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The alternative view is that a good season – ie) top 7 – brings consolidation. The crowds are good and would continue to be if we are challenging again next season.
The top – say – 14 players can probably be afforded but it’s the rest who would probably all have to be employed on the cheap.
Also, promotion might actually bring financial issues into play. Sitting in the bottom third of the NL would see crowds deteriorate.
I know several supporters who want us to remain in this division until we are pretty certain we can be NL top half.
Me? – Dunno.

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HT. I’m not at GP. Sounds as though this a pretty ragged performance against a poor side.
Is it a good turnout? Have Darlo brought many? – I can’t hear ’em.

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Maybe shouldn’t have praised Ollie – very late for our 1st goal and not brilliant keeping up on the play with our second.

Why is Humberside always amongst the last to go to the commentary? (Pretty often – last and late!)
Today commentary began at 3-02 pm.
Unprofessional!

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Okay, Whitehall dives for fun and misses chances. He is not too untypical of the big forward found in so many teams across the nation.
I just think that we could get more out of him.
The one thing I really loved in the 60s and 70s was watching people like Ernie Moss, Alec Jeffries, Percy Freeman and – to some extent – Nige Cassidy coming in to meet corners and crosses from beyond the far post. It certainly helped their goal tallies.
Often accompanied with CBs for added terror – the ball would go over the keeper and terrifying runs would be judged to head the ball downwards past the GK. If there was no goal – a poacher would be hanging around for scraps.
How often today, the last man is level with the GK’s post and the inward run is only a couple of yards long.
You don’t have to do it every time coz variety is important but I’d wager that if that were done a few times a game – guys like Whitehall would grab more goals over a season.

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Good.

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inspector

[lesgeo]

Agreed.
However, Whitehall did not so much have a poor game – but rather, seemed to have been excluded from it.
So many decent chances to cross the ball into the box were simply not taken.

[lesgeo]

I really thought we were worth a draw.
Thanks, Fitz.
These rushes of blood to the brain are losing us points.

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What I got back:-
‘Absolutely terrible over the ball tackle on Scales half way up his shin straight leg. Ref staring at it from 8 yards.
Worst decision of the season. Not fit to referee.’

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Strongly agree that his delivery into the box, by and large, is not up to scratch.
He has genuine pace, though and can have opposition CMs reaching for the brown underwear as he glides past.
One slight weakness in the side is that our players often take a second and a half to realise that he has begun one of his scything runs. If they could just react half a second sooner – I think that his forays forward would be even more devastating.

[lesgeo]

Noted.
I always value what you have to say about football.

[lesgeo]

Retired ref from a higher tier told me that she was seriously poor – an opinion I value.
This was not conveyed at all in the commentary. Not a hint. Why not? Why was I wholly unable to pick this fact up as I listened?
I truly wanted her to succeed but if she didn’t … surely, we must all take the rough with the smooth.

[lesgeo]

Sorry about Hartlepool. I was too early in my thinking. It was Keith Nobbs in the 80s.

[lesgeo]

It’ll take a big step for us to start averaging 4,000+ unless away sides bring quite a few.

[lesgeo]

Let’s not forget Dave Caldwell – thug extraordinaire.
And who was that animal who used to be a forward for Hartlepool in the 70s? – He gave me nightmares!

[lesgeo]

Aiston should have had a minimum three month ban. The worst ‘tackle’ I’ve ever seen. I felt sick.
Worse still was, on the way home, listening to his manager make little of this evil assault and clearly did not see it as worthy of a red card.

[lesgeo]

I worked with a rugby player who broke a collarbone and was playing again in 3 weeks!
When I did mine, however, it was five weeks before I could move properly and a month on that before I was even driving.

[lesgeo]

If Elliott has ever looked even vaguely like a 32 goals a season NLN striker – I’ve never seen it! (Makes for good sale advertising copy, though.)
I suspect that only Butterfield earns more than he. But who to replace Elliott?
MUST keep Smith! Must buy Smith too!
Jenkins is useful enough but is only one notch better than the developing Shrimpton and nowhere near better than a fit Beestin – in this division, at least.
A Chapman replacement must be as good but a lot cheaper. Hmm. Hope Fitz stays fit.
Move beyond these parameters and our promotion tilt could totter a bit.
All we need to succeed is quarts coming out of pint pots.

[lesgeo]

Hope you are wrong!

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Probably good that Blyth game was off.
A few more days for fitness to make a breakthrough into the more damaged members of the squad. (And a game I would not have seen will now be televised. Apologies for the selfishness.)
A slight variant on that thought is in avoiding too much fixture crowding when the strongest side is not yet available.

[lesgeo]

I disagree about the standards.
The NLN is far better than I had expected.

[lesgeo]

We want Ollie! We want Ollie!

[lesgeo]

Good to hear.

[lesgeo]

I think that he may well be a Jamie Forrester type – only with more ball skills.

[lesgeo]

Has the look to me of scoring forward in the longer term.
After Alfreton – I have raved on about his talents ever since.
He will be a mighty asset. MUST keep!

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If it’s an artificial pitch …

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Pugh may well be the lowest waged player in the squad.

[lesgeo]

It was a bit more scrappy than Tuesday. I reckon that with Clunan in – we really would have made double figures.
Interesting to know what the prior agreed fee for Smith is should we want to keep him.

[lesgeo]

Harrumph! What just happened?

[lesgeo]

Didn’t need it yesterday.
What I usually do these days is to use: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/national-league
Scroll down and there is (usually) a photo of a broadcasting unit and caption. Click on that and you are up to your eyes in commentaries from across the nation.

[lesgeo]

He has not exactly shone for a 30 goal a season striker.

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