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Hope we can get a result again today, someone told me this morning the match is on Radio Lancs this afternoon? anyone know if this is right?

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Think my mum said we have commentary on Lancs Cashy

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Cheers di was unable to go like going yon but circs prevent.

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Thank you Barnsley !

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Agree, walsall are a bit like us i think. down at there place played really well i thought, yet look where they are>:confused:

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Is Zanzala injured? aint even on the bench:confused:

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1-0 Stanley sean mac.:)

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Penalty Stanley now.

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2-0 Kee scores:)

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Life is GREATTTTTT

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Everytime I leave Sean out of my goalscorer multis, he feckin well scores....and I kinda don't mind. :)

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2-1 now.

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:(

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Does nowt that McConville :rolleyes:

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Half time twas another gift it seems:eek:

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Would of been chuffed with 1-2 prior to kick off hope to have some nails left at full time


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Should never have been signed-family favouritism etc...

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i'm very interested in Peterhead game(s)...a young kid I coached here in Havelock Nth has been sub for them lately.

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Interesting!
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/bur...ceding-2668097

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2-2 :(

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Indeed it is.

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:(

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*&&^%$#@^%^$%*#^%#$@&^%&* . I hate life

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i would like to swear.

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4-2 now:mad:

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4-2 burton only saving grace is 6 of the seven teams below us are also losing


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Why don't you just put your hands in here and rip my heart out Stanley ?? 2-4 . :(

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Can't depend on that every week.

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Oh FFS!! What's going on :(
Have to hope we never get a dog - can't hold on to a lead atm

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Crap defending again it seems.

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Thats it. I'm dead.

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Get Emitov in nets

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From 2-0 up to 5-2 down? FFS!

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Wasn't Maxted that gave away two pens!

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Where's the next win coming from is what concerns me

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Well, if it hadn’t already started! The releagation battle is in full force.

17th two points of the drop zone, 2 games in hand.

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Next Saturday at home to Fleetwood - fingers crossed

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Fingers crossed??? I'll be tying up my whole skinny body !:eek:

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Psychologically that's a bad, bad defeat

However, of our last nine games six are at home, and include Walsall and Rochdale.

9th and 13th April just became MASSIVE

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J C 's post match should be interesting

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Next Saturday, apart from Bradford and virtually all those teams below and around us are playing each other, so at least 3 or 4 of them may gain 3 points or a number of draws and a loss for us will bring us further back into the pack.
Thought we were poor today, even at 2-0 up.

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Professor Coleman came across as very honest in his summary. He was more sanguine than most of us this evening.

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Bottom line is quite a few of the lads are not Div1 Level imho.

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They are going to have to be L1 level for the next six weeks!

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To be honest i think we will be ok soon as sykes is back and up too speed,hope so anyway.

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Coley was as honest as is possible about the game. However we need points on the board, I am in Cashy's camp about the quality and experience of some of our players. It will be touch and go if we stay up this season. Yet we have played some top teams and won so where does the problem lie? We do seem to struggle when we have enforced breaks. If we play when we should we can go on a run that would see us safe.

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You only have to look at the table to realise from position 8 downwards there really isn’t much between sides.
Everyone is capable of beating the other and vice versa. Any team hitting a run of three wins is going to be safe.
Personally I didn’t expect anything from today so I’m not going to get too uptight.
The manner of the defeat mentally worries me more than anything.
The squad is the squad.
We’ve made our bed go to lie in it.

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[QUOTE=Chrisr;1225944]Coley was as honest as is possible about the game. However we need points on the board, I am in Cashy's camp about the quality and experience of some of our players. It will be touch and go if we stay up this season. Yet we have played some top teams and won so where does the problem lie? We do seem to struggle when we have enforced breaks. If we play when we s
hould we can go on a run that would see us safe.[/QUOTE

So that's it, it's the dam rain's fault.

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So that's it, it's the dam rain's fault.[/QUOTE]

Lets put that over to Somerset for an answer

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So, who in your view isn't up to League One standard (from our starting XI today)? In my opinion only Maxted isn't up to standard for a couple of reasons and arguably Brown...

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Incidentally - apart from young Savin I don't think any of our 7 subs today are L1 standard

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How many times did we lose the ball in midfield I like Barlaser but we'll under par today.

