It's All Gone Quiet Over Here....

[DL2]

and of course there are those who stay calm and collecTED under real pressure.By the way, those from the latter group really p*ss me off.

Buttttttt .....  I thought you loved me 

[Marvo]

Linda, you're not really trying to claim your one of those that stay "calm and collected" under real pressure are you?

Think carefully before you answer and remember, I was sitting next to you at Hull!

[DL2]

       I can dream       

Can I limit it to calm and collected in my unwaivering support for Sammo

and Yes I do remember Hull 

[nathan r]

I can't tell you how disappointed that makes me feel.

Read the original post.  i'm happy to avoid relegation taking into account out current position. i don't like to position our club is in but until people buy into the fact that it's not just down to the manager then i'm happy to support the team and our short term aim of pulling away from the bottom of the division.

[Marvo]

Read the original post.  i'm happy to avoid relegation taking into account out current position. i don't like to position our club is in but until people buy into the fact that it's not just down to the manager then i'm happy to support the team and our short term aim of pulling away from the bottom of the division.

I read the original post. Anybody who thinks avoiding relegation is acceptable or is even "happy" with that situation wants his/her head testing. We began the season looking for promotion with the play-offs the very least we could expect, so to be happy with 22nd is quite frankly laughable. You'll find in life that if you're willing to accept mediocity then that's what you'll end up with!

As for "it's not just down to the manager", well of course it's not, it seldom is. However it is he that has to accept responsibility, that's just the way it is, he's the manager. Sammo was taking the flak when we went on our six match losing streak, now he can take the plaudits as we (hopefully) extend our 3 match winning run. That is only right!

I hate the way all this is made personal. Those of us worried by our plight had every right to be, we don't want to see us in the conference and if that terrible run had continued then Sammo would have had to go. That doesn't mean we don't like Sammo or disrespect him, it just means we want the best for our club. Thankfully most of us aren't "happy" just to avoid relegation.

[pattcobb]

I'm not interested in those trying to rationalise their lack of support for a club legend...

As far as I'm concerned their is no justice for not getting behind Sammo. No team is immune from relegation, especially those like us who whilst having reasonable budgets have very little room for change.

IMO we might not have turned the corner entirely. But I will always be proud of those that kept their nerve and realised that there are more answers to the questions raised, than merely sacking the manager.

Well done once again to the faithful....

You say that no team is immune to relegation, but believe you me that is a trap door that we seriously do not want to drop down. There would be very little chance of coming back.

[Ted]

I couldn't agree more. My point is more along the lines of patience.

This site is full of reactionary types. Both in my work and in my life I refuse to overreact to a threat until it is inevitable that there is no escaping from it.

Due to a continued lack of support off the field I earnestly believe that the dilemmas we face at the moment are just the start of a very turbulent period. All of which I predicted from the start of the Cardozas involvement.

I prefer to keep my powder dry. As I believe "we ain't seen nothing yet". If I was you I'd get used to watching the Cobblers deteriorate.. 

Agree entirely !  Without doubt the club has the direction of endeavouring to stand still.We all know which way that takes you.

[Ted]

Buttttttt .....  I thought you loved me 

But I do.

In the same way I've loved and been pissed off by the Cobblers for half a century.

[Dr Feelgood]

Hang On.
FACT - we had six defeats on the spin. FACT - we dropped in to the bottom two FACT - many clubs have sacked managers because of a run like that.
FACT - Sammo was at fault by persisting with the tappy tappy football approach that anybody with a limited knowledge of Division Four football will tell you, just does not work.
However you can also say that Sammo generated funds with the mind blowing cup run, has steered us clear of the relegation zone so far, and has us in the 2nd Round of the cup.
My main worry with Sammo  is his slow reactions/terrible form in the summer transfer market. We may well pick up this season, finish mid-table or even push for the play-offs. But then we enter the summer again with players out of contract and we have to rebuild again. To me he was unable to attract the players we needed particularly after giving out of contract players deadlines which they couldn't work with, not signing a replacement and in one case even going back on his own deadline and resigning a player!

FACT- You have used the word FACT alot...

[nathan r]

I couldn't agree more. My point is more along the lines of patience.

This site is full of reactionary types. Both in my work and in my life I refuse to overreact to a threat until it is inevitable that there is no escaping from it.

Due to a continued lack of support off the field I earnestly believe that the dilemmas we face at the moment are just the start of a very turbulent period. All of which I predicted from the start of the Cardozas involvement.

I prefer to keep my powder dry. As I believe "we ain't seen nothing yet". If I was you I'd get used to watching the Cobblers deteriorate.. 

couldn't agree more.  And Marvo this is why i'd be happy to avoid relegation.

[Ted]

couldn't agree more.  And Marvo this is why i'd be happy to avoid relegation.

There is an enormous difference between settling for avoiding relegation and happy to avoid relegation.With the run of six successive defeats. I was ready to settle for avoiding relegation.However, I would never admit to being happy about it.I abhor mediocrity, it's why I splashed out on a
Dualit toaster.If you are happy with crap, crap is was you'll get, and anything less than a playoff spot come April is crap.

[brickowski]

So apart from meaningless cliches ('endevoring to stand still'...'the dilemmas we face at the moment') can anyone suggest something the chairman should actually do?? Come on lets have it - 5 things DC can do to improve NTFC. go...

[Ted]

So apart from meaningless cliches ('endevoring to stand still'...'the dilemmas we face at the moment') can anyone suggest something the chairman should actually do?? Come on lets have it - 5 things DC can do to improve NTFC. go...

As soon as the Chairman and/or his father came to the conclusion that they would no longer fund the club's drive forward, the club should have been put on the market inviting potential parties to take the opportunity of  running a professional football club .Without doubt those at the helm have taken the club as far as they can or are willing, and it's only fair to the supporters to come clean instead of perpetually spinning a yarn in order to decieve.

[brickowski]

what yarn are they spinning??? more empty cliches...

[Ted]

what yarn are they spinning??? more empty cliches...

This club is going nowhere with the Cardozas.In fact the only alternative to losing our football league status is for the club to be a bottom division vegetable.The lack of ambition may well satisfy some simple folk that support the Cobblers, but it doesn't satisfy me.

[barnabas]

5 things DC can do to improve NTFC. go...

Thats one.

[brickowski]

Calling in his loans and instantly bankrupting the club presumably??

[Marvo]

Can anyone else here distant rumblings?

[clarkeysntfc]

They aren't loans, they're shares I believe.