Just back...Thank f..ck its over

Quoted from forza ivano

I respectfully disagree. We have a dogshite squad, but Artell/Joe's January dealings strengthened us immensely. Post Donny we would be on course, with this awful squad, accumulate 68 odd points. Add another 3-4 players of the January calibre ( & don't go back to fannying around at the back ) and we are serious play off contenders (and I'm not a huge pro Artell man)

Problem is almost every team is 3/4 players short of promotion. You sign the best players you can and there are all sorts of factors whether it works out, some of which you can't control. Also quite a few teams will fancy their chances next year and up their budgets. The new format may or may not benefit us. We're in with a shout for sure. I just don't think it's a failure if we don't succeed, we just get another chance for the following year. Eventually we'll get the winning forumula.

It’s been a very poor season and i think it shocked JS how close we came to going down again.
I think this summer he will be more ruthless he was taken for a ride by hurst and doug last summer.

Quoted from GrimRob

Problem is almost every team is 3/4 players short of promotion. You sign the best players you can and there are all sorts of factors whether it works out, some of which you can't control. Also quite a few teams will fancy their chances next year and up their budgets. The new format may or may not benefit us. We're in with a shout for sure. I just don't think it's a failure if we don't succeed, we just get another chance for the following year. Eventually we'll get the winning forumula.

Sorry rob what do you mean by new format next season?

Impossible to tell how well or badly we will do next season until the new squad is assembled.

The first clue will be the retained list. If we don’t release all of the poor performers it will not bode well. We did ok at the back end of the season, well enough to secure our status by a seven point margin, but were no where close to being good enough to pose a realistic challenge for promotion next season. Too many inconsistent performers and too many players making basic errors. A real lack of quality in evidence.

So we need at least half a dozen new players of a decent standard to come in to complement the handful of good players we have.

Quoted from toontown

Sorry rob what do you mean by new format next season?

The new TV deal. Lots of fixtures kick off at lunchtimes. Likely to see lots less away fans. Ok the rules will be the same but it's likely to have a different "feel".

Compared to this, next season on paper looks weaker, especially when you see whose in the national league play offs. We are losing the big hitters Wrexham and Stockport and replacing Mansfield with Chesterfield.

Sorry for stating the obvious but explaining our comfortable 19th place position next season  

Quoted from Chrisblor

While i'm not remotely a fan of the bloke it's great to see a group of out and proud town fans confidently exhibiting their sexuality 🌈

Top post but probably too subtle for it’s targets.

Quoted from Stew0_0

Compared to this, next season on paper looks weaker, especially when you see whose in the national league play offs. We are losing the big hitters Wrexham and Stockport and replacing Mansfield with Chesterfield.

Sorry for stating the obvious but explaining our comfortable 19th place position next season  

Morecambe will be in a right mess , Swindon the same .

Lot's of teams with far lower budgets than our's for sure  , yes there are anomalies like Crawley this season and mistakes have been made but we need a season punching at our weight minimum next time out imo, otherwise people really will think it's just the same book with a different more aesthetic cover than our previous chapter.

Fleetwood are on their bottom wouldn’t be surprised if they went into administration.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

Also does anyone know what this Tommy Robinson fanboy thing is with a small section of our fans? They were singing about him today and have a strange flag that says something like "we only kneel for Tommy Robinson"

It makes me feel a bit sick.

Sick and embarrassed.