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Post by Hannibal on Oct 1, 2017 9:46:59 GMT
I think it was really bad of our Board to waste a fifth of the season on a duff manager. Dover are top after shedding a 40 goal striker, several other key players and signing Kane R. Wrexham are 2nd with 11 goals in 13 matches. There are no stand out teams. All the promotion favourites: Tranmere, Orient, Hartlepool, Barrow, Ebbsfleet, AFC and others are floundering. Where would we be if we'd had Marcus Bignot from the start. I'm not suggesting that we'd be in contention, but I certainly think we'd be higher than 21st. Let's hope we can end our atrocious run against the Cards on Tuesday
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Post by lincolnexile on Oct 1, 2017 12:58:58 GMT
I think it was really bad of our Board to waste a fifth of the season on a duff manager. Dover are top after shedding a 40 goal striker, several other key players and signing Kane R. Wrexham are 2nd with 11 goals in 13 matches. There are no stand out teams. All the promotion favourites: Tranmere, Orient, Hartlepool, Barrow, Ebbsfleet, AFC and others are floundering. Where would we be if we'd had Marcus Bignot from the start. I'm not suggesting that we'd be in contention, but I certainly think we'd be higher than 21st. Let's hope we can end our atrocious run against the Cards on Tuesday Hey hold on. I agree about it being a poor league, Halifax were in the play offs until yesterday fo example. But maybe we should let Marcus Bignot get a few more games under his belt before we start proclaiming him as the new Messiah. He's still working with the same players that have been s@@t for a fifth of the season and has no money to spend. Lets not get too carried away. |
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Post by Harry Lime on Oct 1, 2017 13:35:33 GMT
I think it was really bad of our Board to waste a fifth of the season on a duff manager. Dover are top after shedding a 40 goal striker, several other key players and signing Kane R. Wrexham are 2nd with 11 goals in 13 matches. There are no stand out teams. All the promotion favourites: Tranmere, Orient, Hartlepool, Barrow, Ebbsfleet, AFC and others are floundering. Where would we be if we'd had Marcus Bignot from the start. I'm not suggesting that we'd be in contention, but I certainly think we'd be higher than 21st. Let's hope we can end our atrocious run against the Cards on Tuesday Hey hold on. I agree about it being a poor league, Halifax were in the play offs until yesterday fo example. But maybe we should let Marcus Bignot get a few more games under his belt before we start proclaiming him as the new Messiah. He's still working with the same players that have been s@@t for a fifth of the season and has no money to spend. Lets not get too carried away. Not getting carried away. But surely we'd be higher than 21st if MB had been here during the summer. I agree with Hannibal, this is the weakest top of the league for years. Whether the bottom is that weak is a more difficult one. It maybe that there is just loads of average teams, rather like the Championship. This is a real chance for clubs to win the league, or at least get into the top 7. A really average side could sneak into the Football League this year. I haven't liked this league in all the time we've been stuck in it. |
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Post by Hannibal on Oct 1, 2017 14:26:21 GMT
Thanks for your reply Harry. You grasped my point whereas the previous poster didn't.
I've seen enough after the Maidenhead game to completely dismiss thoughts of relegation. I think we'd have finished 24th under JM with around 25-35 points.
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Post by spencerwhelanleftpeg on Oct 1, 2017 15:51:32 GMT
Indeed it is a rather average league this season it seems.
It frustrates me that we didn't do the correct thing and dispose of after the end of last season.
It would of been interesting to see what sort of team the incoming manager would have assembled and where we would of been now.
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Post by tarvinblue on Oct 1, 2017 21:17:18 GMT
Indeed it is a rather average league this season it seems. It frustrates me that we didn't do the correct thing and dispose of after the end of last season. It would of been interesting to see what sort of team the incoming manager would have assembled and where we would of been now. Too much sentimentality was attached to the previous incumbent. That's the lesson the board of this football club needs to learn from the Burr/McCarthy era. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 23:49:40 GMT
It's a weak League.
We need a couple of signings to convince the fans.
The likes of Norwood. How many has he scored on 90' etc? How many points has he saved or won?
The support is there. It could be massive. Absolutely massive with a couple of signings.
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Post by sqzl on Oct 2, 2017 0:24:48 GMT
I'd be interested to know, if it was Summer now and MB had the choice of getting rid of players and brining new lads in. Who would get a contract and who wouldn't. I think MB has inherited a poor team in a very weak league. With it being so weak it means teams around the bottom could easily beat sides at the top, and plenty of sides in the bottom half start games favourites against top half sides. Let's be honest, if Tranmere play Dover we sort of think it's a winnable game for Tranmere. Crazy league, I just hope we stay safe this season and let MB build his own side.
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Post by MOC on Oct 2, 2017 5:32:10 GMT
It's weaker and far more open than usual at the top and it probably compounds Tranmere's misery that they'd be running away with it this year if they'd replicated last season's form.
But I'd say it's stronger at the bottom end than many previous seasons I can remember. Outside the current bottom two of three the number of obvious relegation candidates is very small and I suspect whoever finishes fifth from bottom may need more than 50 points to stay up, given sides in this league keep taking points off each other.
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Post by Si on Oct 2, 2017 11:42:33 GMT
It's weaker and far more open than usual at the top and it probably compounds Tranmere's misery that they'd be running away with it this year if they'd replicated last season's form. But I'd say it's stronger at the bottom end than many previous seasons I can remember. Outside the current bottom two of three the number of obvious relegation candidates is very small and I suspect whoever finishes fifth from bottom may need more than 50 points to stay up, given sides in this league keep taking points off each other. Would agree with that to a certain extent. I think there are less teams likely to runaway with it, and less teams that are the whipping boys. There is more of a consistent quality across the division, which is why it's entirely plausible that the likes of Guiseley and Halifax can pick up points against the supposed top teams. We won't have any easy games this season, but then again I don't expect us (now Bignot has arrived) to be sitting ducks for the big boys either so hopefully we can register some decent results against the Tranmere's and Dagenham's. |
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Post by lincolnexile on Oct 4, 2017 13:00:35 GMT
Thanks for your reply Harry. You grasped my point whereas the previous poster didn't. I've seen enough after the Maidenhead game to completely dismiss thoughts of relegation. I think we'd have finished 24th under JM with around 25-35 points. |
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Post by imadeva on Oct 4, 2017 13:16:58 GMT
Macclesfield top of league with 26 points after 14 games dropping 16 points that's very rare very open and I suppose you could say poor
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Post by Lobster on Oct 4, 2017 13:57:00 GMT
Macclesfield top of league with 26 points after 14 games dropping 16 points that's very rare very open and I suppose you could say poor I wouldn't say being top with a low points total necessarily makes it a poor league. That just suggests a lot of teams are able to take points off each other. It seems there's no standout team as yet, but the league itself is very competitive. A poor league is one like the French or Scottish one, where PSG and Celtic respectively are winning it by 20-30 points. |
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