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  1. Rcbantam

    Rcbantam Squad Player
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    We're out of the players.. failure.

    It's happy clappers fault. You've allowed this to happen :cool:
     
  2. trevor

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

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    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.
     
  4. banbrotam

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    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.
     
  5. banbrotam

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    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.
     
  6. banbrotam

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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!!
     
  7. banbrotam

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    Cloughies teams like to play good footie. The last three matches we've had with them have yielded lots of goals. So yes, 0-0!!
     
  8. banbrotam

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    I think Stockport are typical of L2 teams.

    After they beat us and then Salford away, the pressure is off - they relax, play good footie and surge up the table.

    Suddenly, to realise that they are firmly in a promotion race and get a bit of a 'squeaky bum'.

    I was unimpressed by how they seemed to lose heart against us. After 60 minutes, we were comfortable and all they did was argue with the ref - similar to us against Rochdale!!
     
  9. scarbi

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    I mentioned in another post that a lot of teams have not had that "bad run " yet so things could change, ,City have had theirs,[i believe] Northampton are wobbling and Orient are struggling, so there is still hope.
    NEXT 3 MATCHES DETERMINES OUR DESTINY!
     
  10. bailiff bridge bantam

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    20 games left as well,so still a few opportunities to use it again.
     
  11. TallinnBantam

    TallinnBantam Regular Starter
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    It is. I’ve got a tenner on him at 21/1 to be league 2 top scorer. He’s currently joint top with 16 goals.
     
  12. trevor

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    Great odds. Good luck he will not be far off
     
  13. AngryGaz

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    he simply has to go for it or he’s seriously gonna cost us a lot of money in the long run :( if he actually went out to go beat teams and we could see that the intent was there then folk would be in the whole happy ............ but to set us up not to lose and hope we muster a goal out of 2/3 shots on target simply won’t do ............ honestly I simply don’t get him .......... last season the Tranmere game down to 10 men and we should have easily won that game with what we created ............ why can he not Robert back to that ????? I’m sure thousands bought season tickets in the back of them sort of performances last season
     
  14. banbrotam

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    Were you saying that when we lost 6 and won just 2 of 13 matches from late December 2012 through to March 2013.

    Oh those lovely rose-tinted glasses, of how great everything was in the past.

    Parky certainly wasn't getting any credit for the cup run after that 4-1 defeat at Exeter. Amazingly, some reckoned he had two or three matches to get things sorted or else!!

    You obviously, remember those impatient fans, but seem strangely unsupportive when we're in a slightly better position now.
     
  15. banbrotam

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    Explain which matches, other than Stockport, that we were "set up not to lose"?

    I can't believe we have people on here questioning that Hughes doesn't want to play positively. Were you not at the Salford match?

    Just because we don't play two up front doesn't mean that the intention is to be defensive. Prior to the new formations, we were not executing the plan very well - that's doesn't mean Hughes is some kind of defensive manager.

    Your 2/3 shots on target is another myth. In our previous four matches, before Stockport, we had 5 against Harrogate, 7 against Salford, 4 against Rochdale and 5 against Wimbledon.

    Furthermore, we're one of the highest shots per game / shots on target of anyone in L2.

    What exactly are you after? I agree that it's been frustrating at times - but to imply that Hughes now plays negative style footie, all because he sensibly went tight against Stockport, is bonkers!!!!
     
  16. banbrotam

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    If it's the tactics that produced 21 shots on target in the four matches prior to Stockport, then I fail to see what's "sad" about it.

    L2 is not a division where teams produce average 10+ shots on target per game.

    To give you some perspective, the team that produces the most shots is Swindon at a rate of 10.1. We are are 7th with an average of 8.4. Note that both Carlisle and Northampton have a lower rate.
     
  17. ahar964

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    I assume you have watched our performances so its not hard to see what's sad about it. I'm not doubting your stats but it sure as hell doesn't feel like more than 5 shots on target per game. I suppose we might have headed into the keepers hands or rolled a ball to him from 20 yards, and they count as shots on target, but I can't remember being out of my seat 21 times because we have had a solid strike on goal forcing the oppo keeper into a good save
     
  18. banbrotam

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    As I said in this thread. It's L2. Lots of shots on target, simply doesn't;'t happen.
     
  19. banbrotam

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    I don't get your point.

    Cup game. Similar to when we beat Hull.
     
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