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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Window 2023
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on: September 01, 2023, 06:29:52 am
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it’s true - it was unlikely . Due to the club’s fantastic relationships with both players and parent clubs it was turned around . We made provision for Bowie personally and Leonard has been given assurance he is the fulcrum of the side. Can you imagine what we could do with a bit more backing ?
Didn’t you leave the chat? How come you are back?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Cheltenham Away (26th August)
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on: August 31, 2023, 15:34:51 pm
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Fun game, people admitting they made a mistake, or get a prediction wrong...like us mortals do every single day. In fact, if any gamblers didn't we'd all be multi-millionaires and could maybe by a striker.
You've been dancing around it:
You don't sound too sure there...maybe you've changed your mind. B&S is your best best for tickling your fancy. Predicting 6 straight defeats at the end of last season and a miracle on survival this year. You can't knock him though as he'll never get splinters.
In the spirit of the post, I'll say I thought that P*sh would beat us the other week. I got that on badly wrong.
I'll stick to my 10th-14th which was after the first game so may not count. That could be wrong too BTW.
If you do need some predictions let me know because I had a successful weekend with my fiver. Good one this weekend....Man Utd winning, Fernades scoring, Rashford shot on target, Man City winning, Haaland shot on target, Cobblers winning and the final part was Salah getting a shot on target. I almost cashed my fiver out but I'd decided that if Salah didn't get shot on target I was never going to place a bet again! That paid £90, so you have to work hard for your money to get the simplest things right.
Great to see the ‘Marvelous’ one playing his favourite old tune. He nearly always calls it wrong, but his real ‘talent’ is never quite fully committing one way or the other and leaving himself sufficient room to gaslight and infuriate a significant majority. Well played John, hopefully it has brightened up your week, lad.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Window 2023
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on: July 18, 2023, 07:25:08 am
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As i have said previously , we are constantly being outbid by teams at our own level. We have lost out on players that have ended up going to clubs like Walsall and Port Vale for example . Turnbull went for double what we could offer . If Leonard was to come here , he would have to be on wages that would make him the highest paid player at the club - and a third of what he would earn overall from Brighton. Two much bigger clubs are after him but he may not start with them . It’s a worry and the reason why we are only picking up reasonable division 2 players not division 1 quality . Jacobs was ruled out ages ago as i have said before but things are always fluid .
Yeah, but you also overplay your hand and have acquired a reputation as an unreliable source.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Window 2023
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on: July 18, 2023, 07:12:47 am
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He’s just a random old fella looking for someone to interact with him. The easiest way for him to get attention is to disagree with everyone no matter the relevance. Best to rise above it.
You talking about Neverbrite or Marvo. Could equally apply to both?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Window 2023
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on: July 03, 2023, 11:34:13 am
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You like to spout your mouth don’t you? You can put your fingers in your ears and say “la la la” all you like. You post untrue crap, everyone knows you do. You make up player rumours and negativity as if you know what going on. Then the opposite happens and you look silly again.
Source of the recent Stevenage investment perhaps? Would also nice to see any evidence of a mystery queue of investors being turned away by our owners.
With your level of sensationalistic speculation you should maybe consider a career with the Daily Mail and leave the inside track to ntfclad.
😂😂😂 Queue of people calling him out there. He’s been at it for years. Likes to intimate inside type knowledge to substantiate is own (usually dubious) opinions, but gets it right less often than a stopped clock.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Bristol Rovers forum...
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on: May 22, 2023, 23:22:17 pm
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I have never had a problem with them winning the game or going up. Not their fault, they just beat what was in front of them. Just have the decency to admit that it was not entirely fair and that if roles were reversed you would not be happy with it.
One of their lads saying 3/4 of the team they beat played against us. The reality is that 3 of the team we played started against them. They’re completely in denial.
Most of football seem to now agree that what happened was much more a lack of integrity than some sort of footballing fairytale, and you only have to look at the goals in the game to see how out of their depth those lads were on the day. Men against boys. Literally.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Harrogate away 28.02.23
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on: March 04, 2023, 06:17:41 am
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Doubt anyone is still reading this thread but here's some thoughts:
1. Our poor run of form is down primarily to an inability to create chances.
One shot on target and two corners against the 21st ranked team in the table tells its own story. It's not that our forwards are missing loads of chances; the chances simply aren't there in the first place.
