[Dancingwilldoit]

If you watch the highlights (yes there was some), right at the end Oldaker is clearly held and pulled back by their defender. It should have been a pen but it wasnt given. If it had we would probably have had the same again against Oldham. As it is, maybe just maybe we might try a different approach.

[spireitematt]

Keep the faith! The team are short of confidence and I think with the chances we are creating it's only going to be a matter of time till we are putting 4 or 5 past a team. One win could get a run of form going.

As for wanting Paul Cook sacked because we haven't won in 7 and drawn our last 3 games is an over reaction. He built a new squad with free transfers and we don't have the ££££ the likes of Wrexham and Notts County have to throw at players. I would rather we as a club be financially stable instead of spending money we don't have and taking a gamble hoping we get promotion. The turnover of players we had under Rowe was a complete joke. I think we had something like 20+ players in 1 season. You can't build team cohesion, morale or confidence by doing that.

[Devongone]

I'm an atheist Matt. Faith is ollocks. Especially when the god concerned is a loud-mouthed red-faced old stereotype.

There are plenty of sides around who create lots of chances and regularly fail to convert. If you have a known non-scorer up front, backed by a midfield of irregular scorers and a defence from which you leave out the only goal scorer you can create as many chances as you like. One week you might strike lucky as we did against Torquay or West Brom', but most weeks defences will hold you easily, because the more chances you discard the greater their confidence becomes.

I don't want us to try to match the spending of Wrexham and Notts County. I've spent years on here researching non-league players and discarded EFL players who could do us a job for nothing or next to it. But if you are creative in your recruitment and you even match that around the middle of the park at times the entire exercise loses its point if at the end of 90 minutes you can only be expected to score 1 or 0.

It has been becoming more evident throughout the season that Mr Cook's priority is for his team to look a certain way. If the shape, the passing and the general aim looks right he's delighted. He can forget the 0-1 or 1-2 score line because like you he's convinced the results will come.

I think you have to plan to score goals and to stop them being scored against you. Attack wise we lack a plan and we've weakened our defence and sealed it up again by adding in a very defensively-minded midfielder (who necessarily weakens our attacking ambitions). The run of defeats isn't serendipity. It reflects our overall ability. Cookie isn't doing what he used to do. He's fobbing us off with a picture of it. The real deal would translate into the results column. He isn't being himself. He's a bad actor that's all. Are we going anywhere right now? If the answer is no, what's the point of continuing to do the same things with the same people?

[Dancingwilldoit]

Add into everything the £2.5milliion loss in the accounts I received yesterday and I can't see things getting any better.
How the hell we have lost that much is.just mind boggling.
If we don't go up this season I dread to think where we are heading.

[Devongone]

We, that is the board and our manager (whoever) have to run the club in a different way. We have to identify and develop young players who cost us nothing or next to it. We cannot pay high wages, but we can gain a reputation for our players going on to better things.

We cannot afford a name manager ........ because when we get a Paul Cook he still doesn't to the job. Whoever he is he cannot be surrounded by a big staff we cannot afford. He himself has to address the media etc. He can't pretend to be Marcelo Bielsa.

We have, like other non-league clubs, to involve supporters who volunteer to help out the club in many roles. We can't afford paid analysts etc. On the other hand we have to afford other things around our playing staff, because they are our future and how the success of the club will be measured.

I am beginning to think I won't win Euromillions, so I can't help out and JK Rowling has no connection with Chesterfield.

Yesterday showed we won't go up. We need to budget like a non-league club and to make ourselves the best of them. We need to sack our manager now. Find someone new, smart, dynamic and happy to invest in building a future for us and himself.

And just as an after-thought here is a team sheet I scribbled down yesterday after my previous rant ...............

Covolan - because I can't stand Fitzsimmons defeated body-language. Why can't we have a proper keeper? He's vital to defensive confidence.

Back three - KING, WILLIAMS, PALMER
Midfield four - DOBRA, AKINOLA, BANKS, HORTON
UP FRONT - UCHEGBULAM, MCCALLUM, COLCLOUGH

Why, because it is very flexible. If under pressure you could replace one of the front three with Dobra, put Sheckleford on in his place & slip between a back 5 and a back three. If you want a bit more attacking potency swap Mandeville for Horton. Shore up central midfield you've Oldaker and Jones available ....... Wide men up front can come inside and even swap positions with each other on a regular basis confusing the opposition. Jesurun is fast. Speed terrifies National League defenders. A fast National League defender soon finds himself in the EFL. Use speed. Make sure every player understands he is responsible for ALL areas of the pitch - nobody stands there shaking their head. They run till they drop or they are history. Everyone is a goal scorer, and they are all goal stoppers! 3-4-3 easily transforms to 4-5-1 or 5-4-1 when necessary, but any formation can work so long as it suits the players and they suit it. There is no right way to play. Brazilians dribble, pass short, keep possession and play long passes too because they learnt to play by playing and it gives them joy.

Football is simple, get the ball, put it in the onion bag and keep it out at your end. Shape is just another name for Blancmange.

[Devongone]

I just thought I'd ask if there is any explanation with the accounts from the CEO how he (or they or we, oh God I sound like Sam Smith) have allowed the debt to accumulate to this extent?

[Dancingwilldoit]

According to the chairman's report the true los was closer to £1 mill but doesn't say why. There is also no mention of a plan to reduce our overhead to stem any losses.
There's also a note from the auditors that in their opinion an amount of nearly 600k which has been amortized over a few years could be due at anytime.
Best of all the figures include an insurance payout of just under 500k.
Taking everything into account I reckon the loss is a damn site nearer to 4 million rather than 1 million.

[Devongone]

According to the chairman's report the true los was closer to £1 mill but doesn't say why. There is also no mention of a plan to reduce our overhead to stem any losses.
There's also a note from the auditors that in their opinion an amount of nearly 600k which has been amortized over a few years could be due at anytime.
Best of all the figures include an insurance payout of just under 500k.
Taking everything into account I reckon the loss is a damn site nearer to 4 million rather than 1 million.

So basically we can't really afford to sack the manager or his staff, because we'd have to pay both them and anyone employed in their place. That's the only convincing argument I've seen for not sacking our manager.