Massive game at Cambridge

I don't agree that the Cambridge game is make or break. it's too soon after the chaos king quit to turn the team around.  Hurst is basically stuck with the current squad minus the two loanees that were recalled, including edwards who would most probably have started.

Any points we pick up in the  next two games are welcome, but it's really the four games starting 16th Jan that are key. All six pointers. It's tight, but we may have some reinforcements brought in by then. Maybe Wright and Scannel will be back too.  

Lose those 4 and we are in deep deep do-do.

If it was the last game of the season and we needed a win to stay up, it could be classed as a massive game.

I'm desperate for us to get 3 points tomorrow, but if we don't, it's not the end of the world.

Quoted from ginnywings

If it was the last game of the season and we needed a win to stay up, it could be classed as a massive game.

I'm desperate for us to get 3 points tomorrow, but if we don't, it's not the end of the world.

I would settle for a draw to be honest. Same at Port Vale.

Quoted from RonMariner

I would settle for a draw to be honest. Same at Port Vale.

People tend to focus on their own team, forgetting that other struggling sides have tough games too. They are not all going to suddenly start winning games and they have to play against each other also.

Lot's to play for and plenty of twists and turns to come. We'll have good weeks and bad.

Quoted from Yoda

my argument is if your in the bottom 2 in January with other teams having games in n hand on you.
You will struggle to attract players.

Also you have the London effect a lot of good clubs in London looking to loan players if you where a young player on London would you go to Grimsby or a southern based club.

Phil Neville talks about this the southern dominance of the premier league.

Current Top 5 in The Premier League

Liverpool,
Man Utd,
Everton,
Leicester City,
Aston Villa.

Got to say that I'm struggling to find the southern dominance in there.

Seeing as the PL is moving inexorably towards more foreign bodies in the squads and the disease is spreading down the pyramid it hardly matters where they are. I was impressed by the traditional Lancashire names in the Oldham side the other day for instance.

If the money is right, mercenaries will come and in the end, that is all a professional footballer is.

Are we at the stage where in tomorrow’s scunny v Stevenage game, and this really hurts to say this, are we after a scunny win, now I’ll go was my mouth out with caustic soda.

Quoted from Gaffer58

Are we at the stage where in tomorrow’s scunny v Stevenage game, and this really hurts to say this, are we after a scunny win, now I’ll go was my mouth out with caustic soda.

Absolutely. I wanted them to beat Southend too, but they failed.

I don’t think Scunny will go down, so I want to see them take points from all our relegation rivals. What an awful situation!

Quoted from smokey111

I do agree with your point regarding proximity to major cities, many players do tend to move around within a 100 mile radius at our level.

I think the disruption to the schooling of children is unlikely to be an issue in the vast majority of cases. Footballers appear to settle down and have kids later, so by the time their children are in education they are in the early to mid thirties (spot ball for us if you throw in a track record of recent injuries!!!).

Footballers tend to settle down and marry younger. They even tend to look older than their years. Accelerated living due to having relatively high income at a young age?

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Footballers tend to settle down and marry younger. They even tend to look older than their years. Accelerated living due to having relatively high income at a young age?

It’s an odd one that I’ve never understood. If you’re a young athlete with a bit of cash (at least relative to age) then it’s basically a license to shàg what you want. And good luck to you.

Why so many choose to ‘settle down’ and have kids at a young age, only to be exposed by a tabloid newspaper for being unfaithful, I don’t quite get.