GKing521 Posted June 22, 2023 Author Share Posted June 22, 2023 21 minutes ago, davidwilde said: Well if I am right I think a certain Mr Gardner played in the championship for Wigan. I don’t think he’s been pulling up any roots since he left the EFL to come back to us. Think he was playing for Doncaster in League One but I understand your point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidwilde Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 49 minutes ago, GKing521 said: Think he was playing for Doncaster in League One but I understand your point. Yes you are correct he was playing for Doncaster before he came to us, however he joined them from Wigan plastics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShireBlue Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 Chesterfield sign Will Grigg on a 3 year deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc1955 Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 Had a purple patch at Wigan but that was several years ago. He should score goals at this level but only 5 in 42 in Div 1 last season and he’ll be on a wedge too. TBH….I’d sooner have a hungry player like Willoughby! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz_Oafc Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 31 minutes ago, ShireBlue said: Chesterfield sign Will Grigg on a 3 year deal. 3 year deal, paid a fee for him & will be on big money. He should score goals at this level, but MK Don's fans reckon he's now way past his best. He's averaged 1 in 6 over the last 4/5 seasons (albeit at a much higher level) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_R Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 21 hours ago, oafcmetty said: Has the playoff loser ever gone on to win the league the next season? Don't think it's happened in the last 10 years at least. More importantly, has the team who finished 12th gone on to win the league next season? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzlatic Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 Will be interesting to see how the 2 recruitment strategies play out… chesterfield bringing in big name 30+ year olds who’s careers are on the way down vs us signing 23/24 year olds who’s careers look to be on the way up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 13 hours ago, ShireBlue said: Chesterfield sign Will Grigg on a 3 year deal. right seeing as everybody ignored me last time l lazily asked on here, l'll go read up for myself on why it appears at zero knowelege that this is our biggest game on paper l cant believe lm doing National League related research in june. again. this club of ours . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex_pat Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 12 hours ago, Steve_R said: More importantly, has the team who finished 12th gone on to win the league next season? None! However Accrington, Dagenham & Redbridge, and Barrow all won the league after finishing 10th the previous season. Macclesfield did it after finishing 11th. Lincoln did it after finishing 13th and Sutton did it after finishing 15th Hartlepool got promoted from finishing 12th the previous year. Cambridge got promoted from finishing 14th, and Newport got promoted from finishing 19th the previous year. There is always hope 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 12 hours ago, nzlatic said: Will be interesting to see how the 2 recruitment strategies play out… chesterfield bringing in big name 30+ year olds who’s careers are on the way down vs us signing 23/24 year olds who’s careers look to be on the way up. interesting aswell to follow it from a none playing re investment kind of angle. l was going to do it with wrexham and notts county as l noticed a more Footballing version of it last season, where wrexham were the big splashing hollywood hoof merchant cunts. but lm finding reasons to avoid anything wrexham related makes me sick with jealousy. just hope we arent the hoof merchants this time. not arsed about us being cunts bc we want to win the league and you have to be cunts if you want to win it. 🛳. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 8 minutes ago, Ex_pat said: None! However Accrington, Dagenham & Redbridge, and Barrow all won the league after finishing 10th the previous season. Macclesfield did it after finishing 11th. Lincoln did it after finishing 13th and Sutton did it after finishing 15th Hartlepool got promoted from finishing 12th the previous year. Cambridge got promoted from finishing 14th, and Newport got promoted from finishing 19th the previous year. There is always hope we have far more than hope this time.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigDog Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 12 minutes ago, Ex_pat said: None! However Accrington, Dagenham & Redbridge, and Barrow all won the league after finishing 10th the previous season. Macclesfield did it after finishing 11th. Lincoln did it after finishing 13th and Sutton did it after finishing 15th Hartlepool got promoted from finishing 12th the previous year. Cambridge got promoted from finishing 14th, and Newport got promoted from finishing 19th the previous year. There is always hope Top research! