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Agree Cass. Needs someone more media savvy than I but assume we should embrace Twitter and Facebook at least.
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Absolutely right Awaywego. Twice as far to Brackley but takes about 20 minutes more.
And you can see the whole game when you get there.
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Well done Boston. Strange team – only bother to score if they absolutely have to.
Won’t miss their away end though. Worst of the season with too many people in too small a space.
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Nelson is not going to come here for a 1 year assistant manager gig so debate is irrelevant.
Butler will likely do what 90% of new managers do and bring in one of his mates. New managers like to be sure of 1 friendly face in the changing room.
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You can only judge on what you find 64 and I have not seen any of that evidence. As you probably can tell from other posts I am not a great fan of any kind of racism or of right wing nut jobs so had I seen such evidence it might have changed my views on how nice a guy he was.
Either way he proved to be not very good at managing a full time professional football team so I am delighted the board found him too expensive to rehire.
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I did not want Jimmy Dean to be given a new contract for footballing reasons but this OP is crass beyond belief.
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Don’t know how many games you saw Gurney to reach that conclusion. I saw every home game and about a dozen away games. Saw live streams of another 5 or so away games.
All season we have been the footballing equivalent of flat track bullies. Any team that could be beaten with half an hours effort by a bunch of vastly superior footballer were despatched, often with a goal or three to spare.
Any team with basic organisation, prepared to go 5-4-1 or 4-5-1 and work hard for the full 90 and we were clueless. Odd flashes of high quality from Butterfield, Smith and Roberts sneaked us the odd win in these games but usually we huffed and puffed without much idea until gifting the opposition a goal or two with a schoolboy error.
Tactically we were outfought and out thought by most of the top ten clubs. One other observation is that I never saw another team where I would have swapped more than 2 of our players for their players.
In my world this means the only reason we were not promoted was our coaching team was not up to the task. If they had started poorly and got better then I would say give them a chance to keep up the improvement but the truth of it is they started out OK and struggled to stay there.
I challenge anyone to tell me in any way the team improved during the season?
I challenge anyone to tell me a player that improved during the season? (apart from those that magically improved when they played on loan for other teams).
I like Dean and was desperate for him to learn how to manage full time footballers. If he had a contract already for next season I would honour it.
Would I give him and his staff a new contract for next season? No.
Having said all that if Jimmy gets the gig I will be there supporting my club, my team and my manager next season but without great expectations.
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If you have any doubt that a manager or coach will not last a season then you shouldn’t be offering them a contract at all.
What does a monthly or even a three monthly contract say to a manager and to the players he is trying to recruit?
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Of course not. I would not renew the coaching staff’s contract but that’s just an opinion.
Will still be there at home. Probably won’t do the dozen or so away games next year if Jimmy is still here and still hasn’t worked out how to play away.
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New manager, assistant manager, coach and goalkeeping coach.
Not fussed about the other stuff.
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Ignore what I said about Billy Heath. Better him than old big hair.
Nothing against getting the ball in the box quickly by the way Bill. It’s the constant petty fouling, play acting and time wasting that is a major part of what Alfreton do that I don’t like.
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WG have you ever watched Alfreton play?
It’s effective but it’s not what I would call football.
A massive no to Billy Heath for me.
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Boston website just has a link to the park and walk page on our site.
Too late to direct Boston fans to John Leggat and Kingsway with Iron fans to town car parks and Donny Road?
For 98% of fans of both clubs this will not be an issue but 2% of 8,000 is a fair few dickheads.
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Walking back together might be even more problematic Ironawe.
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