Derby Day

In over 40 years of supporting Town, I cannot ever remember a more low key / low moral derby than the one against Lincoln tomorrow.  We are such a poor outfit this season, that I like the vast majority of Town fans don't expect us to get anything out of tomorrows game at all.  Lincoln will not have to play very well to take all three points away.  Sadly, if we do lose, I can see this being the last game of the season for many of the floating Town fans as well.  To be fair, we have barely played one good game all season so far, and we have stuttered to a few wins, playing with no style or plan at all.  Slade looks nothing like the manager who first came to GTFC all those years ago, and I fear he has simply been drafted in as yet another fall guy.  We have no real playing budget that is for sure, or why the hell would our squad be like it is ???  Unless dramatic changes are made, the great support we have will get to a bare 3,000 and the away numbers will fall in line with this as well.  Would it have been so difficult to recruit more talent in the summer, and so expensive ???  I think not.  We have an apathetic Board of directors who merely expect us to turn out year in year out, despite how we are playing, they take our loyal support for granted season in season out.  We are a pub team at best this year, but lets hope we pull something out of the bag tomorrow and spoil those tramps from Lincolns day out.  Going forward, things look bleak for Town, and I honestly don't expect Slade to last the season out.  Without some drive and direction, we could easily see ourselves back in non-league football unless certain people don;t start to show a very small amount of drive and ambition.  Time will tell, but this current squad is one of the worst I have ever seen in over 40 years at BP.

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8000 people disagree about tomorrow's match.

Fed up of the same threads now, been the same since tuesday, just get behind the team now till 3pm tomorrow and if its as bad as what everyone is thinking, then feel free to vent

You've got a better way with words than what I have in my previous post of '30 years'

Christ, how many more doom and gloom threads are we going to get?

Pub team? Worst in 40 years? You said all that about Bignot last season.

Our first games in the conference against them were when both teams were outside the play off places. I'm much more enthuastic and happier to be going to tomorrow's game than a mid table conference version of it.

Nearly a home sell out so can't be that low key.

Also, we're playing Lincoln, who look like mid-table fodder much like ourselves, so I don't get all the people so sure that "we're gonna get beat." Its a mid table L2 team, not Barcelona.

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Quoted from TheCodfather1966

In over 40 years of supporting Town, I cannot ever remember a more low key / low moral derby than the one against Lincoln tomorrow.  We are such a poor outfit this season, that I like the vast majority of Town fans don't expect us to get anything out of tomorrows game at all. Lincoln will not have to play very well to take all three points away.  Sadly, if we do lose, I can see this being the last game of the season for many of the floating Town fans as well.  To be fair, we have barely played one good game all season so far, and we have stuttered to a few wins, playing with no style or plan at all.  Slade looks nothing like the manager who first came to GTFC all those years ago, and I fear he has simply been drafted in as yet another fall guy.  We have no real playing budget that is for sure, or why the hell would our squad be like it is ???  Unless dramatic changes are made, the great support we have will get to a bare 3,000 and the away numbers will fall in line with this as well.  Would it have been so difficult to recruit more talent in the summer, and so expensive ???  I think not.  We have an apathetic Board of directors who merely expect us to turn out year in year out, despite how we are playing, they take our loyal support for granted season in season out.  We are a pub team at best this year, but lets hope we pull something out of the bag tomorrow and spoil those tramps from Lincolns day out.  Going forward, things look bleak for Town, and I honestly don't expect Slade to last the season out.  Without some drive and direction, we could easily see ourselves back in non-league football unless certain people don;t start to show a very small amount of drive and ambition.  Time will tell, but this current squad is one of the worst I have ever seen in over 40 years at BP.

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Prediction Thread so far -

Town win  13

Town draw  9

Town loss  9

Don't feed the trolls, chaps.

Quoted from TheCodfather1966

In over 40 years of supporting Town, I cannot ever remember a more low key / low moral derby than the one against Lincoln tomorrow.  We are such a poor outfit this season, that I like the vast majority of Town fans don't expect us to get anything out of tomorrows game at all.  Lincoln will not have to play very well to take all three points away.  Sadly, if we do lose, I can see this being the last game of the season for many of the floating Town fans as well.  To be fair, we have barely played one good game all season so far, and we have stuttered to a few wins, playing with no style or plan at all.  Slade looks nothing like the manager who first came to GTFC all those years ago, and I fear he has simply been drafted in as yet another fall guy.  We have no real playing budget that is for sure, or why the hell would our squad be like it is ???  Unless dramatic changes are made, the great support we have will get to a bare 3,000 and the away numbers will fall in line with this as well.  Would it have been so difficult to recruit more talent in the summer, and so expensive ???  I think not.  We have an apathetic Board of directors who merely expect us to turn out year in year out, despite how we are playing, they take our loyal support for granted season in season out.  We are a pub team at best this year, but lets hope we pull something out of the bag tomorrow and spoil those tramps from Lincolns day out.  Going forward, things look bleak for Town, and I honestly don't expect Slade to last the season out.  Without some drive and direction, we could easily see ourselves back in non-league football unless certain people don;t start to show a very small amount of drive and ambition.  Time will tell, but this current squad is one of the worst I have ever seen in over 40 years at BP.

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FFS... your like a scratched record man if you don’t like it go and watch horses run round in circles instead!

Ffs doom and gloom, I'm sick of it. Your not talking for me. I'm travelling my usual trip from Yorkshire setting off at 9.30, meeting my old man in Grimsby, having a beer and getting to my seat for 12.30. Can't bloody wait. UTM

Quoted from oochiad

Ffs doom and gloom, I'm sick of it. Your not talking for me. I'm travelling my usual trip from Yorkshire setting off at 9.30, meeting my old man in Grimsby, having a beer and getting to my seat for 12.30. Can't bloody wait. UTM

Same, 8am from Herts but no beer just a decent cup of tea and a good few hours with the old fella, smiles if we win moans if we lose but GTFC and fukin proud of it!

How can you miss a derby ? It's a derby FFS

Was sat in the ticket office today and in the hour I was there at least 20 people came in for tickets for tomorrow and not one of them looked like they had to be dragged kicking and screaming to buy.

Have the local GPs in GY stopped writing prescriptions for anti depressants ffs ?!!
I'm going to set up a stall outside BP selling lengths of rope , I'll be able to buy out JF with the proceeds, build a new stadium and fund sladey to buy reddy 2017 .

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Have the local GPs in GY stopped writing prescriptions for anti depressants ffs ?!!
I'm going to set up a stall outside BP selling lengths of rope , I'll be able to buy out JF with the proceeds, build a new stadium and fund sladey to buy reddy 2017 .

How about doing a little song and dance to increase uptake  

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Get down there FFS, you never know the [u]MIGHTY LINCOLN could have an off day and unbelievable for them drop a point or three  

You've fot to get behind Town today, this game will go a long way to telling us where we are imo. If we should be outfought, out thought and out-passioned (just made that word up) then we have problems but that's for a later time.
For me the key players are Jones and Dembele. Both can do the stuff today, but we need big roles from the defense and huge commitments from all around to try and boss the field.
Matt and Jones up front can do the biz, I'm sure of that.

Zzzzzzz booooooring. Jog on then.

Anyone got a link to ifollow commentary please? It doesn't appear for me