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HerveJosse
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Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles
Just a reminder that, arguably the best Town side of my lifetime, the 97/98 side, only won 1 out of the first 7 games of the season; scoring 4 goals.

They only won 1 of their first 8 league games too.

It’s far too early to judge anything, other than last night’s performance was shïte.


They did win 5-0 in the first round of the League Cup and then beat Sheff Wed and Leicester in rounds 2 and 3
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They did win 5-0 in the first round of the League Cup and then beat Sheff Wed and Leicester in rounds 2 and 3


They beat Oldham 5-0 in the second leg. Town lost the first leg 1-0.

Mansfield are lucky there are no second legs in the League Cup anymore or we could have thrashed them 10-0 at BP.
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Well we made 5 changes from what was probably our strongest available side on Saturday, and that side itself was missing at least two players that might be key this season, Khan and Wilson, plus Pyke is nowhere near fully fit yet.

So it could be argued that we have eight players that can come in and improve last nights starting eleven. So let's not get too fatalistic just yet.
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Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles
Just a reminder that, arguably the best Town side of my lifetime, the 97/98 side, only won 1 out of the first 7 games of the season; scoring 4 goals.


That’s also identical to the record of the Mike Newell team of 2009. Won 1 of the first 7 games, scoring 4.

I file your stat away with “Alex Ferguson got off to a bad start at Manchester United”.


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That’s also identical to the record of the Mike Newell team of 2009. Won 1 of the first 7 games, scoring 4.

I file your stat away with “Alex Ferguson got off to a bad start at Manchester United”.


Exactly. Most ridiculous argument ever. What about the 6000 occasions where a team got off to a rubbish start and got relegated or at least had a very, very poor season
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Exactly. Most ridiculous argument ever. What about the 6000 occasions where a team got off to a rubbish start and got relegated or at least had a very, very poor season


Quite, but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. We’ve played one league game, which we drew. We’re some way from panic stations, yet.


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With Pyke and Wilson to come it’s definitely don’t panic
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excrement game but could be a blessing in disguise to get out thr cups early this season. That's the only silver lining I can think of. If we get playoffs, no-one will remember this game
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When was the last time we had a good run the league cup? recently we gone out in the early stages. I did not go so I am in no position to comment on the performance.
However I was at the game on Saturday and based on that performance, I saw enough from the new recruits to be optimistic about the season.
Its a difficult set of games to the start of the season and patience is required, its a tough league, teams I expected to win lost on Saturday with more than a few surprises throughout the leagues.

The few league cup runs that spring to mind are losing to Newcastle in October 2005, Tottenham in October 1991 and that cold January night in 1985 when we lost to Norwich 1-0 and our best run came in 1979 which came to an end at the Baseball ground at the hands of Wolves in the quarter finals.
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97/98 when we beat holders Leicester (only one of two teams in 3 seasons to beat them in that competition) and Sheff Weds before losing to Liverpool.

Err...think it was Round 3 when we got whooped at Chelsea in 2019 but other than that I can't think of many times we've gone beyond Round 2.
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