SweeperKeeper

Result irrelevant, performance irrelevant, give the youth team a day out

Still don't believe we are remotely approaching a sale, either.  That's not the wording of somebody working with a potential buyer.

I half expected them to lay into the fans for the pitch invasion, so there's a tiny positive there that they realised that would be the worst thing to say right now.

The announcement that we will have the same budget is a death knell.  Having to build an entire new squad on the peanuts we are paying will see us in a relegation fight next season.

We're up against settled teams with bigger budgets and decent players and managers for that division.  A bargain basement squad with one half-striker is going straight down.

To be honest, I'd rather spare Shez the ignominy.  Let him ride off into the sunset in Spain.

33 minutes ago, No Pyro No Party said:

Does anyone know or have an idea of the budget versus the likes of Wrexham, Notts County, Halifax, etc.?

Wrexham are miles above us budgetwise.  The likes of Paul Mullin, Ollie Palmer, Ben Tozer are going to be on more than £800pw.  If they don't go up this season, the owners will splash the cash next season - no way we are competing with them financially.

Notts County signed Matt Palmer on a two year contract recently.  Again, hard to believe they are paying peanuts like we are, and they're averaging nearly 7,000 on their gate.

Halifax are only getting 2,000 even though they're having an excellent season, and don't have a big backer.  In an ideal world I expect we will have a bigger budget than them, but I'm not sure we'll spend it better than them.

4 hours ago, mcfluff1985 said:

Please don't use metric measurements when discussing football. Thanks 

Jesus fucking Christ, on a forum where people think Diarra should be a striker and Bahamboula should be judged on how many headers he wins, I'll discuss football however I want.  Thanks.

Nicky Adams hasn't taken a penalty in normal time in the last fifteen years of his career and has missed one in a shootout for us, but of course he is now first choice penalty take amongst Latics fans for reasons.

1 minute ago, Wardie said:

Well that was shit result.

 

Anyone above Barrow appear to be out of the mire but it is still possible to avoid the drop, with a fucking miracle** obviously. Injuries, suspensions, appalling penalties and some questionable decisions from referees and Sheridan have more or less sunk the ship.

I don't get it, the sudden collapse. Is that imbecile rocking the boat again from within or is it down to a lack of talent and Sheridan unable to get any more out of them? Three more home games on the trot, the crowd is dwindling again and very tough run-in. If Sheridan is working for free, you wouldn't blame him for just walking away but I don't see that happening.

**Stevenage docked points for sham Covid claims. 

 

We won when we had an attacking threat

Now we don't, and we're losing

Our only attacking plan is hoping Keillor-Dunn smacks it in from 20m away

You can't play 95% of the season without a striker on the pitch and expect anything else

Jesus Christ this is a new low

3 minutes ago, Londonboy said:

Shez defo not out, but poor from him again not going for broke last 15 mins. Could bring on Bam, Harry and Couto, but just doesn't roll the dice enough for me when things are clearly not working

What we need to bring on more than anything is a striker.  We haven't got one.

Vaughan and Bahamboula could put in another twenty through balls before the end of the match, but Hope will be twenty yards away from any of them.

5 minutes ago, Careca9 said:

not quite but it’s hard to see where the win is coming from. They just keep fucking up at key moments 

Never mind wins, even goals look unlikely.  We have had not threat at all today. Is Hope even on the pitch any more?

Can't think of a season with a worse penalty conversion rate

11 minutes ago, kowenicki said:

They do. We are not handling those at all well.

And there we go

We definitely look better for having Obadeyi in the team, he's linking up with Fage well.

Whelan is having another poor match, wasting the ball too much and putting us under pressure.

We've shaded it so far, but have the feeling that Exeter have another couple of gears once they get going.  They look dangerous on crosses.

For me, Huddersfield and Bradford have more of a derby feel than Preston.

Macclesfield never felt like a derby despite being closer than Blackburn.

Here's hoping we stay up and Stockport win the National League, it will be good to have that local rivalry back.

8 hours ago, JohnnyPimp said:

 

55% win average. Must’ve won the wrong games.

He seemed to take a lot of stick for their playoffs defeat to Lincoln last season, their fans have been out for him ever since.

2 hours ago, astottie said:

M'Changama playing for the Comoros in the African Nations Cup.

Almost ten years since he joined us, time goes quick.

He's had a pretty decent career in the second tier in France.

10 minutes ago, Ogdenwoodwhittle said:

Can't be same Hunt, he's not on crutches

Played 80 matches for us the two seasons after he joined permanently

17 hours ago, oafcmetty said:

Laurie Walker becomes Stevenage's 5th signing of the window

That should keep them around the relegation zone

15 hours ago, LaticMark said:

Really sad news that Danny Philliskirk's daughter was taken ill several weeks ago and diagnosed with Hepatoblasma, cancer in both the liver and lungs! 

 

Our thoughts are with the whole Philliskirk family.

 

https://www.afcfylde.co.uk/club-update-on-the-absence-of-danny-philliskirk/

Really sad news.  

Hope our club will organise something for the family 

1 hour ago, Londonboy said:

Think we can add Hopes name to ex players....now Kief has gone can't see him getting a game....so more dead wood

Doubt that.  It's not like we have much in the way of an alternative, unless we start playing with just one up front.

1 hour ago, Oldham82 said:

Mohammed sylla signs for aldershot town

New home of Lawrie Walker too.

15 hours ago, unsworth blue said:

had to wag school that afternoon and ended up having to deposit the school Head Boy in a stream in a park near school as he caught me on way to wagging it

Did you grow up in the Beano?!

1 minute ago, nzlatic said:

We were 16th after 32 matches when he got the boot. We were absolutely nowhere near the playoffs or even looking like we could challenge.  Kewell's approach of course led to a lot more goals, but in the grand scheme of things it didn't have us in that much of a better place.

 

But as with most managerial discussions, it doesn't really matter. There are much bigger reasons for our position and until they change we're always going to be scratching around the bottom few positions in this league.

I agree that Kewell wasn't going to get us anywhere near the playoffs, but 16th is a lot better for our long term future than 24th.

Curle needs to throw a bit more caution to the wind, particularly against our fellow strugglers, if we are going to reach safety.

11 minutes ago, nzlatic said:

A high win percentage isn't much good when your loss percentage is even higher.

Win one, lose one = 3 points

Two draws = 2 points

1.5 points a game is playoff form, 1 point a game is relegation form. 

You need to go for wins, even if sometimes it backfires.