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Post by oldie on Apr 20, 2021 8:56:45 GMT
I think we will be put out of our misery. 0-2 Lets be done with it
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Post by Gasshole on Apr 20, 2021 9:10:10 GMT
I think we will be put out of our misery. Why tonight...?🤪 I’ve had nigh on 50 years misery, one way or the other, with this club. (A few highlights I will admit) The misery will continue..... Same Bro, I’m coming up to my 50th Season. 5 relagations, 5 promotions including the one and only Championship in 1990. More than half of the 50 stuck in level 3. But it’s not all bad. I’m a survivor of the 1980- 81 season , the worst in our entire history. Just the 5 wins, Gary Mabbutt & Aidan McCaffery top scorers on 5 a piece. 23 points or 28 in today’s money. Not to mention the South Stand burning down and playing some home games in BS3. Makes this seasons 10 wins and 40 goals seem like fun times.
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Post by Jomo on Apr 20, 2021 9:14:42 GMT
I actually feel more relaxed about this one tonight. It's odd, I know it's not mathematically certain that we'll go down, but the likelihood is so high that I genuinely feel the same as when we played our last game in 2001. Already down, fate sealed, we can relax...sort of! What a week that was! 4 games in a week Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday wasn't it. Lost the first three then once we'd gone down, gave Wrexham a good beating I just remember the sickener of Scott Jones missing that late pen against C*ty, then us losing at home to Wycombe to seal our fate. Didn't we beat Wrexham 4-0 on the last day? Duke special?
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Post by Gasshole on Apr 20, 2021 9:18:18 GMT
FWIW I think we will scrape home tonight . One of the Luke’s to net the winner.
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Post by stevek192 on Apr 20, 2021 9:18:26 GMT
Jaakkola, Ehmer, Grant, Upson, Nicholson, Ogogo, Rodman, McCormick, Daly and Hanlan missing and yet we are still in the position that we can put out a side without resorting to playing the real youngsters!! This clearly shows the poor recruitment this club has managed in the past 18 months. The joke is that some are blaming JB for the position we are in.
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Post by Jomo on Apr 20, 2021 9:21:20 GMT
Jaakkola, Ehmer, Grant, Upson, Nicholson, Ogogo, Rodman, McCormick, Daly and Hanlan missing and yet we are still in the position that we can put out a side without resorting to playing the real youngsters!! This clearly shows the poor recruitment this club has managed in the past 18 months. The joke is that some are blaming JB for the position we are in. Not solely blaming Barton, but arguing that he shouldn't get away scot free. Of course he isn't solely or even mostly to blame. For me the blame mostly lies at the door of Starnes, TW, Garner and Tisdale. But Barton should take his share.
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Post by Qatar Gas on Apr 20, 2021 9:22:03 GMT
What a week that was! 4 games in a week Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday wasn't it. Lost the first three then once we'd gone down, gave Wrexham a good beating I just remember the sickener of Scott Jones missing that late pen against C*ty, then us losing at home to Wycombe to seal our fate. Didn't we beat Wrexham 4-0 on the last day? Duke special? Wasn't there a banner next to the South stand for that last game saying 'Divison three champions 2001/02"?! All but relegated to the basement division for the third time in our history and this time I don't think anyone is optimistic that we can bounce straight back.
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Post by 1986gashead on Apr 20, 2021 9:33:15 GMT
I just remember the sickener of Scott Jones missing that late pen against C*ty, then us losing at home to Wycombe to seal our fate. Didn't we beat Wrexham 4-0 on the last day? Duke special? Wasn't there a banner next to the South stand for that last game saying 'Divison three champions 2001/02"?! All but relegated to the basement division for the third time in our history and this time I don't think anyone is optimistic that we can bounce straight back. I am
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Post by staffordgas on Apr 20, 2021 9:39:38 GMT
Might get bumped up six places yet.
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Post by legas on Apr 20, 2021 9:49:36 GMT
I just remember the sickener of Scott Jones missing that late pen against C*ty, then us losing at home to Wycombe to seal our fate. Didn't we beat Wrexham 4-0 on the last day? Duke special? Wasn't there a banner next to the South stand for that last game saying 'Divison three champions 2001/02"?! All but relegated to the basement division for the third time in our history and this time I don't think anyone is optimistic that we can bounce straight back. I remember that - and foolishly believed it too! Older and wiser now and not expecting a quick return to be at all easy or even that likely.
