After all the abuse Grimes has had on here I must say I'm surprised to see him just behind Taylor and Balding in the POTS award...even ahead of JJOT 

I still don't think it was the right thing to do.....a draw would have kept us in the "hunt".......

If we needed the win and that was Austins mindset from the start then why did he start one up top? Why not play three up front from the off? Grab an early goal or two and then sit back on the lead, whilst the Walsall natives got restless.

Throwing the two strikers on changed nothing......the formation stayed the same. O'Toole dropped back into the gap left by McWilliams and Long was stuck out wide right in place of Crooks. Van Veen played in the hole instead of O'Toole behind Hoskins. Nothing really changed at all formation-wise.

I also don't buy the "we took him off as he was on a yellow" argument. Walsall didn't do that with their playmaker Ozthumer.......even though he could have seen red for a dive soon after his first yellow.

In hindsight we should have took the easy option and protected the point. Then with a win over Oldham and a defeat for Rochdale at home to Charlton we'd have stayed up. It didn't matter what Wimbledon were doing, even Walsall. 20th place was well within our grasp......and we gave it up on a g*mble.

It's all if's and but's....If Vv had taken his chance he would be a hero and Austin would be a brilliant tactitian but he didn't and he's not...Hindsight is a wonderful thing

As someone else posted there must be a reason we have never sold a player for big big money.
 

Mainly because if someone offered a fiver we'd snatch their hands off

Its our only hope of increasing the capacity in a sustainable way that excites those who we seek to attract in bigger numbers, our younger fans.
Theres no ban on new terracing that has a safety certificate, as seen at the saints.
Also note while we're at it, there is no 25 yo covenant stating Sixfields should not be redeveloped or any gypsie curse on us, though the latter does make me think.

My apologies...It wasn't a court that decided it was the government 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43701400

No brainer, fit out the east stand to an acceptable level and build a bank of terracing and sell the club hard.
That initial investment will pay dividends for many years to come in order to continually adding new players.
Also when we do make the step up, for once we'll be ready to compete there. 

What the **** is your obsession with terracing...It's never going to be allowed back as court case this week went towards proving...As soon as we go up we'd have to knock the bloody thing down again..You really don't help yourself

It will be having a terracing that finally allow us to one day challenge as a league 1 club so lets get it built.

So how many clubs above us in the league ladder have terraces now. Having a decent side to get us out of league 2 is gonna be needed way before standing room for away fans.

Nope but it’s decreased our chances

Then why post in the first place?

I suppose I'd better defend my title 

Trouble is that Blackpool demolished Bradford last Saturday so getting a result there is going to be tough.

Bradford have only picked up 5 points since the start of January. Yes,it was a convincing win but against a team nearly as out of form as we are 

20 year Ground naming rights to fund the East stand fit out to acceptable standard then raise future revenues, selling multiple seasons in advance, fa premiership do grants and loans, local sponsorship and benefactors to help build up behind the south stand to increase capacity and improve the over all look of the place.. not a big fan of crowd funding as it doesn't give any value.
That is all the redevelopment we need right there in which to make us a more attractive to visit and allow us to survive and maybe compete in league 1 when we next return.
The money is there but not the will and thats partly due the owners probably  not wanting it on there watch?

Congrats Beds on reaching 1600 posts...however, not sure copy and pasting every time counts 

Wasn't it the little prick who our abysmal scouting network failed to spot?

Yep....and he still lives in Grange Park 

Jimmy’s signings are without doubt worst than JEDs
Facey and Ariyibi have done ok but I’m not sure any of the others have improved us to date , including VV

I thought Melville was head of recruitment...He has been the one constant through this whole debacle and still has a job!!

Gotta be Tisdale..He managed to get around 1.75 million for Grimes 

I guess quite a few...but when he's replaced by someone who isn't up to league 2 standard is it not allowed to call for Buchs back?

That wasn't intended to be my point....Just a case of be careful what you wish for...

To save me trawling back through old threads ...How many of you guys wanting Buchs back in the team were saying he was past it/not up to league 1 standard before the January window?

To be fair Cobblergaz59 you are watching football in a ramshackle stadium already , it's just not winning or entertaining. So that lets your post down.

Trust me for someone who grew up on the hotel end this stadium is not even close to ramshackle 

Do a poll by asking 100 football fans if they would be more likely to visit a professional looking atmospheric stadium with large supporters bar and other facilities found in modern stadium than a small basic one thats inadequate.
If the results are possitive in favour of the former then thats all you need to know, take your findings ti KT and point out his over sight and demand he act apon them.
Hope that helps.

Can only speak for myself but I'd rather be watching my team playing winning entertaining football in a ramshackle old ground than playing cr@p boring losing football in a professional atmospheric ground.
What I'm trying to say is...It's not black and white and as simplistic as you try to make out..you cant shoehorn everyone into the same category

Are they taking the ****?

Yes indeed they are taking the pish.

GK Keith Welch

RB Ian Hendon
CB Keith MacPherson
CB Ray Warburton
LB Danny Jackman

RM Ricky Holmes
CM Richard Hill
CM Ian Taylor
LM Mickey Bell

ST Trevor Morley
ST Scott McGleish

Sorry Beds, this debate is proving to be a waste of time. Whilst rhetoric and opinion might fulfill its purpose for you on here, and nothing wrong with that by the way, it is just nonsense. Whether you build a stand or build a stadium it all requires finance and you haven’t come up with a single justification for it other than your opinion that it’s the right thing to do? The risk, as the list shows is that like Chester and Darlington you go out of business if you get it wrong? Despite this you continue on and on like a child in a toy shop with no thought, appreciation or care with regards to affordability. The issue I have with all this is that whatever you think of his motives, KT rescued the club from oblivion. Despite this you continually criticise the guy and use phrases like “killing the club”. Again as a supporter nothing really wrong with that, except every time you are given an honest question you haven’t even got the decency to justify your accusations against KT, continually evading giving a straight answer and continue on and on with the same delusional rehtoric like some sort of demented buffoon. The only thing you have proven is that your opinion on this subject is, in my opinion, baseless, irrelevant and childlike, sorry.

And it's taken you 1053 pages to come to that conclusion