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- 20 Apr 2024, 09:00
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Tom King
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1181
Re: Tom King
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...
- 17 Apr 2024, 08:38
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Burton Albion v Cheltenham Town
- Replies: 67
- Views: 3165
Re: Burton Albion v Cheltenham Town
Yes, better having Thomas on the bench as a super sub who can potentially change the game. What a find he was!
- 15 Apr 2024, 13:15
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
Re: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
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...
- 15 Apr 2024, 08:02
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Destiny is in our hands
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1840
Re: Destiny is in our hands
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...
- 15 Apr 2024, 08:01
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Destiny is in our hands
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1840
Re: Destiny is in our hands
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...
- 14 Apr 2024, 13:41
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
Re: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
Yeah, I was wondering what's happened to Sloggett
- 14 Apr 2024, 12:18
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
Re: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
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...
- 14 Apr 2024, 10:30
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
Re: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
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...
- 14 Apr 2024, 10:06
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Destiny is in our hands
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1840
Re: Destiny is in our hands
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 ...
- 14 Apr 2024, 09:34
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
Re: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
So, would you not play Lloyd? Who would you replace him with?
- 14 Apr 2024, 09:16
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
Re: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
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 ...
- 14 Apr 2024, 09:08
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Referee for Burton - he owes us one.......
- Replies: 14
- Views: 917
Re: Referee for Burton - he owes us one.......
Speedie might owe us one, but I'm not holding my breath!
- 14 Apr 2024, 09:06
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Referee for Burton - he owes us one.......
- Replies: 14
- Views: 917
Re: Referee for Burton - he owes us one.......
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
- 14 Apr 2024, 09:00
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
Re: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
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...
- 14 Apr 2024, 08:53
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
- 14 Apr 2024, 08:50
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Destiny is in our hands
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1840
Re: Destiny is in our hands
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...
- 14 Apr 2024, 08:27
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
- 14 Apr 2024, 07:56
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Darrell Clarke after Bristol Rovers defeat
- Replies: 2
- Views: 612
Re: Darrell Clarke after Bristol Rovers defeat
As ever, an honest, fair and realistic assessment from the gaffer
- 14 Apr 2024, 07:49
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4542
Re: Cheltenham Town v Bristol Rovers
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...
- 01 Apr 2024, 20:11
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Cheltenham Town v Exeter City
- Replies: 75
- Views: 3867
Re: Cheltenham Town v Exeter City
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...
- 24 Mar 2024, 17:50
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Teams around us - Thread to season end
- Replies: 222
- Views: 14779
Re: Teams around us - Thread to season end
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...
- 23 Mar 2024, 23:35
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Teams around us - Thread to season end
- Replies: 222
- Views: 14779
Re: Teams around us - Thread to season end
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...
- 25 Feb 2024, 08:31
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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...
- 24 Feb 2024, 08:26
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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 ...
- 23 Feb 2024, 23:14
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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!
- 23 Feb 2024, 22:41
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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...
- 23 Feb 2024, 19:31
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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...
- 23 Feb 2024, 18:12
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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...
- 23 Feb 2024, 09:14
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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...
- 22 Feb 2024, 12:28
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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 ...
- 22 Feb 2024, 08:26
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
Worst start in EFL history followed by a ppg return over the next 20 games that was bettered by only 7 other teams
- 21 Feb 2024, 21:48
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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...
- 21 Feb 2024, 20:00
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
: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...
- 21 Feb 2024, 18:11
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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...
- 21 Feb 2024, 14:51
- Forum: CTFC CHAT ONLY
- Topic: Robins' amazing improvement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3090
Re: Robins' amazing improvement
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...