As we are near certainties for relegation.?

Quoted from heppy88

Surely not? Second home? Nobody can go to a second home in lockdown. Surely he has to stay at his Grimsby residence?

I did not know he had a Liverpool connection, but I think it was Ska who mentioned it. I will just ring the police to get them to check it out...just as a concerned resident  

I'm normally an optimist but saw little, if any, hope in todays game. Couldn't call it a performance because nobody performed, they just turned up.

The only positive I heard was that we were poor in the 1st third, poor in the last third which left the middle third. There are no goal posts in the middle third but I suppose it is a positive.

I expected more from them following the second half last week against Cambridge but it was dire. Still the past is the past and next Saturday is another match and all we can do is hope for something better from them. Grasping at straws maybe, but we can live in hope for the future.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

I did not know he had a Liverpool connection, but I think it was Ska who mentioned it. I will just ring the police to get them to check it out...just as a concerned resident  

Don't the people building on the Pleasure Island site have some connection with Liverpool ?

One thing you can all do is vote JF off the Council.
It is hard to be optimistic when we have all been through this suffering for years and it is now the status quo. The club has been festering for years and Paul Hurst has an almighty task on his hands.
We used to look down on Lincoln but they are top of L1 and are rebuilding Sincil Bank. They have left us behind.
It is not all about money either. Ipswich have had £100 million pumped into transfers over the last decade by their owner and they are nowhere. Swindon made them look really poor and they started the game on just 17 points. It is about skilful management and honesty. If I won the lottery I honestly would give the club money. It is my club but supporting it is like scratching your body with nails.
Let's hope the new people are able to guide the club better and Hursty can get us out of this. Another 30 points at least needed.
What happened before Christmas is very, very hard to take. How I hate politics and politicians. They lie and lie and it is all about themselves. Disgraceful.

If we had to rely on the current squad I would say yes, we are near certainties for relegation.

However, with new owners presumably willing to invest serious funds then it is possible for us to escape.

It will not be easy, and it is by no means a given, but we do have a chance of staying up if we can bring in 6 or 7 new faces.

If the worst happens and we do go down then at least with Mr Scrooge gone, I have faith in the new owners to fund a new team that will get us out of the Conference speedily. I think they are sensible enough to know that you gets what you pay for in football. If you want success you have to pay for it. It's called investment. Simply hoping for 'football fortune' can leave you stranded in the quagmire for years and years and years.  

Quoted from RonMariner

If we had to rely on the current squad I would say yes, we are near certainties for relegation.

However, with new owners presumably willing to invest serious funds then it is possible for us to escape.

It will not be easy, and it is by no means a given, but we do have a chance of staying up if we can bring in 6 or 7 new faces.

If the worst happens and we do go down then at least with Mr Scrooge gone, I have faith in the new owners to fund a new team that will get us out of the Conference speedily. I think they are sensible enough to know that you gets what you pay for in football. If you want success you have to pay for it. It's called investment. Simply hoping for 'football fortune' can leave you stranded in the quagmire for years and years and years.  

I sincerely hope your are right Ron. Our only saving grace in the 23 matches left to scrape some points from and keep us up

Quoted from ginnywings

We hadn't won for what felt like a century under Slade, then Wilko.

We probably did have a better side then in all probability, but we had less time, a less experienced manager and no window. This situation isn't as bad as that in my opinion.

Even when we went down in 2010, we took it to the last game. People having us relegated already this season is way too premature.

Some of us said before Woods was given the manager's job  full-time he would take us down, so not that unrealistic to be thinking something similar now.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Some of us said before Woods was given the manager's job  full-time he would take us down, so not that unrealistic to be thinking something similar now.

I like Neil Woods, but he’s not on the same level as PH

Paul is not overly charismatic, but he is a good judge of players and knows how to manage a workmanlike squad.

Don’t think we will go down, but don’t expect it to be pretty.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Some of us said before Woods was given the manager's job  full-time he would take us down, so not that unrealistic to be thinking something similar now.

I was one of them. It was clear from the outset that he was out of his depth. Was it 25 games we went without a win? Throwing a totally inexperienced manager into a relegation dog fight was madness.

The situation now is different. We have a manager who has saved a club from near certain relegation from L1 and got them into the playoffs the following season. He got us out of the Conference.

He can turn this around given funding.

Quoted from RonMariner

I was one of them. It was clear from the outset that he was out of his depth. Was it 25 games we went without a win? Throwing a totally inexperienced manager into a relegation dog fight was madness.

The situation now is different. We have a manager who has saved a club from near certain relegation from L1 and got them into the playoffs the following season. He got us out of the Conference.

He can turn this around given funding.

I agree but he has to be given the funding but more importantly get the right quality players in.

What I think is very similar to the Woods situation is that the quality of players is very poor and they play like they don't give a toss, you only have to see their reactions when we concede a goal, they look like they are not bothered.

If we do go down I would blame the shower of excrement that run this club and that have managed this club but have walked out.