24/25 League 2

Chris Long having a pen overturned for diving. Always loved VAR, couldn't happen to a nicer bloke!

 

Never even got booked for it ????

 

Donny as well.

 

We will be the bookies favourites.

 

We’re actually 8th favourites with Skybet at the moment. Chesterfield the early favourites.

 

Teams coming up do have a record of doing well the season after.

 

Pile on then because we won’t be those odds when the season kicks off.

 

Absolutely fair play to Crawley.
I thought Crewe were really poor in the semi’s and the fashion in which they started celebrated beating Donny, you kind of felt they got lost in at all and it would only end in one way.

We’ve got to get our heads screwed on for next season. I just want us to be clinical and really hope it is the season we finally get out of this league.

 

Already have but only risked £5 each way.

 

Don’t cash out when we are 5 points clear at Xmas though.

 

They've lost the goalkeeper Lo-Tutala and it doesn't look like Hull will loan him back to them next season, he was seen as a big part of their run, in his time at the club they only lost 2 of the 20 games with him keeping 9 clean sheets in that time.
It will be tough for them to replace someone like him. If they can get Hakeeb Adelakun back after he was released by Lincoln that will be a big signing for them, if they don't that's another key player they will have to replace.

 

1= 7/1 Chesterfield
1= 7/1 MK Dons
3 9/1 Carlisle
4 11/1 Gillingham
5= 12/1 Port Vale
5= 12/1 Notts County
7= 14/1 Bradford
7= 14/1 AFC Wimbledon
7= 14/1 Salford
7= 14/1 Doncaster
11 16/1 Cheltenham
12= 20/1 Walsall
12= 20/1 Tranmere
14 25/1 Fleetwood
15= 33/1 Barrow
15= 33/1 Grimsby
15= 33/1 Swindon
15= 33/1 Colchester
15= 33/1 Accrington
20 40/1 Newport County
21 50/1 Morecambe
22 66/1 Harrogate
23= 100/1 Bromley
No Odds Crewe

Some interesting early odds for next season.
Speaking to a MK fan, doesn't sound so confident for next year - thinks they are likely to lose a few players so will all depend on how they are replaced.
Salford - interested in what they do this summer. I'm not seeing them in the frame for next season at all. Could even be an outside chance of them going down
Chesterfield - could be a threat for sure but I don't see them on the level of Wrexham / Stockport / Notts County when they came up. Scored a ton but conceded a lot too and lost a few games. Can see them taking a while to adapt to the step back up.
Doncaster - likely to be a real threat but have a bit of work to do in the transfer market

I really think we could quietly do something next season. Will see what happens in the window across the league but it feels significantly weaker than this season.
We finished the season very strongly with a settled team and unlikely to lose any key players. Platt, Oyegoke and Wright are they only uncertainties but we could easily end up re-signing all 3 of them. Already strengthened with Sarcevic. Young and Pattison are effectively new signings.

A better pitch, better luck with injuries and a couple more quality signings...

 

Oh I would, I quickly lose my nerve even for a fiver.

 

And probably with another new Manager when Williamson goes to Barnsley

 

Fair play to Crawley, Crewe were awful and it showed up the clear folly of playing a lone target man with minimal technical skill and poor mobility on or around the halfway line . Crewe’s big lad up front is a penalty area player nothing else . Contrast and compare to Crawley’s lad up top. Ball played to his feet, had pace, control and mobility in spades.

Liam Kelly won’t be there long either? Neither will Maguire’s brother.

Well worthy winners !

 

There was an interesting comment made by Karl Robinson on Talksport last week, he said when he took over at Salford his only brief was to keep them in league two. Have they lost yheir mojo ?

 

Lee Gregory has gone to Mansfield and Patrick Madden to Chesterfield.

Don't think we need either, but good signings for those teams.

 

Sounds like Pete Wild has/is about to be given the boot at Barrow. I know their fall at the end was tragic, but it seemed like his style fit perfectly at that club.

 

Rumours are there was a fallout between him and the owner last week.