[Rene Artois]

For me, left back is a problem area for us. No Ogle today will mean that right back will also be a problem.
No Butterfield is a big loss. It’ll be a hum drum midfield.
Their front two are mobile and will give our centre backs a tough ride.
I think we are going to struggle today.
Sadly, my revised prediction is:

Saints 2-0 Iron.

I do so hope that I’m wrong!

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We will struggle today without those two.
I think I’ll have to revise my prediction.

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I see there are no NLN games being televised tomorrow?

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Exeter’s

“Anyone can join the foundation.
By paying just £10 per month (£120 per year), you become eligible for the monthly £1,000 prize and weekly £100 prizes”

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Awaywego wrote:

Where you being Rene it’s being established that Bostons lottery is actually Sheffield united’s scheme.

Yeah, we know.
“A minimum of 45% of the stake money shall be donated to the Pilgrims. The remainder goes to fund the prizes and the lottery’s operating expenses.”
Boston.

“A minimum of 20% of the stake money, and any proceeds after prizes and expenses have been deducted, shall be donated to the beneficiary of the Super Draw Lotto: the Sheffield United Community Foundation, Cherry Street, Sheffield S2 4SU.”
Sheff Utd.

What you should be doing is finding out what’s odds of winning in ours against theirs.

Maybe someone connected with our scheme would like to inform us of the number of monthly participants?

other than that I’ll point you in the direction of the Euro lottery deffo more bang for your buck there.

I have recurring entries for Euro, Lotto & Set For Life via DD.

I do hope the club will tell us how many have entered and how much they are taking out of it, by law it’s something the club should be doing.

Is it (percentage taken) in the small print somewhere?

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Mansfield use these:

£5 a go with a top prize of £800 / £900

Fans Group Lottery Fundraising

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Some of us weren’t impressed with Jimbob from day one.
However, it is what it is and our hands are tied. We can’t afford to waste money.
I wonder if we’re still paying any former managers under ‘settlement agreements’ … Hill?

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Sadly, it’s not for me.
£10 stake with the potential to win £250 once a month.

Boston United’s scheme:
£1 stake with the potential to win £2,000 or one of two £250 runner up prizes or one of ten consolation prizes of £50 each WEEK.

A 25:1 ratio on our sceheme.
A 2,000:1 ratio on Boston’s.

Your £10 with Boston has the potential to win you £20,000

The same £10 with us only has the potential to win you £250

20,000:250

Potentially 80 times more bang for your bucks with Boston.

Yeah, yeah… it’s not about winning money, it’s about financially subsidising/supporting SUFC.

However, to make this a success with the general public – you need a bigger potential return.

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mistertonmick wrote:

I watched the Brackley v Banbury game on the weekend pass and thought Hall looked good

Agreed. He’ll be a handful tomorrow.

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Still, we saddle up and ride again tomorrow.
Happy hunting guys.

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Is this the start of the longest run in ever.
Plenty of games for us to achieve our objective.
However, we need to make an impact starting tomorrow at Brackley.
We’ve got to win to prevent Tamworth opening up a safety net.

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We need this guy to be on song tomorrow.
Free rein to do as he likes.
Let him run the show.
In fact – I’d let him pick the team and make the substitutions.

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morris_left_foot wrote:

Watching online, that felt like two points dropped, despite Boston hitting the woodwork late on. Will we regret not killing this one off…?

Déjà vu.

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Tamworth smashed Warrington 3-0 at Cantilever Park on Tuesday.

Warrington have won six of their 13 home games this season.

Tomorrow, The Lambs go to Darlo, who have just the one win from their thirteen home games this season.

Darlo 0-4 Tamworth @ 25/1

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We need to shackle Hall & Newton.
Both look decent.
Matwasa, the little tricky right winger looks good too.

Dan Lewis their keeper will be 42 in June – hard and low boys. Hard and low.

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ironfromafar wrote:

Forgot my Tamworth prediction.. bit early but im going for score draw in front of over 5000.

3-3 has a ring to it

Too early for me to throw a prediction out there yet.
Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Sorry Rene, I meant the Knutts. Bobby and his family of Knutts. Back on topic, I tend to agree with you.

From the article linked to above:

“Before 1950s Scunthorpe United were known as the Knuts. The origin is uncertain but it is generally accepted as being when they won one of the local charity cups. The vicar of Frodingham, the Rev Cryspant Rust said “that indeed Scunthorpe and Lindsey United were a tough (k)nut to beat”. It stuck from 1910ish to about 1950.”

