Just back

I would refuse to get drawn in by MrsD's comment Ginny

Please can someone confirm that this squad is half Slades and half not with next season being the opportunity to create a 100% Slade squad?

As long as we maintain League 2 status this season then surely we judge after that. Until then surely we must be realistic about our KPI's this season and continue to consolidate as a football league club.

Looks like son of Madely is still in bed sleeping off too many sherbets

I am ok being four points off playoffs after twelve games and twelve points off bottom two

Our results on lower half teams are excellent if you analyse the points taken

We clearly struggle against the better teams and have to get better there

Let's see where we get to by Xmas before we start worrying about who our manager should be.

I may get shot down here but as long as we try to play football when it's possible I'd be happy with this sort of run of results until the end of the season. Average mid table with the same amount of wins and loses, give Slade a year to settle and sort his team ready to bring in a couple more next season to kick on and aim a little higher. I think most people are realistic here and the reason people are so aggy is just the style of play, yes we all want to win but we accept we can't beat everyone we just want some sort of decent football to watch and to see our team give it their all.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Can happy clappers not read? I'm not saying the results were good under Bignot, but the football he had us playing was. Results at times were excrement, but under Slade we aren't much better OK we don't concede as many goals in a match thats the differnce. After 7 more games I would like to see the difference between Bignot and Slades win to loss ratio as I bet they will be very similar if not the same.

Slade Out.

No, the football wasn't good. Go on any just back thread and the over arching theme was boredom and no idea what the plan was. Christ almighty, talk about re-writing history.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

We played alot better football under Bignot then Slade, the results were just as bad but at least I could watch without hurting my neck or falling asleep. Bignot got it wrong with his team selections and tactics but bare Gunning (and I liked Gunning as bad as he was) he brought in some good players which resulted on Town fans turning on him. Slade's has assembled a sub bar squad except for Dembele and Woolford and has had a series of bad results and hoof ball"tactics" which is resulting in Tiwn fans turning on him. Its just happy clappers can't say anything bad about the club, I was shot down for bemoaning the signing of Kelly and Hooper and despite seeing them play fans on here still can't bring themselves to see the trueth and defend them to the hilt.

WIth Slade we won't even be trying for the playoffs, never mind top 3 he said he wanted. I know where we are in the league and I don't think we'll ever be challenging much higher then League 1 but I at least want a manager who makes it look like we could challenge, rather then one that makes me check the score of teams below us in the league.

Slade Out.

Couple of things,

- IMHO opinion the football was no better under Bignot, Crewe (A), Donny (H&A) Stevenage (A) Crawley (H) Exeter (H) all spring to mind. If you went to Portsmouth it was embarrassing. Even in games we won Hartlepool (A), Colchester (H) we where really poor.  

- After all that time in non league and 1 season back in the EFL is it realistic to be expecting play off's? or "top 3"? Many teams currently above us have been trying for a lot longer.

- I suggest that many have drifted off not because of the football but because all of a sudden we are small or at best a medium sized fish in a bigger pond where as in the last 3 seasons at least in non league we where right up there.

We are an average 4th division team with and average 4th division squad and we have average resources would changing the manager now make any of that better? if you believe it will then how?

Slade has assembled a squad of strangers with some coming in at the last minute to expect champagne football is not realistic until they gel together, the current style is pragmatic to get points all being well it will look better at some point soon but for the time being I'm happy to win games as winning games usually takes you closer to where you clearly feel we should be, playing nice football at this llevel sometimes does not..
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Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Can happy clappers not read? I'm not saying the results were good under Bignot, but the football he had us playing was. Results at times were excrement, but under Slade we aren't much better OK we don't concede as many goals in a match thats the differnce. After 7 more games I would like to see the difference between Bignot and Slades win to loss ratio as I bet they will be very similar if not the same.

Slade Out.

I don't remember playing good football whilst getting absolutely tonked by Crewe/Portsmouth/Donny.

The football under Bignot was absolutely dire.  Neil Woods dire. You're talking crap.

Pragmatic is as good a word as any to describe Sladeball. That said, there are glimpses of something a little easier on the eye but it seems we have to concede first or be playing better opposition (Scunny/Derby) for it to happen.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Pragmatic is as good a word as any to describe Sladeball. That said, there are glimpses of something a little easier on the eye but it seems we have to concede first or be playing better opposition (Scunny/Derby) for it to happen.

Functional springs to mind.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I watched Lincoln today and their keeper put 3 of his own defenders on the floor punching the ball clear. As has been said, McKeown needs to be more streetwise.

Some cracking long shots in there from Dixon and Dembele. Good to see us score from a corner and that through ball from Summerfield was superb. It will be interesting to see how he kicks ok now he has his first goal.

Macca put gunning “on the floor” last season against Wycombe, can you recall what happened after that?