We are gonna win the league

Time now to sign that "hairs on the back of the neck" striker and have a real go at it once and for all.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

That's a bit like that argument for believing in God. If you're wrong, well you won't go to Hell, and if you're right.....

Me, I'm an optimistic, glass half-full sort of person. So I'd say, we have an outside chance of the playoffs.

Outside chance of the play offs? Cheer up. We've got the joint best defence in the division and the second best strike force (in terms of goals scored), we have a pretty good chance of the play offs.

There's a lot riding on Tuesday even though it is only one game. A good performance to get back on track would do a lot for everyone's confidence. A bad result sees us lose ground and feeling that the bubble has burst.

The biggest worry is that we don't frighten anyone. We need teams to be halfway to losing when their bus draws up at BP but we aren't destroying sides well enough considering the possession we have. A good defence is OK, maybe even vital, but it's goals that win games. Our GD is boosted by those two flukes earlier in the season. We need more big wins and PH needs to get his tactics settled and stop fannying around with his selections.

If we win on Tuesday get everyone's confidence back up and get knocked out of the FA Trophy next month I think we stand a pretty good chance. Less midweek games and even I there are any we will have had Saturdays off and be fresher. Lets hope a win at Macclesfield on Boxing day doesn't have the same effect as a win at Lincoln our side is better than last year.


I can't think of anyone except Ajala and Young at Torquay in the home game that I'd put in the side we've got


If Neilson finds form again then Arnold, Lenny and Neilson sounds like a dangerous attack with plenty of chances and goals in it plus a very energetic midfield of Brown, Clay and Parslow or Diz.

I don't think we can really judge ourselves until we play Barnet.

Quoted from mariner91

Outside chance of the play offs? Cheer up. We've got the joint best defence in the division and the second best strike force (in terms of goals scored), we have a pretty good chance of the play offs.

For now.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

For now.

Conversely, we may in the future have the best defence and best strike force. As things stand, we have a pretty good chance of making the play offs. Provided we don't get unlucky with injuries.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

A bad result sees us lose ground and feeling that the bubble has burst.

I'm seeing what the 'performance' brings first before I start sobbing or hitting the panic button.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

The biggest worry is that we don't frighten anyone.

Then how come so many teams come to BP and set out to defend ?
In any case if you ARE right it means they should more open and we score more goals.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

We need more big wins and PH needs to get his tactics settled and stop fannying around with his selections.

We'd like to win - that's it.

I'm not saying we should necessarily go defensive at all.
I'd love to see us carve open Halifax with BP rocking as much as anyone else.

And there's certainly a question about "getting the crowd going" to our advantage (even if we should be giving it full welly anyway)
But as much as we'd all love them, we don't NEED lots of goals for this or any particular game.

As for "fannying around"  what exact changes to "his selections" did you object to ?

Was it cup tied Pell, injured Magnay or our returning striker that did so well earlier in the season (that many wanted in anyway) ?
In any case, I'll assume you want us to "go again" with the same team (you're unhappy with) trusting them to score a bag loads of goals.

Quoted from 120797

I'm seeing what the 'performance' brings first before I start sobbing or hitting the panic button.


Then how come so many teams come to BP and set out to defend ?
In any case if you ARE right it means they should more open and we score more goals.


We'd like to win - that's it.

I'm not saying we should necessarily go defensive at all.
I'd love to see us carve open Halifax with BP rocking as much as anyone else.

And there's certainly a question about "getting the crowd going" to our advantage (even if we should be giving it full welly anyway)
But as much as we'd all love them, we don't NEED lots of goals for this or any particular game.

As for "fannying around"  what exact changes to "his selections" did you object to ?

Was it cup tied Pell, injured Magnay or our returning striker that did so well earlier in the season (that many wanted in anyway) ?
In any case, I'll assume you want us to "go again" with the same team (you're unhappy with) trusting them to score a bag loads of goals.

Teams park the bus on BP because they know Town does not have a cutting edge despite LJL's recent little upsurge. Plenty of possession but they don't hurt other teams with it when faced by a tight defence and quick marking. Teams don't play like this because they are scared of Town, they do it because it is the obvious way for them to get a point or three.

What we need is for sides and individual players to feel intimidated by the prospect of coming out onto BP because they are meeting a confident, sharp and talented team and don't know where a goal is likely to come from. We need them to kick off feeling that they will be lucky to escape with a 2 goal defeat. Promotion football means fire in the belly football.  I am sure that like me you too remember when this was the case.

I like how this was meant to be an optimistic thread, but after one loss in a game that doesn't matter to the league one iota, has turned into pessimistic one.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Teams park the bus on BP because they know Town does not have a cutting edge despite LJL's recent little upsurge.

Your logic makes very little sense to me at all.

So according to your own theory...
If we DID have a cutting edge (in your eyes we don't), they WOULDN'T come and park the bus ?!!  

I find that very difficult to believe !  

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Teams don't play like this because they are scared of Town, they do it because it is the obvious way for them to get a point or three.

Same thing here...
If they WERE scared (in your eyes they're not) they would be more open ?
Poppycock !

Think you're confusing cause and effect here.

Let's live in the 'real world' (just for a change) shall we ?...

Team come here and defend because they know we've got goals in us.
But when they try to "park the bus" it can obviously sometimes make it a little harder to get the breakthrough.

May I kindly suggest you cheer yourself up by buying that Town video of this seasons 6-1 and 7-0 wins before the game tonight ?