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Will it be on.

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Looking outside this morning thankfully not much snow and little forecast and temperature to go up to a balmy 1° game should be on, no Pritchard, Butcher not sure same formation?, I,ll go:-
Baxter.
Barclay. Hughes. Burgess.
Nottingham. McConville. Conneelly. Philips. Uwakawe.
Bishop. Charles.

Subs:-. Savin. Rodgers. Morgan. Sama. Smyth Russell. Scully.

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According to my phone, forecast for Accrington is -2° by 5pm with a 60% chance of snow?????

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Sunshine currently close to the Wham 10-30 am

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With an early kick off, Plymouth will be on the road now/soon, I would have thought??

It will be very cold later I would have thought, hope not too cold though.....

:) :) :)

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Need a win tonight...... :)

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Should image they will have been couped up in a hotel somewhere and will arrive about 3-30pm as usual.

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Pitch not frozen covers coming off. All positive.

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all positive is great news 28.
I just had a peep at the opposition and it looks like they got a young star in
21 year old Luke Jephcott scored 16 goals this season

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Needs amendment after McConville is banned for 4 games after pleading guilty to something off the ball Saturday.

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Have just watched the incident again and can't believe it. It was playground stuff.

I thought Kioso was lucky not to get booked for his role in the scuffle, but for McConville to go up to a player, pull his hair and walk away is beyond immature. :mad:

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And to add to that we have a midfield decimated with suspensions and injury, Butcher, Pritchard, Sangare, Sherrif, Roberts and now McConville stupid thought we had got rid of idiots like Finley needs a proper rollicking.

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So, with no midfield, has anyone got Keith Curle’s number so he can give a bit of advice about the long ball game?:rolleyes:

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Captain Conneely our backbone still there.

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Danny Mayor is the threat for me mate.
Personally I'd go 4 4 2 because of that.
Need a solid right back tonight.

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Mayor to me is a cracking player main danger i think.

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Not a one man team agree Major good player Jeppcoht scoring threat but we have played many times against Major he doesn't always get the upper hand, concentrate on ourselves great opportunity for new lads Morgan and Phillips if selected but need to keep possession and create for Charles and Bishop.

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thats the main job tonight,create for our front 2 do that and i think we will gain 3pts.

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Line up:-
Baxter.
Nottingham. Barclay. Hughes. Burgess.
Phillips. Conneelly. Butcher.
Smyth.
Charles. Bishop.

Subs :- Savin. Russell. Maguire. Uwakawe. Rodgers. Scully. Morgan.

Think formation might be 4-3-1-2.

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Smyth will pull wide right and with his speed provide cover to counter Mayor.
No one is saying they're a one man team.
Fail to prepare prepare to fail.
Delighted to see Burgess back. Hope he's fully recovered and not being rushed back due to a certain player's petulance.

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Got a bad feeling about this game. The poor discipline in midfield last Saturday is a bad sign in my opinion. Maybe players reaching the limit of their ability. However, I hope the new line up performs well.......

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Need the backbone of midfield to exert his influence and responsibilities of carrying the armband on the players around him although McConville at his age should know better, I think we will be ok chance for Smyth and hope Phillips shows us what he can do.

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C'mon STANLEY

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Sats suggest we're doing OK @28 mins..

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Good first half midfield excellent Smyth a breath of fresh air Phillips great half Butcher and Conneelly doing the mopping up they missing a sitter is our luck for the first half keep it up lads only one winner for me.

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Jesus Andy are you for real ?
He’s a big boy is golden balls.
I stopped pulling pig tails at infant school.

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If only Dion had put his one on one away .......
Fine margins.

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...Shall I get the hose out?

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Are you incinuating Sean gets picked because he's a favourite over his ability thought that train if thought had sailed,

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For a "senior" player he is worryingly immature at times!

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he probably does i think.he can have a couple of bad games and still get picked

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@$^$^$&$#&$$&$@!!!!! :(

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Back in 10. Tomatoes need attention.

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******. On to the next one...and tomatoes are now off the football menu.

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Well, we definitely didn't deserve to lose that. Beat by an unfortunate defensive mistake but could easily have won but for a great performance from their goalkeeper. Everyone played well but i thought Conneely was superb tonight.

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Well Mayor was nowhere neither was Jeppcoht what beat us tonight was luck or unlucky which ever way you put it poor Barclay been outstanding all night made Mayor anonymous and one slip MOM tells the true story their keeper pity really because there were some very good performances especially Phillips who deserves the plaudits good vision an eye for goal and onto Lincoln were we will recover and grab the 3 points we should have had tonight.

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Good game (compared with the last one) from two good teams, but b****y awful way to lose.
Did Plymouth threaten to score other than the gift they were handed (or headed)?
What’s most frustrating was that there were generally good performances from the whole team.

