Brackley Town

[Rene Artois]

Population: 16,195 – 2021 Census.

The Saints are marching in on Tuesday and it’ll be a difficult evening for Stan’s team.

Yesterday’s victory at Curzon was their third away game on the spin and secured them the maximum.

Oxford (A) 2-0
Alfreton (A) 4-3
Curzon (A) 1-0

9 points available – 9 points secured.

They won’t fear GP and will be looking to put us to the sword.

Apparently, they play 5 at the back. If Stan mirrors their set up, then we’ll be in serious trouble.

Scunthorpe (H) P12 W5 D6 L1 GF23 GA7 GD+16 Pts21

Brackley (A) P13 W8 D3 L2 GF20 GA10 GD+10 Pts27

Formation, frustration, indecision,
errors – you can see what’s coming.

They sit higher than us in the 4, 6, 8 & 10 games form tables.

They sit top of the 4 game table with 12 points and a +5 GD.
We are 6th with 7pts and +3 GD

Over the last 10 games, they sit in 2nd place with 22pts and +7 GD.
We are 8th with 16pts and +5 GD.

Gavin Cowan – Curzon 0-1 Brackley

[Rene Artois]

They had a good FA Cup run, reaching the 2nd Round.
A contentious ’offside’ kept the score at 2-1 to Stockport before the EFL team extended the margin to 3-1 in the 86th minute.

Stockport 3-1 Brackley (2min 33sec video)

[Ironawe]

They had a good cup run and are doing well in the league? I thought you were only allowed one?

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Rene Artois

[Iron-awe]

I think Rene is allowed a day off after that first post, his brain must really hurt, lol.

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Rene Artois

[iron64]

overslept and ended up watching MOTD – interesting comment my a pundit about Liverpool, who are dominating the premier league, (same way we hoped we would NLN!!?).
“Liverpool risk losing in trying to win”
Something perhaps AB should consider? We may avoid all these dull home draws. But then every game we face is difficult one against well organised teams. No doubt a battling draw with in form Brackley he’ll be happy with as we slip further down the table.

[Deereyme66]

Pretty sure I heard on the radio yesterday that Potter had set up West Ham with 5 at the back. That ended well.

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Rene Artois

[IronIronIron]

Iron-awe wrote:

I think Rene is allowed a day off after that first post, his brain must really hurt, lol.

If only he’d take one……

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[Rene Artois]

IronIronIron wrote:

Iron-awe wrote:

I think Rene is allowed a day off after that first post, his brain must really hurt, lol.

If only he’d take one……

“We are what we repeatedly do“
Aristotle.

[Rene Artois]

Oxford 0-2 Brackley Highlights (4:23 video)

They play with an intensity and move the ball & themselves well.

[Deereyme66]

‘I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.’
Kant.

[Iron-awe]

Deereyme66 wrote:

‘I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.’
Kant.

He sounds a proper Kant.

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Awaywego

[ironfromafar]

thanks for the in depth analysis Rene … not that it effected my prediction of 2-1 to Brackley who on fire at the moment especially away adding that to our mediocre home home form and bingo.

[Rene Artois]

3/1 seems a great price for an away win.

I’ll stick my guess as to the result & score later.

[Rene Artois]

Apparently:
1-0 has the highest probability @ 13%
1-1 has the second highest @ 12.5%

We’ve played each other five times and it’s 2 wins, a draw and 2 defeats to date.

Is a 1-1 on the cards?

They’ve won 56% of their league games this season.
We’ve won 46% of our league games.

The teams are very, very evenly matched.

I think I’ll have to go with 3 predictions.
Head 1-1
Gut 1-2 (their cracking away form at present)
Heart 1-0

Att: 3,647

[CMC]

1-1

[RoamingBull]

1-2
3180

And a Kiddy win would put them 7 points clear of us.
Soon to settle for a play off spot.

[cassidystash]

Do you mean Too soon?

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RoamingBull

[RoamingBull]

Yeah probably too soon we will be settling for a play off spot.
Just not good enough are we.

[ironfromafar]

RoamingBull wrote:

Yeah probably too soon we will be settling for a play off spot.
Just not good enough are we.

YEP just way too inconsistent to get auto promotion .. its only a matter of time until that though has gone and fans are settling for a play off spot.

[Deereyme66]

Got a good feeling about tonight’s game but I’ll resist posting an optimistic kiss of death prediction.

[Deereyme66]

ironfromafar wrote:

RoamingBull wrote:

Yeah probably too soon we will be settling for a play off spot.
Just not good enough are we.

YEP just way too inconsistent to get auto promotion .. its only a matter of time until that though has gone and fans are settling for a play off spot.

That’s the thing though. Every team in this league is inconsistent. Curzon were supposed to be running away with it a few backs. No more.

[RoamingBull]

Kiddy and PB seem to be gathering some steam though.

Hope you are right about tonight Deerey! I won’t be there. Lose tonight and I’ll struggle to muster up enthusiasm for Saturday let alone next Tuesday.
Just when I get my mojo back at the start of the season it far too easily vanishes.

[iron64]

same old same old – tough game according to AB.
2-2 after been 2 up, AB starts to sit back, defensive subs inviting pressure, equalise in added time.
Post match interview individual error not a tactical one, work in progress, battling draw against team above us, look ahead to another tough game Sat will try to make up ground, though i didn’t realise how far behind we are!! Perhaps risking losing trying to win is an option

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Awaywego

[another fed up fan]

2-1 Att 3550

[cassidystash]

RoamingBull wrote:

Yeah probably too soon we will be settling for a play off spot.
Just not good enough are we.

The most frustrating thing – sometimes we are.

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Deereyme66

[Apollo11]

cassidystash wrote:

RoamingBull wrote:

Yeah probably too soon we will be settling for a play off spot.
Just not good enough are we.

The most frustrating thing – sometimes we are.

No, we’re not. We’re never good enough. Sometimes we’re good.

[Rene Artois]

Brackley’s commentary of tonight’s game

[Deereyme66]

Crikey. That was a nerve wracking end. Job done though and sounded like a good performance from the commentary bar some defensive errors?

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[lesgeo]

Boys done good.
Deserved win.

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[another fed up fan]

Well done Scunny bit nervous at the end but job done great goal from Alfie and Beck scores at last very tight at the top now

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