Are we expecting too much ?

It's much more about hope rather than expectation for me..

Quoted from Bigdog

It's much more about hope rather than expectation for me..

Agree with Bigdog, to lift the confidence of the team especially the strikers in what in reality is 4 days is a massive task.

A 0 - 0 may not be a popular result but it would be an improvement on recent weeks.

Quoted from rancido

So if their contracts are up surely that would be motivation enough to impress a new manager otherwise they will be unemployed in the summer.

That's why I was mentioning character.  

I agree with you in that I would hope it would be enough motivation - and it certainly would be if it was my job on the line, but from some of what we have seen I'm not sure all the players are as conscientious as yourself.  

As has been mentioned on here already with players laughing at Cambridge after we lost - some seem to not be putting in the effort or don't have the fight in them or the worry about our plight as they won't be here in the summer and would get another contract somewhere in the league.

I think it speaks volumes about some of the players we have now in the building, against the players that we have let go (Disley, Pearson, etc.) and in the sides we had under Hurst who certainly had that pride, conscientiousness and drive.

Its going to be interesting to see if MJ can motivate the players who he feels haven't or aren't putting in the effort or whether he thinks he would get more out of the loan players.  

I don't want the above to sound all doom and gloom as I don't think it is.  

I do feel that there is a good 14 or 15 players in our current squad that would have the attitude and capability of getting us out of this current situation.  I just don't think we've been playing what would be our strongest squad and we've generally been carrying some players who have been anonymous and I'm hoping that coming in from the outside, with new ideas that MJ will offer something different.

This is a bigger game than bees and Chesterfield
And Gimps
This is “The” must win game
Come On Town!!

Quoted from sydney

This is a bigger game than bees and Chesterfield
And Gimps
This is “The” must win game
Come On Town!!

I think the biggest game this season is the next one. And then the one after that. and so on until the last one.

Quoted from rancido

So if their contracts are up surely that would be motivation enough to impress a new manager otherwise they will be unemployed in the summer.

Nah not really,  out of the players who’s deals run out most of them will be pretty confident of finding work next season and I doubt that any are that bothered about whether it’s with GTFC, in the EFL or playing in some minor footballing nation.

Most of them if not all don’t have roots in the Town and many have networks well away from NEL so they have options in terms of where a new employer could be. Many are loanees so will just go back to their clubs.

This is not a pop at Town players but just the “fixed term contract” life of lower league footballer. Bowman worked brilliantly for the highest levels but completely fuked up lower league and semi pro.

For me the final TEN GAMES ARE ALL MASSIVE.

This will show us and Mike Jolley who has the character and wants to do battle for GTFC.

Yeah, not many are local but that is the same for most teams you become one of us when you put that shirt on. It's the sign of any professional no matter what level he will run through walls for the cause just like our promotion team did.

Be positive all the remaining games are winnable. That is not the same as saying we will win them all but if players have the mindset that they cannot win a game, they probably won't. I hope MJ reminds them of the games they won earlier in the season and what winning and scoring goals felt like. This will help get their minds in the right place and build confidence. As someone else said we are not playing Barcelona and the fans should help lift the spirits too.

Slade is such a bad manager/coach that now he's gone maybe we will see something from the players we have never seen before 🤞
Ye never know under all that dross there my be a couple of half decent players.

It is not just lower-league mercenaries.  PSG players are highly-paid mercenaries.  Out for their own ends above the team.  They appeared to be disinterested in overcoming Real Madrid in the second leg (where had had won all 19 home games this season).  

It was reported that the front 3 only made 2 passes all game to the other 2 forward players.  Mbappe only had to square the ball to Cavanni for a goal.  Instead he shot wide from an acute angle. No wonder Cavanni did not pass to either of his "colleagues".