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It is time to be brutally honest.
Howe, Hippolyte and Green are not League level footballers. Don’t play them again.
I hate saying this but KVV is doing nothing and is not going to be here next season. Don’t play him again.
McAtee is a waste of space and won’t be here next season. Don’t play him again.
Out of contract players that already have a deal somewhere else oten have flu at this time of the season. Eisa, don’t play him again.
Only play people who will be here next season and we will probably pick up the couple of points we need for safety.
Jessop heold the ball up more times in 20 minutes than Loft has all season. Rowe looked very tidy in his brief spell. If we are going downthe youth route then let’s get on with it.
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Good shift from the team today.
Great to see Watson have 2 good games in a week. Back 4 all had tidy games.
Midfield solid and KVV finally looking almost fit.
If the forums racist faction could feck off to non football then I would be a happy camper.
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The difference is Derby and Ipswich could sustain a decent Championship team with 20k plus gates or even a tier 3 Premiership side with 30k plus turning up. We would get 5k in the Championship and 7k in the Premiership. Even those gates would need to sell out the away end to achieve.
Anyone with funds wanting to own a genuine lower league side I am sure could probably pick one up for free just now. I suspect you know who is bored playing football manager and is hanging on until he has sold his block of flats with football pitch attached. (Football pitch optional)
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Sanfran the plan against Crawley was obvious. Judging by the performance it was something along the lines of:
Full backs you are both decent going forward – so don’t do it.
Centre backs knock it long or back to Howard so he can knock it longer.
Midfield – Spence you are playing the best of the 3 so you are on the bench.
Karajan pass square or back at all times to someone to knock it long.
Beeston you can pass forward but try to find Crawley players and we can fight for the second ball.
Gillead if you insist on being an attacking threat I will pull you back into the middle where you can be nearly as effective as Spence would be if I didn’t need him on the bench.
Green on the rare occasions the ball manages to find you get your head down and run at high speed to the nearest Crawley player and leave the ball for him.
Loft, we will be knocking it long so for God’s sake don’t try and secure the ball and bring others into play. Instead try and control the ball whilst setting off at high speed to the nearest Crawley player. On the odd occasion you manage to take the ball with you leave it with the Crawley man.
Eisa – see Green.
Remember you forward players. I don’t want any of that Guardiola passing to one another bullshit. You know I’m looking at you Gillead. I will bring you straight back into the centre if you do.
Subs – no need to warm up because you won’t be coming on before the 80th minute no matter how badly we are doing.
Finally the chairman has a grand on us not having a shot on target. Surprisingly he got 5-1 from Skybet so that should cover Kev’s wages this week.
If you do as you are told I may allow you to play a couple of passes and maybe even have a shot at Carlisle on Tuesday.
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Many on this forum have supported our team for many years. Quite a few can beat my 56 years of suffering interspersed with occasional joy.
If we were the type to walk away when the club are struggling we would have probably done it before now.
Cox inherited a dogs breakfast of a team who regularly got spanked by fairly poor L2 teams.
He managed to plug some gaps by bringing Brown, Howard and Karajan from the ranks of the unemployed and deserves some credit for that. He then brought Taft and Howe in who both have improved the squad. He has been unlucky that 2 of last seasons best players (Van Veen and McAtee) have contributed about 10 minutes of quality each in the whole season albeit for different reasons.
We are far from a good side but we don’t get spanked anymore. We have stopped letting in goals that pub teams would be embarrassed about. Every 2 or 3 games we even play a bit of football.
We would all love to be in better shape and we all have great memories of much better times but I am not sure Cox is the culprit here.
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Lucky to get nil.
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Team won the last game and are pretty much safe from relegation. All quiet on the Swann front.
Forum is only busy when we have something to moan about.
We often seem to forget to turn up against what is usually a bang average Crawley team. That would get things moving again.
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Loved GA when he first came in. He did inherit a decent bunch of players when compared to recent times and no doubt he turned them into a good team.
Once his mate left him he set teams up not to lose – I think they call it managing the game. Absolute bollocks when you try this with L1 and L2 level players. They simply make too many mistakes which is why they are in L1 and L2.
If this particular penny drops with Cox then he could turn out to be a good manager. I hope so.
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We looked like we should easily have been safe in League 1 a couple of years ago at this stage of the season and we all know how that ended.
Over 50 years of the Iron does make you cynical but I will be a lot happier if we put 14 points between us and the relegation places.
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Interesting though Sutton has been a first choice in a resurgent team since going to Bradford and Wooton is doing very well at a level only slightly below ours.
Both seem highly raTed at their new clubs.
Young players that we bring in do seem to get a better chance to establish themselves despite poor early performances – I’m thinking the likes of Loft, Green and Hippolyte all had some stinkers but got enough chances to settle in and improve.
I think all fans (and I include myself in this) could be a bit more supportive of our own young players.
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