Guy Branston Pickle

Not a great performance, but win on Saturday and it's a decent point away at a side battling for their lives. If my maths is right it's one defeat in ten in the league now, so we're definitely hard to beat. Nervous about the game on Saturday tbh but that's definitely in our conditioning

Yep, never got going at all, just a stand full of people who can't wait to whinge. 6th in the league btw

That best fans in the country bollocks can fuck right off, been absolutely embarrassing tonight. Anyone would think we were bottom four not sixth

I had these down to do well at the start of the season for some reason, currently 3 points off the bottom four so that's gone well. Considering our away form it should be a comfortable away win. Any indication if Dallas or Walker will be back?

Agree with this, but the complaint about us scoring from crosses after the Borehamwood game was an absolute beauty

It's a tough one with Luamba, I think he was given plenty of opportunities and never really did himself justice. But in his defence he was coming through in, to put it lightly, a rocky period for the club, under a succession of managers, and was in and out of the team. Ultimately i think the move was best for everyone and I really hope he goes on to have a good career

Yeah we're in the same pilates class Also I was talking about Rooney

I couldn't stand him. Never forgave him for trying to lob the keeper from the halfway line when we playing atrociously away at Alty. And the keeper was stood on his goal line His talent was so far below his ego

Absolutely, you can tell by the direction, height and weight of the pass. It wasn't just an aimless hoof

That play from Sheron for the first goal is immense. The strength to barge the guy off but then as good a pass as you'll see at any level. Classy finish from Garner too

Oh no, is that another win? 6 wins in 8 in league is it? Absolute shite, wish we had a progressive manager Great win, but not unexpected. We're gonna make the playoffs with ease. I'm sure it won't stop the bedwetting on here next time we draw a game

Sounds like Hammond is having a stormer. Funny how players will improve once they settle a bit

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I try not to respond to the same posters, but honestly there's so much unconstructive nonsense posted it's hard not to respond. Criticising Mellon because previous managerial failures we've had might hypothetically have done better with completely different squads they had in a division above Criticising the team for scoring from CROSSES ffs It's no wonder we've been mediocre for so long is it. Can't win

Sorry, I promise I'll be more negative in future. Absolutely sick of us winning games and scoring from crosses Mellon out

Course you wouldn't

Yawn. Playing that exciting attacking football did us us the world of good didn't it. Where did we finish again, remind me please?

Could Mellon have finished above 18th in League 2 with the squad Kewell had?

There's absolutely no way of knowing that for certain, and they were League 2 squads. I don't understand your point at all. This is criticising the team for scoring from crosses all over again

The failures stem from keeping Unsworth in charge for a large chunk of the season. Since Mellon came in, we're second in the form table. Sounds like a pretty decent side to me?

Considering its 17 years since we last made the playoffs it's progress no matter how you want to frame it

While I don't disagree with you, we're not exactly bursting at the seams with possible replacements are we unfortunately

And if we don't win the playoffs, people will still see it as a progressive season and something to build on for next season. No "enormous backlash". As Metty says, pure hyperbole once again on this place

MM inherited a squad used to playing pragmatic, defence first football. Implementing a different system, especially a possession based one, takes time and would probably have seen us losing more than we win, especially when we definitely didn't have the players to play that kind of football. So MM has taken a pragmatic approach, made us hard to beat and is getting consistent results (as pointed out above, Mellon's PPG would have seen us second if he'd been here since the start.) Of course we want to see entertaining football, but most people agreed when we were relegated that we needed to get out of this division at any cost. Mellon is giving us a decent chance of doing that.

This alongside the criticism of the team scoring from crosses is why I love this place