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Post by socrates on Oct 14, 2016 0:20:33 GMT
I said no because I don't think we'll go up but I do think we'll be top half for most of the season finish strong and we'll be one of the favourites for next season. I'd say it's 30/70 that we'll make the play offs but if we get top six then we can do it for sure we've got the spirit needed. The biggest test for our board yet will come during this next year because DC and our best players will be on the top league 1 and championship clubs radars. We need progression off the pitch ASAP because that will give WAQ and DC bargaining power when it comes to keeping our manager and best players. What we've achieved these last 2 years is fantastic but winning promotion from the conference and league 2 with a motivated low budget squad is much easier than doing the same in league 1 and then the championship. These are amazing times for our club because we've risen from such a terrible low in such a short space of time but in terms of our history we're only punching around our weight being mid table in league 1. For the first time in my 30 years supporting what we've got is not only a motivated great team spirit ( we've had that plenty ) but a good foundation being built for the future. The championship at Twerton was great and I remember playing the likes of Newcastle and West Ham and we did alright but I think that in the next few years can top that with the set up that we're building but it doesn't have to happen this season. My biggest fear isn't that we'll miss out on promotion or get relegated it's that we'll lose Darrell Clarke, he's given us stability and belief in terms of the football and WAQ has given us that off the pitch. We need both to stay together and work together.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Oct 14, 2016 9:16:53 GMT
Just because you've referred to it as the "promotion bus" I've said no Hahaha! I said yes for exactly the same reason!! I don't really think we will do it this time. Comfortable top half will do me.
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Post by kylegas on Oct 14, 2016 9:23:04 GMT
Just because you've referred to it as the "promotion bus" I've said no Hahaha! I said yes for exactly the same reason!! I don't really think we will do it this time. Comfortable top half will do me. At this moment in time I don't think we will, but at this time last season I didn't think we would.. and this time the season before I didn't think we would.. so I just clearly have no clue lol
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 15, 2016 6:33:03 GMT
Love to say yes, but realistically no. Top half would be worthy of celebration but at the moment let's just keep away from relegation fight. But then, what do I know! UTG!
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Post by truegas on Oct 15, 2016 7:57:35 GMT
Has anyone ever gone from the 5th tier to the 2nd within consecutive seasons before?
What our boys have done is already an incredible achievement, another would be pretty crazy!
UTG!
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Post by canberragas69 on Oct 15, 2016 8:32:44 GMT
I'd doen't really matter if it has been done before, although it shows it is difficult! There are reasons to believe: i) we have competed well with all the top teams - of the ones I saw, Scunthorpe were strong, but we had none of our new loans and lost probably only because we went for a win, Bolton, we were outplayed in the first half of this game by a big, physical team who were fast to break, but again we have strengthen since then, and IMO DC got the team wrong that day, we have to play Gaffney in games like that, Sheffield United, we were very unlucky in that game, on another day we could have won, Northampton, game of two half's, but in the second half we were excellent, one of the great days; ii) we are much stronger than last year, the two Clelsea lads ooze class, Roos has been v good, Booteng has class, although he needs to put it about a bit more, Roberts was solid against Northampton, good because Leadbetter, together with Bodin, has been disappointing: iii) Taylor will score over 20 goals again, if we keep him in January; iv) DC is as good a manager as there is in this division; v) we are a team, not individuals, helped probably by DC keeping everyone on their toes? This obviously doesn't mean we will go up, but it gives lots of reasons for hope, the supporters currency! I'd like to see both the Chelsea lads and Boateng today and Gaffney up front please with Taylor. Onwards and upwards.
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Post by justin blue on Oct 15, 2016 16:24:43 GMT
SH said there will be no promotion bus, get over it.
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Post by badengas on Oct 15, 2016 16:29:16 GMT
Start the bus !
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Post by richhertford on Oct 15, 2016 16:58:47 GMT
Someone say something about a bus.
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Post by Newton Abbot Gas on Oct 15, 2016 18:11:36 GMT
Someone say something about a bus. front seat for me please......UTG
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Post by stuart1974 on Oct 15, 2016 19:08:59 GMT
Someone say something about a bus. front seat for me please......UTG No chance, you'll be the host serving the beverages.
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Post by badengas on Oct 15, 2016 20:31:26 GMT
Someone say something about a bus. I will drive the bus.
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Post by gregsy on Oct 15, 2016 20:35:23 GMT
his eyesights crap and he hasn't got a map....
rich, drive the bus in an upward direction....
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Post by empirebaypete on Oct 16, 2016 4:42:36 GMT
Someone say something about a bus. Weren't you the one always going on about the bus? I'd sue if you are. You should have been posting Bus TM
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Post by badengas on Oct 16, 2016 10:15:29 GMT
Someone say something about a bus. Weren't you the one always going on about the bus? I'd sue if you are. You should have been posting Bus TMThis is a fictional bus. Any similarities with others buses, dead or alive, is purely unintentional.
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 16, 2016 10:24:32 GMT
It would be interesting to change the poll to making the Play Offs as I think whilst we have a reasonable chance of making those, not so sure getting a top 3 place will be quiet so easy this season. Although with all these late winners lately anything is possible.
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Post by gasincider on Oct 16, 2016 11:31:15 GMT
Isn't it only the top two + 1 from the playoffs this year? But as you say, with the late winners we keep getting who knows.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 16, 2016 11:34:52 GMT
Isn't it only the top two + 1 from the playoffs this year? But as you say, with the late winners we keep getting who knows. It is, wake up topper!
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 22, 2016 16:00:20 GMT
I hope its a double decker!
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Post by lincsblue on Oct 22, 2016 17:45:15 GMT
Tickets please!
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