JoeP

Come on... We really are letting that draw against on-the-beach Chesterfield cloud our judgement on the rest of the season...

Or a good midfielder...

I think it's a lot about personalities, rather just than talent. We obviously need a balanced squad, but they've all got to buy into what Mellon wants to do. Then - you'd expect - they'd be battling every week. No Billy Big Bollocks. Talented youngsters, with older pros, who's drag them through matches in a positive way. I dunno if the wage structure needs looking at too. Think it needs spreading more evenly throughout the squad, rather than just having the strikers on the comparatively big bucks...

Well, yes I think it would! To stretch the metaphor slightly, a Michelin star chef isn't going to start producing shit food if everything is in place - but our footballers seem to be doing that! I dunno, I don't get the anger when we're still in with a shout now and I don't blame Mellon at the moment and certainly don't blame Frank. There's just something not working when it should be. I'm not sure we've seen enough this season to be excited for next season. I can see a clear out and it taking another year to build for the following year..

This line gets wheeled out a lot, but Frank changed a lot almost instantly. He cleared debt, bought the ground, there's nothing that remains of the Lemsagam era (apart from maybe not acknowledging disappearing players!), improved the match day experience with the fan bar and signed players that should be the best in the league considering the money they're on. It's football. It's a business, yes, but it's a simple one. The league table suggests there has been progress as you say and it's the wrong time for the fans to be angry as we can still go up and want everyone to be pulling together. However, I would argue there still isn't perhaps much evidence of hope on the pitch. I'm not sure anyone seriously believes we're going up this season. It would be miraculous.

Good post. Without wanting to pick holes, Unsworth didn't have us playing any better than we are now. He had an unbelievable run of luck by winning games where the opposition missed chances and we won games we really should have drawn and lost. The players disappearing off the face of the earth thing is weird. It started in the Lemsegam era and bizarrely seems to have continued into Frank's.

No one deserves that. Jesus.

Wasn't the tunnel right next to the away fans, so they didn't have much choice?? The abuse displayed on the video on Twitter does seem OTT. What's the point in doing that now? We need everyone pulling together to get us in the play-offs (which we can still get into!) - the abuse isn't going to help with that. We didn't lose and the performance can't be a complete shock, given it's in keeping with the rest of season.

He's been midfield public enemy number one since last season. If the midfield with him is bad, the midfield without him is worse by some distance..

Possibly, but I'll never get the targeting of a player who gets involved the most and through that makes more mistakes ahead of someone who does sweet FA and escapes scott free. Conlon and Lundstram have been a fraction of the player Sheron has, yet it seems to be Sheron who's position in midfield is questioned first...

And yet is still our best midfielder...

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I mean completely different set of circumstances under Wellens, but yes - we don't appear to have any desire to get into the play-offs. If we somehow manage to get up under this lot, the footballing Gods really have forgiven us...

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Snap..

That was funny that free-kick from Conlon. Made sure the ball was on the right blade of grass, pulled his socks up, pointed, took his time and punted it straight to their player and they went on to nearly score... The National League, everyone...

"The Bermondsey mile" is a new one for me. I assume it incorporates London Bridge and Southwark and doesn't actually go anywhere near Bermondsey?

Dorking away..

Dorking beat them 4-1. Halifax 3-1 up. Are they on the beach? Was last Saturday actually quite a bad result?

It's on NLTV for a tenner.. https://www.nationalleaguetv.com/schedule As is our game on Saturday!

I mean if ever the writers of Partridge are looking for new material...

https://www.edp24.co.uk/things-to-do/20816040.revealed-norwich-beat-milton-keynes-become-home-alan-partridge/

I vaguely remember Coogan saying in an interview he wanted it to be somewhere fairly inoffensive. Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, etc are "cool" sort of places with a fairly territorial population, so it wouldn't work. I think he toyed with Devon, but Norwich is generally though of as a bit bland...

Can I just shock you? I like Norwood, in spite of what I said earlier... Not even I'd compare him to that Wembley '94 sitter missing, own goal scoring, penalty missing, shit manager muppet...

Or Radio 4 cassettes from before the TV show, if you've got anything to play them on...