League 2 General Chat Thread

[Luke Imp]

Bit more reading for the statto's!

Updated scatter graphics for League 2, where Bury and MK Dons have been the best overall performers (the latter are also wrecking the defensive graphic). Lincoln, Exeter and Colchester have been impressively clinical in front of goal.https://t.co/hLZBNa0M44 pic.twitter.com/KwmdVRxBPL

— Ben Mayhew (@experimental361) November 12, 2018

Different blog, but top half and bottom half links.

https://amfootball.blog/2018/11/10/assessing-the-league-two-season-so-far-part-one-top-12/

https://amfootball.blog/2018/11/12/assessing-the-league-two-season-so-far-part-two-bottom-12/

 

[Conker]

“Mansfield look the most equipped to challenge for a top 3 spot and with the wealth of talent at Mansfield’s disposal, you would expect them to improve as the season develops.”


Year of the Stag 2018/2019 confirmed.

 

[T.A]

Most pleasing result of the season today. Seems Stevenage haven't changed from their time wasting and dirty foulings from the last time we played them. Some great finishes too.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Another game lost in injury time. With the luck we are having we won't be getting into the playoffs.

 

[JJ1532]

Bump this back up, as I don't think our game with Crawley needs it's own thread. After last weeks impressive result and performance, we'll no doubt come back to earth with a 1-0 defeat or maybe we'll scrape out a 1-1 or something similarly disappointing. Just another game closer to our 15th-18th placed finish come May I have no doubt.

But, a small part of me lives in hope that we can somehow get even a little bit of consistency together in order to have this season not be a total loss. This is a good chance to do that, especially with winnable home games against Cambridge and Oldham next up.

Crawley are without Ollie Palmer as well, which is a big boost, plus they aren't in great form and are coming off an ET cup defeat in midweek. So hopefully we should be fresher in the later stages of this game. Still think we'll cup up short as we so often do following a good result. 2-1 defeat.

 

[valefan16]

Bump this back up, as I don't think our game with Crawley needs it's own thread. After last weeks impressive result and performance, we'll no doubt come back to earth with a 1-0 defeat or maybe we'll scrape out a 1-1 or something similarly disappointing. Just another game closer to our 15th-18th placed finish come May I have no doubt.

But, a small part of me lives in hope that we can somehow get even a little bit of consistency together in order to have this season not be a total loss. This is a good chance to do that, especially with winnable home games against Cambridge and Oldham next up.

Crawley are without Ollie Palmer as well, which is a big boost, plus they aren't in great form and are coming off an ET cup defeat in midweek. So hopefully we should be fresher in the later stages of this game. Still think we'll cup up short as we so often do following a good result. 2-1 defeat.

Crawley are an odd one... very inconsistent... one of the best sides we've played on the day (although we won) but seem to go from hammering someone to getting hammered like that!

 

[devilofajob]

I've predicted 2-1 to us. Could just as easily be 2-1 to Crewe.
Our inconsistency is consistent.

 

[Casey]

No Ollie Palmer means we are back to being very lightweight up front. I suppose Poleon comes in for Palmer but any long balls forward will probably come straight back.

We're playing our full backs/wing backs high up the field and not playing a defensive midfielder so any turnover ball and you are straight onto our defenders with no cover and any winger finds himself facing a centre half. Not a great match up...for us that is.

First game for a few weeks but I'm not confident. We can't keep a clean sheet (and we have an Italian as a manager!) and we won't have much threat going forward.

Casey

 

[Si Robin]

We're at home to Newport tomorrow. I don't think we've beaten them at home in my time supporting the club (so includes the mid-90s Southern League games) but we've found a bit of form and haven't conceded in 4 games now, albeit two of them were against Ebbsfleet and another was in the Checkatrade.

We should be going in with a bit of confidence though. Given the relative League positions though, I'll snatch your hand off for a draw if offered now.

 

[darren gregory]

We're at home to Newport tomorrow. I don't think we've beaten them at home in my time supporting the club (so includes the mid-90s Southern League games) but we've found a bit of form and haven't conceded in 4 games now, albeit two of them were against Ebbsfleet and another was in the Checkatrade.

We should be going in with a bit of confidence though. Given the relative League positions though, I'll snatch your hand off for a draw if offered now.

How has Barnett gone down with your support.
Had no axe to grind with him, just didn't work out at Vale, looked bone idle and his goal scoring record was atrocious.
i see he has scored 3 or 4 lately ?

 

[Si Robin]

His confidence was completely shot when he signed, but his workrate was immense from the first minute.

I think fans in general will forgive a player missing if he is clearly giving his all. He was extremely unlucky on his debut, and then missed a couple of other chances before finally getting the goal he deserved against FGR. The problem then was that he got injured scoring that goal, so took a bit of time coming back from that.

Two in two now though, with his goal against Ebbsfleet on Tuesday being an instinctive diving header. You can tell some of that old form is coming back and I think the majority of our support will want to see him sign on for the rest of the season as he and Luke Varney are striking up a bit of a partnership.

 

[ValiantRob]

Sounds good that he is getting back to his best for us in the 2nd half of the season!

 

[Blue Lion]

Silkmen v Yeovil tomorrow. Need to win it really.

 

[DippyDon]

Stevenage away tomorrow. A game that their official account seems to be calling a rivalry for some reason. It's a local game but it's in no way a rivalry.

 

[WhiteRussian]

Stevenage away tomorrow. A game that their official account seems to be calling a rivalry for some reason. It's a local game but it's in no way a rivalry.

