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MM’s interview today he spoke highly of the Rothwell family and Darren… “People I couldn’t speak highly enough of, unbelievable, absolutely terrific, fantastic people, BUT what’s been put together at the minute isn’t matching up to what needs to be done…..” Do I detect that to be a dig, suggesting that in purely a footballing sense, there’s a complete lack of business acumen between them? “Other things going on” - I suspect that despite their amicable personal friendships, he’s challenged their naiveity in decisions made with personnel, length of contracts, budget, etc. His hands are now tied indefinitely, as he’s without the tools he needs to ‘win football matches’. Professionally, they are no longer seeing eye to eye, for now, they are at a crossroads. He’s laid his cards down - they all need to sit down and talk through this mess. Whatever the outcome is of these talks, it’s going to cost the Rothwell’s a significant amount of money. They either dance to MM’s tune, or they pay him off and start what they started 2 seasons ago, all over again. so where does the majority of blame lie? The board? Unsworth? Mellon? Norwood, Sheron, all, or A N Other?

As leader of the management team hierarchy, Darren should stand up and be counted. He shouldn’t be exempt from a Q & A at the next fans forum. Frank, Darren and Mickey should give our supporters some of their time. The meat and potato pie supper is pretty decent to be fair.

what about the other six? You must have Hope in our Gardners?

Atherton is currently serving a 4 match ban for a second straight red this season, so, his first team debut ain’t happening anytime soon.

Starters from 1 - 11 v Chesterfield on Saturday…..MM use his most experienced / eldest squad members and to be fair, they were right on it from the get go. Pointing Lundstram in the right direction also helped massively. ‘Kids’ who were 100% fit like Walker, Sachdev, Hobson and Hammond, either made the bench or sat this one out. Coincidence or not, MM got a gig out of them and for now, maybe that’s the way to go.

Yarddog certainly did. It more than crossed my mind too. Not unexpected but the result suits them more than it suits us.

He won the MOM award.

He was also in attendance at the Tuesday night match v Boreham Wood on 13th February.

Garner and Fondop start. However, they’ve both put serious shifts in Sat, Tue, Sat, Tue or whatever, whilst Norwood has been sidelined. Options from the bench tomorrow if required, hopefully we are out of sight so Dallas gets some game time instead, rather than rushing Norwood back. Ohh for an ‘In an Ideal World Scenario’. 3-0 up @ 65 mins…. Then again, we could be 0-2 down!

I can’t understand why we don’t start our home games with fire in our bellies, take the game to the opposition from the very first whistle, and set out our stall to score the first goal. Once that’s achieved, surely our opponents will then feel the need to ‘come out and play’ which should work in our favour as MM can then potentially deploy the same kind of tactics that work so well away. We currently start so slowly, which more often than not, affords the away side the initiative, leaving 65 travelling supporters singing loudly whilst our Atheticos bite their nails. Ultimately, we all get a bit / very restless and the team then struggle to raise their game. I think our game management at home would be so much better if we just went for the jugular from the off, set up to dominate the play, get the crowd fired up and go all out to get the first goal. We just don’t break sweat first 20 minutes. Perhaps if we did then the tone of the game might be set differently. Might be worth a try and see how it goes!?

Luke Garrard and Lloyd Doyley, wow, what had they been smokin on the coach up!?

Counting blue dots Not including the Chaddy, only 141 seats remain available across the remaining 3 sides of the ground. The majority of these (83) are in the JF Family Stand.

Fair play, another correct call.

MM’s 2.29 minute interview on the official bore all the hallmarks of < please insert >

Well, It looks like Reidy has “cooked his goose” at Christmas after all.