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Hopefully Jimbob will deploy an attack minded team.
As everyone is saying, no point in setting up for a draw.
A point is no good. We need all three.

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£2k a week at this level is mental!

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1-1 is the shortest correct scorecast at odds of 24/5

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Ferrite wrote:

Rene Artois wrote:

Losing the lead twice and all three points in the 91st minute was hard to take.

I’m old enough to remember when scoring 2 goals in a month was cause for celebration, let alone twice in one half!

I recokon Rene’s old enough to remember ‘the Knuts’

No, I’m old but not old enough to have ever known us as ‘The Knuts’

Scunthorpe United

Nb. Obviously we only dropped two points against Boston the other night.

The timing of their equaliser made it feel like a defeat though.

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Sanfran49 wrote:

Martin Paterson in at Burton Albion.

Good for him.
Appointed manager today.
Good luck to him.
Hopefully he’ll keep them up.

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Losing the lead twice and all three points in the 91st minute was hard to take.

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We don’t lose when Butterfield scores.

He’s netted 7 times in six games.

Of those six games:
W5 D1 GF18 GA2

When Butterfield is on song – so are the Iron!

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16 times we have scored first and gone on to win the game.

5 times we have scored first and gone on to draw.

If we score first, we don’t lose.

3 times the opposition scored first and we went on to loose.

On one occasion the opposition scored first but we went on to win.

On one occasion it was a 0-0 draw.

From winning / losing positions we are 7 points in deficit.

Drew five games where we were leading.
(minus ten points)
Won one game, coming from behind.
(plus three points)

We have to be alert for 90 minutes plus.

Play right up to the 45 plus X minutes!
Get at them at a high tempo from the 46th minute after HT.
Maintain the intensity from the 80th to the 90th plus X minute.
In fact, increase the intensity & tempo from the 80th minute to hopefully ‘punish’ the part timers.

Easy to say – more difficult to achieve.

Knowing your (our) weaknesses can become a strength.

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Looks like Jimbob doesn’t rate him.

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“Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
Andy Grove.

We are less than the sum of our parts.

With our budget, squad, player wages, stadium (maybe it should be more ‘intimidating’ for teams to come and play at GP) and level of support – we should be dominating this league.

2-0 (four occasions) is our must frequent score.

1-0 and 1-1 are joint second most frequent on three occasions.

For me, we don’t kill games off.

In 18 of our 26 games, we’ve either won or lost by no more than 2 goals or drawn on 18 occasions from 26 games.

70% of our games are tight, nervy affairs… where so far, we have managed to win more than we’ve lost.

Of those 18 tight games (scorelines with a differential of +|- 2 goals) here’s our performance:

P18 W9 D6 L3 Pts 33 Potential Pts 54

Of those six drawn games:

Scun 1-1 P Sports (0-0 HT) – we conceded 81st min equaliser.

Alfreton 2-2 Scun (1-2 HT) – Scales off in 6th min. Conceded 55th min equaliser.
Led twice in game.
Ten men for nearly an entire game!

Chorley 1-1 Scun (0-1 HT) – conceded 47 min equaliser.

Boston 1-1 Scun (0-0 HT) – conceded 85th min equaliser.

Buxton 0-0 Scun

Scun 2-2 Boston (2-1 HT) – conceded 90+1 min equaliser.
Led twice in game.

On average we score our first goal in the 31st minute (home & away)

On average we concede our first goal in the 45th minute.

At Home, on average we concede in the 49th minute.

Away, on average we concede in the 42 minute.

We seem very vulnerable 5 minutes before and after half time and in the last 10 minutes of games.
3 of those 5 drawn games listed above have seen equalisers scored in the 80th minute plus.

“A little reconnaissance is butter than being ambushed”
Officer Crabtree; Allo Allo.

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NL Embargoes
https://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/downloads/rules

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Jesus.
If Brackley & Tamworth both beat us and Scarborough take all 9 points from their Sat – Tues – Sat schedule… then they’ll be level on points with us.

13/01 Farsley v Boro
16/01 Boro v Boston
20/01 Boro v Peterboro Sports

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cassidystash wrote:

We’re not in the EFL.

Exactly. Like I said, maybe the NL did a bit of copy & pasting?
No point in them reinventing the wheel.

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