National League Fixtures - 29/10/19

[DarkSithLord]

Nah, they're gone*. Aldershot will stay up cos, well, they're Aldershot, and Ebbsfleet are showing signs of life with two wins on the spin.

And we've all seen this before, in this league as well as in L1 and L2 - some fancied side starts off on the wrong foot, the BOD and the fans begin to panic, and the players play with fear. Just sometimes it's better to be a Morecambe whose only aim is to finish 22nd and if they fail to do it then everybody will say it was only to be expected after all. Just look at Notts and Chesterfield or even Stockport, though tbf, in County's case I don't think anybody thought they were a top 5 club, only that there was no danger of them getting relegated to the North.

*though I won't be putting any money on it

Got a sneaky suspicion Wrexham will stay up but it will be close

 

[Luke Imp]

Slocombe's a weird one because he didn't have a great time of it at Bristol Rovers or here (albeit playing in cup games behind a weakened defence despite making a couple of howlers) yet played a big part for Blackpool in their L2 promotion.

That said, the standard of GK's in the NL is poor compared to the FL so any bang average to poor EFL 'keeper will look half decent (see Scott Loach also).

 

[B2TF]

even Stockport, though tbf, in County's case I don't think anybody thought they were a top 5 club, only that there was no danger of them getting relegated to the North.

I knew they were in trouble. We played them at The Shay pre-season after they came down and beat them easily. They were a shambles and the players didn't care. They came with the deeply embedded attitude that they just had to turn up and I strongly suspected they would carry that on into the season. The fans struck me as having the same mindset in those days- the club had made a public "newspaper offer" of £50k for Jamie Vardy -Neil Aspin went apeshit at the lack of respect and what was a clear attempt to unsettle the player- and their forum was full of comments like "remind him he plays for Halifax, that should move things along". The way things turned out gave me my first real understanding of the word "Schadenfreude".

All friends again now though.

 

[ForzaCounty]

I'm sure it filled up a few column inches in whatever paper you read it in, but that's not even close to what happened regarding Vardy from our side.

 

[BarraMatt]

Wrexham will stay up comfortably. It won't come down to the final game like in Barnet's miracle escape last season.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Wrexham will stay up comfortably. It won't come down to the final game like in Barnet's miracle escape last season.

Don’t know how they managed it. Coming from back from the dead with only 13 games in hand was the greatest escape of all time in my opinion.