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Only Stanley could have 63% possession, 22 shots & still contrive to lose the game to opponents who only had 2 shots on target.

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was a mistake won em that game,thought we played well against a good side,dissapointed but not dismayed nobody played badly.

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As I pointed out earlier the captain needed to stand up to the armband and influence the players around him and tonight he did played with gusto and well as did the whole team didn't deserve to be the losers, made Plymouth look ordinary and apart from the missed sitter never looked like scoring, disappointed but we are a good squad based team with players to come back and compete will win more than we lose starting Saturday.

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No.
The inference from your post is that our Captain isnt exercising his authority on those around him.
#22.
If Ive misunderstood then I apologise.
If not then I stand by my comment.

On to the game.
The turning point for me was first half when Dion was through one on one and shot straight at the keeper.
If we’d gone ahead I think we’d have won comfortably.
On to the next two - big games.

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Seamus was outstanding tonight!

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Are you suggesting our Captain has not “stood up” before tonight ?
If so you cant be watching the same football as me.
Biased as I may be Conneely has been our stand out consistent performer of the season and leads by example.
He deserves a rest but guess what ?
He will be the first name on the teamsheet again Saturday and Tuesday.
Compare that to the petulant senior member of our squad who was needed on the pitch for the next 4 games.

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I think you're all watching through Stanley tinted glasses.......can't see us getting anything at Lincoln or Doncaster. We couldn't finish tonight. If we can't beat Northampton and Plymouth we certainly can't beat the next to. We're better this season but we're not a top 7 side. We deserve to be where we are, but no higher.

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Not here mate.
Show me one post from me thats suggested anything about where we are, where we’re going to be.
This league is unforgiving.
No matter where you are you can get sucked into a problem very quickly.
We are not promotion material but neither are we relegation material.

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We beat Hull and lost to Plymouth.
Seamus was sensational tonight, last few games he has definitely been more attack minded but made two outstanding tackles tonight.
Matt Butcher is one of the best midfielders in League One. More technically gifted than Barlaser and he was very good.
Opoku should have been off for a clear elbow. The ref gave a foul so must have seen something. Baffling.
Smyth very ineffective playing behind the 2 strikers.
Lacked width tonight. First few games Burgess was bombing down the wing but seems to have reigned it in more recently.
Pitch was very hard and ball bobbled horribly for a few shots.
Live and in real time I’d say Baxter was at fault for their goal but may be wrong.

Roll on Saturday. Don’t write us off just yet.

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No mate I agree with your posts. My reading of the thread was we played well and should have got something out of the game. But that's not football. We have a better team this year for certain but we lack the extra quality that the better teams have in League 1. Anything we get from the next 2 games will be a bonus and let's hope we have some luck along the way. Smyth and Phillips are great additions and showed that tonight. I hope they continue to improve.
Listening to Coley's post match interview tonight it will be difficult for him to change the starting 11 on Saturday. At least he's pleased even if I'm not.....

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It's a game enjoyed to be watched is football and it's about opinions I personally like Conneelly and have had a few debates at games among my fellow supporters sticking up for him in the main, but I never suggest anyone is less superior in their knowledge of the game. Your entitled to your opinion as for being the outstanding player that's your view one which I don't particularly agree with but that's football opinions are judged through the eye of the beholder, as for Stanley,s league position it doesn't lie we are doing great. And if we play like that every game we will make the playoffs.

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Josh the goal wasn't Baxter,s fault more a mix up Barclay did it all right apart from the power of the header one mistake all night it happens but he wasn't the only one when marking out of 10 in a game you take everything in that's why although he had a great game Seamus made 2 or 3 errors one quite a bad pass at the back where they were on goal but fluffed it and 2 headers aimlessly into space when attacking, this isn't getting at him it's facts about the game to me Hughes had a faultless display at the back a 9 all day and Charles was a thorn in their side all night just couldn't convert another night he would have been the hero 8. This squad has been assembled yet again at a fraction of the cost of our rivals yet they excite me every game unlike some Stanley squads in years gone by they are capable in my opinion of a top 6 finish. Let's get behind them even if we can't be present.

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To add to last post their keeper Paul Cooper scores a 10 faultless display if memory serves me right 5 certain goal saves, plus we hit the bar small margins could have been a walkover.

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Baxter rushing out for a simple headed back pass from Ben, last minute Baxter realises he's in no mans land and shouts away. Ben in two minds. Should have been dealt with much better.
Barclay almost released his inner Sykes with the same long punt forward in the first half not working when better options available.
Not going to mention Seamus' last ditch tackle?
Hughes never a 9. Charles never an 8 in my opinion.
Pick up things differently when able to watch live than on iFollow i'm sure.

