Can you change Ipswich with The Cobblers to YES please Marvo.

Plenty of good Suffolk country pubs. Adnams Broadside will set you up nicely for the match.

So will a pint of Woodfordes Wherry or St Edmunds Ale.

A14 around Cambridge after 17:00 til 18:30 is a nightmare on most evenings.

Normally if you leave early enough to avoid that you should ok.

do you mean relegation zone?

I don't think that was Cardoza's target either.

Why does he give them contracts of 3 years?

The last three have failed to get anywhere near his targets for the season.  In fact his target in 2008/2009 was to reach the playoffs, Gray couldn't have been any further off target with that one!!!!  And STILL he got the chance to build a side to "challenge for automatic promotion" from League 2 last year........  Whoops.

This season's target certainly wasn't phaffing about in the bottom half of the table.

Does Bingers Tongue getting a mention in the POTS mean that even Balding had a bad game this week?

I enjoy going Towcester.

If the weather in Northamptonshire today is anything like it is in Suffolk, then it should be a nice day up there.

A much changed and youthful Bury Town lineup were knocked out of the Ryman League Cup 3-1 by Wingate and Finchley on Tuesday.

Yesterday a much changed and familiar looking Bury Town line up lost 3-1 at home to AFC Hornchurch.

[IT'S ABOUT WANTING ANSWERS ABOUT WHERE THIS FOOTBALL CLUB IS GOING!!!!!]

I don't doubt for one minute that people work extremely hard for the Trust, fair bloody play to them but.........

THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE BLOODY TRUST, WHAT THEY DO, WHO DOES WHAT AND HOW THEY DO IT!!!!!!

IT'S ABOUT WANTING ANSWERS ABOUT WHERE THIS FOOTBALL CLUB IS GOING!!!!!

The questions are on this board......

Do you know what, just bloody forget it.......  I really don't care anymore.

Steve....

What the hell kind of answer is that? Every time someone poses any question to or about the Trust, that is the bog standard answer we get every time!!!!

This was about the Football Club and the direction it's going in, not how the Trust raises money!!!! I have no control over our current manager, what players come in, what the playing budget is, who the next manager is etc.  I don't run this Football Club and I just about earn enough money through two jobs to keep myself going let alone be the "saviour of Northampton Town FC"

I'm seriously concerned over where this football club is going.  I'm seriously concerned that this football club is going to lose it's Football League Status.  The fans have so many questions, yet the message coming out of this NTFC is that everything in the garden of Sixfields is full of roses and that we're heading in the right direction.  The fans CLEARLY DO NOT THINK SO!!!!!  Through the Trust the "fans have a representation on the board." So surely it's up to the those who REPRESENT those fans on the board of directors to put the concerns and questions the fans have across and to get some bloody answers!!!!!

Our League position does not lie, our current form and indeed that over the last TWO YEARS does not lie.  Yet, just like when we rolled over and had our bellies tickled in League 1, the Club seem to think we are too good to go down.  We're weren't than, we're not now!!!!

But do you know what, if that's the answer I'm going to get to my questions, if the Club and Trust think the right direction is and are happy to continue falling down and out of the Football League then f*** it, I'll go and join the Ostriches.

Or whoever is the FANS REPRESENTATIVE on the board…….

The Club is in severe danger of losing its place in the football league and on here and I would imagine between fans that don’t post on here there are a lot of worried fans with a lot of questions.  Yet the group that are supposed to represent us are once again quiet. Please can you climb out of Cardoza’s pocket and ask/answer some bloody questions………

I have a couple…..

Firstly, Does David Cardoza seriously believes that on the field this Football Club is going in the right direction?  Does he seriously believe we are playing the best football he’s ever seen?  Because 4 wins in 24 games or 28 wins in 93 games ISN’T actually going in the right direction.  Losing three of the last four games to teams you EXPECT to be in and around the relegation scrap and who you EXCPECT Northampton Town to beat ISN’T going in the right direction.  Losing 4-3 to the worst Club in the league having been 3-0 up ISN’T going in the right direction.

I’ll admit now, either for work reasons or “I have better things to do with my money” reasons (and until the embarrassing relegation from League 1 I never “had better things to do with my money”) I’ve only been to two games this season, but from what my friends say and, with the exception of NTFC Nut and a couple of others that are either easily pleased or have Claret tinted glasses, what I’m reading on here, we’re not actually playing great football.  The exception being against Bradford and 70 mins against Chesterfield.

