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The Clappers would be happy with a loss but the Rest would complain about a victory!

Garrity was part of our promotion team whilst I’d have Worrall over Chislett any day and as for Wilson he seems to be doing his best to keep injury free before moving on in the Summer. I agree about the defence though, Ripley apart they can all go for me. Major surgery is required during the next transfer window but I can’t see even that to be enough for us to challenge next season. There’s usually two ways to get out of L2: through money at it like Wrexham and Stockport or build season on season like Mansfield and Exeter have done. I really can’t see us doing a Wrexham.

Possibly but one thing’s for certain very few are good enough for L2 never mind L1. I will excuse the young players from criticism as they still have time to develop but of the others, I’d only keep Ripley, Garrity and Clarke - they rest can be released or paid up (if we can afford to). In return for my support all I ask is effort and commitment to the cause unfortunately, there’s been none of that in 2024. I predict now it’ll take three transfer window to turn this mess round.

I get that everyone pays their hard earned money and has an opinion but I cannot understand the minority who boo and shout abuse at the end of games. It achieves nothing - Dipepa, Weir and Plant are little more than boys. Do people think this behaviour makes the players want to play for the club more? If I was a player I wouldn’t come over to acknowledge the fans if that’s what I got. I’m amazed the team still bother with this but those shouting the abuse who be the first to complain if they didn’t! Given the circumstances, I thought most fans were excellent in their support during the game.

The bottom line is our squad just isn’t good enough for this league. No amount of tactics, formations or substitutions is going to change that. I believe the players are trying but lack the required quality to stay in the league. I only think Ripley, Garrity and Ojo are L1 quality, the rest either aren’t ready or aren’t good enough. Major surgery required in the Summer to finish top half in L2 next season. Can’t feeling we’ve given our L1 place away without a fight because of dreadful recruitment.

Ah it’s only taken four games for the usual clowns to want Moore out. 🤣🤣 This ship was sunk long before he arrived and I’ll judge him come this time next year. Plenty of effort tonight but not enough quality which sums up most our games in 2024. Had we got a forward like Stockley we’d have stayed up instead we signed no one other than Loft. i hope when Carol sits down with DF to review this season, she doesn’t accept his woeful performance in the transfer market.

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£1m isn’t even the wage bill for a season! We’ve been down the all ‘chipping in’ road with V2000 and all that happened was I and many others lost their share money and the club went into administration! I suspect Robbie wouldn’t have the time or inclination to be involved in the running of the club so even if he invested, there’d need to be someone appointed to run the football side of things - and that ain’t a popular model at the moment.

I think if you look at the video they both had hold of each other’s shirts but it didn’t affect the result anyway.

I thought Jones was abysmal but it wasn’t a pen. Jones didn’t make contact with their players feet at any time and it was their player leaning into Jones. it didn’t make any difference to the result as we wouldn’t have scored if we were still playing now. As for Smith, I don’t know what has happened to him - he looks non-league at the minute.

We are down regardless. The squad has proven over the last 12 months, it’s not of L1 standard and we will be deservedly relegated in a few weeks time. Personally, I think the owners need to now rethink the whole structure at the club and plan for next season. It could take a couple of years to sort this mess out given the number of contracted players we have.

The scores for the team’s efforts today are straightforward: Everyone 3/10 bar Dan Jones 1/10, Ripley 5/10 and Ben Garrity 7/10.

Great thread for inspiring the team against the fight against the drop!

Going out to a prearranged event tonight so will have no access to the game. I’ll be back on OVF after 10pm to see the meltdown!!! 🙄

As long as he’s wearing our badge I’m fully behind him.

He had a far greater impact on Saturday’s game than Wilson.

I’m probably in the minority here and everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I think DF comes across as honest and knowledgeable in the latest podcast. Yes he has the spiel but in modern football I think, in his position, you have to. I really don’t agree with him getting personal abuse and whoever the perpetrators need to take a look at themselves and think how they’d like to be on the receiving end of it in their job. Carol sees far more of him than any fan and sets his objectives so if she’s happy with him th then so am I. Personally he’s exceeded my expectations in getting DM as Manager and I hope it’s enough to keep us up. I’ll be there next season regardless but I do think the club has moved forward massively off the pitch they now need to match this progress off it and for that there needs to be unity throughout the club. UTV.

Perfect Valentines evening out! 😵

As a business person you rarely dismiss people on what other people think. You make your own judgement calls and stick to them. She clearly has time and respect for DF so I’m afraid people will have to like it or lump it! The trouble with football fans is they always need someone to blame when things go wrong. I never heard anyone criticising Carol or Flitcroft the season we went up, it’s only when things nosedive. Unfortunately, regarding managers Carol is quite loyal and both Crosby and Askey were allowed too much time to turn things round.

It’s clear from the statement Carol has a lot of time for DF so it doesn’t look like he’ll be leaving anytime soon. That leaves all supporters with two choices: 1. Trust her judgement as she clearly deals with him far more than any fan, hoping in the long term we improve and progress. 2. Go against her judgement and create civil war in the club and try to hound DF out. Although I’m highly sceptical, I really don’t think option 2 is justified at the moment. Following the worst owner we’ve ever had, Carol brought some welcome stability for 3 years albeit things have gone pear shaped in the past 12 months.

The majority of fans will be there to support the team Saturday, the recriminations can wait until later especially as nothing will now change until the Summer. I must say though our record of signing strikers over the last couple of years is appalling. I would probably say in that time only Wilson has been good enough and he’s by probably been available for less than half his available games due to injury. The team will get my full support tomorrow but this window reminds me of the one where we sold Alnwick and Grant and that didn’t end well.

Peterborough, Derby, Bolton and Crewe are doing too bad with possession based football…..

Totally agree. There’s only a few days left of the window and it’s hard enough to get one striker in. People need to back him, the team, the manager and the club and accept we’re not the finished article. We will lose games but I’m confident we can get the 20pts we need to secure safety enabling us the improve further in the Summer.

I think Gandys have a vacancy you may be suited to.

I’ve seen Stevenage play three times this season and think they are a horrible watch. Reid and Piergianni are decent players but most of the others are bang average. In my opinion they won’t go up and could be well victims of second season syndrome next season.