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vickeryc

Except not a single person has said if he's on the bench then he'll be expected to come on and make an impact. What's been said is that he is one of two fully fit forwards and has a contract as a professional footballer so there should be a space for him on the bench in case the other forwards go d...

vickeryc

Yes, better having Thomas on the bench as a super sub who can potentially change the game. What a find he was!

vickeryc

The key missing ingredient from then to now is the strikers, Goodwin and Street, or one of the 2 with Lloyd were able to compete well for each ball and even if we didn't win it there was always good pressure which enabled us to fall on a second ball and start another wave of attack. I agree up to a...

vickeryc

The only big error Darrell has made was his experimental team set up against Carlisle. Saying that it looked good in training the day before...well! Hindsight is wonderful of course and the biggest challenge he's had is having a powder puff strike force for half the season. You don't win too many m...

vickeryc

Maybe im alone in thinking this but i am actually frustrated in the position we are currently in. 10 matches ago we had decent momentum but have fallen of a cliff form wise. We are only still in it due to Burton and Vale being similarly woeful. The turning point for me was January we had a chance t...

vickeryc

Yeah, I was wondering what's happened to Sloggett

vickeryc

Despite what some will have you believe, we'll have one of the lowest budgets next season regardless of what division we're in. The club is skint and has no facility to make money outside of football itself. Staying in League One every season is a miracle. Worth reminding ourselves that Barry Banna...

vickeryc

So, would you not play Lloyd? Who would you replace him with? I was in fact supporting your case that there is no point in getting on the players backs as it seems to be purely the case that they are not good enough for who we are playing against. As far as GL is concerned, he opinion I was putting...

vickeryc

I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but I have come to a recent conclusion involving the huge sums of money that gets ploughed into the EFL & Premier League. Football is big business, and in business, money talks and that being the case, Cheltenham cannot possibly be a popular team especially ...

vickeryc

So, would you not play Lloyd? Who would you replace him with?

vickeryc

Lloyd's value to the team is his energy, chasing, tenacity, winning the ball, and setting up goalscoring chances. I agree, it would be great if he also scored a few goals as well, though I suspect if he did, we would struggle to hold on to him! Therein lies the frustration of supporting a club like ...

vickeryc

Speedie might owe us one, but I'm not holding my breath!

vickeryc

It's undeniable that we appear to have officials against us at most home games (I've not seen enough away matches this season to comment). It's also undeniable that if the ref's against you, it has a massively negative affect on the team's performance. QED

vickeryc

The Facebook boys are saying things like "we're sleepwalking into relegation" and "this is the worst team I've ever seen" - i must admit, I thought I'd fallen into a wormhole and ended up 14 months in the past when I read those two gems, yesterday Yep, the fickleness and ignoran...

vickeryc

longmover wrote: ↑14 Apr 2024, 08:35 there’s certainly a stench of ‘Elliot’s last days’ around the club at the moment.

in every aspect.

Please could you elaborate...

vickeryc

You can add worsening standards of officiating to your list! It sounds trite and biased saying this, but we really don't get any help from the officials. At times, it feels like there's actually a vendetta against us! Yes, the team hasn't been performing in recent weeks compared with the earlier per...

vickeryc

Si Robin wrote: ↑14 Apr 2024, 08:08 Despite what some will have you believe, we'll have one of the lowest budgets next season regardless of what division we're in.

The club is skint and has no facility to make money outside of football itself. Staying in League One every season is a miracle.