How can Brady improve that? Given the options available at the moment, I'd say that that it's primarily about tactics and ethos rather than changing the personnel. The stats for me say that Hoskins, Appere and Pinnock are still the best front three and until the likes of DWP and Yengi show something from the bench that it is unlikely to change. IMO Brady needs to:
1. Take the hand-break off the full backs and actively encourage them to bomb forward on the overlap and create overloads whilst allowing the wide forward to cut inside. Koiki especially and MacGowan to a lesser extent were two of our most potent attacking weapons last year but they haven't had the same attacking impact this season.
2. Encourage the central midfielders to enter the box more often and go past the forwards. McWilliams was starting to do this in games like Bradford and Gillingham away and was really causing teams problems.
3. Leonard, McWilliams and Sowerby is too defensive and not dynamic enough a trio. Hondermark is going to be very important to us going forward because he's the only box-to-box option out of the three.
4. Work out a way to use substitutions effectively. Drilling nails it in his post: the substitutions are predictable and rarely improve us. It's usually a case of desperately chucking on forwards without addressing the problem of how to create chances for those already on the pitch.
2. Bowie is the most significant loss of all the injured players
Bowie is the only striker we have had all season that wins headers and leads the line as a proper no.9. He was a huge factor in Bradford Away and his injury coincided with our poor run of form. I like Appere, but I wonder if his best position is as a wide forward, which is where he played (very effectively) against Bradford.
Getting Bowie back and playing (hopefully) could give us a big lift.
Spot on as per usual.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Crawley
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on: March 04, 2023, 06:15:04 am
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Everyone in the top 9 playing bottom half teams today, nearly all of them at home.
I’d like to see Eppiah given a start today.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Harrogate away 28.02.23
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on: March 01, 2023, 22:22:35 pm
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Some serious drama queens about on here Who the f*ck do you think we are? So much bigger than little old Harrogate. We have the absolute right to expect three points on their own patch. Some tw*t suggesting Brady should consider his position after a point away from home! Jesus! Dry your eyes FFS. This thread is an absolute embarrassment. Just a reminder, in case you haven’t been watching for the last 100 years or so. We’re a sh*tty, little League 2 club, with a slightly bigger budget than our opponents last night. Opponents who are in the same league that we have pretty much been in forever. I find Brady’s team selections absolutely infuriating at tines. I think he is negative, the balance of the team is often wrong, and he reverts to favourites whenever they are fit. His substitutions come too late and usually weaken us. His best spells have often been when injuries or suspensions have forced him to pick a more positive, forward looking side I think. But, we were robbed of the auto’s last year and we are right in the hunt again this year. Chests out, shoulders back, show some f*cling balls lads and stop throwing your toys out on here. It really was not that bad. And if you think it was you obviously have not been coming up for long or have a very short memory.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Into The Romans Den - Colchester United (a) - Saturday 25th February 2023
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on: February 25, 2023, 21:58:19 pm
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Excellent result and at this stage that's all that matters. Let's hope we can repeat the trick at Harrogate, I do feel more optimistic of getting a result away from Sixfields.
Nope! Keep selecting teams of that make up and there is absolutely f*ck all chance of the auto’s. So f*cling negative. We had a couple of good chances at the end of the second half, as they threw men forward and Eppiah’s pace troubled them on the counter. Other than that it was sit deep, and try to nick one at a set piece. We never had any control at all in the game and got battered for half hour second half, when we just kept booting it to our short, unmuscular and entirely isolated front two. Against a team that have won one home game in the last 3 months. If we hadn’t scrambled one from a corner, or they’d taken one of their several chances for an equaliser, this board would have been a sea of misery again. Play 433, as we did to get into the strong position we were once in. Play players in their proper positions. Injuries might force his hand and mean he will have to change back to a four, which might help us.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Suggested team and formation for Doncaster Home 27/08/22
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on: August 29, 2022, 08:44:11 am
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This.