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_R Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Ex_pat said: None! However Accrington, Dagenham & Redbridge, and Barrow all won the league after finishing 10th the previous season. Macclesfield did it after finishing 11th. Lincoln did it after finishing 13th and Sutton did it after finishing 15th Hartlepool got promoted from finishing 12th the previous year. Cambridge got promoted from finishing 14th, and Newport got promoted from finishing 19th the previous year. There is always hope Tremendous research! I knew if I asked the question someone would know the answer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP1960 Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 8 hours ago, Ex_pat said: None! However Accrington, Dagenham & Redbridge, and Barrow all won the league after finishing 10th the previous season. Macclesfield did it after finishing 11th. Lincoln did it after finishing 13th and Sutton did it after finishing 15th Hartlepool got promoted from finishing 12th the previous year. Cambridge got promoted from finishing 14th, and Newport got promoted from finishing 19th the previous year. There is always hope You've got the Jeff Stelling Sky job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlossopLatic Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 23 hours ago, nzlatic said: Will be interesting to see how the 2 recruitment strategies play out… chesterfield bringing in big name 30+ year olds who’s careers are on the way down vs us signing 23/24 year olds who’s careers look to be on the way up. I'd much rather we pursue the later than the former. Will Grigg had a popular song about him about 7 years ago I don't want us making this type of signing. Infact I will back atleast 1 of our strikers to outscore him this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 1 hour ago, GlossopLatic said: I'd much rather we pursue the later than the former. Will Grigg had a popular song about him about 7 years ago I don't want us making this type of signing. Infact I will back atleast 1 of our strikers to outscore him this season. I’d agree in general, but if it leads them to promotion and us not then we’d all of course rather we went down their route. long term, I believe our strategy will work, but it’s all about promotion in the immediate short term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 On 6/21/2023 at 10:09 PM, oafcmetty said: Has the playoff loser ever gone on to win the league the next season? Don't think it's happened in the last 10 years at least. Doesn't look like it has ever happened. The likes of Forest Green and Tranmere have been promoted after losing the play-off final the year before but that was by winning the play-offs not the league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex_pat Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 22 hours ago, rudemedic said: Doesn't look like it has ever happened. The likes of Forest Green and Tranmere have been promoted after losing the play-off final the year before but that was by winning the play-offs not the league. You are correct. A losing finalist has never won the league the following season. As you say there have been a few losing finalist (4) who have got promoted. These are the clubs are: Exeter in 2007/8 Grimsby in 2015/6 FGR in 2016/7 Tranmere in 2017/8 As a side note: Wrexham were losing finalists in 2012/13 and won the league in 2022/23 (11 years). Luton were losing finalists in 2010/11 2011/12 and won the league in 2013/14 (2/3 years). Stevenage were losing finalists in 2004/5 and won the league in 2009/10 (5 years). Aldershot were losing finalists in 2003/4 and won the league in 2007/8 (4 years). Dagenham & Redbridge were losing finalists in 2002/3 and won the league in 2006/7 (4 years). History is not on Chesterfield's side to win the league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigDog Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 (edited) On paper there are a few decent strikers in the National League next season: Altrincham - Conn-Clarke & Linney Fylde - Haughton & Omatayo Chesterfield - Dobra, Colclough & Grigg Bromley - Cheek & Marriot and that’s without considering the forwards at Woking, Dorking, Barnet, Borehamwood etc. We need to be strong defensively throughout the team if we are going to be successful next season - so the importance of adding a couple more defenders is paramount in my opinion. Having said that the strike force at Oldham - Nuttall, Reid, Fondop, Willoughby, Green, Tollitt - should score a few Edited June 25, 2023 by TheBigDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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astottie Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 12 hours ago, Gaz_Oafc said: Interesting because they have made a number of signings already. Has he got a league job lined up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfatjoe1 Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Only one blank Saturday remaining. Thanks goodness. I'm bored shitless. Role on Hyde. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L1onheartNew Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 8 minutes ago, bigfatjoe1 said: Only one blank Saturday remaining. Thanks goodness. I'm bored shitless. Role on Hyde. Me too. There is only so much Gardenscapes a man can tolerate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 10 hours ago, bigfatjoe1 said: Only one blank Saturday remaining. Thanks goodness. I'm bored shitless. Role on Hyde. Was it Hyde we played when MoLem turned up with a couple of minders and in no time fans were giving him grief which he claimed was racial abuse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlossopLatic Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 22 minutes ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said: Was it Hyde we played when MoLem turned up with a couple of minders and in no time fans were giving him grief which he claimed was racial abuse? Wasn't that Ashton? Might even have been Moseley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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