Alfreton....Match Thread

I'm seeing the same names this season beating down those who raise the slightest concern about the season and they're the same names who did it last season.

How about we just accept that some people have different views on our current situation and have every right to be worried. Nobody is saying we're 'doomed' but it's perfectly reasonable to worry about the fact we can't actually get a fit team for a pre-season friendly, just two weeks before the season starts.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Notts County, Chesterfield, Stockport, Torquay and Wrexham will expect promotion. Then there is the two relegated sides, Grimsby and Southend. Barnet cut costs last season to go for it this season.

On expectation alone, that is the 7 play-off spots sorted with one team missing out.

We have made 13 additions so far with at least another 2 anticipated. If 75% of your new signings perform, you've done well. For most teams that means 1 disappointing signing but for us that would mean 4.

This season is about beginning to build something and making sure we aren't talking about 15 new signings in 12 months time.

Haven't quite a few of torquays team from last season  left? I might well be mistaken on that though. Anyway you always have at least 1 surprise package team who do better than expected, just to take up another spot.

Quoted from pontoonlew

I'm seeing the same names this season beating down those who raise the slightest concern about the season and they're the same names who did it last season.

How about we just accept that some people have different views on our current situation and have every right to be worried. Nobody is saying we're 'doomed' but it's perfectly reasonable to worry about the fact we can't actually get a fit team for a pre-season friendly, just two weeks before the season starts.

Someone raised a very valid point yesterday about our injuries and I started typing out a reply but stopped.

The worrying thing for me is that as it stands, our 2 out and out strikers have got a role to play in what could be a 55-60 game season having had less than the non-existent pre-season we had last season. This is why I think our much anticipated 7 & 9 will not be free agents.

On the injury front, I would be interested to know a bit more information.

How many of them are freak incidents and just unlucky?
How many of them are reoccurrences of previous injuries?
How many of them are players over doing it in the gym or before they went back?
How many of them are due to our training regime or surface?

The last 2 are preventable.

Hurst said in the post-Alfreton interview that he's never known a pre-season like it for injuries, so probably bad luck to some degree, despite the signing of players with recent injury problems. LJL did OK for fitness last season, didn't he, similarly Coke?

I notice that a few people have wondered if LJL overdid it in the gym because of the photos from training, but he was always built like a brick shitehouse as I recall. No reason to think that any gym work led to the injuries.

Perhaps the players aren't used to having a training pitch which isn't rock hard and uneven and are overcompensating?  

Quoted from pontoonlew

I'm seeing the same names this season beating down those who raise the slightest concern about the season and they're the same names who did it last season.

How about we just accept that some people have different views on our current situation and have every right to be worried. Nobody is saying we're 'doomed' but it's perfectly reasonable to worry about the fact we can't actually get a fit team for a pre-season friendly, just two weeks before the season starts.

It's because they can't bare to see an opinion without confusing it with a FACT . Grimsby Town are a Joke of a team that will be in the conference north in 2 years , guaranteed ........ Let's see how they cope with that opinion

Quoted from It Bites

It's because they can't bare to see an opinion without confusing it with a FACT . Grimsby Town are a Joke of a team that will be in the conference north in 2 years , guaranteed ........ Let's see how they cope with that opinion

I say old chap I must commend your on you opinion, but I find I must take a contrary view to yours.

Quoted from It Bites

It's because they can't bare to see an opinion without confusing it with a FACT . Grimsby Town are a Joke of a team that will be in the conference north in 2 years , guaranteed ........ Let's see how they cope with that opinion

I'm sure you just spout sh!t to get a reaction...zzzzzzzzzzzz.

Quoted from pontoonlew

I'm seeing the same names this season beating down those who raise the slightest concern about the season and they're the same names who did it last season.

How about we just accept that some people have different views on our current situation and have every right to be worried. Nobody is saying we're 'doomed' but it's perfectly reasonable to worry about the fact we can't actually get a fit team for a pre-season friendly, just two weeks before the season starts.

Exactly. Nobody has said we are doomed but equally some, including myself, have voiced concern about the squad as it stands thus far.

Quoted from mariner91

Exactly. Nobody has said we are doomed but equally some, including myself, have voiced concern about the squad as it stands thus far.

So are you and a few others Professional Football Managers, and know better than PH?

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Notts County, Chesterfield, Stockport, Torquay and Wrexham will expect promotion. Then there is the two relegated sides, Grimsby and Southend. Barnet cut costs last season to go for it this season.

On expectation alone, that is the 7 play-off spots sorted with one team missing out.

We have made 13 additions so far with at least another 2 anticipated. If 75% of your new signings perform, you've done well. For most teams that means 1 disappointing signing but for us that would mean 4.

This season is about beginning to build something and making sure we aren't talking about 15 new signings in 12 months time.

Of course there are several contenders for the top spot.

I want and expect us to be one of them, by signing top players. Isn't that the objective?

Those players to complete the jigsaw will cost money, and I fully expect the new owners to provide it otherwise all their grand dreams will not count for anything till we win the league, or at the very least go up via the playoffs.

I absolutely get the building for the future argument OFF the field, but on it is a different matter. We have a very experienced manager, new players with the key ones to come and a far superior regime running the club. I think even the new players have said promotion is the aim this season, and the only way to guarantee that is by finishing top..