Cheltenham (H) Match Thread

McKeown (c), Hewitt, Davis, Waterfall, Gibson, Hessenthaler, Whitehouse, Clifton, Rose, Hanson, Green.

Subs: Russell, Öhman, Pollock, Robson, Cardwell, Ogbu, Starbuck.

I hope everybody is keeping their eyes peeled for any potential managers in the stands and keeping their ears open listening for rumours!

So none of our 4 creative players start? And Wright n cook not even in the squad,  presumably injured?

Quoted from forza ivano

So none of our 4 creative players start? And Wright n cook not even in the squad,  presumably injured?

According to the telegraph Cook has groin strain and no additional news on Wright’s injury

Keep your eye out for any potential managers in the ground watching tonight. I've already spotted Alan Buckley.

Hopefully our new manager will be in the dugout ,AL    tonight is our turnabout, UTM.

Come on town

Just draws into focus what a poor midfield we’ve got. I expect us to be outplayed in there. Disappointing that Wright didn’t make it.
Can’t see any creativity or source of crosses so be very surprised if we are not well beaten tonight.

About the strongest side we have at the moment, due to Wright's injury. Still so bloody stupid that we do not have 1 other wider player at the club. Not directly Limbrick's fault I suppose but If you ar Cheltenham you already know you need not worry about anything coming from the wing.

Exactly. I guess Limbrick is trying to make the best of it. I know he was cack against Newport but Robson is way better than Clifton and Whitehouse and one of our few players who looks like he could produce or finish something.

On the plus side, the John Smith's is still £2 a pint in the Trust bar until it runs out. 😀

Quoted from Davec

McKeown (c), Hewitt, Davis, Waterfall, Gibson, Hessenthaler, Whitehouse, Clifton, Rose, Hanson, Green.

Subs: Russell, Öhman, Pollock, Robson, Cardwell, Ogbu, Starbuck.

I hope everybody is keeping their eyes peeled for any potential managers in the stands and keeping their ears open listening for rumours!

Hope they play The Chain or Don't Stop.. ffs released in 1977!! Where's the fcking time gone?!

Come on Town
Result tonight please
0-0 will do
Come on Town!!!!

Quoted from promotion plaice

On the plus side, the John Smith's is still £2 a pint in the Trust bar until it runs out. 😀

Shame it’s the foulest beer known to man!

Where's Ring ?

Need a good result tonight and performance, come on Town you can do it.

Looks like a psspor gate -doubt 3K

I've been locked out of my iplayer account and password reset email isn't coming through for some reason, does anyone know how I can listen to the game on my phone any other way?

Anyone have a a phone number for ifollow, I paid for the match about 2 hours ago, now it says I have to purchase it when I click on Watch Match Live?

Quoted from 123614

Anyone have a a phone number for ifollow, I paid for the match about 2 hours ago, now it says I have to purchase it when I click on Watch Match Live?

I thought that but somehow fumbled my way through. Not very clear instructions.

Considered ifollow, but only just completed tasks at work so choosing to sit in machine listening on the good ole wireless. Wouldn't let me listen in over Internet on phone.

Midfield 3 much of a muchness but all we got available, hopefully green and rose can peel wide and offer us some width. That's if it's 4-3-3, not sure only just tuned in.

Vernham just scored for Chorley.

Why is it always flipping Cheltenham! Why was that a foul?

It didn't take long for the Cheltenham players to start trying to con the ref did it.

Town having a good spell winning second ball a lot. A few half chances for Town

cheating bastuds

Oooooh!!! Good bit of play Whitehouse should have done better with shot

We haven’t played this well for months

Was it intercourse late and high. No higher than the chest player

!!

Chance! we need to start taking them...

Pressure from corner, another chance

Green was unlucky there. The Keeper was on top of him before he could kick the ball

I fully expected our performances to continue steadily improving. Limbrick competent methinks. Whether he the man to take us forward I dunno, but he saying the right things about getting back to keeping things simple and how we started the season -everything we've all been saying.

It's not rocket science, but still it needs to be implemented.