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[QUOTE=ferret man;1225946]No, but we never play well after an enforced break - don't know why but it certainly doesn't do us any good

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Looking at the goals conceded from open play yesterday Maxted poor with the first the others centre halfs cut wide open Hughes if tested for pace is lacking not sure if Rodgers best position is in the centre yes we are missing young Sykes but also haven't looked as solid at the back since Ripley and Ihewie both left, also problems with loaning players in unless you have them for the season you have another settling in period for the new intake has to have an impact last year it propelled us upwards this year the opposite.

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It's all well and good blaming the defense but if you went andyd the blame came from midfield getting caught out for 3 of the goal. One of them a loan player ?

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For me no one comes out of the game with credit nor does anyone come out of it absolved of blame. Whether that be attack, defence or midfield.

We didn’t deserve the 2-0 lead, Burton only really had a wobbly 5 min spel whereby we could have scored 3.

After that Burton were head and shoulders above us sadly. There was only going to be 1 winner once it went 2-2. Still would have been interesting if Billy scored his chance at 2-2.

9 games to go, 6 at home. Still convinced we’ll have enough to survive. Pick up 9 points from them 6 at home and we’ll have enough. Fingers crossed.

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We can finally agree :D, i really like Sam and Dan both really good players but they can not play together, both too attacking minded leaving our midfield open and there attack straight at our defence with no protection.

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I'll give you that one AccyNew agree 100% we all need to get behind the lads I know we can do it

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confused why would Brown be replaced by Savin

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What are you talking about?

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One of the sites list brown substituted by savin on 84 minutes and as savin is a goalkeeper I was bemused but on searching I cannot find which site it was on

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Actually, having two keepers on at the same time may have been a good idea.:rolleyes:

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don't think Coley could have spoken a truer word in his post match interview.
my partner claimed after 35 minutes it was one of the most boring games she had witnessed - so I can partly blame her for the madness that followed!!
even at 2-0 up we looked second best - although at least we took the 2 chances on offer (probably assist of the season from Billy with that header to Sean!)

As much as I try to like Maxted and support that he is a good goalkeeper, I simply feel as though I am constantly kidding myself. His positioning lets him down as he isn't a bad shot stopper, but too many times this season we have conceded goals due to his poor positioning.
I am keeping positive, perhaps harshly, that Dimi will be our 1st choice keeper moving forward and am keeping my fingers crossed that apart from International Call Ups, will incur no more red cards (or injuries) and can have a long spell in goal!

The back 4 were sloppy at best, although I was disappointed (and have been a few times in the last few weeks) of the performance of Hughes. Too many times (recurring theme here....) caught out of position, too many passes finding Burton players.

The main cause for concern however for me was the non existant midfield.

I love Scotty but feel I am missing a key bit of information in the coaching manual as to why he was playing the majority of the game as a second striker. He neither has the height nor legs to run onto Billy's flick ons. Strange. Would much prefer him sitting just infront of the back 4.

Finlay started well but seemed to drift off into frustration and lost his way towards the end of the game. Will give him benefit of doubt as cant single him out for poor performance from rest of team and at least he actually looks like he's bothered about trying to make something happen (or just wind up the opposition...)
Barlasar was poor. As much as I can't deny he is extremely talented, I do question if his talents are suitable for us. His main expertise seems to be playing 60 yard balls out wide, which rarely come off, but when they do - it's asking alot for our wingers/full backs to take 3 touches to control the ball, get it out there feet and beat a man (haha snigger at that last one !!) That would be suited in the prem/championship - just don't think our players are quite as capable as benefiting from that.
Too many times he lost the ball dribbiling/playing 5 yard passes in our defensive final third.
I'd like to see him further forward, closer to Billy as it's clear the lad can strike a ball. Similar to his great strike the other week.

Sean and Clicker were a bit better than average, didn't really have much influence later on but looked lively and both contributed to goals so cant complain. Get sean off corners though jeeezz! and Clicker needs to be put in an ice chamber an hour before every game so he can chill in front of goal. ;)

All in all. A bad day at the office. Onto Saturday.
New day, new game, new opposition.

Hopefully 3 players back in Dimi, Ross & Smyth.

Think they will 100% make the difference.

KTF.

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Just to be clear mate - three in three out ? Maxted Rodgers and Brown ?

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Maxted - 100%
Rodgers - harsh on him as he has played well - just wouldn't take out Johnson to play Rodgers right back and wouldn't take out Hughes purely for the experience... happy to keep Rodgers in until Sykes 100% fit. If that's another 2/3 games away, so be it.
Brown - Yes if planning on playing as we did vs Wycombe. Or I'd drop Barlasar and have Scotty deeper.

