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little mo
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Whilst we are in Plymouth with cup football. There are two League one games that are probably more important to us. Fleetwood v. Cambridge and Morecambe v. Port Vale. Come on Fleetwood and Vale.
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Robin
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I would prefer a draw between Fleetwood & Cambridge, don't want them pulling away from us personally.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Robin wrote: ↑20 Feb 2023, 17:00 I would prefer a draw between Fleetwood & Cambridge, don't want them pulling away from us personally.
We can catch ‘em. Surely priority one is the bottom four are cut adrift?
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little mo
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: ↑20 Feb 2023, 17:20
Robin wrote: ↑20 Feb 2023, 17:00 I would prefer a draw between Fleetwood & Cambridge, don't want them pulling away from us personally.
We can catch ‘em. Surely priority one is the bottom four are cut adrift?
And that is exactly why i want Fleetwood to win.
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paperboy
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Robin wrote: ↑20 Feb 2023, 17:00 I would prefer a draw between Fleetwood & Cambridge, don't want them pulling away from us personally.
Agree with Robin because we are a long way from the season end and a draw means only two points are dished out rather than three.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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paperboy wrote: ↑20 Feb 2023, 17:35
Robin wrote: ↑20 Feb 2023, 17:00 I would prefer a draw between Fleetwood & Cambridge, don't want them pulling away from us personally.
Agree with Robin because we are a long way from the season end and a draw means only two points are dished out rather than three.
Good point when you put it that way.
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Haitch
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JP tweeted just now that just over 200 tickets sold for tonight's game, I'm one of those but that's not a great number, took more to Charlton ffs yes it was free travel but that's beside the point. Shouting at SkySports Main event will do bugger all. Anyways, hoping for a good game tonight. UTR
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Malabus
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Cambridge v Fleetwood … draw all day long please.
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CTFC.Harry
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Haitch wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 10:56 JP tweeted just now that just over 200 tickets sold for tonight's game, I'm one of those but that's not a great number, took more to Charlton ffs yes it was free travel but that's beside the point. Shouting at SkySports Main event will do bugger all. Anyways, hoping for a good game tonight. UTR
It's somewhat bad but while we may be in a semi-final, it's still a competition that few particularly care about. It's also at a ground that many have visited multiple times including only a few weeks ago where we lost quite heavily. We also have Portsmouth and Derby away coming up and both of them are quite attractive awaydays and ones that many, me included, have had in the calendar for a while.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Malabus wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 10:59 Cambridge v Fleetwood … draw all day long please.
A few red cards and season-ending injuries would be welcome as well!
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robinsrule
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The only reason I want to win tonight is for the money that the final would generate.

Cheltenham v Accrington would be an embarrassingly attended final (10,000 tops?) whereas we would be completely outnumbered if we played Bolton. I know games are not won in the stands but tonight is going to be a tough match.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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robinsrule wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 12:42 The only reason I want to win tonight is for the money that the final would generate.

Cheltenham v Accrington would be an embarrassingly attended final (10,000 tops?) whereas we would be completely outnumbered if we played Bolton. I know games are not won in the stands but tonight is going to be a tough match.
I know what you mean. I would like a day out Wembley either way. Love to see Alfie tearing up the Wembley pitch.
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CTFCfan99
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Seeing loads of social media comments along the lines of 'we don't care about tonight, we'd rather focus on L1 survival'. I think we'd all rather stay up if we had to choose, but there's literally no reason we can't do both.
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Shade
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CTFCfan99 wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 15:48 Seeing loads of social media comments along the lines of 'we don't care about tonight, we'd rather focus on L1 survival'.
I know a lot of people seem to think the club is embarrassing, and the performances are embarrassing, but part of the club is its fanbase, which is also embarrassing because of comments like that. A national cup semi-final on TV and 'we don't care about tonight'. It's pathetic.

What I expect they truly mean is "I think we will get stuffed so I'm going to publicly pretend like I don't care about tonight so that other people can't take the p!## out of me when we lose heavily on TV". Probably the smallest budget in League One, 5 teams below us, in a cup semi final. Every team in the bottom of half of the table has taken at least one or two heavy spankings at some point this season, but everything is as doom and gloom as it gets as if we're the only ones. We are not a special case. We do not deserve anything. We got very lucky with Duff. Now we are fighting to survive like we always realistically knew we would have to, with the added bonus of a cup semi. Maybe the reason myself and a couple of others on here have been called out as "rose-tinters", or whatever term a certain someone is using these days, is because we were realistic from the start and our current situation isn't a surprise. Anything that isn't relegation is success. Relegation is unfortunate but not the end of the world disaster it is made out to be. Finishing bottom/below FGR is absolute failure.

I get it, I understand why they're doom and gloom, lack of wins, poor performances - you only have to look back on the match threads to see that I get frustrated with them as well. But not caring about tonight is absolutely ridiculous. It's still our club and our team and we should be behind them.
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Ihearye
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I must say I did enjoy our trip to the old Wembley. Happy days
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paperboy
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Ihearye wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 16:07 I must say I did enjoy our trip to the old Wembley. Happy days
Yes, why don't we speculate on how many fans we probably won't be taking to Wembley next month?

I'll go for 9000.
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Fuller
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paperboy wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 17:29
Ihearye wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 16:07 I must say I did enjoy our trip to the old Wembley. Happy days
Yes, why don't we speculate on how many fans we probably won't be taking to Wembley next month?

I'll go for 9000.
6,000.
18,000 for FA Trophy and about 10,000 for Crewe play off final ?
Plymouth will take 35,000 if they win tonight.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Ihearye wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 16:07 I must say I did enjoy our trip to the old Wembley. Happy days
Since that great day we are currently in our longest run without a Wembley/Cardiff visit. Ten years since the 2012 L2 play off.

Obviously everyone thought it was a shoe-in we were heading to Wembley before the second leg of that Northampton play off tie. Hopefully Plymouth suffer from the same over confidence we did that night.
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Fuller
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 18:20
Ihearye wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 16:07 I must say I did enjoy our trip to the old Wembley. Happy days
Since that great day we are currently in our longest run without a Wembley/Cardiff visit. Ten years since the 2012 L2 play off.
And prior to the FA Trophy final in 1998 the only other meaningful final I saw the Robins play in where the Southern League Cup finals in 1985 and 1969. The thoughts of a trip to Wembley in those days was the stuff of dreams!
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Fuller wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 18:30
RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 18:20
Ihearye wrote: ↑21 Feb 2023, 16:07 I must say I did enjoy our trip to the old Wembley. Happy days
Since that great day we are currently in our longest run without a Wembley/Cardiff visit. Ten years since the 2012 L2 play off.
And prior to the FA Trophy final in 1998 the only other meaningful final I saw the Robins play in where the Southern League Cup finals in 1985 and 1969. The thoughts of a trip to Wembley in those days was the stuff of dreams!
Indeed. Yet some say this is the worst they have experienced.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Morecambe 1-0 up against Vale

Fleetwood 0-0 Cambridge

Just under 20 mins to go in both
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Morecambe win 1-0

Fleetwood win 1-0
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Shade
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A bit of a meh night, eh.
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Fuller
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Fair play to Morecambe. Is that six wins in the last seven home league games now?
If we’d had that sort of home form we’d be close to the playoffs now. Sadly not….we haven’t won at home in the league for three months now.
Whether we can turn our home form around will be the difference between League One survival or relegation and trips to the likes of Harrogate and Crawley.
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