Secondly, off the field there are so many stories of where we are financially.  Are we now financially sound? Are we £7million quid in debt to David Cardoza?  Will there money to spend on players in January?  Are “established” players turning us down meaning we have to go for inexperienced players?

Northampton Town Football Club is in a complete mess and the current board seem to be trying to paper over the very large cracks that are appearing using a Carling Cup run which has seen us actually only win 1 game out of the 3.  The rest of it they appear to be burying their heads in the sand.

You can tell we’re in the s*** when "Black Army" misses a couple of away games due to having something else to do, when "Marvo" decides travelling down the road to Oxford on his day off isn’t something he wants to do and mainly when we haven’t got Glen “Saturday Banana” Cousner, Mark “Positive” Kennedy and Linda “DL” Smith posting on here.  Because all last season and all summer they believed that we were going to be ok, they believed Sammo was the right man for the job and they believed we would do well this season and anybody that disagreed were heathens.  They appear to have stopped believing.  THINGS ARE THAT BAD THAT THERE'S A THREAD CALLING FOR THE RETURN OF IAN ATKINS FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!

The Trust are the “Fans Representatives on the Board” I and many many others don’t care about Car Boot Sales and whatever else, we’re care about where our Football Club is going.  And at this moment in time, it’s in severe danger of losing it’s proud place in the Football League and facing trips to the likes of Forest bloody Green. 

Fans are questioning the management not only of the team but at board level of this Football Club, it's time someone answered them.

No thanks.  Been out of the game for too long and after a few glorious years in the late 90's with us, everyone sussed out his tactics.

And there's off the field reasons aswell....

If I had £100m quid I wouldn't touch any football club, let alone Northampton Town.

Is addition covered next term then? 

I think Balding should have 7 points? 

Since we drew 0-0 at Leicester toward the end of October 2008, we've won 28 from 93 league games.  28 wins in two years is a hell of a blip.

But I can't work out just whose to blame.....

Stuart Gray originally shouldered it after we pitfully rolled over and suffered relegation, although according to some on here we were too good to go down and we were playing good football and we should give Gray time. Cardoza agreed with that, gave him the summer to build a team and then 6 games into last season fired him.

So onto Ian Sampson.  Now although he's been part of the management team for those 93 games, we can't blame him because, according to some in the infamous "New Broom" thread when Gray left, he had no input whatsoever into team affairs and could shoulder no blame for our relegation and we can't blame him now because he's still learning, we're playing good football and most of all he's a club legend. Originally he was manager to the end of last season and we'll see what happens but we had a decent run in the first three months of this year (our only decent run in the last 2 years) during which Cardoza decided to give him a 3 year contract!!!!!

And we can't blame Cardoza because under his stewardship we've gone from the club being saved to breaking our transfer record twice and having a great future in a big stadium to having no money and, despite "going in the right direction", we are worringly looking over our shoulder at the Blue Square Prem trap door!!!

I think I'm going to side with Ian Atkins and just blame Charlie Bishop.

Something needs to happen and fast because if things don't start to turn round soon, we're going to find ourselves in a relegation scrap.  And when you've gone on a run of 3 defeats in a row to teams like Macc, Cheltenham and Hereford, I think we should be very worried.

we're just going through a bit of a blip in the league.

4 wins in 23 league games isn't what I'd call a bit of a blip!!!!

I know we were 3 up at half time, didn't bother checking the result as I just assumed we'd won.  I mean, Hereford are s***, they're hardly going to come back from 3-0 down are they

I agree it would be interesting to carry out a similar analysis of Atkin's reign? Or should I just get a more interesting life St. Ed?

Well you've started the job now, you might as well finish it properly

Here are some other stats for you:

Number of games played since NTFC led at half time and went on to eventually win the game = 22 (20/3/10 - Morecambe at home)

Percentage number of home games won by Sammo after winning at H/T - 66% (4 from 6)
Percentage number of home games won by Gray after winning at H/T - 90.90% (20/22)

Percentage number of total games won by Sammo after winning at H/T = 61.5% (8/13)
Percentage number of total games won by Gray after winning at H/T = 71.1% (27/38)

Number of defeats after winning at Half Time - Sammo 3 times in 51 games
Number of defeats after winning at Half Time - Gray 3 times in 118 games

were you a dull person in a previous life?