The battle of the new towns I heard

Who comes up with this shite.

 

[GTFCfish]

Fucking hell I didn’t realise we were back in non league.

 

[Casey]

His confidence was completely shot when he signed, but his workrate was immense from the first minute.

I think fans in general will forgive a player missing if he is clearly giving his all. He was extremely unlucky on his debut, and then missed a couple of other chances before finally getting the goal he deserved against FGR. The problem then was that he got injured scoring that goal, so took a bit of time coming back from that.

Two in two now though, with his goal against Ebbsfleet on Tuesday being an instinctive diving header. You can tell some of that old form is coming back and I think the majority of our support will want to see him sign on for the rest of the season as he and Luke Varney are striking up a bit of a partnership.

The Barnett who played for Crawley a few years ago was amazing. We only had for six months and sold him for over a million. The Barnett who I've seen come back to Crawley with Bristol City and Port Vale was a waste of space.

I would like to see him get his mojo back (except against us) because he came across as a decent bloke and you don't like to see those struggle.

Casey

 

[Casey]

A few changes to the Crawley line up today. No Palmer, Morais or Connelly. Palmer and Morais we knew about. Connelly not.

Looks like a 4-3-3 with Poleon, Gambin and ANG up front....shall we say not the tallest front line ever seen but McNerney and NGala have the height for corners etc at the back.

We have finally dropped Lewis Young. Insert ballon/party emoji here.

Casey

 

[Vanni]

I'm feeling so privileged today, I'm standing next to a Barca scout. I asked him if he was here for David Forde or perhaps Liam O'neil, but I should've known better - it's Bury's No 10 he's interested in, Danny something.

 

[MrGloverLover]

5 changes to our team today. Really surprised Dickinson drops to the bench but the biggest eyebrow-raiser is French/Algerian defender Adel Gafaiti who today signed on a short-term deal.

Last seen playing for Mousehole AFC at level 12 in the pyramid but goes straight into our starting line-up.

 

[Blue Lion]

Pretty even game. We had a decent spell for a few minutes and should have scored, Yeovil have had one disallowed afterwards but I have no idea why.

 

[MrGloverLover]

Back to the usual crap.

 

[The_Boss]

Piss. This. Tinpot (Is it one word?). League.

 

[Blue Lion]

Yeovil are pretty shit. Maybe there's hope for us yet.

 

[Dan_Macclad]

Much needed. Only a run of 5 straight wins will do now!

 

[Casey]

If I were a Crewe fan watching that game today I'd be well pissed off. I'd also be wanting to shoot their number 20 who was more wasteful with chances than...well, anyone I've seen. We mugged Crewe today. No one will believe them that they were robbed but they were. The rules never change though. Don't score, don't win.

I realised that we had five starting players absent today. It showed but by riding the luck and digging in we got a result.

Very happy that Dannie Bulman scored. What our defensive midfielder was doing running into the six yard box in the 90th minute I don't know but he took the goal well and you could see how popular he is by the way he got mobbed. Not many other 40 year olds scored today.

Casey

 

[JJ1532]

Bump this back up, as I don't think our game with Crawley needs it's own thread. After last weeks impressive result and performance, we'll no doubt come back to earth with a 1-0 defeat or maybe we'll scrape out a 1-1 or something similarly disappointing. Just another game closer to our 15th-18th placed finish come May I have no doubt.

But, a small part of me lives in hope that we can somehow get even a little bit of consistency together in order to have this season not be a total loss. This is a good chance to do that, especially with winnable home games against Cambridge and Oldham next up.

Crawley are without Ollie Palmer as well, which is a big boost, plus they aren't in great form and are coming off an ET cup defeat in midweek. So hopefully we should be fresher in the later stages of this game. Still think we'll cup up short as we so often do following a good result. 2-1 defeat.

Nailed it. Everything pointed towards us winning, so naturally we fuck it up.

This team is a complete shambles when they have play from behind. Which surprise surprise for a bottom half League Two, they have to do a fair bit. You'd have thought they'd have gotten used to it by now.

Does sound like for at least 60 minutes we battered Crawley, but I don't even see how you can take that a positive. If you don't score, it means jack all. Our attack ranges from lethal to toothless and if you are inconsistent at this level, then you aint moving any higher up the pyramid. The team looks like it desperately needs some extra firepower. Shame we've got a lot of under performing players tied down long term though. One game closer to the end of the season.

 

[Captain]

Delighted with that. Expected to lose and was chuffed with what looked to be the late leveller, beautiful free kick by Kennedy at the end to nick it! Wonderful stuff, particularly in such a big rivalry match.

 

[MrGloverLover]

Yeovil are pretty shit. Maybe there's hope for us yet.

It's true we are shit but remember a couple of months ago we kept 6 clean sheets in a row and had 4-0 & 6-0 away wins. It's baffling.

 

[valefan16]

It's true we are shit but remember a couple of months ago we kept 6 clean sheets in a row and had 4-0 & 6-0 away wins. It's baffling.

Didn’t you randomly do that last season too. Get the odd hammering in. If your manager could lock in those performances you’d be in business!

Strange season this, Crewe won 6-0 and lost 6-0
Within a few weeks. We lost 6-2 then went 7 hours without conceding.

Tyrone Barnett has even started scoring goals! Whatever next! (This is where it turns out we didn’t put a clause in preventing him facing Vale in a few weeks).