Dear MR SLADE

If you put aside the boring football and just look at the stats, we are very hard to beat and currently sit 5th in the form guide. Just a couple of goals in the 0-0 draws would now see us in the play off spots (joint 7th at least). Had Jones sunk that pen and not hit the inside of the post, we would be looking very healthy right now. He hasn't been here that long either, so things may get better in time. He did good things at Orient after saving them from relegation and i think they had a long winning streak at the start of one season. Think he also rescued Brighton from almost certain relegation. In short, he is a safe pair of hands.

However, i'm not a fan of his pragmatic style and i wasn't a fan last time. I'm a Grimsby Town fan and he is the current manager, so it is what it is. I wish we played a more exciting expansive game but we don't and i can't see that changing any time soon, so i just hope that if we can't be entertaining, at least we can be successful and get out of this league at some point, in the right direction. He has never achieved this in the past but he's been close with more than one club. Let's hope he can break his duck because it's the only thing that will mitigate the mind numbing boredom of the football.

My overall view of this season is that we are incredibly poor at passing the ball which might underline how poor our movement actually is.There is nothing to suggest that Slade & Wilco are coaching the players to have any form of composure or confidence on the ball which results in some really poor decision making.

I have not seen every L2 side this season so it's difficult to judge but when everyone is fit I think we have a reasonable squad (apart from a clever "finisher") that could challenge for the play off's but nothing more.This will only happen though if we start to play some reasonably consistent football. When I watch Town at the moment I can't currently tell what our game plan is or whether we are a passing side or long ball, my worry is that the manager hasn't yet made his mind up despite stable selection in the last few weeks.

Mid table finish for us this year I reckon.
    

We'll finish mid table which will keep our non chairman and bank manager happy, but as pointed out in an earlier thread "x" number of players, who the fans and possibly the manager don't rate, are on 2 year deals so do we have exactly the same to look forward to next season as this. I want some stability as we had too many managerial upheavals last season but I also want some hope that things are going to improve on the excitement level but as we don't even know the length of Mr Slade's contract he could be with us for quite some time.

25 year rolling contract with a 5 year option-I have decided to be a Tibetan monk until his contract finally ends-if anybody wants to join me the boat leaves Saturday at 1645.

Quoted from ginnywings

If you put aside the boring football and just look at the stats, we are very hard to beat and currently sit 5th in the form guide. Just a couple of goals in the 0-0 draws would now see us in the play off spots (joint 7th at least). Had Jones sunk that pen and not hit the inside of the post, we would be looking very healthy right now. He hasn't been here that long either, so things may get better in time. He did good things at Orient after saving them from relegation and i think they had a long winning streak at the start of one season. Think he also rescued Brighton from almost certain relegation. In short, he is a safe pair of hands.

However, i'm not a fan of his pragmatic style and i wasn't a fan last time. I'm a Grimsby Town fan and he is the current manager, so it is what it is. I wish we played a more exciting expansive game but we don't and i can't see that changing any time soon, so i just hope that if we can't be entertaining, at least we can be successful and get out of this league at some point, in the right direction. He has never achieved this in the past but he's been close with more than one club. Let's hope he can break his duck because it's the only thing that will mitigate the mind numbing boredom of the football.

And if the opponents hadn't missed open goals in the last 3 league games it would be worse, ifs and maybes dont get points

Quoted from golfer

25 year rolling contract with a 5 year option-I have decided to be a Tibetan monk until his contract finally ends-if anybody wants to join me the boat leaves Saturday at 1645.

When you get back will you get another season ticket at Blundell Park  

Quoted from promotion plaice

When you get back will you get another season ticket at Blundell Park  

You don't honestly,honestly,honestly think we will be playing at Peakes Parkway by then. ? P.S. if season tickets keep going up 10% like they are next year nobody will be able to afford one never mind us Tibetan Monks

Quoted from forza ivano

Yawn. R u posting from your ocean going liner? twit

Not with grammar and diction like that he isn't.

We are an average league two team that just managed to creep over the line to get here in the first place, even with a manager who now lords it over in league one we spluttered and were boring.

We went through the madness that was Bignot and came out the other side with Slade, lost our two most promising goal scorers in Podge and Omar, and in there place we have acquired some substandard players in Matt, Hooper, Woolford and Kelly,  and the fact that apart from Woolford the others are only making guest appearances suggests that Slade is not happy with his signings.

Therefore to sum up we are no worse off than we were before he came, possible more defensively savvy and just two points short of the mighty Lincoln with their God like management and enormous gates.
Be patient it could easily get better after Xmas with a surprise signing or two

Quoted from Garth

We are an average league two team that just managed to creep over the line to get here in the first place, even with a manager who now lords it over in league one we spluttered and were boring.

We went through the madness that was Bignot and came out the other side with Slade, lost our two most promising goal scorers in Podge and Omar, and in there place we have acquired some substandard players in Matt, Hooper, Woolford and Kelly,  and the fact that apart from Woolford the others are only making guest appearances suggests that Slade is not happy with his signings.

Therefore to sum up we are no worse off than we were before he came, possible more defensively savvy and just two points short of the mighty Lincoln with their God like management and enormous gates.
Be patient it could easily get better after Xmas with a surprise signing or two

Impressed that you've narrowed it down to 4.