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July 5, 2017, 12:34pm

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Personally I would think we are a little behind where we would ideally be.
Therefore I think the January transfer window will determine our season.
I can't even begin to think that we would go down.
Unfortunately I think we have to write last season off in terms of the club progressing forward.
So once again I will look for a mid table to pushing for play offs. Anything above will be a bonus.
Happy for a couple more signings to prove me wrong !!


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July 5, 2017, 12:51pm

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Quoted from Mariner_09
I'd disagree that Slade/Wilkie are better than Hurst and Doig, who has more promotions to their name? Who is managing in a higher league? Therefore I reckon we'll be in the 10th to 15th part of the league again, unless he can sign a couple of gems.


we don't need a couple of gems.

We look to have built a good solid team throughout, which is better than 1/2 'gems'
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Quoted from Mariner_09
I'd disagree that Slade/Wilkie are better than Hurst and Doig, who has more promotions to their name? Who is managing in a higher league? Therefore I reckon we'll be in the 10th to 15th part of the league again, unless he can sign a couple of gems.


OK, maybe 'undeniably' was a bit strong. I was a fan of Hursty and gutted when he left....time will tell whether he reaches the Championship like Slade, but at the moment you just can't compensate for his experience...promotion or no promotion.


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July 5, 2017, 12:56pm

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All it takes is a run of consistency. Not got to have the best team in the league but if you work together and work hard as a team then results will follow.
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There were times last season when I thought we were crap, and there were other times I thought we were top 7 material. At the moment we have the remnants of two manager's players, plus a sprinkling of newcomers. It could go either way, we'll know after the first two or three games which way it's likely to go.


I very much doubt that. 2 or 3 games is nothing to base a season on surely?

Try as i might, i just cannot get excited at the team as we stand. I'm not a huge fan of Slade but accept that he is about as good a manager as we could hope for in our position, seeing as he has a lot of experience higher up the leagues. He will get my support as all managers do but......

The signings so far don't really get the juices flowing, but to be honest i don't have any idea what is a good or bad signing at the level we are at, so it's a wait and see approach from me. I've been waiting for years for a manager to come in and get the team and fans galvanised like a McMenemy or a Buckley did, but every passing year just seems to be more of the same middling stuff with the odd bit of excitement.

Last season was a bit of a damp squib after the joy of winning at Wembley and getting back into the league, and it was soon back to the stuttering stop start routine, on and off the pitch, with managers and players changing by the month; we never seem to get it right for any prolonged period. Slade feels more like a safe pair of hands appointment to me, than anything thrilling, and i don't think we will be in danger at the wrong end of the table, but i'm not so sure we will be any better off than we were with the 2 previous managers. I thought Biggy showed great potential, but scared off too many fans and ultimately the board. As ever i'll go into the new season with a suck it and see approach and hope it's our time again. God knows we've waited long enough.
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July 5, 2017, 1:34pm
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Solid and consistent will go along way in this Division, 3 managers and virtually two squads didnt help either of those things last season so ....unless we have a terrible start, ie about 10 points by November then i dont see the board firing anybody this season, we should have at least have a settled set up.
Reduced squad numbers will help reduce the temptation on meddling and if Mcallister is ready to go and Rose fulfills his potential then there is a solid looking centre mid in there, again something we havnt totally had last season.

A slightly improved position in my mind will be the most likely outcome and it then comes down to the goal scoring form to turn that into promotion potential.



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July 5, 2017, 1:47pm
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There were times last season when I thought we were crap, and there were other times I thought we were top 7 material. At the moment we have the remnants of two manager's players, plus a sprinkling of newcomers. It could go either way, we'll know after the first two or three games which way it's likely to go.


the first 2/3 games don't determine a season or give a good idea of where we are likely to go..I'd say around Christmas we'll have more idea
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July 5, 2017, 2:24pm
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Mid-table last season.  Just for reference, the last 2 Premiership winners finished 12th and 14th the season before each win.  Leicester and Chelsea.

So any success is possible. We do not even need to finish top to go up.
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A well set out team, with players in correct positions, with fixed formations, who actually pass to each other rather than opponents, and who are fit to last 90 minutes on a consistent basis to keep a familiar line up from match to match will survive in this league.

If all of the above happen, and we can also keep goals against down, and return to fortress Blundell Park after several missing years, then the top 7 could be very realistic.

10 less goals let in or ten more goals scored last season would have been a huge difference to where we ended up.

If both of those had been achieved, then we would have had 28 more points in the bag - so sometimes the boring 1-0 wins we all hated under Hurst actually make some sense for points gathering.

How many times did fans go home thinking we had been robbed by a team blocking everything, grabbing a goal then setting up the brick wall against us ???

We were suckered several times by cleverer managers and their game plans !! If fans on here can see it, why couldn't either previous manager ?
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July 5, 2017, 4:14pm
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Last season the thing that stood out more than anything was the total lack of consistency I am hoping Slade and Wilco will address this positively of course.
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