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Laurence

You are entitled to your opinions, of course. However, I do find it difficult to believe the supporter of any club - let alone one that earned its Football League status - can be so relaxed about the existence a "club" that owes its status to the desire of Walmart and IKEA to get round pla...

Laurence

Fantastic turn around in this game.Just proves the point Yates makes the changes to late. Still trying to get my head around your logic there. Yates makes substitutions too late to change games, and Yates making a substitution early to change a game thereby proves that Yates makes substitutions too...

Laurence

I'm sorry if I missed this but where does the 300 fewer season ticket holders figure come from?

Laurence

He's spent a lot of money doing that hasn't he? It doesn't look like he's been spending it on getting Gloucester City playing in Gloucester. The first planning application, when it eventually came, was quickly dismissed and your owner has passed up a couple of opportunities to move away from Meadow...

Laurence

Neil wrote:Stay out of Gloucester.

Just like Gloucester City.

Laurence

"If you want to make a small fortune out of football, be prepared to lose a large one."

Laurence

Secondly McGlashan has said he plays better against better team and when the cameras are there - is this because he gives 110% in those games. He does take some stick and has generally stopped diving so perhaps he is learning slowly Sorry Jermaine. You're paid to play 46 games and almost none are o...

Laurence

Correct. Except Colchester had been a league club before slipping into the Conference. Personally, I don't feel enough is made of what a great achievement this is, especially as Cheltenham were no non-league powerhouse to begin with. Grumble as we might with this season, this is still a golden age f...

Laurence

As ownership has been mentioned... There’s 78 shareholders for Cheltenham Town Association Football Club Limited. I don’t have percentages available but of these 5 are classed as companies – these include Parklands and the supporters trust, Deburring services, and indelux windows (Rod Burge’s compan...

Laurence

Richards kick-off strategy was to boot the ball down the right flank, thereby immediately surrendering possesion.

Laurence

Joey wrote:We had ruthless players.

We got rid of them.

1. How do you define "ruthless" player?
2. To whom are you referring?

Laurence

PaulGodfrey wrote:Around that time we were also known as the 'Garden Towners'

That's a great nickname, I would love to see that come back. Of course, it won't, but still...

Laurence

I never believed Whaddon Road would host Southern League football again. Seems I was wrong.

Laurence

Unlike some tweeters and facebookers, I had no idea ruby was "part of our history" until the ruby kit was launched - so, I don't buy into that argument. However, ruby is unique, and for a club that doesn't have much of an identity it would make sense to keep it as the main colour. Furtherm...

Laurence

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/109 ... ref=twtrec

Why must the good name of Cheltenham Town be associated with these vile hooligans? Lifetime bans for all. Let them never taint Whaddon Road again.

Laurence

Ranked in order of preference. 1. 2011-2012 – worried when I first heard about it, but a classic clean distinctive look. We should have kept it a season longer, possibly with white shorts. 2. 2006-2008 – Maybe it’s the successful associations (play-off final, two seasons of survival in League One), ...

Laurence

Nonsense Laurence, it's not just about position of budget but differential between positions. For example if the 2nd placed or 22nd placed for that matter are only marginally different it's more or less an even playing field. Look at the Prem teams like Man City and Chelsea will be well ahead of th...

Laurence

So by your thinking we should not expect to finish above 12th as our budget suggests that :shock: Maybe we should not bother playing games and just award positions on budgets. Not my thinking, I'm just reporting what the data tells us. However, based on this, what I will argue is that Yates has ove...

Laurence

"In short, the more you pay your players in wages, the higher you will finish" Source: Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, Soccernomics "A NEW Football League report circulated to member clubs has revealed Cheltenham Town have the 12th highest playing budget in League Two." Source:...

Laurence

Season Pos. Pts. PPG Manager 2001–02 4th 78 1.70 Steve Cotterill 2011–12 6th 77 1.67 Mark Yates 2012–13 5th 75 1.63 Mark Yates 2005–06 5th 72 1.57 John Ward 1999–00 8th 70 1.52 Steve Cotterill 2000–01 9th 68 1.48 Steve Cotterill 2004–05 14th 60 1.30 John Ward 2003–04 14th 56 1.22 Bobby Gould/John Wa...

Laurence

Paul Baker: "It's easy to feel doom and gloom, but real doom and gloom was before MY came in"
https://twitter.com/JPEchoRobins/status ... 4774841344

Laurence

But what happens if York decide they don't want him and in the meantime we have brought in cover. Do we pay the wages of an extra defender or pay off Lowe. "Loan move with view to a permanent transfer" is modern football speak for a transfer outside the transfer window. Keith's gone and w...

Laurence

C.V wrote:So another pay off to come out the £500 k supposedly to be used for strengthening our player pool thats Jones Bennett and maybe Lowe that money will soon be frittered away at this rate.

Lowe isn't being released. This is a loan move with view to a permanent transfer. Not a pay-off.

Laurence

Yes, never a goal by modern standards. Back in the day however...
http://youtu.be/13prB-g5fDU?t=3m22s

Laurence

The poll on here reflects a much different picture 87% want him out now Come on, this is a self-selecting survey which means only those with strong opinions either way are likely to participate. Also, last time I checked only 37 people had voted. I know it's hard to define what the fan base is (is ...

Laurence

JP normally sits on the fence with issues and just reports the facts. That's what journalists do! Well, before Murdoch came and tainted it all - but that's off topic. It's not a propaganda piece, it's an opinion piece. JP is a journalist, which means he primarily reports facts he has gathered. He i...

Laurence

Si Robin wrote:Felt sorry for CBB yesterday. He was absolutely slated by some when playing at right-back, even though it was evident he should have not been put there in the first place.

I agree. I saw some abuse being sent to his twitter account which is behaviour I consider to be unacceptable.

Laurence

Two things bother me about today's performance. First, Yates played and managed in the Conference, he must have known that you don't get tiki-takkaed to death but get a bunch of physically strong lads who will chase everything and give you no time and space on the ball. Either that message wasn't pa...

Laurence

Seeing today's team sheet.

Laurence

Is there such a thing as the goalkeeper's fear of the penalty?

Laurence

"Frozen out" seems to have been incorporated into the modern lexicon of hyperbolic football speak. Likewise, we don't have dips in form or disagreements anymore, we have "crises" and "bust-ups".

Laurence

You were suggesting that Yates was possibly a tactical genius for getting it right at Dagenham, I was just correcting you in that it was the coach who devised the cunning plan. No, I wasn't suggesting Yates is a tactical genius. You seemed to be implying that failure is Yates alone, success belongs...

Laurence

So to answer your questions...was he a tactical genius last week, no but Dave Kevan was. Was he clueless this week, most definitely yes. Ok, but isn't Kevan is a member of Mark Yates management team? So are you suggesting that when things go right that's down to Kevan, when they don't that's down t...

Laurence

It never gets nasty at Cheltenham Robin Quite. If you want to see nasty, move to Cologne and play for the FC. The next day, five men turned up outside Pezzoni's Cologne apartment and threatened to beat him up. Another threat ("Be careful when it gets dark") was left on the windscreen of h...

Laurence

Neil wrote:Idiot.

You really need to improve your vocabulary. Just repeating the word "idiot" makes you sound like...um, an idiot.

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