Correct. And what is worse is that it was obvious before a ball was kicked the team was weaker. No one needed any coaching badges to know. Comley makes us worse every time he plays. Daniels, I can see the thinking with his experience but the bloke has declined so much, he isn’t the Daniels of two years ago.
And, there was no change in the style of play, hoof it up to Matt. Or even worse on Saturday hoof it out of play a lot of the time.
This has to have been one of the most confusing seasons I think I’ve ever known following the club. From extactic elation to pure confusion and depression and everything in-between
If it wasnt so serious it would actually be funny.
I still feel dirty calling for a manager’s head when the club is in the promotion race, especially considering the utter dirge that has been consistently served up over the last decade
However the performance at Barrow was the first time I have felt this manager cant enact the change to turn this around. I think what is most concerning is the level the performances are descending to. On
Saturday, especially considering the results elsewhere, we should have been driven on by adrenaline alone. But it was just flat
I just dont know anymore. I feel sorry for Trivela here
In all fairness
I see two good runs from Sadler
The rest I see bits of Alfreton in the FA Cup. Sutton (a) MKD (a) Wimbledon (a) in a the interest levels from the players
I said last season we were sleep walking in to non league and that a season with Sadler was a wasted one. A bit further back I said that Colchester with a seasoned campaigner like Cowley would out perform us. I was so happy to be wrong as we stormed the league. A bit humbled. Cost me £20 to Rob Harvey’s just giving after my bet with @JoaquinErnesto.
As we stand now Colchester are on the rails. The club is looking clueless blindly standing by Sadler who isn’t good enough. We should be promoted by now.
Get him gone.
Absolutely agree, it’s just a really odd feeling and I imagine for most it changes hourly from disbelief, to anger, to hope, to a positive attitude of “we can still do this” and anything and everything in between.
It’s why this forum has got tetchy over the last weeks/months, and I am just as culpable in that to which I apologise to anyone I’ve annoyed. 
Over the last how many years at least we know where we have stood as fans, it’s been crap and therefore frustration and anger, or just pure apathy, are the go to emotions. Like you say, this is just odd, being on the verge of automatic promotion, potentially, and literally wanting to scream at the walls rather than bask in the “glory” it should bring.
I was desperate for my lad to see something positive as after the last 6 odd years of him going it’s been bilge. I wanted him to experience what I did in my first season of 87/88. I still think he will get the result, as in a promotion, I just don’t think it will be the same experience/feeling.
This forum is doing exactly what it should be doing, it’s a vehicle to vent. I wasn’t there on Saturday, but I think that is the first time things have spilt over from fans in a game this season. There will always be groans at a misplaced pass or a conceded goal, but on the whole I think the fans have been incredible at games this season, and those of us who use UTS have let off steam here.
What will be bizarre is if we do go up, and you often see teams jumping around having photos taken with “we are going up banners”, as fans I think we will be more inclined to slump in our seats and let out one huge sigh of relief. It’s not what I had in mind at the start of 2025, it was more open top bus and probably me and my lad bunking off work/school to go see it! Saying that watch us win 4 on the bounce and win the league now 
You might have handed over your money a bit to soon. I can see Colchester taking the last playoff spot off us if we continue to perform like at Barrow
If we do it will be more by sheer luck than judgement. Usually, my modus operandi is positive when good things are still mathmatically possible. Not this season. I am resigned to another stint of purgatory that is Division Two.
If by some miracle, we get promoted I will be too worn out to even raise a glass.
I said on another thread only Walsall can make a promotion push feel like a relegation battle. If we make it there won`t I suspect be the jubilation I would have expected.
The other thing is this last 17 games has damaged a few reputations, so any initial euphoria of promotion will I suspect be replaced with thoughts of this last 17 games. That will be the immediate leveller. Even if we go up a lot of us will immediately question the ability of MS to keep us there.
It is though a bridge I would happily cross having achieved the ultimate goal…blimey…only at Walsall.
I’ll be there with my lad on friday giving unwavering support to my club as always. I hope they understand the magnitude of these next 4 games. It will define them as players with hopefully a promotion on their CV’s. If they fail to deliver promotion they will go down as the biggest bottlers in the EFL. I so want us do well and thought we were incredible the first half of the season, but to tail away like this is the most demoralising I’ve been as a fan since we went on our 15 game losing streak in what is now the championship. I will say this though, if they deliver the same shite performance this friday that they gave on Saturday at Barrow then they better be prepared for the worst of boos and words of advice . It won’t be pleasant i fear. Come on you Saddlers. Not many have a promotion on their cv. Do this for yourselves and do it for the supporters 
Spot on @funk_hits_the_fan i think the vast majority of us agree
Too busy buying Silkeborg and probably more interested in Drogheda now they are in European competition we are last at the moment.
Accepted 
Why? They literally have 1 job to do here and it’s a simple 1.
I’m not sure it’s quite as simple as you make it sound though is it?
If getting promotion was a simple job we’d have been out of this division before now….
Or would we??
By the way, I’m not happy clapping Trivela - I do agree with others that they’ve probably taken things a bit for granted at little old WFC and it’s now bitten them on the arse….
Admittedly, they’ve spent on the Locker and other off field activities and no doubt our squad budget is higher than it was but frankly, they’ve got good attendances back, the locker and off field activities are no doubt generating good levels of self sustained income so next season, whatever level were at - CAN YOU BUY A STRIKER FFS…….
It’s very simple, sack him.
Well yeah - that’s much simpler I have to agree!
Whatever happens, I don’t want Sadler to be here next season. His unnecessary stubborness/dogmatism has ruined the experience, even if we somehow find a way to get promoted (which I seriously doubt). How can you go from being miles top first half of the season to practically bottom of the table form in the second half? The answer in and of itself is not Nathan Lowe, it’s far bigger than that.
I fear the worst and hope for the best. I think Harrogate will be close, 1-0 either way a distinct possibility.
He won’t be sacked if we go up…not in the summer anyway.
If we don’t there will no justification for him to remain.
You’re right of course, he will be. I just don’t think he deserves to be, even if we do sneak up. It might sound ridiculous, but that’s how I feel.