Bottom 4's Projected Points and Form

Quoted from Mappers

Ideally a Gateshead or Bromley come up with Chesterfield , they are not bankrolled and would be low hitters .

Yeah, when you look at those potentially following Chestefield up, it doesn’t look the most appetising.

Barnet’s not the worst if you go via central London but still a bit of a schlep on the tube / train. Bromley and Solihull just urgh (although Bromley would at least have to get rid of their plastic pitch). Oldham’s not the worst location-wise, but I still have nightmares about that Scott Vernon inspired 6-0 (and my paradoxical pie) and can’t help but feel they deserve at least another year in purgatory.

Gateshead I have very mixed feelings about. There’s no doubting that their ground is the single worst place to watch a game of football across the top 5 tiers (and possibly beyond), and again memories of our play-off injustice there still hurt. That said, that 6-1 win there just a couple of months later was both hugely entertaining and cathartic. I also learned that day that it’s a piece of píss to get the train into Newcastle city centre and then jump on the metro to the ground, so that does up the ante a bit in terms of away day potential.

I don’t fancy Aldershot or Altrincham much, and then beyond that you’ve got Halifax and Hartlepool - the latter with a very long shot admittedly.

If I had a choice it’d be Halifax all day long, a combination of a convenient location, decent-ish ground and a few cracking pubs in close proximity. I think we’re more likely to end up with one of the above, though.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Assuming we stay up, I am absolutely terrified about our summer recruitment and how we start next season, if Artell doesn't leave as part of the end of season post-mortem.

Why?  

His recruitment in January was ok.  

Thompson and Hume improvements, I think Tharm looks to be that younger version of Waterfall we needed and now he's settled looks very much the one you use a lynchpin at the back and surround with 'better' footballers.  Smith hasn't impressed and I think Obikwu took a few games to get going but looked good in his last start. 3/5 definite improvements, 1 with the jury out on a little still.  I'd take that level of improvement every window.

Conteh leaving was out of Artell's hands.  Waterfall was a spent force at this level. Khan was/is never fit. Amos was well down the pecking order and general consensus was that we need to upgrade on him.  Hunt, who I'm a big fan of, hasn't exactly done anything at York so far to suggest Artell got that wrong (and he's also stated that he still views him as having a future next season).  Conteh aside, again out of his control, there's no-one we're looking longingly at.

Artell gets a summer of recruitment on his own terms and he can bring in the right players for the system he wants to play.  

Quoted from Poojah

Yeah, when you look at those potentially following Chestefield up, it doesn’t look the most appetising.

Barnet’s not the worst if you go via central London but still a bit of a schlep on the tube / train. Bromley and Solihull just urgh (although Bromley would at least have to get rid of their plastic pitch). Oldham’s not the worst location-wise, but I still have nightmares about that Scott Vernon inspired 6-0 (and my paradoxical pie) and can’t help but feel they deserve at least another year in purgatory.

Gateshead I have very mixed feelings about. There’s no doubting that their ground is the single worst place to watch a game of football across the top 5 tiers (and possibly beyond), and again memories of our play-off injustice there still hurt. That said, that 6-1 win there just a couple of months later was both hugely entertaining and cathartic. I also learned that day that it’s a piece of píss to get the train into Newcastle city centre and then jump on the metro to the ground, so that does up the ante a bit in terms of away day potential.

I don’t fancy Aldershot or Altrincham much, and then beyond that you’ve got Halifax and Hartlepool - the latter with a very long shot admittedly.

If I had a choice it’d be Halifax all day long, a combination of a convenient location, decent-ish ground and a few cracking pubs in close proximity. I think we’re more likely to end up with one of the above, though.

I enjoy Barnet, Halifax is awful, we never ever win there. Wouldnt say its conveniant either.

Altrincham and Oldham are allright, rest are hideous

Quoted from Hagrid

I enjoy Barnet, Halifax is awful, we never ever win there. Wouldnt say its conveniant either.

Altrincham and Oldham are allright, rest are hideous

Can’t argue with our appalling record at the Shay, certainly in my time watching Town, anyway. There’s some really good pubs in the town centre though, and it’s very convenient for me (half-an-hour in a taxi if I don’t fancy driving), so I might be slightly biased in that regard.

Quoted from Hagrid

I enjoy Barnet, Halifax is awful, we never ever win there. Wouldnt say its conveniant either.

Altrincham and Oldham are allright, rest are hideous

Barnet would be my pick. Easy for me to do from south London, decent ground, always take a good following and we often get a result there.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Artell was hired to play the "Grimsby Way" and part of the reason for Hurst going, was an inability to play the "Grimsby Way", so at some point the board are going to start judging Artell on his ability to get the team playing the "Grimsby Way."

If we start winning games regularly then attendances will rise, if we lose most of them then fans will fall away. Grimsby Way or any other way, the basic reality is we'll be locking people out if we win every game.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Why?  

His recruitment in January was ok.  

Thompson and Hume improvements, I think Tharm looks to be that younger version of Waterfall we needed and now he's settled looks very much the one you use a lynchpin at the back and surround with 'better' footballers.  Smith hasn't impressed and I think Obikwu took a few games to get going but looked good in his last start. 3/5 definite improvements, 1 with the jury out on a little still.  I'd take that level of improvement every window.

Conteh leaving was out of Artell's hands.  Waterfall was a spent force at this level. Khan was/is never fit. Amos was well down the pecking order and general consensus was that we need to upgrade on him.  Hunt, who I'm a big fan of, hasn't exactly done anything at York so far to suggest Artell got that wrong (and he's also stated that he still views him as having a future next season).  Conteh aside, again out of his control, there's no-one we're looking longingly at.

Artell gets a summer of recruitment on his own terms and he can bring in the right players for the system he wants to play.  

A sound assessment, I'd say.