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He'll be getting an England call up then?

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think a lot of our missed chances go back to netting 6 against the gas. we have not scored since and its funny over the years where a similar thing has happened at other clubs. its one thing about stanley is when the majority really expect a victory then they don,t provide it. saturday could be the complete opposite where only the real optimists really expect a win at sincil bank.

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Well now we know how Jurgen Klopp feels. :mad:
You're cruising along as title contenders when upstarts like Burnley & Brighton rock up at fortress Anfield & give you a metaphorical black-eye.
Poor old Jurgen! His pearly smile reduced to a rictus grin as he tries to explain the unexplainable.
Not for the first time, no-hopers wearing masks arrive at the Wham & perform a smash & grab.
After visits from lowly Gillingham, Northampton & Plymouth, we've scraped 1 point from what should have been 9.
No words of consolation will help to ease the pain of seeing your hopes slowly disappear before your eyes.
I don't want to hear how we dominated the game. How we should have scored a bagful. It's all so much hot air.
Let's face facts.... we blew it!
Perhaps we expected too much after our demolition of Bristol Rovers & Hull.
That we're punching above our weight & should be content with mid-table obscurity.
But to follow football is to chase the impossible dream, overturn all the odds & achieve success.
Every victory makes that dream seem a reality, every defeat leaves optimism crushed.
Sometimes I hate football! Today is one of those days.
But wait! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east & Lincoln beckons.
Once more into the breach dear friends.
Let us expect the unexpected.... Come on you Reds!

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Hot air about dominating a game and having 25 shots and missing glorious chances is better than the chill wind of an awful uncreative display.

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Charles through one on one with the keeper and fluffs it. That's fine. Misplaced heard from the Captain and .......
Not into this marks out of 10 rhubarb.
Everyone sees the game differently.

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Same people that would rate players 8 or 9 on a defeat but 6 or 7 when we win.

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Really? Try telling Plymouth that.
I'd gladly swap our domination & 25 shots for their 37% possession & 2 shots on target if it resulted in 3 points.

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On the face of it you're right and I see where you are coming from. If you have lots of possession you need to be doing something with it. Last night, although I wasn't happy with our finishing we did create plenty of chances with our dominant possession....so I guess I'm happier, even though we lost, that we dis try to do something with our possession and that it did result in chances to score. The argument goes that if we keep playing that way with the majority of possession and creating lots of chances to score that we will get better results and both draw and win more games. I still don't think our finishing is good enough.......perhaps they could work on that in training?

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It's all so much hot air. Let's face facts.... we blew it! Intended or not, love it.

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10 for their keeper, do we not count the one he went up for missed the punch, ball went across goal, another chance missed.

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Course you would but in the real world it would work once out of ten.

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Who would they be the same people who post more regularly in defeat?

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One additional comment on last night. Smyth he gave me mixed thoughts. His pace and some of his play gave us an extra dimension but he had a habit of arriving in the box half a yard behind the defender when balls where flashed across the box and he was knocked of the ball easily at times compared to our usual front 2. I have no such mixed thoughts on Phillips, he is a clear asset. We have had some luck earlier in the season with narrow wins. Last night was our turn to feel aggrieved the other way mainly because we missed chances. It's football being that fully old game.

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I don’t know about numbers out of ten but, after 24 hours’ reflection, that performance was one of the best I’ve seen from a Stanley team for some time..

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I know where your coming from.... but really a performance without single goal scored is a draw at best, and obviously we lost the game. Plymouth on the other hand created less on the night, scored a goal (a chance gifted to them by us) and took all three points. Oh how I wish we had performed like them.

Coley expressed the same view as you in his post match interview. I suppose its the best way of taking something from the game or in Coley's case the best way of managing his message to the players and getting them to play his way and keeping them motivated.

But I am very disappointed with our performance.

Nevertheless, I will be watching the Lincoln game on Saturday and hoping that even if we don't play as well as Coley says we did on Tuesday that we score as many if not more goals than Lincoln do.......

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performance maybe but result no. i,d love to go to lincoln and doncaster and get completly outplayed with only 25 per cent possesion and nick both games 1 nil.

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I didn’t mention the result, I was talking about the performance.
Of course the result was disappointing but, if results are all that matter, there’s a sale of Bayern Munich shirts on at the moment! :rolleyes:

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Yes Exile you are right....no mention of the result...so apologies. And of course good performances should eventually bring success. I guess I'm just frustrated that all our good play and chances didn't lead to a single goal. Bring on the Imps!

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the result has always been number 1 for me and the performance comes second. its not performances that get managers the sack but results. thought the northamtons away performance was decent the other week and could have beaten us. if they had and followed this by not losing their next game curle would still be in his job.