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I wonder if we'll be seeing this again in a couple of years with Diallo. Another one who is "highly thought of" and we're seemingly waiting for the time to come when he gets his first league start, only to end up out on loan to get some games under his belt, and then released.

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Always enjoy the pod too, thanks to everyone who puts the work in. I'm working from home today so i can catch up with the latest one this afternoon. Hmmmmm maybe all the WFH tales are true What, that people can listen to whatever they want whilst working in a space on their own? :lol: I remember th...

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Tom Pett with a third minute assist as captain Raglan's Oldham go on to thrash Halifax 4-0 in the first round of the NL play-offs. They'll play Oldham on Tuesday for the right to go to the final at Wembley. (FGR play either Rochdale or Southend, who play tonight) That must be a first? Oldham will p...

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Tom Pett with a third minute assist as captain Raglan's Oldham go on to thrash Halifax 4-0 in the first round of the NL play-offs. They'll play Oldham on Tuesday for the right to go to the final at Wembley.
(FGR play either Rochdale or Southend, who play tonight)

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How is it that with record TV money for League 2, and our own highest average League 2 attendance, that we seem to be worse off than we were a few years back? Because the price of everything has gone up along with it. Player wages included, no doubt, once the news of the increased TV money was anno...

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To be fair, I don't think many will without huge investment. We've got to a point where there are almost a top 2/3 in the premier league, then another 15, then the bottom three and the top 4/5 in the Championship. City's budget was absolutely tiny compared to Sheff Utd's and other ex-PL clubs, and i...

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In the game at Cleeve last year our goalscorers were Dulson, Pell, Obieri, Trialist A and Trialist B. So a real mix likely. Wasn’t one of the trialists Baker- Richardson who then signed for Newport, but didn’t have a particularly good season including getting sent off against us down there? So was ...

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Fuller wrote: ↑10 May 2025, 14:21 Dillon Phillips released by Rotherham. Great keeper for us 2015/16.

Maybe GJ will be after him again.

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Thank you both

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9 of the 10 scored away from home. Good point. As he was the only one to give us one (of those) at home, AJB's it is :lol: It's between 2, the others aren't anywhere close. Archer v Notts County leads with 180, to AJB on 149. Next is Dulson v Crewe and Thomas v Peterborough, both on 21. The fact th...

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I'm pretty sure we've never had as many choices as this before. It's usually been a slam dunk or between two. I genuinely don't know which to pick.

https://www.ctfc.com/news/2025/may/08/v ... mour-john/

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If Bradbury, Stubbs, Kinsella and Haynes don't sign on, then you're looking at 8 new players just to fill a match day squad, probably 12/13 for a first team squad. That it pretty much a rebuild. I think Kins and Bradders will probably sign, not sure about the other two, so we're still looking at 6 a...

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Thomas, and I remember saying this at the time, looked like he barely ever added anything except a few slow, loose passes. But when he wasn't in the team it became obvious that we missed him. He was the very definition of the correct cog in the machine.

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I'll never slag a player or manager off for leaving because they want to improve/take a shot at the next level. What I will slag them off for is anything they do that shows disrespect to the club that I support. There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. May is borderline, I can understand wh...

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Fuller wrote: ↑08 May 2025, 19:59 Ryan Broom of Fleetwood and Curtis Thompson of Grimsby both released by their clubs.
Scott Flinders offered a new deal at Mansfield, who also release Tom Nichols.

Why did we release Flinders again?!

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Wow. How the mighty have fallen. I didn't even realise he was at Kiddie.

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Just posted this and then noticed it already had been!

So, it could be done in 3, 6, 9, or 12 months...DB knows about as much as we do by the sound of it

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The EFL publish the WhoScored team of the week every week. It's based purely on stats rather than personal opinion. Sam Stubbs is in it. Even less chance of getting him now! https://x.com/SkyBetLeagueTwo/status/1920098418208158024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1920098418208158...

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Still not good enough for L1, though.

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I would like to see Stubbs Bradbury and Bakare stay. Bakare can play pretty much any where in defence of dm which makes him a good utility player. He wears his heart on his sleeve. I think Flynn singles him out unfairly for his errors in some matches. Then drops him. I can't be arsed to find out bu...

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Fuller wrote: ↑06 May 2025, 19:52 Will he try and sign Mattie Taylor I wonder?

He won't have to try very hard, if he wants him.

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Si Robin wrote: ↑06 May 2025, 19:46 Maybe he didn't realise Rovers had been relegated to League 2.

Or that their stadium needs a lick of paint.

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Bowman leaving in March was confirmed, and JP has reiterated that in his latest article about the player situation.

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Still rankles me that Flynn started Bennett against Donnie when he clearly wasn't fit and replaced him at half time knowing it was his last chance to get his 25th start before surgery. If Bradders had started then we probably wouldn't have been 1 down inside two minutes. Very unprofessional just to ...

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Yes, there could be a few tasty games next season. FGR can rot down there a bit longer, but would be happy to go to Walsall again, and Swindon/Newport are always fun... always reinforces how lucky we are not to be from Newport or Swindon, which is a bonus. :lol: I'm not sure if it's ever happened b...

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Yeah, Bowman has already left so it shouldn't include him.

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Congratulations theidlerich on another Predicta League title. Your moniker is etched upon the Wall of Champions for a second time! Unfortunately, zero points were scored on the final day, so the table remains as it was. Well done to Johnsons Red Army and Red Duke for their late season surges, and co...

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Congratulations theidlerich on another Predicta League title. Your moniker is etched upon the Wall of Champions for a second time! Unfortunately, zero points were scored on the final day, so the table remains as it was. Well done to Johnsons Red Army and Red Duke for their late season surges, and co...

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So, just one team to sort out going up and one in through the playoffs, but Bradford have crept up thanks to a 96th minute deflected winner to leapfrog Walsall. Doncaster and Port Vale up, Morecambe and Carlisle down. Replaced by Shrews, Brizzle Rovers, Crawley, Cambridge, and Barnet. If there's any...

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And that's it. A largely forgettable season punctuated by some memorable moments and some of the best goals we have seen from Cheltenham players. Ending the season with a home win and a messy away defeat about sums it up. Final grade: C+ Achieved the main objective of avoiding relegation, found a co...

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CTFCfan99 wrote: ↑03 May 2025, 15:47 Is this the first time we've ever used 6 subs? Presumably Backwell was a concussion sub allowing us to use an extra one

Must have been. He obviously was concussed, the way he was sat on his floor, eyes looking unfocussed.

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Well, I got Leeds as Champ winners and Plymouth relegated, 2 of the 3 Prem relegated, Birmingham promoted and I think 2 of the L1 relegated, Doncaster as L2 winners, and Morecambe relegated. And I said Cheltenham 14th just one out.

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Nothing for Miller being literally thrown to the ground, and then Bromley get a free kick for Stubbs standing his ground?! Wtf.

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I'd have thought AJB would have learnt a bit more this season, but he still does silly things like stick his foot out to try and pointlessly block a clearance, where we would have had a throw in, and gives away a free kick. He does things like that too much. He's still raw, which is concerning after...

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At least Tustin is getting half an hour. Haynes at centre back now...I'd say we really need to sort the defence out this summer, but the keeping, midfield and attacking departments need serious attention too!

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