05-10-2025, 21:20
The Match Day/Season Ticket prices have gone up and some of our fans that used to get behind the team when we went behind seem to now have a sense of entitlement that we should be bossing this League like Brum eventually did last season. That we aren't in some games, given we've almost a completely new squad and a new set of management/coaching staff to bed in together means they have the right to slag everyone off because, sitting (or standing) in their now more highly priced seats they thought they were going to see far better from day one thanks to the brass we've supposedly spent. Similar ticket prices to Halifax Town, give me a break - https://fchalifaxtown.com/tickets-and-ho...n-tickets/, - I still paid £20 less than my brother.
Well, to some extent we are, to some extent we aren't. How good have you ever been in a new job in the first couple of months whether in a new company or after a promotion? Yes they train all week with each other but they don't train against the side we're going to play. A good coach will have them training against a 2nd 11 that play a bit like them though. We aren't going to win every game but if we get on their backs for every mis-placed pass/shot, whatever, they'll stop trying them and we'll win fook hall again. We saw how well that worked out last season. No wonder last season's side said our fans were toxic. This lot are going to say the same soon.
Yes we need to get it forward faster (and I don't mean hoof-ball), we need to do more 1 touch pass fluid triangles and the like, we need to get it to our centre forwards in places where they have a chance to shoot rather than chasing balls going to the corner flag. We need to play sides that don't sit with 11 men in their penalty area and try to beat us on the break. Hmmm - we can't really control how they play can we? Only how they break with where we put players to try and control that.
Stockport's 2nd goal was well taken but came from something the ref would have given a free kick for earlier in the game. The penalty came from something he saw as a tug on his shirt sleeve (a theatrical dive, the Stockport players thought it was a joke too when you look at their reaction) and like several other free kicks, where most of the players (let alone the fans) hadn't a clue why he blew his whistle and who he was even giving the free kicks to. He was as bad for both sides when it came to awarding them, it was where he was awarding them that was the problem. The two yellows for the Stockport lad a few minutes apart were about the only thing he got right and we could have seen more than one of the same for a couple of our lads with him in charge.
There's a whole half row of empty seats in front of me Snoots that you wouldn't have paid £1000 for a pair like you would have done in the posh seats you used to occupy. It's not that much further to walk to the other side of the pitch regardless of where you park and I drive up north from a lot further south than Barnsley and then take public transport across or under/round The Ainleys. OK. it's free on the bus, whenever it turns up, and there won't be a direct train for the rest of the century apparently because there aren't enough platforms anymore or the new one's are now too long. Well, for now anyway. How long of a platform do you need for a two carriage diesel?
As we used to say on darts and doms nights - non-players off the green, though it doesn't mean I don't respect your opinion. You've supported Town for about the same length of Town Time as me if not longer. Burton (also beat Cardiff in midweek) and Harrogate in the Tin Pot Cup this week didn't help in the scheme of things. Exeter, quickly forgotten, as we should have battered them apparently, then go and win at Lincoln after losing 4 on the bounce. That's mid-table stuff. We're 6th not 16th.
Castledine should have been replaced about 15-20 mins before he was, Bojangles and Taylor should have been on a lot sooner, not saying either is a left winger but Plan B might not need one with an attacking wing-back. We're all great coaches after the match. I agree, it's not always very pretty to watch so far but hell, we've had worse starts to the season before and got promoted. Throwing the towel in a week before my birthday won't solve anything. We could always support Blackpool! ......
Nah! No bloody chance! Who wants seagulls pinching your fish and chips and shitting on your Kiss Me Kwik hats into the bargain?
Well, to some extent we are, to some extent we aren't. How good have you ever been in a new job in the first couple of months whether in a new company or after a promotion? Yes they train all week with each other but they don't train against the side we're going to play. A good coach will have them training against a 2nd 11 that play a bit like them though. We aren't going to win every game but if we get on their backs for every mis-placed pass/shot, whatever, they'll stop trying them and we'll win fook hall again. We saw how well that worked out last season. No wonder last season's side said our fans were toxic. This lot are going to say the same soon.
Yes we need to get it forward faster (and I don't mean hoof-ball), we need to do more 1 touch pass fluid triangles and the like, we need to get it to our centre forwards in places where they have a chance to shoot rather than chasing balls going to the corner flag. We need to play sides that don't sit with 11 men in their penalty area and try to beat us on the break. Hmmm - we can't really control how they play can we? Only how they break with where we put players to try and control that.
Stockport's 2nd goal was well taken but came from something the ref would have given a free kick for earlier in the game. The penalty came from something he saw as a tug on his shirt sleeve (a theatrical dive, the Stockport players thought it was a joke too when you look at their reaction) and like several other free kicks, where most of the players (let alone the fans) hadn't a clue why he blew his whistle and who he was even giving the free kicks to. He was as bad for both sides when it came to awarding them, it was where he was awarding them that was the problem. The two yellows for the Stockport lad a few minutes apart were about the only thing he got right and we could have seen more than one of the same for a couple of our lads with him in charge.
There's a whole half row of empty seats in front of me Snoots that you wouldn't have paid £1000 for a pair like you would have done in the posh seats you used to occupy. It's not that much further to walk to the other side of the pitch regardless of where you park and I drive up north from a lot further south than Barnsley and then take public transport across or under/round The Ainleys. OK. it's free on the bus, whenever it turns up, and there won't be a direct train for the rest of the century apparently because there aren't enough platforms anymore or the new one's are now too long. Well, for now anyway. How long of a platform do you need for a two carriage diesel?
As we used to say on darts and doms nights - non-players off the green, though it doesn't mean I don't respect your opinion. You've supported Town for about the same length of Town Time as me if not longer. Burton (also beat Cardiff in midweek) and Harrogate in the Tin Pot Cup this week didn't help in the scheme of things. Exeter, quickly forgotten, as we should have battered them apparently, then go and win at Lincoln after losing 4 on the bounce. That's mid-table stuff. We're 6th not 16th.
Castledine should have been replaced about 15-20 mins before he was, Bojangles and Taylor should have been on a lot sooner, not saying either is a left winger but Plan B might not need one with an attacking wing-back. We're all great coaches after the match. I agree, it's not always very pretty to watch so far but hell, we've had worse starts to the season before and got promoted. Throwing the towel in a week before my birthday won't solve anything. We could always support Blackpool! ......
Nah! No bloody chance! Who wants seagulls pinching your fish and chips and shitting on your Kiss Me Kwik hats into the bargain?
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