Tbh and i know its a long shot.. but win monday and we are top again.. port vale at home to grimsby is a tough game..donny home to colchester also a tough game and bradford away to chesterfield.. also a tough game.. u never know.. i just cant believe its still in our hands
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People are blaming the defence who admittedly haven’t been good enough but the ball just keeps coming back.
There’s a reason you don’t take both strikers off and replace them with defenders to hold a lead.
If you offer no attacking threat then eventually the momentum and pressure will tell and you start conceding poor, avoidable goals.
We’re giving teams absolutely nothing to worry about defensively and there’s no game management from us at all.
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I have already decided that next Sarurday is my last game of the season. Assuming we miss out I will be far to pi$$ed of to part with anymore money to attend.
If by some weird turn of fate we got to the play off final, I am away so couldn’t attend even if I wanted to.
Sorry to be negative but I am pretty much done this season.
Would help if the defence actually challenged for headers, or were first to the ball, or had any sort of stab at dominating attackers though.
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He is acting like this is the case. He seems oblivious to how this affecting supporters, for me doesn’t appear to care. Just an observation.
This exactly this. Been feeling this since Vale. I have 40 years plus btw.
A wise manager would have gone to the board a few games ago and said I need help. But that is a sign of weakness and so he persists. He adopts a seige mentality even though he can’t see the wood for the trees.
A wise owner would have taken him aside, put an arm around him and said you need to ask for help.
Either way Richard O’Kelly needs to be all over this and if Sadler refuses help them he should be put on gardening leave.
As for Waddock, I’m not sure what he offers.
There isn’t another club in the EFL that would have Comley ahead of Chang in the pecking order of their midfield options.
Chang hasn’t got a single start for us in midfield since signing, but here’s a list of players that have:
Lakin
Comley
A fatigued/out of form Stirk
McEntee
Allen
I can’t see how anybody could think that they’re better options than Chang in midfield.
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Bang on mate - agree 100%
I don’t buy into this I won’t be celebrating if we go up, I get the frustration and the hurt but I’ll be ecstatic if we end up in the top 3 as well as hugely relieved. This has been so ridiculously stressful and just means way too much for me and many others I’m sure reading these posts. Chang and Hall have to start on Monday, Jamma has to be rested. McEntee and or Lakin need to be restored (maybe for Stirk) as well as DJ and Comley needs to be nowhere near. We have to bolster the midfield with 4 players not 3. It really seems like it’s win or bust on Monday.
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Don’t think anyone is saying they won’t celebrate I think it it is just a summing up of the malaise that has set in and overall exasperation I for one am currently feeling.
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I left it late logging in today, I thought I’d let the dust settle on Sadlers sacking and have a good hour or so reading the posts and seeing who we’d like in. Instead radio silence from the club , just like the last few weeks, communication has all but disappeared.
Think it will be Levi and Harrison and just more of the same.
Matt having to play every 3-4 days has been another disaster of the transfer window as he needed to be rotated frequently in last few months to be fresh in the run in and that hasn’t happened due to lack of faith in alternatives.
Ive got no issue with you mate, i actually enjoy the banter. NOT what you say, i think your so down on the club that your cemented in and stuck in a vicious circle - u post the same way in every thread going.
Id just rather be positive on where we can go.
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I honestly don’t think we will do it. I don’t think we will win any of our remaining games. I think the players are gone, mentally as well as physically.
If we did do it, oh you better believe I’m celebrating. Regardless of the circumstances, you have to make the most of promotions, you never know how long it will be until the next one. I will have a wonderful time with my boys if we somehow manage to do it. I’m not holding my breath though.
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It’s understandable though. We’ve had years of shit, years of decline. Then we have what looks to be an unbelievable season and even that is taken away from us at the point where it seemed almost impossible to be bad enough to mess it up.
I get why people are so down and can’t find any positives, it is difficult. Not going to blame any fan for the way they are at the minute, equally fair play to the fans trying to find positives!
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Oh mate, im 100% on board with that. Been hoing since 96 so im as hungry to get back to l1 as anyone. Just is what itll be.
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Yep in a nutshell.
This is also the first real on field test for Trivela now. I’ve liked what they’ve done off the pitch sorting the lease out after decades of wrangles and making the Bescot a more enjoyable matchday experience but let’s be honest they botched up the January window as badly as anything we’ve seen under the previous lot.
As bad as January 2008 was (and that undeniable created a long term decline in the fanbase) it wasn’t like Fox and Dann were sold from team 12 points clear. Can’t remember if side were even in top six when they went.
If many are saying Trivela are brilliant owners they can’t just let Sadler get away with this with no repercussions. There has to be some accountability as there’s a reason why so few teams mess up 12 point leads, it is actually a very hard thing to get a winning team to become so bad so quickly yet Sadler has perfected it.
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That season we went from fourth to twelfth, and only got 18 points from our last 17 matches. But we were not 13 points clear at any stage.
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I think we’d be good for promotion this season if we had taken 18 points from our last 17 games?
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