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Post by Jomo on Apr 20, 2021 9:52:34 GMT
Wasn't there a banner next to the South stand for that last game saying 'Divison three champions 2001/02"?! All but relegated to the basement division for the third time in our history and this time I don't think anyone is optimistic that we can bounce straight back. I remember that - and foolishly believed it too! Older and wiser now and not expecting a quick return to be at all easy or even that likely. We were arrogant back then and it royally blew up in our faces. To have gone from top of Division Two in Feb/March 2000, to relegated in May 2001, I think a lot of us felt that Division Three would be a walk in the park....wind forward 12 months and only Halifax finished below us. Shocking decline!
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Post by LJG on Apr 20, 2021 10:23:58 GMT
I remember that - and foolishly believed it too! Older and wiser now and not expecting a quick return to be at all easy or even that likely. We were arrogant back then and it royally blew up in our faces. To have gone from top of Division Two in Feb/March 2000, to relegated in May 2001, I think a lot of us felt that Division Three was be a walk in the park....wind forward 12 months and only Halifax finished below us. Shocking decline! Yup saved by the fact 2 up 2 down came in at the end of that season. The season after was the Andy Rammell 20th place finish. We never finished in the top half of the league until we went up via play offs in 07.
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Post by darkbluegas on Apr 20, 2021 10:29:09 GMT
What a week that was! 4 games in a week Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday wasn't it. Lost the first three then once we'd gone down, gave Wrexham a good beating I just remember the sickener of Scott Jones missing that late pen against C*ty, then us losing at home to Wycombe to seal our fate. Didn't we beat Wrexham 4-0 on the last day? Duke special? I’d forgotten the missed penalty was that season. The odd thing was we had some cracking results that year including the cup games against Everton and beating Oxford and Brentford (A) 6.2. For me the worst relegation in a way having always avoided the fourth division. At the time we were probably one of the last clubs never to have played in the First or Fourth Divisions
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Post by Congas on Apr 20, 2021 10:38:12 GMT
At this stage if I'm joey, I'm forgetting about results or staying up and start planning for L2 next and who we should keep etc. He's been doing that since we arrived. That's why we're in this mess. And he's soon got nobody left to blame but the garbage collectors and himself. I think I know which he'll choose.
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Post by LJG on Apr 20, 2021 10:53:48 GMT
He's been doing that since we arrived. That's why we're in this mess. And he's soon got nobody left to blame but the garbage collectors and himself. I think I know which he'll choose. For me, I've come into this situation expecting bins to be collected when I want them. It's absolutely disgraceful that bins are only being picked up once a week. At Fleetwood we had bins collected every day. I've operated at the very top level of football where bins are taken every 4 minutes and only at amateur level is it as bad as this for bins.
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Post by barumgas on Apr 20, 2021 11:11:35 GMT
And he's soon got nobody left to blame but the garbage collectors and himself. I think I know which he'll choose. For me, I've come into this situation expecting bins to be collected when I want them. It's absolutely disgraceful that bins are only being picked up once a week. At Fleetwood we had bins collected every day. I've operated at the very top level of football where bins are taken every 4 minutes and only at amateur level is it as bad as this for bins. They can take the out of contract players away too. Job done
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Post by percy on Apr 20, 2021 11:17:27 GMT
Not gonna watch tonight, it has ruined too many Saturdays and Tuesdays, but fancy with the pressure off knowing we are down, we might do ok. If we can get enough fit players out on the pitch!
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Post by wrongsideoftheriver on Apr 20, 2021 11:43:49 GMT
we'll win tonight with 3 penalties ! lucks got to change at some point!!!
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Post by goodnightirene1883 on Apr 20, 2021 11:44:45 GMT
we'll win tonight with 3 penalties ! lucks got to change at some point!!! 1-0 win?
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Post by wrongsideoftheriver on Apr 20, 2021 11:49:28 GMT
we'll win tonight with 3 penalties ! lucks got to change at some point!!! 1-0 win?
Luke Leahy specials! no chance
I wonder what odds i can get on westbrooke having a free kick on target
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