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10 hours ago, Guitar Ray said:
I beg to differ. Clarke has a proven track record at the level below so was a solid appointment. Where Flitcroft got lucky was that Clarke replicated that success with us in achieving another promotion, which could in no way be guaranteed let alone in the short timescale it took. I feel your negative bias towards Clarke has blinkered your judgement on this one. Fair to say however that this success also probably played into Flitcroft’s hands in the sense that it made it harder for the powers that be to accept that he wasn’t capable of turning things around. Naturally the manager would get the axe first as is always the case. Then we’re in the wait and see cycle again until finally, after changing several managers and pressure from the fans the lightbulb has had to come on.
I think your positive bias towards Clarke has blinkered your view to as Crosby was in charge for a lot of promotion season and the best run of form that season to so don't give Clarke all the credit for promotion because it wasn't all him
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3 hours ago, pete vale said:
Can't argue with any of that personally. We are not privy to what appeared to be "pie-in-the-sky" ideals of academy funding and the 'campus', let alone the loan and use of Premier League 2 youngsters - not viable in my opinion at this level at this moment in time. Yes, there needs to be a focus on youth and making the club sustainable for years to come commercially and professionally football-wise.
Look at the effect on the fan base in regards to changes in the ticket office/ club shop as an example, not to mention the Paddock portaloos and exit debacles. A good example again today. We walked into the shop at 2.20pm today to look at and possibly purchase merchandise - no chance!! The queue was massive with I assume people arriving late and wanting match tickets? You could not view merchandise and even if you did try to purchase you would have probably missed kick-off? There are many issues/ examples of a distinct lack of common-sense about the place.
The second half performance today was without question as bad if not worse than any performance I have witnessed since first attending in 1975. I struggle to reason exactly as to why things have unravelled so quickly and at such cost to the Shanahans financially. It is obviously poor decision making on both the playing side and future structure modelling of the club.
Some comments from within particularly in regard to Flitcroft "going nowhere" were derogatory and condescending to the fan base, were these said comments merely a defence of the indefensible or born of arrogance from an inner circle environment that clearly had a 'plan' of sorts and the rest can go to 'hell in a hand cart whatever may'?
That said this is an embarrassing, expensive, harsh lesson to learn leaving the club in financial woe and it's fan base totally demoralised at a time when this certainly shouldn't be the case following on from the euphoria of the 2022 promotion.
Sad, very sad.
Think you'll be ok having a browse round the shop next season because if we can't offload these crock of sh!t players they'll be nobody in there buying tickets
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Great result today two great finishes for the goals no pi55ing about in defense head it kick it get it clear number one priority tackles going in winning second balls players backing up team mates all over the pitch and some big praise for loft who gave everything he'd got today chased and battled for everything and deserved goal don't know what flitcrofts involvement was with the team but that team today is not the team I've had to endure since October so if the two performances since he was sacked is the future then good riddance more of the same Monday UTV
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8 hours ago, Killersrevenge44 said:
It was lousy defending... They stood off him. Any Sunday league defender would d have put a boot on the ball!
What a knob you are you can say that about any goal if a defender had cleared it or headed it away he wouldn't have scored or a school boy era let him in give the kid credit he had the balls to run at them they didn't know how to deal with it and he finished it like any top level striker well done baylee
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1 hour ago, Mellor! said:
Hi Andy. Hope you've had a nice couple of weeks off. Been abroad or owt? Anything job wise in the pipeline?
Think you got wrong fella I'm not andy?
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8 hours ago, TJHValiant said:
Exactly this. Clarke struggled at first, we got a win and lift off…
No let's get it right Crosby came in as his assistant then lift off and for the record don't think we'd have gone up had Clarke been in charge all season we were very inconsistent and playing very un entertaining football
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2 hours ago, JoeB2 said:
Norman's foreign legion were better than this. They went down on the last day by a point.
Reggie and Chris Mbamba. Dear me!
Reggie was head and shoulders better than loft
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