Agreed

vickeryc

As ever, an honest, fair and realistic assessment from the gaffer

vickeryc

Darrell Clarke is the reason we weren't relegated weeks ago. We have the smallest budget in L1 and, I believe, the smallest squad. To compound this, we have walking wounded and simply don't have the cover and strength in depth enjoyed by other clubs in this league. DC has taken his share of any blam...

vickeryc

Second best, we‘ve deserved nothing. Wtf are you talking about? Second half we were by far the better side Over the 90 minutes Exeter were the better team and mostly controlled the way the game panned out. They worked the ball well going forward whereas we were pretty wasteful or lacked options and...

vickeryc

Yes, exactly 👍. Our destiny is dependent on our own results more than what others do. However, a helping hand here and there always helps! Our biggest problem all season has been having to make up lost ground. We've effectively had to do twice as well as teams above us just to get ourselves into a c...

vickeryc

The result we didn't want today was a Burton win and our wish was granted 👍 It means they are now catchable (as are Vale). Looking at the form of the bottom 6 since the turn of the year, no one has excelled, though the Robins have fared best with 4 wins and 3 draws from 14 games (1.07 ppg). Vale's f...

vickeryc

I think our more direct style is working partially because all teams are now used to teams always building from the back and defending against that. Therefore defences struggle against being constantly under stress Definitely. Playing out from the back has, all too often, been suicidal for us and I...

vickeryc

Can you back that judgement up with facts perchance? I have been watching football 60 years. I never saw such a comeback as this. In 2021 Nottingham Forest lost 6 out of their first 7 games. They had one point and sat bottom of the table after their worst start to a season for 108 years. They were ...

vickeryc

Shade wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 23:05 Blimey, I've just scanned through and is this really what people are spending their Friday night arguing about?

True! All I tried to do in my OP was to demonstrate (with facts) how well our manager has done to turn things around after one of the worst-ever starts to a season!

vickeryc

Maths and logic being distorted a bit. Not the same being 7 points behind after 11 games as being 7 points ish behind after 20 games Whilst I think I get the sentiment - seven points behind with three games left means winning them all - seven points is seven points...... It is indeed, but the senti...

vickeryc

After the Wycombe game we were 7 points from safety, having played a game more than the team in 20th. 18 Burton Albion 30 8 8 14 25 39 -14 32 19 Charlton Athletic 30 7 10 13 43 46 -3 31 20 Port Vale 27 8 6 13 28 42 -14 30 21 Reading 29 8 8 13 37 44 -7 28 22 Cheltenham Town 28 6 5 17 21 40 -19 23 23...

vickeryc

Again - as poor a start as it was, we were only 7 points off safety when he took over. We were further behind a couple of weeks back. Apologies if I'm being dense, but I don't get what you meant in your last sentence. I'm sure that, even after our recent run of 3 defeats to Bolton, Derby and Wycomb...

vickeryc

That's a fair point, Horteng, the pressure would've been truly intense...and GJ rebuilt the entire squad. I've often thought his incredible achievement was tarnished, in the eyes of many, by what followed. However, that should take nothing away from the bounceback season, which indeed was truly asto...

vickeryc

I didn't really want to continue the ping-pong but, ok, Man Utd lost their first 12 games nearly 100 years ago :roll: . And fine, we claimed a draw in our fourth game, though that doesn't alter the fact that we amassed just 1 point from our first 11 games and had still not scored our first goal. So ...

vickeryc

Worst start in EFL history followed by a ppg return over the next 20 games that was bettered by only 7 other teams

vickeryc

It is certainly remarkable. If DC keeps us up this season - and it would seem we're jockeying to avoid just *two* remaining relegation places - that will be an achievement greater than our finishing position for the last two seasons. I think what DC has achieved already makes him our greatest manag...

vickeryc

:D It is certainly remarkable. If DC keeps us up this season - and it would seem we're jockeying to avoid just *two* remaining relegation places - that will be an achievement greater than our finishing position for the last two seasons. I think what DC has achieved already makes him our greatest man...

vickeryc

I was looking at the fixtures last night. We have 15 games remaining and 11 of those are against teams 10th or below. 10th or below are basically out of play-off contention, realistically, currently 8 points back having played a game more. We still have to play 24th, 23rd, 20th, 18th x 2, 15th, 14t...

vickeryc

It is certainly remarkable. If DC keeps us up this season - and it would seem we're jockeying to avoid just *two* remaining relegation places - that will be an achievement greater than our finishing position for the last two seasons. I think what DC has achieved already makes him our greatest manag...

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