yarddog73

No but that's not a bad thing.

If that crowd today doesn't worry the board I'm not sure what will, Mellon is taking the club backwards at the minute.

That's served us well hasn't it. Quickly losing patience with this guy and to me he's playing a game with the club, about three of them from Thursdsy deserved to start today the rest of them were shite, he just rewards failure week after week. Why on earth wouldn't you reward a couple of youth players with at least a spot on the bench for their efforts, mans behaving like a cock now, I hate the way he bemoans everything yet changes absolutely fuck all. How does Norwood even start today we played infinitely better without him Thursday but somehow he strolls back in. Fucking comical management from these two who are quickly giving dumb and dumber a run for their money.

Dead rubber today and he picks the clowns who've let us all down the past couple of months. Fucking dinosaur

Respect to you for that Phil, we've lost some great and loyal supporters the past 12 months, many of them I am privileged to call friends.

What I want to know regardless of whether we look good or not is. Why when we were top of and 8 game form table less than two months ago have we slipped to the bottom of it just 9 games later, it's almost bizarre.

It saves paying out lump sums, paying them weekly is probably budgeted for and easier to absorb. With regards to Reid he was apparently already on a warning so he's a lucky boy to be picking wages up for nothing regardless of whether he is contracted. Not seen Shelton around for weeks neither which is strange, my feeling is he probably needs a break and the club are supporting him in that, he looked fragile towards the end and I had some sympathy for him as it just didn't work out for him playing alongside Sheron. Having looked at the squad you'd say there are big decisions to be made over a number of first steamers who look out of Micky's plans including; Norman Shelton Willoughby Nuttall Ward Reid That's on top of the rumours I'm hearing that some players (under contract) want out. Whichever way you look at it if these players can't be shifted they'll have to be brought back in to the fold as it's unsustainable at our level to have around 10k a week in wages going out for zero return.

Oh dear the apologist has turned up, as a 'club' they've performed piss poor in this regard since Frank walked in the door two years ago, you want to give them another summer without anybody asking a question or receiving any answers?. Something is fundamentally wrong with the recruitment of players yet we appear to be just ploughing down the same route again and again, what's changing this summer then?.

Err ask him to stay at home, they call it gardening leave in most working environments. You certainly don't leave the bad influence in the group, it's basic man management.

Now we are a charity...

Anyone actually going?.

We couldn't even be arsed with having a go in the FA Trophy so it's a bit rich the club moaning about a competition we'll do well to get to the third round in for some time. I'd have been happier with a statement in regards to the car crash shit show we've witnessed the last couple of months but each to their own.

Which makes Mellon post Oxford a strange one, surely when he took the job he knew the state of the squad, it's okay him exiling half of them but they are still entitled to draw their wages.

I think we have, 5th with nine games to play suggests we've bottled it as well.

They are probably linked and it's no coincidence our form dropped considerably and Mellon turned Unsworth overnight when he realised he had 17 players he'd have to carry forward in to next season. That's my opinion on it, honestly for League 2 I wouldn't be keeping more than about two players and one of them I dislike. Saying all that you should never turn down any opportunity to progress which it looks like we have this season.

What's revealing about that then? We've been posting that for weeks on here and pointing out our concerns, has he just realised?.

10 game winless league run is the third worst in the past 20 years and it's still going. 10/11 season under Dickov we went 12 in the League without a win and the grim Kelly/Dunn run that went on for 11 winless in 15/16. We've been served up some right shite the last couple of decades but this latest run is right up there with the worst and the least expected, actually in 5th with games in hand with nine to play, awful. Not a chance I'm bothering to watch that shite tomorrow in the flesh.

That's the weird thing draws away at Dagenham and Halifax I'd happily take particularly within the away record as a whole this season so them sort of boos I just don't get. Booing players on needs calling out as that's about as useful to the team as that City fan who kept the ball from Modric missed penalty the other night leaving Silva stood there stewing for 30 seconds. They've been booed off a few times at home even at half time this season which I understand particularly when the desire and effort hasn't been there. It's not for me I just normally go early and the apathy of the last decade still exists for me, I find us almost comical to watch at home at times, it's literally like watching park football.

I wasn't too far away yet some still knocked my post. Only about 4% of our fans predicted we would finish as low as 10th, fair play to them as I actually voted we would go up as Champions Does anybody still see this season as progress, that was banded about on here a lot a couple of months ago but I don't hear it now.

They were shit long before the booing started. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation so effort is probably needed on both parts, I've got to say though this group is the most detached I've ever seen from the fans and from the outside as has been mentioned it looks like it's full of over flated egos and bad attitudes which for an older group of players is just weird.

Right footed Defender Centrehalf Pub player Snails pace Sorry he fails the criteria, according to statbomb he needs three of the above.

Forgot to add that on top of the four right footed centrehalves we played across our back four last night we played another one in front of them in an holding midfield role so that's five players who effectively play the same position in the same team. Talking about McGahey it was painful watching him shuffle about like a three legged hippo last night, honestly if he's the answer we are fucked, Halifax were so much more dynamic and forward thinking on the ball and made our players look like sloths at times.

If Darren Royle wasn't related to a club legend he'd have been out on his ear months ago, he's clearly out of his depth and that's before you take in to account him undermining Shez to get his pal in the building at the start of the Rothwells tenure which to me will set us back 3 years, he's fucking useless and we are still no clearer what the 'plan' is. He's making the football decisions so the buck stops with him, even in the last transfer window we saw the same mistakes being made and personally I'm reluctant to pump money into something I just don't feel engaged in anymore, sad that really with the opportunity we've been given but the silence out of he club and the lack of communication on so many levels is piss poor. For me there's something fundamentally wrong with the way the business is being run day to day and until the culture changes around the place and plans are put in place for us to actually improve and progress then we will continue to struggle. No stats system in the world would allow us to play the best part of two seasons with no recognisable rightback whilst continuing to harvest the same footed centrehalf (we had four right footed centrehalves playing across the back four last night - quite astonishing really) or a plethora of strikers who get no service, recruitment is being overseen by fucking idiots and whoever is in charge of it should be first out of the door. At the moment we are indebted to the Rothwells money but that isn't infinite, we can't continue to run the business so poorly, it's actually amateur on so many levels and needs addressing, structurally we need an overhaul because nobody will buy in to this as it stands and trust me if this isn't resolved now it will roll in to next season. Unbelievably we still had something to play for last night but only 380 of 1900 fans who'd bought tickets initially could be arsed and that's with only two games to play and a play off place quite incredibly still up for grabs, if that didn't make the Rothwells sit up and think then I don't know what will. If I were them I'd rip it up and start again but unfortunately they are all in bed together when really they should be putting business before pleasure. It's a big mess and with every passing year a missed opportunity yet nothing is likely to change, apart from the crowds slowly declining - again.

I read that it was to ensure every player gets a three week break before season starts so yes that would be the reason.

He's been shit, we looked better without him for an hour and in comparison to Garner who I'm presuming had the same poor service he was miles behind, he's scored about 10 from open play so he's hardly pulling any trees up, we've also not won a game in the last eleven he's been involved in which is some record. The fact he thinks he can bitch at everyone all the time despite being absolutely shite himself pretty much sums him up for me.