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General Discussion / Re: Points shared

« on: February 24, 2024, 06:21:25 PM »

Quote from: Mallard on February 24, 2024, 05:23:54 PM

Disappointing to drop two points after Tuesday’s excellent result. On the plus side we move out of the bottom 4 ( thanks Sport) and the gates seem to be on the up at 800. Can’t complain about the fans not turning up.

Poor crowd in my view, though I suppose there are a few people still put off paying £18 for National North football and a few probably staying away because of Cleeve

General Discussion / Re: Brackley Away

« on: February 21, 2024, 02:17:38 PM »

Excellent performance last night. A fairly even first half with Brackley probably having slightly more of the ball and limiting them to a few shots outside the box which were always off target. They only really looked dangerous when Lynn went 1-0 up and they eventually got their equaliser and I suppose many would've called for full time there and then and take a valuable point at a difficult place like Brackley.

Second half we really took the match to Brackley and started offering a bit more going forward and it was great to see McFadden (who was my MOTM personally) get his first goal for the club. I thought we took control of the match after that point as Brackley seemed to huff and puff by this point, and again we limited them to a few chances from outside the box which again went off target. The assistant manager's free kick was brilliantly taken to send the, 100 strong I'd say, travelling support into raptures. We saw the match out with ease and gained a valuable three points.

I don't want to say too much but on last night's showing I think we have genuinely turned a corner. Looking forward to Saturday against Farsley (haven't said that many times this season!) and hopefully a good crowd - be nice to get a 1,000

General Discussion / Re: Survival

« on: February 05, 2024, 01:56:00 PM »

Quote from: Fosters Cigar on February 04, 2024, 10:36:28 PM

So we got that vital 3 points win at last! I wasn’t there so could not possibly comment on the merits of our play but thank goodness we now have a fresh start to see if we can put a winning run together. Lots of draws and the odd loss will no longer suffice if we
Alfreton A Dr 1
Brackley A Lose 0
Farsley C H Win 3
S Shields H Dr. 1
Blyth Sp. A Dr 1
Bishops S A Win 3
Rushall O H Win 3
Tamworth. H Lose 0
Scunthorpe A lose 0
ScarboroughH Dr 1
Banbury. A Dr 1
Peterb Sp. H Dr 1
SpennymoorA Dr 1
Chorley. H Lose 0

Apart from one or two (Scunthorpe and Brackley), I can't see why we can't get either a win or a draw against all of those sides, I've been to most games this season home and away and I think the standard of this league this season has been very poor. Even Tamworth I thought weren't world beaters, they are just very well organised and have a bit of quality up top. If we can play like we did at Gloucester in the 2nd half we should have no problems whatsoever. We controlled the game and moved the ball around very well and looked like a side that had something about us. It's incredibly frustrating that we're in the position that we're in because we do have some good individual players in that squad now. Unfortunately the recruitment in the summer and the stuff going on off the pitch has probably meant we are in the position that we find ourselves.

We're going to have to focus on ourselves and hope that teams above us don't put a run together either. But as everyone has said, we now need to put another win together at Alfreton (which I'm confident we can do) because going to Brackley trying to get something will not be easy by any means.

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