Put simply, the system we're playing is wrong. Brady can complain all he wants about players not taking in instructions but players at this level need clarity and simplicity and should be played in their natural positions as much as possible. League two defenders will inevitably resort to hoofball when there isn't a safe and obvious short pass in front of them into midfield.
The BBC has us playing a confusing muddle of a 4-1-4-1 formation yesterday:
Burge
Lintott. Magloire. Guthrie. Koiki
McWilliams
Bowie. Leonard Pinnock Hoskins
Appere
There are several tactical errors here IMHO. Firstly, Bowie and Pinnock are playing out of position. Bowie is a very talented but inexperienced striker who IMO is best used at the moment as an impact sub, not a right winger. On the other hand, Pinnock was the most effective wide player in League Two last year. Why is he being wasted in the centre where his biggest threat - his crossing - is completely curtailed?
Secondly, McWilliams is the only central midfielder in that formation who offers any defensive cover. One of the big mysteries for me is why Ben Fox remains an unused substitute when we constantly are being overrun in midfield?
I've argued many times that 4-3-3 is the system which best suits this squad:
Burge
Odimayo Magloire Guthrie Koiki
McWilliams Fox/Sowerby
Leonard Hoskins Hylton Pinnock/Eppiah
In a 4-3-3 we could pick three proper central midfielders who could win tackles and make themselves available to receive short passes out from defence rather than being bypassed by hoofball. Unlike last season, we have four decent central midfielders available and we should be exploiting this for all its worth. We can then select two wide forwards who can create chances and provide a goal threat. This is the perfect position for Hoskins and Pinnock also thrived in this role at various points in the season. We also have Eppiah who was excellent as a pacy wide forward in a 4-3-3 towards the end of last season. 4-3-3 is a simple system which would see everyone playing in their correct position, unlike the 4-1-4-1 muddle we are playing now.
Once the system is settled we could then set up some genuine competition between Hylton and Appere, between the four centre mids and between the wide forwards and pick whichever one was showing the best form.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a big fan of Brady and I think he's assembled what is on paper perhaps the best squad we've ever had at this level. I just want to see him deploying the talent at his disposal in a simple, clear system which gets the best out of everyone and finally delivers that elusive promotion.
Unlike the drivel of other posters, this is absolutely spot on. Completely agree with the issues the current selection creates, and the best solution (which should be staring them in the face) is the team you have selected 👍
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Suggested team and formation for Crewe Away 20/08/22
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on: August 21, 2022, 20:08:02 pm
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Can you be more specific? Generally interested as there are a lot of points made and I wondered which ones you thought were drivel or did you think all of them?
1) You didn't think we deserved a point? 2) You didn't think we could have had all three? 3) You don't think a chain is only as strong as its weakest link? 4) You think Koiki had a good game? 5) You don't think Lintott could play at left back? 6) You don't think Brady has multiple options when all players are fit? 7) You don't think Koiki could play in midfield?
Let’s start with bringing Lintott into LB ;DFFS Which point was drivel? Were they all drivel? You need to be more specific.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Suggested team and formation for Crewe Away 20/08/22
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on: August 21, 2022, 12:29:40 pm
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Great point, fully deserved, could argue we should have had all three. Leapt up from the comfort of my sofa when that third went in, IFollow has made such a difference to being a Cobblers supporter, miss none of the action now.
The old saying, a chain is only as good as its weakest link and like previous posters have opined, that weak link is now Koiki. I'd imagine Lintott could switch perhaps when McGowan is fit though when all the squad are available Brady seems to have multiple options. Seems strange now to think we were all concerned when the rumours were around that Koiki was about to leave. I actually can still see a very good player in there but as an attacking midfielder where his lapses wouldn't be so damaging than when playing as a full back.
Absolute drivel
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: James Alger
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on: August 16, 2022, 13:31:23 pm
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Very, very sad news. Whatever the circumstances James will be feeling shocked and empty. I lost my wife last month and so share his pain.
