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In our last 10 games home and away, we've W6 D1 L3, collected 19 points and scored 22 goals.
So we got a hiding on Saturday. Every club gets one from time to time. The squad will no doubt go through what happened and take steps to prevent it happening again.
I think there needs to be a sense of perspective from some people on this thread. We have come on in leaps and bounds in the last 12 months, from being in free fall and absolute certainties for relegation to a decent, upper mid table side with a realistic chance of finishing in the top 7. We've also got some excellent players other than Akinfenwa such as Widdowson, Hackett and A Nicholls.
I agree that this league is poor, and there's no reason why we shouldn't do better, but surely some perspective is needed given the context of Aidy's recent work?
Admirable sentiments but not sure if you witnessed the Chesterfield,Barnet and Bristol games. As for Widdowson and Hackett at Chesterfield had you seen their performances you might well have expressed a more guarded opinion.
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Deepcut Cobbler
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Your post is misleading - I sat just two rows behind the "Sausage Thrower" too the left of the goal. It was clearly a random throw and not aimed at CC who was in the centre spot. Unfortunately the "missile" landed near Langmead but further on from him was dear old Luke who at a guess was the intended recipient. Later I learned that the thrower was ejected for Offensive Language. To cap it all the "the thrower" was in the Royal Navy and was on one of the Coaches.
There's your Senior Service for you, they don't practice grenade throwing....
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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There's your Senior Service for you, they don't practice grenade throwing.... this gets better as I understand the RN concerned is applying for a gunnery course.
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Admirable sentiments but not sure if you witnessed the Chesterfield,Barnet and Bristol games. As for Widdowson and Hackett at Chesterfield had you seen their performances you might well have expressed a more guarded opinion.
I have only been to 1 away game this season, at Burton. I have been to all bar one home game though. Quoting 3 matches from 26 where those players didn't play well is, in my view as a sign of progress. In the last 3 seasons their predecessors (Corker, Arthur, etc etc) would have had a far worse percentage than that. Remember we are in L2 so players at this level are bound to be inconsistent.
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Amidst all the chicanery and platitudes, has nobody spared a thought for those of us incensed at the mere suggestion, that a perfectly good sausage roll was sacrificed in the name of this defeat? Have the lunatics taken over the asylum? Am I the only one left reeling in shock by such a reckless course of action.
Even on this unholy alter, where truth and integrity lay sacrificed with such gay abandon. There must remain a degree of reverence for the noble sausage roll.
The fact that this heinous crime was met with nothing more than mere ejection from the arena, suggests a degree of moral turpitude, so pernicious that any attempt at moral salvation seems pointless.
...although your complaint is based on the presumption that it was a "perfectly good sausage roll" whereas it might have been an entirely unsatisfactory one, thereby rendering its tossing entirely in line with the unsatisfactory nonsense going on on the pitch...?!
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Deepcut Cobbler
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Excellent self policing. I would hope that other board members exercise similar restraint before we veer into anything libellous and/or slanderous that may attract legal action and/or embarrass the poster, player(s), management or any of the NTFC staff.
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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TbananaG
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The fact that they cost on average £30 from any football tuckshop makes it more shocking. I would have tried to jump and catch it had I been there! Could that bloke with the really long hair and straggly beard not have blessed it and used it feed the 726...?
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I know we're terrible away from home but it's not deterred me from going to Aldershot next Tuesday!
i wasnt going to to Aldershot when it was supposed to be played & iam not going on a cold Tuesday night
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Deepcut Cobbler
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i wasnt going to to Aldershot when it was supposed to be played & iam not going on a cold Tuesday night
It'll be a bit warmer than the north east...
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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It'll be a bit warmer than the north east... Watch out, you'll get Artlenock making weather and climatic comparisons again.
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I have heard ...allegedly that in the half time shenanigans that Jake Robinson stuck one on Bayo, putting him on his arse!
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I have only been to 1 away game this season, at Burton. I have been to all bar one home game though.
Quoting 3 matches from 26 where those players didn't play well is, in my view as a sign of progress.
In the last 3 seasons their predecessors (Corker, Arthur, etc etc) would have had a far worse percentage than that. Remember we are in L2 so players at this level are bound to be inconsistent.
The three named matches were only quoted as an example; you can anticipate there were others particularly at the away games! The fact is that last Saturday the three players you named had very poor games indeed;but so bad was the overall team performance that it even obscured their dismal performance. I am afraid to say that had you witnessed last Saturday you would have difficulty in arriving at your overall conclusion however well intended.
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I have heard ...allegedly that in the half time shenanigans that Jake Robinson stuck one on Bayo, putting him on his arse!
I have heard..... allegedly... that Robinson aimed said punch at Bayo , missed and landed up on his own arse. The rest of the dressing room then remarked that it was a bit like one of Jake's tackles
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TbananaG
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I have heard ...allegedly that in the half time shenanigans that Jake Robinson stuck one on Bayo, putting him on his arse!
Not sure that would be possible, within the laws of physics!
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Deepcut Cobbler
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Not sure that would be possible, within the laws of physics!
Have you not heard of Sugar 'Jake' Robinson?
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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Elad
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If it was a case of those punching whoever was playing sh*t it would have been a Royal Rumble they were all that bad. My money would be on Jake "The Snake" Robinson.
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If you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.
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TbananaG
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Have you not heard of Sugar 'Jake' Robinson? Ah yes, the "Jakemaker"
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Bingers
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I've thought of Jake as more of a lover than a fighter.
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A view from the east
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I've thought of Jake as more of a lover than a fighter.
Is there something you want to get off your chest Bingers ?
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