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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Tranmere Rovers (a) - Monday 8th May 2023 - 1230hrs KO
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on: May 09, 2023, 14:33:38 pm
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I have to say, I don't really get Bristol's fixation on us. What happened last year was wrong. It wasn't Bristol's fault, they just did what they needed to do, but Scuñthorpe were in the wrong and damaged the integrity of the competition.
I had no end of friends who support other clubs who were pretty much outraged by what happened. I also meet quite a few new people via work and in the past 12 months when football has come up in general chit-chat and I've mentioned I support the Cobblers, a good number of them's immediate response has been to say how disgusting what happened last year was.
See also a lot of the comments made by fans of other clubs on social media yesterday, acknowledging how we deserve it after last year.
If football fans in general can see it, I struggle to see how Bristol can't bring themselves to acknowledge that Scuñthorpe's team selection was out of order and instead go on about us whinging and "bottling it" (although quite how a 3-1 away win against a decent side is bottling it is anyone’s guess)
Still, fùck em. We're up now and Tranmere and Hartlepool both showed how it should be done.
They're probably a little upset that they didn't get the respect they feel they deserved for the promotion. If you look at the comments from other teams' fans it seems pretty clear that the popular opinion is the Cobblers should have gone up last year. But clearly they've gone up and stayed up reasonably comfortably which to me says they're probably in the right division anyway.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Ticket And Tannoy Issues
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on: July 30, 2022, 17:51:12 pm
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Fair play to the club though for opening up the exit gates close to kickoff when the ticket scanning stopped working. Good quick thinking which might have prevented a bit of a crush. Was it just the middle of the west that was affected or the whole ground?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: 2022/23 Season Opener H v Colchester United 30.07.22
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on: July 30, 2022, 17:48:14 pm
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I thought Col U were pretty awful up until their subs and much more lively after - I think their boss held a few back with the aim to finish stronger. This five sub lark is going to need to find its way into the game management as they nearly stole a march on us with the timing of theirs. Although ours didn’t end up too badly...
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Mansfield (h) PO 2nd leg 18th May
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on: May 29, 2022, 08:31:22 am
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There were 51000 there so that wouldn't fill Wembley and anyhow who cares if Wembley is sold out?
Personally I’d much prefer the atmosphere in a full 40,000 stadium than a half-full 80,000 one. I get that it’s great for small clubs to get to Wembley but it doesn’t seem to have the mystique it used to have.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Mansfield (h) PO 2nd leg 18th May
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on: May 28, 2022, 22:52:10 pm
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Gate = 37,303.
No evidence of potential (sustainability) above League 1 there.
Poor decision to have the L2 playoff at Wembley and move the Rugby League final, which would have sold out Wembley, to Tottenham. It does beg the question that maybe this game would have been better off at the likes of Villa Park. Would the fans care? I wouldn’t if we’d got there and have to go to a Premier League ground.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer window
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on: May 19, 2022, 13:59:53 pm
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The other option is for the club to actually play more football, play the ball through the lines instead of hoofball. Appere has the ability to do this if we actually play it to his feet.
Ideally you would have both. I look at all the times in recent years that we have been promoted, we've always had the big guy who can win headers. Gayle, Howard, Lee, Rico, Oliver if memory serves me correct. If you look at all the teams that have gone up I would bet there's a similar pattern. I don't think a L2 club can go up without them.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Exeter @home 30/4/22
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on: May 01, 2022, 08:40:59 am
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Not great tactics from Brady in the 2nd half. We needed a win and he makes no subs (other than the forced one in the first half).
But the referee was a joke. You cannot disallow a goal (he blew up after the ball was in the back of the net and we were offf celebrating) and then allow for a quick free kick. Half of our team we’re celebrating or confused, and Exeter were off on the attack before they’d realised what a **** up the ref had done.
The standard of the officiating is atrocious. We have ourself to blame for not putting the game to bed, however that refereeing decision today and the fake-goal for FGR the other month and we’d have been 4 points better off
I don't think there's anything in the rules to say that shouldn't happen. If the ball was moving when the free kick as taken, as some has said, then fair enough, it should be re-taken. But a quick free kick is allowed - and enough time had elapsed from that point for us to get back into position so I don't think that was a massive factor. Can't find any counter-argument about the Forest Green 'goal', however...
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The are we going up Thread!
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on: April 27, 2022, 15:12:28 pm
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Exeter v Port Vale and Mansfield v Forest Green meet on the last day, it will be interesting if Exeter and Forest Green are still battling to be Champions and Mansfield and Port Vale are still in with a shout for automatics.
I would be perfectly happy with the less interesting scenario of Forest Green being three points ahead with a vastly superior goal difference.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Toney
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on: May 01, 2021, 13:14:26 pm
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One plus point (I know some would consider there aren't many) about KT's tenure is at least we managed to get a million for Charlie Goode.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Wilder to Sheff U ?
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on: March 12, 2021, 10:16:45 am
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We could have him back. Just need to overcome the slight issue of massive pay cut and fix the problem of why the hell he would want to. It’s not too much of a stumbling block that couldn’t be fixed by a stealth abduction and brilliant piece of hypnosis.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: New Manager
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on: February 12, 2021, 08:46:39 am
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Not suggesting that at all Evers. I think they do have someone in mind and to reiterate and agree, they would most definitely need to keep it confidential. Just commenting that in the unlikely scenario that they don’t, then that would be more than disappointing given our recent history with managers? Sorry if I didn’t make that clear in the original post.
I agree. Kelvin & team have a very good history of keeping things quiet. I don't think we will get a great deal of info about who is taking over until it is done.
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