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I don't think Ross would have made that much of a difference on Sat I know I will get slated for that but we have had poor results with him in the team true.as for Hughes Stanley Josh has just touched on it the problem is he knows he's getting picked every week and undroppable in the gaffers eyes. His positioning at times on Sat was poor how slow has he got ? As for some of the senior players when a goal went in they are quick to point the finger at the younger lads an't they suppose to support and help the younger members of the team.all they seem to do was argue they need to take the blame together as a team or at this rate they will find themselves in league two.

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Think Ross & Hughes is a better partnership overall than Hughes & Rodgers.
Also think Hughes steps up his game when playing with Ross as he coaches him through the game.

Hughes' positional play at start of season was fantastic - he knows he isn't the quickest and sat deeper to compensate. We didn't play for offsides and it worked. Saturday, we tried to catch Burton too often offside but it just didn't work, then Hughes got caught out trying and failing to catch up.

Sean was poor as a captain in that respect. No motivation, no settling down, especially with Burton's first 2 goals.
Callum starting to give back as good as he gets when getting blamed.
Think it's right to blame poor mistakes.
Alot of individual mistakes lately.

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Let's not forget Burton played in the championship last season kept a lot of these squad.

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for me maxted will be only remembered for his penalty saves. rodgers just aint the player left us and brown fine for coming on the last 30 minutes but struggles to do 90 in division 1. midfield is the problem as we have never replaced conneely this season as he was a major player last season and we have no one else in the squad to dohis job.

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He should be available for selection Saturday but I cant see Coley putting him in.
Don't think Sykes will be ready either.
Same eleven other than Smyth for Brown.

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No Dimi?

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Conneely your having a laugh not good enough the crab I'm sure 28 will tell us otherwise

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Are you ever going to give it a rest ?

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I'm actually a big fan of Conneely.
Saturday's game showed how much we missed him.
Too big a gap between midfield and defence.

Not the most exciting player, not the most technically blessed.
But he does a job and does it well.

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Personally - yes.
Not Coley's style to change too much though.

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True. Suppose difference with being away on international duty and being suspended is not training with team over that period.

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I'd also much rather have Seamus as a captain on the field than Sean.

Sean is a wind up merchant and does that best whilst not having to talk to the ref every 5 minutes doing his captain duties....

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What it is Josh if certain people would engage gear before spouting their hatred, its not the person its the role.
You're bang on the money.
We need a defensively minded midfielder who can sit in do the dirty job then offload to the more talented players.
If its not Conneely and Brown then find someone in the squad to fit because its a gaping hole.

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Couldn't agree more.
Finley could probably do a job there.
To be fair surprised how advanced he's been playing this season.

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No not with you 28 because they always say the truth hurts love winding you up

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If you seriously think you've had any impact upon me you're delusional.
I am so looking forward to a constructive post from you.
You cant even put the truth on your profile !

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Ok fair enough I'll explain myself to you when I meet up with you.let's put it to bed now I'm sure people are fed up with us by now.on a serious note I would love to get you a pint at the bar on Saturday and have a good old chat about football.the offer is there 28

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We've missed Seamus this season. I dont think he's been fully fit for a while and it shows.

If Scotty does his job he's often out of position because he's a busy sausage thats up n down all over. He's our Last Action Hero

If Barlaser does the job he's out of position because he wants to do too much with the ball. He's capable but losing the ball there puts it straight onto the back four

Conneely gets the ball and lays it off. Its simple, its effective, its none too pleasing on the eye. Luke Joyce did it well and wasnt appreciated. Procter did it exceedingly well tbf. A holding midfielder just keeps the play ticking over and gives it to the playmakers to make the play

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No thanks.
Sooner be mates with my Dentist.

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Haha or well I tryed.at least I'm the bigger man for asking.

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Of course you are.
More class in my little toe.
You don’t make violent threats slag players off just because you don’t like the opinions of others then when it suits you want to be mates.
You’re no friend of mine never will be.
Born in 1941 eh ?
Bet the picture isn’t even you on your profile.
Sad very sad.

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I think you need to grow up

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And I never once mentioned been your mate? Get over it

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The 'special' tshirt i had under my bed as a teenager had more class

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That a dig at me Spartacus ?

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Are you for real ?
I need to grow up ?
Jesus wept.

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Not at all, twas a dig at the one you were digging :p

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Gents;

This thread has wandered into silliness :(

I'll close it down to prevent further comments