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Someone sold the club’s soul to the devil in the late 80s. We had our fun in the pinch me years. Probably got another 20 years of this ahead of us.

Aldershot pumped 4-0 at Maidenhead. Halifax lost at Hartlepool who just got pumped 7-1 at Gateshead. What a league.

It’s a fair point. Hard to ask for better owners, facilities being invested in, a manager who’s had success at pretty much every club he’s managed, a squad with plenty of quality players who’ve had success elsewhere and are largely highly rated by fans of those clubs. Yet collectively as a team we have not lost the ability to regularly chuck in shit performances and to crumble under the slightest pressure. It’s been the same for years. It’s absolutely bizarre. Mellon will get the summer clearly, so all we can do is hope he’s identified the issue and will have it fixed for next season.

Finish mid table but we win the passing a lot? I’m not sure that’d wash.

That’s true but wasn’t the Wealdstone guy highly thought of and touted by some as someone we should be looking at? Went to Notts County and results have been awful.

It’s making an already frustrating game unnecessarily more frustrating to watch!

I know Fylde will be taking it easy now but we are showing that we’re capable of playing decent football. But all it takes is for the opposition to apply a bit of pressure on the ball and we become absolutely abject.

He’d say it wasn’t deliberate. But I don’t think that’s the rule. His arms were stretched wide. If that’s a defender in the area then it’s a penalty. Kitching dragged back deliberately off the ball when overlapping into space. No foul. No play on waved.

And how long would you give that guy to build that?

One of the worst of a bad season. Conlon pulled back off the ball. No foul. Dallas taken out late. No foul.

You’ll be able to get a refund if you can’t watch live. Email: nationalleaguelive@streamamg.com They should refund you if you explain what has happened.

Then I’m not sure you needed to pay. Apologies for being the bearer of bad news but I think that match replays get put up for free. Buying the pass doesn’t give you any special access to replays, just the live feed. I may be wrong but I’ve been stung by this before.

Not sure if there’s a set time for that either. Just need to refresh near kick off.

They’re on the schedule link. Each match listed there. Nearer kick off the match will then have an arrow to click through to the stream. Replays can be totally random in my experience in terms of when they’re put up to watch. Next morning, 3 days, a week. Could be anything!

Big game now for Mellon. We’re at the getting angry at interviews stage of the manager ousting process, so he needs wins fast.

Where would player signing on fees or agent fees come into this? Could they be included in that £100k?

He’ll probably go to 4 at the back next season won’t he? If so then Raglan and Hobson will be the likely starter. Hogan and Sutton as back up or if he switches to a back 3. If that’s the case I’d rather have Hogan in that role than bringing someone new in.

The plan might be to use him as an experienced, popular squad player rather than building the whole first team around him.

Wonder whether Hogan is planning on coaching? He always talks really well about the game. I'd be happy with him staying on as a squad player with some coaching thrown in. Possibly getting him ready for the main job further down the line. Granted, this is all speculation based solely on the fact he's a captain and speaks well in interviews!!

I find us a really enjoyable team to watch now. I saw the Brazil game on tv and went to Wembley last night. Virtually every player looks totally comfortable on the ball. We're more attacking now, but in a patient, controlled almost continental way. And seeing as we were missing 15 players through injury it makes the performances even more impressive. When it comes to tournament football, Brazil wouldn't be allowed to get away with the fouling they did. But also, we need to be clinical. If we had been clinical in these games we'd have won both comfortably. I'm excited for the next tournament and the next few after that too - lots of young talented players in the team and coming through.

He got 16 goals in 43 games last season. I think he’ll get offers if he’s interested. Or he might just go put his feet up in Cheltenham for a year whilst getting paid by us just to wind you up!

You can have all the opinions you like. Presume I’m ok to comment on them. Seeing as Nuttall is out on loan right now I’m not sure why you targetted him as being someone you think isn’t arsed about playing.

Fair enough. Sorry, I didn’t realise you knew him.

I think most of the players we’re looking to move on will get offers from elsewhere. They may have been poor for us but most if not all have had good spells elsewhere. The wages may have been a problem with moving them up to now, but in the summer they may be faced with one year on a higher wage but not playing at all vs a 2 year deal elsewhere on lower wages but they’ll probably be playing. It’d be more harmful to a career to stay where they were.

Thompson has been replaced hasn’t he? I remember someone being mentioned as having come into that role a while back.