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Looks like we might have to play this game next Thursday…could be interesting if the final playoff place hasn’t been decided by then!

Changed back to heavy rain again tomorrow….if that’s the case it’ll almost certainly be postponed!

Not quite, currently at 1.5 ppg under Mellon which after 43 games would put us on 64.5 points just behind Aldershot and 69 for the 46 game season which also wouldn’t be enough.

It was a while ago mind!

It’s pretty pointless running an academy and sort of defeats the objective if teams can take our top prospects without any need for compensation. The role of the academy is to identify young talent that we can nurture and hopefully, in time, promote to the 1st team squad or sell on for profit. The fact that EFL clubs can now come in and hoover up all the best talent for free is quite frankly ludicrous and needs sorting as a priority!!!

Because he’d done it before and had several promotions on his cv I think we went for a quick fix with Mellon, hoping he could get us up in one or two seasons at the most. I think next season will follow a similar pattern and we will have failed miserably. Maybe it would have been better getting in a young and hungry coach, advocating entertaining football and with a long term plan. As I said I think Pete Wild would be perfect! Apart from blaming everything that happened prior to his arrival nothing Mellon has said or done since has inspired me at all. I think if we could get the right guy in I would probably get shut of Mellon and start again! If and when Mellon does go that is the route I would take next time.

The problem is if he spends the money available in the summer and this form continues we are in even deeper shit aren’t we? I’m glad I’m not making the decision!

It’s getting the right one we seem to find difficult!

That’s for the board to decide. If we could get Pete Wild I would get shut right now. If we’d pushed the boat out for him instead of Unsworth I think we’d be in a much better place right now. We’d have the perfect set up but that’s not happening. We may as well stick with Mellon for now, who else is available who we could realistically attract?

He certainly needs to hit the ground running next season but it will be difficult with yet another swathe of wholesale changes and another bedding in/time to gelperiod. If he is the manager for the 1st game then barring total disaster we should be giving him the full season…..there is absolutely no point allowing him to make ‘his’ signings if we then sack him at Christmas because we are 10th!! Think Darren & the board need to sit down with MM and reassess as to where we are and where we need to be. On the playing side we have completely wasted 2 seasons and MM has to take some of blame for that. We cannot afford another fruitless season and fans will not put up with anymore of this ‘ale house’ football where BP performances (where it matters most to the average fan) have been absolutely dreadful. The Board have a big decision to make and the season ticket take up may well be an important indicator!

No heavy rain before Wednesday, the forecast is now for light rain & a gusty breeze.

It’s still equally shite!

And Tuesday too!

Like you are most of the time!

And they have 8 points from the last 30, exactly the same as ourselves!

No problem, we can play crap on any surface!!

It’s just dawned on me that we could actually be playing against Curzon Ashton in a competitive league fixture!!

But it’s not Norwood’s fault we are 9th is it!

And those who are never wrong!!

It fucking well is!

Don’t waste your time, it’s pointless!!

You were asked what a reasonable expectation would have been!

In this team?You are deluded!! You said yourself I was talking bollocks expecting him to score 30+ in this division…make your mind up!!

He is 30+ games in now and has had 6 months on the training ground! It's his complete lack of progress not only with the existing players but also with the additional players he has brought in that worries me. It’s been said over & over that these players are more than good enough to secure a playoff place. It hasn’t happened under two managers over two seasons. If it’s not the players then it must be the manager?

Were they though? You have only past performances to back that up and past performance is no guarantee of future success. That goes for the manager too!