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That was a long behind drive back to Stoke this evening.

All I can say after today is at least Sutton and Village Green lost. Thats it I can't bring myself to say any more after that excrement show.

Quoted from Hagrid

I also left after the 5th

Outfought, out thought, and had 5 put past us by the team directly above us. Its absolutely flipping disgraceful.

2-0 down in 10 mins, showed a bit of fight, but 2nd half we were horrific. And he’s got to go

A midfield of flipping Clifton Green and Andrews. A defence he has actually made worse. He brought on a young academy striker over Pyke and Wilson. He is flipping clueless and please admit you got it wrong owners and get him out

Im embarrassed, almost heartbroken. This is as bad as it gets

Don’t agree with a lot of your comments but this is spot on. Exactly what position is Clifton supposed to be playing cos it aint midfield and his performances this season are the reason I have never rated him. I will say him and Green at least battle as does Rose but Christ almighty how is Eisa getting picked every week? Bringing on the young lad from Coventry was one of the worst pieces of management I have ever witnessed and it’s obvious from Pyke and Wilson’s body language when they finally came on that they agreed.

I’ve questioned previously whether or not having a Recruitment Manager has improved our squad and it’s pretty obvious that we should not only be discussing Artell’s future but also that of the RM. How the hell did we sign Smith he’s bleeding worse than Mullarkey, smaller, not good in the air, slow, not great on the ball and offers nothing going forward. Hume is no improvement on Glennon and has a much poorer delivery. Tharme had a decent twenty minutes first half but hardly provides for an adequate replacement for Waterfall and the rest of the January recruitment is quickly forgotten as Wood not deemed good enough and Thompson already, presumably, injured although he was crap anyway last week.

This team is about as good as the one we had in the late sixties when Gordon Walker led the line and we finished second bottom in Division Four. It’s a complete and utter mess.

Driving down Grimsby Road pre match you would think we were going for promotion 7500k in attendance breaks my heart to see the club relying on two clubs being worse than our lot AGAIN.

Yes the appointment hasn't worked and I can't see that it will, got to give ourselves the best chance of staying up whatever that takes.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Don’t agree with a lot of your comments but this is spot on. Exactly what position is Clifton supposed to be playing cos it aint midfield and his performances this season are the reason I have never rated him. I will say him and Green at least battle as does Rose but Christ almighty how is Eisa getting picked every week? Bringing on the young lad from Coventry was one of the worst pieces of management I have ever witnessed and it’s obvious from Pyke and Wilson’s body language when they finally came on that they agreed.

I’ve questioned previously whether or not having a Recruitment Manager has improved our squad and it’s pretty obvious that we should not only be discussing Artell’s future but also that of the RM. How the hell did we sign Smith he’s bleeding worse than Mullarkey, smaller, not good in the air, slow, not great on the ball and offers nothing going forward. Hume is no improvement on Glennon and has a much poorer delivery. Tharme had a decent twenty minutes first half but hardly provides for an adequate replacement for Waterfall and the rest of the January recruitment is quickly forgotten as Wood not deemed good enough and Thompson already, presumably, injured although he was crap anyway last week.

This team is about as good as the one we had in the late sixties when Gordon Walker led the line and we finished second bottom in Division Four. It’s a complete and utter mess.

Agree with some of that - a ridiculous decision to plunge the Cov lad into that excrement show. Also to go 4-2-4 at 3-1. Eisa just disappears - I would have hauled him at HT and put Pyke on who was going well out wide until he got injured.

The full-backs though looked perfectly competent ant Accy and what worries me is that they’ve already been infected some overall squad malaise. Utterly magnificent as Danny Rose is, I don’t think he’s right for skipper but I can’t see any leaders out there.

Quoted from Hagrid

Oh ffs

Sorry Hagrid, trying to use my Gallows humour to suppress my utterly sorrow.

Quoted from 123614

No he didn't, he shook hands with all of the Doncaster Rovers staff.

Then he went down the tunnel. He failed to shake hands with the ref and asst's, and also notably failed to go onto the pitch to clap the few fans left. Perhaps that is a major reason, apart from the results, that the fans no longer like him.

Quoted from Marinerdeano

Sorry Hagrid, trying to use my Gallows humour to suppress my utterly sorrow.

Sorry. Probs do a better job tbf

Fans don’t like him because his team gets hammered every week

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Don’t agree with a lot of your comments but this is spot on. Exactly what position is Clifton supposed to be playing cos it aint midfield and his performances this season are the reason I have never rated him. I will say him and Green at least battle

That's all Clifton offers though. I got pelters on X or Twitter whatever you want to call it a few weeks ago for saying Clifton is not a L2 standard central midfielder (mostly from his mates) but I stand by it. His engine is great, has a great attitude and he battles but he just isn't good enough with a football. If you actually look at his successful pass percentages each game they're regularly hovering around the 50-65% mark which is awful. And that's not including the times he takes a poor touch or is easily dispossessed because he can't control or turn with the ball. He's a great squad player to have due to his physical ability and versatility and I'm sure he's a good lad but if you're relying on him in central midfield then you're toast. I don't think I've ever seen a L2 opponent be as bad on the ball as Clifton is. Hilariously, Green is even worse!

As a perceived DA hater I actually thought after a terrible start we were unlucky not to go in level at least at ht . Vernam was best player on the pitch. But we didn’t take our chances when we had them all over the place .
Unfortunately this didn’t carry on in the second half and to say we were in disarray would be kind . Unbelievable substitutions did any chance of us getting back into it and we were battered basically. I can’t be arsed to say anything else now as I feel ill basically after that . I’ll expand tomorrow maybe but let’s just say he needs to go .