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1 hour ago, Boyyou said:

A lot will depend on how we plan to set up next season. Think we need pacy wide forwards alongside the likes of Fondop (if still here) or Garner, if we lean towards a  4-3-3. 

I may as well say it first - 7-2-1

44 minutes ago, Littlemoor Lad said:

Just how many club's below the premier league are living beyond their means?

Most would be my guess.

Twas ever thus

7 minutes ago, GKing521 said:

Nuttall 3,000 a week and has a yearly increase bolted in.

 

Other duds have increases bolted into their deals as well. It’s one of the main reasons MM has been so down. 

 

And someone with his experience didn't know this before he took over?

12 minutes ago, Littlemoor Lad said:

But is it?

They seem to be making it harder and harder for the smaller sides to progress/survive in any way, shape or form

They won't be satisfied until there's only elite football and every single penny stays within it.

It looks like that from our perspective but in the 30 years we've been sliding down the leagues there have been plenty heading in the opposite direction

19 minutes ago, Boyyou said:

Paul Cook addressing Chesterfield supporters at promotion celebrations 

"...we need each other and we should always be there for each other when times aren't so good. There will be dark days ahead, when those dark times come make sure we stay together strong.

"I think the National League is so much tougher than people will know. Every game is really hard, especially when you are the biggest club in the division.  Everybody wants to beat you."

 

Perhaps some of our fans should take note.

How would he know? - we're the biggest club..

14 minutes ago, LaticMark said:

 

That reminded me of when my Dad took me to Maine Road in 1977 to watch us play Northwich Victoria in the 4th Round of the FA Cup. The Vics switched it to Maine Road as we were a big Division 2* club then! (We won 3 - 1).

 

* which is equivalent to the Championship for our younger readers!

I think 2003 (Farnborough v Arsenal) was the last time it was allowed

2 hours ago, Littlemoor Lad said:

Goalkeeper's have always been overly protected and now it's the turn of the defender's 

What there's such stupidly fine margins, the attacking player should get the benefit of the doubt or it's time to pack it all in.

 

Had it been the other way around, I'd put my house on it not even being checked

Big club rules!

If that was the case Coventry wouldn't have been given the equalising penalty

5 minutes ago, Littlemoor Lad said:

Offside should be a yard not a nose hair

It's bollocks

But if you say it's a yard then there would be an argument about it being 37 inches.  Let's face it - if the handball rule hadn't descended into complete farce there wouldn't have been extra time at all

49 minutes ago, Littlemoor Lad said:

That yesterday was disgraceful 

Time some of the offside rules were updated

|Why?  It's exactly what VAR was for and it worked perfectly (albeit disappointingly)

6 minutes ago, kowenicki said:

Now that really does kill the ‘magic’ of the cup. 

Quite.  Then EFL can't complain that the PL is just engendering change for its own financial interests, and then put forward a proposal to do exactly the same.

13 hours ago, yarddog73 said:

Surely teams like Oxford would struggle with 500 home fans if that was the case?.

 

 

They did

I'm estimating this lasts three minutes, which I roughly how long it takes to say 'get rid' 38 times

And now the EFL wants to allow lower ranked clubs freedom to seek a switch of venue when drawn at home to a big club. Yet another nail in the cup's coffin

Are there any budget restrictions etc. in this league?

1 minute ago, BradKnowles1 said:

What is the point in Gateshead competing if they can’t go up

they didn't know - were still trying to sort it out

2 minutes ago, JED said:

BBC confirm Altrincham get the bye and Solihull play Halifax.

Although the BBC did have Norman down as playing centre forward last week...  Worth a go I'd have said!

49 minutes ago, mcfluff1985 said:

Must be something already in the rules from that NL statement that means it is what it is. Shite in a lot of ways that though

Whoever finished 8th didn't earn a place in the play offs

Just now, disjointed said:

So Gateshead have played this season for fuck all, surely the league would have informed any tams who didn't meet the criteria at the start of the season. 

The stadium is ok - it's the lack of tenure of security that's the problem

5 hours ago, mcfluff1985 said:

With all the shit that gets shouted at him and the players, it always surprises me when people get upset they give it back. 

Spur of the moment maybe, in an interview never.  That was an absurd performance

8 hours ago, penrhyn said:

Sounds to me like someone telling  it as it is . But 5k dumbfucks dont want to listen or dont understand how bad the issues are .

But there's absolutely nothing to be gained from a near 15 minute rant saying the same thing over and over again. Either he thinks he has the skills to turn it round over time or he doesn't. Hard to think he has any confidence in his own ability to do so after listening to that.

1 hour ago, peanuts2 said:

Realy in two minds about replacing him on the one hand he knows who he needs to retain and release  if he can where as any new manager would need time to asses the strengths and weaknesses of the squad . Cant help thinking that the "other problems " link back to the reid  video and the prolonged punishment of the player if hes popular with the rest of the dressing room some may see it as unfair 

Reid has a decent scoring record. Surely somebody would have taken him on loan?

2 minutes ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

It always amazes me that people pay much attention to the post match interviews I mean we've gone what 1 win in 14? Whatever he says in the post match isn't going to change that. He's got to go back in the dressing room and lift the players after that because some of them(quite a few of them in our case) he will need next season so he's got to be careful about throwing them under the bus but he can't turn round and say everything is amazing because clearly it isn't and the fans will thi k he's taking the piss out of them. 

Yep, but 14m 40s of essentially saying the same thing over and over again is quite something.

All I took out of was an interest in what 'other things going on' means.

5 hours ago, True Tic said:

The contracts players are on, particularly the “ better “ players seem to be literally a guarantee of decent money regardless of what happens or how they perform. They do something totally stupid or fail

 to perform and they still have their contracts paid off?? It’s bizarre . 

Welcome to football 

59 minutes ago, spanishfly said:

Probably not BP but if you wanted a change of manager, an absolute proven leader with the heart of a lion, you'd be as well gambling on someone like Peter Clarke. Chris Lucketti said of him "I know all about him, he's a real man, he's a leader"

 

Wouldn't be a player/manager at his age I know but what a leader.

Apart from the fact that he's said numerous times that he doesn't want to go into management 

2 hours ago, Astro said:

If the players and manager are getting held to account, then the same should be done to the very top of the club, and that means Rothwell has questions to answer. We can't continue with this infantile fawning over him; he's a multi-millionnaire businessman, looking to make a profit, so we should handle him as such. Mistakes have been made, many within the club derive their authority from Rothwell, and there's a naivety there.

 

A significant improvement is required at every layer because final third of the season has been absolutely unacceptable.

Good grief