McKeown barely been tested Sir Alan says

Quoted from Rik e B

McKeown barely been tested Sir Alan says

One save, collected a long ball out the air and dived on a ball running through on the ground, can't really think of anythig else.

Is it ever going in  

Double dance again! Cheltenham bodies on the line.

And again!

Hope we aren't made to pay for not taking chances...

Cheltenham defending to the death today. How we haven't scored I don't know  

Town could have scored 2 or 3 in last few minutes says Sir Al

were f#*kin useless in their area    gotta laugh  

Quoted from Rik e B

McKeown barely been tested Sir Alan says

He was tempting fate with that though. Hope he doesn't say it again.

Shitehouse is white

Unlucky not to be leading , keep it up Town

A generally decent performance from Town, but nowhere near clinical enough in and around the box. I expect more from Cheltenham in the second half so we’ll have to raise our game and take our chances if we’re to win this.

Sounds encouraging

Playing as well as I’ve seen us play this season, been unlucky not to have at least one goal. Fear they will nick one and we will then struggle to score.

Absolutely no luck in the box tonight. Cheltenham defending to the death, throwing themselves in front of everything.

Its great to see us pressing their CBs at the top of the pitch and not at the halfway line like we have been for most of the season.

Midfield are all over the place, not giving Cheltenham a second. My only moan about them is at times when we're attacking they can be rather flat at times and not moving into the right spaces.

Really impressed this half its like its August again isn't it.

Playing decent football. Negative is that our finishing is terrible. Lack of composure is very evident. Probably very anxious due to our current form

quickly looked at the stats and I hope they tell the story they portray. 12 shots to 1, more possession, more passes, better pass % and an actual tangible formation.

Text back from pal at game:

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Unbelievable mate!! We could off had 4!! But Cheltenham always lucky v us and will prob win now!! Hopefully we get ahead and win!!! UTM

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quickly looked at the stats and I hope they tell the story they portray. 12 shots to 1, more possession, more passes, better pass % and an actual tangible formation.

Those stats are a bit dodgy.

Aerial challenges won (%): Town 63 Cheltenham 39. 102%?

Get the ball to Akeem, he's got that centre half in his back pocket, sure to draw a foul in the box.

Good effort from Town, not enough conviction in front of goal, more hit and hope, there again Cheltenham getting in the way at every shot.

Good pressing work, keep this going we are coming out on top.

Playing well, all over them at times just not finishing 3 or 4 good chances.  Got 0-1 87th minute all over it I'm afraid  

Irrespective of the result, everything above is encouraging and if we keep at it like that, the results will come.

What's clear already is that the 433 we're playing, is actually 433. And not just 3 strikers picked but asking 2 to play wide and it looking like 451.

Have to say I like the way Limbrick is setting us up already and the very evident change in approach seen on Saturday and so far tonight. Obviously he's going to be judged on results but I like what he's done in a short space of time so far.

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If we win we'll be up to 14th! Trying to be positive UTM!

Yes Tommy, I spotted sprouts of recovery and positive change Saturday and sounds like blossoming some more tonight.

Just need to be more clinical!

Chelt falls down again.

I really can't be bothered to go find my post from a feww weeks back droaning on about how powerful 433/451 can be with the correct players and how I use it for my Saturday amatuer team.

But, it all sounds very positive and i love the facf AL has tweaked it to his way. Clearly the boys have responded well to it.

Cheating girl private just fall down

It seems to have more success than most nowadays, like when Jolley first took over

Quoted from lukeo

I really can't be bothered to go find my post from a feww weeks back droaning on about how powerful 433/451 can be with the correct players and how I use it for my Saturday amatuer team.

But, it all sounds very positive and i love the facf AL has tweaked it to his way. Clearly the boys have responded well to it.

Is that how you set up ‘your lads’?

2508 attendance 🙁

I fuckin hate them more than anyone

Not the 2508. Chelts

Akheem turns and gets a shot away, keeper smothers

Grimsby started on top again, Cheltenham not passing as well as first half

Was gonna say, bit harsh on the hardcore faithful Kingston 😂

Big of Chelt good play and cross in, good defensive header

Hanson pulled up injured 😩

Quoted from Rik e B

Hanson pulled up injured 😩

hmmm Cardwell or Ogbu?

