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I thought we'd beat Wycombe, or rather that they would lose to us. I don't think they can handle promotion, but I'm often wrong! I told our local shopkeeper on Saturday morning, who likes a football bet that his footie bet was going down, because Leicester had no hope at Palace, Liverpool wouldn't beat Stoke, and his own home town team, Newcastle would struggle against West Brom. Right every time. I also told him we'd beat Wycombe! Predictions turn all of us into fools. Nostradamus had the right idea, make predictions in such a way that anybody can interpret them to mean whatever comes to pass.

It was interesting to note that Evatt went for a more physically capable team, benched Weir and McCourt, brought in Binnom-Williams and Smith. Maybe Gozie can get 30 minutes in midweek.

I would have thought that we will shortly see some mutually agreed cancellation of contracts, because players and even their agents will not want to sink to the level that their wages might take us, even though their performances might suggest that is where they should be playing. If they take us to the Evo-Stick, they'll have become Evo-Stick players and their careers will be over.

I would have thought EVEN AC and DA would have plans for what they intended to do WHEN we were relegated. SURELY Dancing and I can't be the only geniuses who saw where we were going two years ago and by the first weeks of this season were totally convinced? Big red signs were flashing at Christmas, and once we'd looked at the new signings we'd spent weeks netting .........well .............. John Cleese an' the bleedin' obvious, surely even the slowest of learners had sussed which way the wind was blowing?

One point to take into account is that at the end of the season non-league is re-jigging its structure and below the National League promotion and relegation is taking account of that. The sudden dumping of a financially dubious former EFL club into this re-organisation is the last thing they want as would be Sutton winning the play-offs and refusing to dig up their pitch. It is certainly not good news for the Vanarama that Eastleigh's entire financial support just went to Sunderland. As Matt points out Macclesfield were promoted on a tiny budget. They remain in financial dire straits. Danny Whitaker is one of the favourites to be non-league player of the year, but his achievement in helping the club into the EFL again is one that will also be a headache for the club he loves. Dagenham have the nous of John Still to help them survive but they had to sell their big wage-earners for peanuts this year to even get to the end of the season. Hartlepool cost their new owner £1 and although they do have one prominent supporter backing them, the new owner has not got a great record in football. Chester and Torquay go down a level in financial turmoil .........

Although there are some good players at non-league level much of it is hanging financially by very thin threads.
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Spirematt's Out of Contract list for 2019 - German, Barry, Anyon (gk), Wiseman, Ugwu, Wakefield (youth team), Sinnott, Binnom-Williams, Brewster, Maguire, O'Grady, McCourt, Dennis, Willock, Hines, Kay, Dodds, Smith - is where our worries lie.

I make that 18 players. I count 9 I definitely really don't want. There is one we want to sell, especially if we could use the money for once. I'd like to keep German, Ugwu, Wakefield, Binnom-Williams, Maguire, Willock and Smith. BUT in the Juniors I'd like to give contracts to Ofoegbu, Amantchi and Rawson at least ........... This massively reduces our room for manoeuvre at this level as we only need 16 players for match days and small squads have to be the order of the day. We already have Whitmore and Rowley on even longer term contracts. And if it is true we intend to ditch Parkin we need to find two keepers whilst somehow losing Anyon ....... and I don't think he'll be easy to lose.

Someone needs to be really clever behind the scenes. Does AC strike you as that man?
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Looks like Kevin Davies is coming in as manager.
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Where did you get that from Matt ? ,the same person who said that Chris OG had been paid up ??.
I think the club should give Evo every chance as I saw signs of improvement on Saturday despite the result ,other than that Nicky Law would be my choice .
Edit ,just seen Davies has left Southport and is now odds on with VC
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(30-04-2018, 19:28)bluepooch Wrote: Where did you get that from Matt ? ,the same person who said that Chris OG had been paid up ??.
I think the club should give Evo every chance as I saw signs of improvement on Saturday despite the result ,other than that Nicky Law would be my choice .
Edit ,just seen Davies has  left Southport and is now odds on with VC

Kevin Davies has been sacked by Southport today and the Skybet odds have him at 10/11 from 8/1 to be the next Chesterfield manager, so Sky must know something to give him them odds. He did alright with Southport got them out of the relegation zone and were not far off the playoffs but then only won 1 in 8 games and dropped down the table but kept them up.

2 managers who managed Southport in the past who didn't get enough time were Paul Cook and John Coleman.
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Southport have had 10 managers in 5 years, they're not the most patient of boards .Yes Cookie was sacked there as well .
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(30-04-2018, 19:45)bluepooch Wrote: Southport have had 10 managers in 5 years, they're not the most patient of boards .Yes Cookie was sacked there as well .

Managers don't seem to be getting time anymore to turn things around. A few poor results and there sacked.
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Dev ,I loved Danny Whitaker he was a silky cultured player and what he does do is dispel the myth that you have to be rough and tough to survive in the Conference .
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(29-04-2018, 16:18)spireitematt Wrote: The players in contract will have to take a 20% pay cut next season.


Is that possible to do though if they are under contract? Football is one of those industries where the terms of the contract are king as regards wages, so unless you had relegation clauses in their contracts I think you are stuck with paying them what they are on now unless you can sell them.
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I think the reductions were written into the contracts Charles.
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