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We've just beaten Salford.

Drawn at a team that has lost just 1 in 13 and had five shots on target.

Drawn at a team that top the form table of the last three months.

Yet we belong just below mid-table?

I'm fine with realism, but this is downright pessimism. In order for us to be 13th or lower then that means you think there are 12 teams better than us.

Who are they? Because to be quite honest I can only think of four (Top 2, Northampton and Stockport)

 

Now watching Hudders get beat

 

We're out of the players.. failure.

It's happy clappers fault. You've allowed this to happen

 

Notice the guy Dennis is knocking them in for Carlisle. Is he the one we nearly signed but got him the wrong pizza?

 

And of course, next season, we could be playing them Sheff Wed, Rotherham, Barnsley and Hull (unlikely now) and that means we'll definitely blow promotion

 

Goals flying in all over. Dale have leveled against Carlisle

edit: apparently they haven’t. Thanks Flashscores. Grr

 

I while ago I mentioned, that the only team I'd bet on for promotion, was Stevenage.

If Orient lose today, that will three defeats out of the last five. Very easy to lose form, harder to get it back.

 

Lovely!

 

And?

16 points clear of us.

We need to concentrate on ourselves who are now 8th.

 

I went on their boards a couple of weeks ago (I like to do that just to see how the other halves are living so to speak).

1st? You'd had thought they were 21st.

 

Played two games more and we still have to face them. The point we're making is that, as we saw last season, no-one is uncatchable at this stage.

As I said earlier, we could easily finish 3rd or 13th and so yes we do need to concentrate on ourselves now.

 

I think I might take a walk into Huddersfield, with my City scarf and hat on.

Problem is our kit is remarkably similar to Huddersfield Giants

 

I still have lots of bad memories of Town away matches.
In fact when my daughter had to go to their stadium for her covid jab last summer I couldn’t bring myself to go anywhere near.So I parked near the cinema and made her walk the last bit.

 

Is anyone missing Adams yet?

OK!! OK!! I'm outta here........


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Only time I've been is, at the old Leeds Road stadium, for that 6-3 defeat back in January 1983!!

 

Interestingly, the teams that were promoted last season were in 1st; 8th, 9th and 16th at the end of January.

A lot to play for yet

 

I was championing Stockport after their good run but saw nothing in them when we played them last week. I backed Wimbledon today on the back of it. Damn, even Rochdale in parts looked better than us and they're doomed. And as Orient have shown today anyone can beat anyone. And some seem to forget, in Parkys promotion season in a lot of those games we were bang average. Parky.just had a knack of winning when it mattered. Now next Saturday is massive. A draw is no real use to us or Mansfield when there is such a bottleneck around us and I expect both managers to go for it. So lump on a nil nil lol.

 

It’s a strange league, you feel 3 or 4 wins on the trot could be season defining. Maybe that’s where part of the frustration with the fan base comes from, it feels so near yet so far. If I were Hughes I’d be having a meeting with the players and asking how much they wanted to be a league 1 player, it needs a team to grab it by the scruff of the neck.

 

Yes. It's often the way outside The Premiership.

The L1 season we qualified for the first play offs (15/16) - on this date;

1. Gillingham were 12 points clear in 2nd didn't even get in the play-offs
2. Coventry were 6th and would also fail
3. We were 11th
4. Barnsley, who ended up winning the play-off final, were 13th seven points outside the play-offs. For the rest of the season they got an amazing 33 points more than Gillingham.

Anything is possible