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RE: Salford City - Devongone - 01-08-2018
A week on Saturday we could be sat with nine points ...................
Later a small yellow van will park outside your home. Perhaps it will be best if you inform your wife, family and business that you may be away some time.
RE: Salford City - Dancingwilldoit - 01-08-2018
Dev, I did use the word could, and I wouldn't fit in a small yellow van!!!
Being honest, if we don't win our first 2 home games then this season just wont happen - again and I will be dissapointed. I see both of them being winnable against 2 teams I believe might struggle this year and if we don't win them they will definitely be points lost.
IMO we need to hit the ground running and get some points under our belts, I hope MA sees it the same way. If we are here a week Sat with 3 points from 3 games then we will have just made life very difficult for ourselves as others will see us as beatable. If MA wants to get the fans on board we need at least a draw and a win to start. If we get 3500 for our first Sat home game then the stay aways might just drift back and give the team the backing they are going to need.
This really is do or die season. To average 4k for home games we need to put some points on the board. There's no transfer window for us now so the more fans through the door, hopefully the more money for MA to strengthen.
RE: Salford City - Devongone - 01-08-2018
I think it is a very important season for us, but Barnet's manager John Still has more experience than anyone and he was convinced in the Non League Paper on Sunday that it isn't necessary to get off to a flyer. There's 46 games!
By the way we play Belper away on Tuesday Aug 7th - a Chesterfield XI!
(It's the sudden change in your behaviour and attitudes that is worrying the psychiatrists. Thanks for the heads-up on the van size!)
RE: Salford City - Dancingwilldoit - 01-08-2018
John Still can be convinced all he likes, if he was right he wouldn't be managing Barnet in the National League. There may well be 46 games but lose the first 3 and after just 1 week you could be 9pts adrift of the only automatic spot. That takes some catching up even if you have 43 games to go.
I will stick with getting off to a flyer and make the other teams fear playing us.
Its a new season with a likable affable manager. Caldwell is long gone and is just where he deserves to be - unemployed. I'm not saying we will do well, I just hope we do. If we drop again it will be years before we get back into the Football League and will probably be the death knell of CFC. I will give MA a good chance to prove himself and would even accept mid table at Christmas that would mean we are at least winning a few games which we haven't done for 2 years.
Re the Yellow Van, years ago we had a Yellow Toyota van that got hit full on one side by something, it was a right dent almost full length and about 400mm (16" in old money) deep It was on its last legs so wasn't worth fixing but the chassis was ok. We kept it until the MOT was due but the lads used to call it "The Banana" - you jogged a memory.
They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha - Napoleon somebody or other
RE: Salford City - spireitematt - 01-08-2018
(01-08-2018, 09:59)Dancingwilldoit Wrote: I will be Matt. Its our closest away game so yes definitely. Usually manage 5 or 6 away games a season but the last 2 years have been so bad its just not been worth it. By a week on Saturday we could be sat with 9 points. I would be happy with 7 if we manage that then I might just do a few more away fixtures.
Ebbsfleet, Salford, Halifax, Harrogate, Solihull, AFC Fylde are all on my hit list with maybe Gateshead.
2 away games which interest me is Salford and Halifax. I'm pretty optimistic about this forthcoming season.
RE: Salford City - bluepooch - 01-08-2018
Wow Dancing us 3 are hanging on to your shirt tails as you drift high above the ozone layer of optimism .!
Can I just temper this by saying both Ebbsfleet and Aldershot reached the play offs last season and Ebbsfleet have been backed to the tune of millions by some foreign sounding doctor .Its remarkable how much GPs get paid nowadays !
I'd be ecstatic with 4 points from the first two games .
RE: Salford City - Devongone - 03-08-2018
Ebbsfleet's signing of Michael Cheek from Dagenham makes them look a side with a real attacking threat. They've at least two players who will score goals from midfield too.
I think Dancing will be in a minority of fewer than ten non-league fans who don't much rate John Still as a non-league manager. He actually did bring Barnet from a sluggish start that left them off the pace early to win this league quite readily a few years ago. Tranmere last season showed how much ground you can lose early on and still make the top seven. Obviously I'd like to be sitting nine from nine a week on Sunday, but I think we've got to be realistic. That majority of non-league fans who expect us to finish between 7th and 10th may well represent the wisdom of crowds. We desperately need another forward to get through our 46 games. Our squad certainly isn't the best on paper BUT look what Neil Warnock did with Cardiff City. On paper I wouldn't have said they'd be much above say Preston NE, and now they are in the Premiership. It's what you do with the talent you have.
JEEZ I WROTE THAT WITHOUT CHECKING OUR NEW SIGNINGS ............. HE'S STALER THAN A FORTUNE COOKIE, no more of a goalscorer than CO'G either. But he's French and he gets plus points there. SACRE BLEU!
RE: Salford City - Dancingwilldoit - 03-08-2018
Came down yesterday to make a long weekend of it. Don't think there will be much football tomorrow if the weather is the same as the last 2 days, 32 degrees yesterday, 31 today. Its bloody hot and am not looking forward to sitting in a football stadium if its anything like it has been.
Dev I didn't say I didn't rate Still as a non league manager. What I said was that if he was all that good he wouldn't be where he is and that's a fact. Tomorrow will be really interesting and I just hope we have been doing heat training.
I will still go with a draw.
The majority of non league fans know very little about us and the one thing that is clear this season that's been missing for years is team spirit. Its sky high atm. At Alfreton MA made the first team go and sit and mingle with the fans. At half time they trotted back to the changing rooms and at the start of the second half they stood at the tunnel and applauded each player patting them on the back. I haven't seen anything like that for a long time and its well overdue. Long may it continue.
RE: Salford City - Devongone - 04-08-2018
First, having read what Southend fans say rather touchingly about Fortune - I was wrong! All that actually matters is whether WE score goals. If we've got a five-goal-a-season centre forward, we've also got a five-goal centre back ....... but of course somebody is going to have to score.
And of course Dancing's argument on John Still is also ollocks. First he's talking about something he knows more than anyone about - managing a side in the Vandy Pandy. Second, not being given the chances doesn't mean you aren't any good. Very few managers, however successful in non-league, get a viable EFL or Premiership opportunity. They have to prove themselves over and over. The same applies to lower division EFL managers. How many promotions would Neil Warnock need and how long would he have to live to be in the running for a top Premiership job? BUT a good looking bloke in his thirties who was runner up in Portuguese second division would be a serious contender, specially if he could speak a smattering of Pidgin and didn't know any swear words.
I doubt you could find one non-league fan who would think John Still's opinion not worth listening to. And that would definitely include Martin Allen.
Course getting early points is good. It's also "the bleedin' obvious" as John Cleese would say, before they haul him off to the Caribbean in a little yellow boat. But played 3 lost 3 only means it's all over if you've an idiot like Gary Caldwell in charge and you couldn't make a team from your squad at Subbuteo. If we can beat Ebbsfleet we're good. They'll do well and Aldershot may have lost a lot of players, but they are replacing them and they have a manager experienced at this level. There won't be any games we can be sure of winning at this level.
RE: Salford City - Dancingwilldoit - 04-08-2018
Turning it round Dev, how many non league managers have been given a chance higher up the money tree and made it?
I cant think of any. Martin Allen had a go and there's one or 2 others that made it into Lge1&2 but there's not many made a career of it.
John Still has a bit more non league experience than Martin Allen has but they have both had promotions from the Vanarama.
Still at best is a Lge2 /Conference manager, he didn't hack it at Peterborough when given a chance so I stick with what I said.