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If we get in the playoffs we’ll piss it as 2 of the games are away from home.
Just draw the home leg 1-1 and we’ll be reet

 

I think a better description would be under performing despite the advantage of probably the best backing for the manager for a long time. We are still in a good position along with a lot of other teams but a failure this season would be a disaster for this club in my ooinion

 

And that’s the problem. We haven’t been consistent at all. Two wins back to back and we’re praising it! Teams that go up, or make a charge for the playoffs, generally get there by putting a run together (we’ve been one of those in the past). At no point this season have we done that. Just when we’re off the back of two great wins and facing an “easy” oppo, we screw it up. When I can see some confidence running in the team, then I’ll see some confidence returning in my hope that we’ll make top seven.

 

The last time I ever thought, going into a game, that we were likely to win it, was in Stuart's "nearly" season.

Since then, the quality has been so bad, I have no expectations.

It's pointless worrying our heads with hypothetical requirements for promotion, with this lot.

It would be great if we could gain promotion, but it will be no surprise if the season meanders to a mid table finish.

No expectations means no disappointment.

 

We need to pray that the away form continues because performances and results at fortress I mean sandcastle VP will get us nowhere

 

It’s more about tactics at home rather than the defenders and midfielders. Everything is played in front of the opposition making it easy to stifle. Allow the players more freedom forget about possession for possession sake allow more width and the occasional long pass and maybe we can turn the home form round

 

Home, schmome, it's meme-level logic that you have to win at home and draw away.

Who cares where the results come from, our form away is one of the best in the division, that's why we're contenders for the play offs, if not autos.

Can we stop relying on clichés when we're desperate to shit on our own team?

 

Without out wishing to state the obvious, Rochdale and Barrow at home has really hurt us. Not saying we deserved to win those games, we didn’t, but we certainly should in theory win them.
Had we won them we would be on 54 points
1 point behind 3 rd place with 2 games in hand

 

Rochdale, Crawley and Hartlepool are struggling, not us

Although our home form has been very underwhelming, we have to look at the bigger picture, and as it stands IF we win the 2 away games at Gillingham & Walsall then we will be equal on games & points with Stockport, and 1 point below the 3rd auto place

Yes it is a big IF but there's still over a third of the season to go and everything to play for

Bring it on

 

I'm not quite sure that suggesting we are struggling constitutes 'shitting on your own team'.

For the record, we are struggling.

 

1 out of 5 at home
4 out of 5 away
Overall 5 out of 10
The majority of us only experience the home score of 1 that’s the struggle for me

 

Overall, as it stands I'd give this season a "C" -- on a scale where a "B" means the question has been answered, with reasonable form and content and no glaring errors or omissions in either substance or style. "A"s go above and beyond that, "C"s fail in some way, but not fatally. "D"s have glaring failings which may well lead to an "F". No "F"s yet, as the deadline for final submissions of work is still a few months away.

We have the potential to move upwards in the scale; our consistent inconsistency has held us back. After those last two wins, beating Barrow would have put us comfortably on playoff pace; instead, we're uncomfortably there. Home form and goals-for remain the main problems. Different tactics could help with the former, but without more help from the midfield/wingers, and any help at all from the defenders, the latter will be very difficult to improve. At least Walker looks like he will increase the midfields contribution.

RCB

 

The key to where we finish is our home form it has to improve dramatically

 

But we lost the last match, so according to some that's 0 points from the last 1 game, therefore we're struggling.

 

Aye that's right, take away the performance and result against Barrow and there's no reason at all to suggest that we're struggling. Apart from that game we've been on fire, especially at home!

 

'Struggling'.