A desperately sad situation and there are no words really, but deepest sympathies to you and to James.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer window
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on: August 16, 2022, 13:28:04 pm
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Don’t know about anyone else but I think we should be looking elsewhere!!
Nope! If we can get him in we should definitely do it. He’s affected the game almost whenever he has played.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Cheltnum away, final PSF 23/07/22
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on: July 29, 2022, 10:04:50 am
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Of all the comments made by fans I always think this is the most ridiculous. Hatred?
When Hoskins is selected ahead of another player does Jon Brady "Hate" that other player? Does Southgate "Hate" Ramsdale if he picks Pickford? Did Alf Ramsay "Hate" Jimmy Greaves when he selected Geoff Hurst in the World Cup final? Of course not. They just preferred one player to another in one system or another. It was their choice; they didn't hate anybody, and nobody was stupid enough to suggest they did.
People have different opinions on what Hoskins brings to the team and I understand both sides of the argument. Hoskins is hard working, versatile and does chip in with the odd goal now and again. His versatility is what has kept him at the club all these years under several managers. He's useful cover.
However, let's not kid ourselves. The only reason any player remains at the same club at our level for such a long stretch of time is because they have never been quite good enough to go anywhere higher. Ian Sampson is the perfect example. A club legend without doubt making 449 appearances but does anybody doubt for one second that if he had been good enough for a move to a bigger club in a higher league, he wouldn't have taken it? Of course, he would.
Hoskins versatility is his major plus point but also his downfall. He can play as a striker, a winger, a full back, a midfielder. The only problem is he is average at best in all of them. Does anybody know his actual position?
I understand completely where Manwork, Irchy cob and southofthecounty are coming from. I've no idea how many players have been signed since Hoskins first arrived, it's got to be 50 or 60, maybe more than that but he still maintains a starting place. It's like we've never got better, preferring to stand still. We've replaced all the other parts of the team accept this one. All those players signed, all that money spent yet here we are still back in square one.
Everbrite may be right. Hoskins could yet be our top scorer again next season, especially if he keeps hold of the penalty taking duties. But that won't be a good thing for it means we are destined for more of the same. A top scorer that has scored 35 league goals over the last 5 seasons just isn't going to cut it.
I like Hoskins, he is a useful member of the squad but he should not be a regular starter and no, that doesn't mean I "Hate" him, it means I think we could and by now should have got better.
Sounds like someone is desperate not to be wrong, having taken a stance on Hoskins some time ago. Either that, or you just hate him.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer 2021 Transfer Window
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on: August 03, 2021, 15:34:34 pm
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Feel a little bit sorry for Brady, from what I’m hearing it’s one of the lowest budgets we’ve had in this division for some time. Still looking forward to the first game.
UTC.
Where did you hear that? A reliable source? I think the general discourse on here tells you that we are all pretty unsure about this team. Lots of unproven players, lot of talk of potential, a bit of pre-season optimism.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer 2021 Transfer Window
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on: August 03, 2021, 15:23:32 pm
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In fairness to Boot and shoe this is a transfer rumours thread and he has supplied rumours and also some correct information. If we stop everyone from giving information, right or wrong, there will be no point having a forum at all. Keep going B&S, ntfclad, even Shoemaker No problems with rumours or pure speculation. They are welcome. Fair play to NTFC Lad, a genuinely reliable source. Shoey is just doing his thing, but never pretends to be informed / something he isn’t. But this other dude? And he called me a warrior when all I’ve done is try to help him. If you had a bogey hanging from your nose, would you rather somebody told you so that you gained some self awareness and knew what everyone else sees, or would you rather they said nothing and left it hanging there making you look silly?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer 2021 Transfer Window
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on: August 02, 2021, 17:56:35 pm
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could be onto something there kid 😊
Come on dude. It’s obvious you have NO inside info, but you keep trying to pass yourself off as though you do. Why though?? Even when some element of one of your vague, half baked ‘guesses’ comes through, the only credit you get is posted by you. Nobody cares, nobody is impressed. It’s sad to watch. Give it up mate. Please.
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