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Quoted from mariner91

It's not anyone's job on here to choose an alternative but unless there is one so blatantly obvious and available, why would we risk gambling in our current position? In the mix, good defence, good run of form. Not ideal but a decent place to be. Why get in a new manager and put it all at risk with everything still to play for? You used the games in hand stick to beat PH earlier but after tonight's results if we win ours we would go either third or second depending on Macc, that is a good position.

My opinion for the reason we don't beat teams below us is that we've not got the right striker playing against them. LJL is fantastic against teams who will come at you because he can hold it up and cause them problems taking the pressure off our defence. Against teams who will park the bus he lacks the finesse and finishing often required. Not always, he did it against Braintree, but too often. I'd like to think Pittman could be the man to get us beating those teams but he needs to remain fit and get a good run of games going. If that isn't possible, then a striker who will get us beating those teams lower down is the only thing stopping us catching Barnet.

Quoted from mariner91

It's not anyone's job on here to choose an alternative but unless there is one so blatantly obvious and available, why would we risk gambling in our current position? In the mix, good defence, good run of form. Not ideal but a decent place to be. Why get in a new manager and put it all at risk with everything still to play for? You used the games in hand stick to beat PH earlier but after tonight's results if we win ours we would go either third or second depending on Macc, that is a good position.

My opinion for the reason we don't beat teams below us is that we've not got the right striker playing against them. LJL is fantastic against teams who will come at you because he can hold it up and cause them problems taking the pressure off our defence. Against teams who will park the bus he lacks the finesse and finishing often required. Not always, he did it against Braintree, but too often. I'd like to think Pittman could be the man to get us beating those teams but he needs to remain fit and get a good run of games going. If that isn't possible, then a striker who will get us beating those teams lower down is the only thing stopping us catching Barnet.

Quoted from ackomariner

But he can't attract that striker can he, so left with a forward line that isn't good enough

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Well there you go then. It's all hunky dory isn't it? We are in the mix. Wonderful. Let's all be happy with that. The manager and the team seem to be happy with that too so we'll all sleep well tonight. Who knows, we might even dream that we beat Telford and Altrincham.

Sorry, that might be good enough for some but it ain't good enough for me.

Quoted from mariner91

Conveniently you either choose to not read what I wrote or to misquote it. I said it's not ideal. Ideally we'd be walking away with this league. But until more than one automatic promotion spot becomes available, the odds of being the team in that spot are pretty slim. Therefore, to still be in with a chance of promotion and to be comfortably sat in the play offs, is acceptable. Not ideal; acceptable. We have no divine right to be at the top of the table and to demand nothing other than that is frankly ridiculous.

Quoted from mariner91

Conveniently you either choose to not read what I wrote or to misquote it. I said it's not ideal. Ideally we'd be walking away with this league. But until more than one automatic promotion spot becomes available, the odds of being the team in that spot are pretty slim. Therefore, to still be in with a chance of promotion and to be comfortably sat in the play offs, is acceptable. Not ideal; acceptable. We have no divine right to be at the top of the table and to demand nothing other than that is frankly ridiculous.

Quoted from Garth

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Is it though? He who dares wins etc etc, I just want us to be and sound more arrogant in and around the club even if we fall short,  say Win enough times  then folks get to believe

Quoted from mariner91

Conveniently you either choose to not read what I wrote or to misquote it. I said it's not ideal. Ideally we'd be walking away with this league. But until more than one automatic promotion spot becomes available, the odds of being the team in that spot are pretty slim. Therefore, to still be in with a chance of promotion and to be comfortably sat in the play offs, is acceptable. Not ideal; acceptable. We have no divine right to be at the top of the table and to demand nothing other than that is frankly ridiculous.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Why, surely we are one of the favourites every season especially considering our budget is likely to be at least in the top 5.

Also when you look at the recent record of clubs being relegated why are Barnet at the moment bucking that trend.

You should also be asking how clubs with part-time players, low crowds and much smaller budgets are able to compete near the top of the table.

Come the end of the season and we fail to go up then that responsibility must lay with the manager and the players he has signed.

Quoted from mariner91

We probably are one of the favourites but we're one of the favourites because of our performances during the last couple of seasons under the current management. If we fail to go up then other factors need to be accounted for and it shouldn't automatically mean firing the manager. As long as we improve year on year then it's progress. If there is no improvement or we're miles away from promotion then yes, he should be fired.