God I hope he brings Ogbu on not Cardwell

Hanson shakes his head and makes his way to the touchline. 'Super' Harry Cardwell was getting ready but Moses Ogbu to replace

Thank god for that its Ogbu

Rather Ogbu than Cardwell

Good bit of Chelt play, Reid pot shot sails over

Gotta be at least a yellow

with Ogbu on you think he will play a little deeper and look to play in Green and Rose?

Ogbu definitely more involved than Hanson

Hope Hanson ok

I think we need a freshen up in midifeld. All three have ran their socks off so far today and I think its starting to show a little now.

Fantastic tackle

Anybody spotted any potential managers in the stands?

Quoted from Davec

Anybody spotted any potential managers in the stands?

I'm trying to spot a 'vintage' programme seller but we don't have the ball in the Cheltenham box enough

Just to put our woes into a little perspective,Wrexham are 1 down st home to fylde whilst the not so mighty Chesterfield who are hosting the poolies are currently 5 1 down leaving both them and Wrexham in the relegation places

Some betting scam company pulled me out of the crowd tonight, a nearly sixty year old bloke on his mobile on The Fishy, geez.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Some betting scam company pulled me out of the crowd tonight, a nearly sixty year old bloke on his mobile on The Fishy, geez.

What's wrong with that? Are you supposed to be knocking off your mistress tonight?

Quoted from promotion plaice

Some betting scam company pulled me out of the crowd tonight, a nearly sixty year old bloke on his mobile on The Fishy, geez.

Excellent. I got 10-1 with Betfred that you  would 😉😄😄

Cardwell on for what looks like a knackered Rose

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What's wrong with that? Are you supposed to be knocking off your mistress tonight?

Seems like that there will be a baby boom in Gy and Clee in 9 months - only 2,508 at Blundell Park tonight according to the BBC. Haven't we got more season ticket holders than that?

A useful point gained

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Seems like that there will be a baby boom in Gy and Clee in 9 months - only 2,508 at Blundell Park tonight according to the BBC. Haven't we got more season ticket holders than that?

Boomers!

Would have settled for that before the game. Looking better. Much better than last week.

Better but we lack a killer punch. Thin squad shows now-need some signings after xmas. Full backs attacked more.

Buckley at the moment being asked certain questions

Three games played since Limbrick took over. 1point and 0 goals scored. Why are people happy with that? A goalless draw at home to Cheltenham ffs. Unless we get a fresh face in we are doomed.........

Quoted from wiggers

Three games played since Limbrick took over. 1point and 0 goals scored. Why are people happy with that? A goalless draw at home to Cheltenham ffs. Unless we get a fresh face in we are doomed.........

Perspective.

Not bad thought we edged it overall. Decent ref for a change, no major silly errors and used common sense rather than letter of the law near the end with Davis, Keep playing how we did 1st half, goals will come.

Quoted from wiggers

Three games played since Limbrick took over. 1point and 0 goals scored. Why are people happy with that? A goalless draw at home to Cheltenham ffs. Unless we get a fresh face in we are doomed.........

What a load of absolute BS
There are plenty of ’fresh faces’ who could and mostly would be utter failures.
If one of those had been in charge tonight there’d be plenty of posters on here saying what a promising start that was. Probably the same after Northampton.
Have you noticed that Northampton and Cheltenham are both in playoff positions? And we gave them both a bloody good game.
Give the bloke a chance FFS. 3 tough games, backs against the wall, and improvement in each one. What exactly did you expect?
‘Fans’ like you really p1ss me off. If we got a new bloke in and it didn’t work you’d be one of the first to get on his back.
AL 😉

Quoted from wiggers

Three games played since Limbrick took over. 1point and 0 goals scored. Why are people happy with that? A goalless draw at home to Cheltenham ffs. Unless we get a fresh face in we are doomed.........

Because weve played 3 of the top teams in the division and each time it appears that the performance has improved  and that's with a lot of injuries.