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Bloke deserves a medal for scoring 7 with Shelton and Sheron behind him...

I don't really understand this one either. He's got five goals in the league already...

Steve Eyre on the radio reckoned Green was by far our best player...

This aged well

He's only been there a week. Let's not get ahead of ourselves...

Just a reminder that we'd won 5 and drawn 2 going into this one. Let's not get too dramatic...

Maybe they thought it was sensible to have cover for the bloke who'd had two major surgeries, been told he might not play again, and hadn't started a game for a year?

He also picked out Kyle Jameson for Tranmere...

Sounds like it's Mellon... doesn't massively excite me, to be honest - but could be worse.

Came on at half-time, too. Dylan Fage also scored in the same game.

Couple of hundred Premier League appearances in his own right too, to be fair...

I think the Board deserve some credit here. They backed the manager, gave him time and budget, and were prepared to defend him and give him the chance to put things right. But ultimately, when it became clear the situation was no longer salvageable, they were prepared to make the tough call to take the financial and personal hit of sacking someone they clearly respected. Perhaps there's an argument they should have moved sooner - but we're still only 9 games into the season, and I'd far rather have a Board with some patience than the kneejerk reactions we've become used to over the last ten years. Good luck to DU. It didn't work out, but on a personal level I've got nothing against him. He'll learn from this, I'm sure.

Would you have offered him an improved deal based on the performances he put in...?

What would a 'good' post match interview have looked like?

Two mid-table finishes in League One with a Portsmouth side that had finished in the top 6 in two of the previous three seasons? Not exactly anything to write home about. He was sacked when they were 12th - clearly the Board didn't consider him to be much of a success.

I'd be tempted by Dennis Kutrieb...

That was three years ago. They've also failed at League One Portsmouth since then... Don't think it's completely out of the question. Football wouldn't be pretty though.

Jake Forshaw played 90 minutes for Farsley Celtic in the National League North today.

I think you underestimate my incompetence...

As a side-note, I've yet to see anything from Willoughby to suggest he's good enough at this level. And I still don't really rate Sutton at full-back... He's too slow and the limited chances that they created all came down his side.

First-half we were dominant without ever really creating anything. Second-half was a prime example of why just desperately throwing random strikers on is never going to work... We took off our only two creative central midfielders and lost any control we had of the game. If neither of them could play the full ninety, one of them should have started on the bench. And the bench should have contained options across the pitch - what's happened to Freeman, Tollitt, Hope...? The latter two would at least offer us something a bit different. Hate the idea of sacking managers this early into the season, but I'm really struggling to think of another manager in this league that would be getting less out of this squad than Unsworth at the moment.

Reece Brown appointed manager of New Mills...

So good that he's been on the bench the last three games...

Would be absolutely bonkers to back the manager to the extent they have over the summer and then sack him after one game...

Think Leiston are above them, and could yet get promoted to the NLS...