Relegation thread

[Optipez]

Well, the team's no better, but the club is being taken over which should lift the gloom and the new owner has said we're going to strengthen in January if the sale goes through and the embargo gets lifted in time.
Donny and Carlisle next two matches on the back of six straight league defeats. Every chance of starting 2017 in the bottom two.
At least we have the hope of better times ahead ,Meadow Lane has been a dreadful place to be pretty much the whole calendar year. Somehow we need to get an unexpected home win to ease the pressure on Sheridan if only to make him believe in himself again , he's not sounding like he has the answers in interviews tbh and we're no strangers to a managerial sacking or two.

 

[E10rifle]

I hate to try and predict any teams for relegation -- But I don't think you will have to look much further than Newport & Morecombe.

Think you need a geography lesson, mate - Leyton is actually quite a long way from both Newport and Morecambe.

 

[Habbinalan]

I hate to try and predict any teams for relegation -- But I don't think you will have to look much further than Newport & Morecombe.

A lot depends on what's going on behind the scenes but I'm sure that Morecambe have more than enough in the locker to give Cheltenham, Newport, Pools and Notts County a fright.

As for Morecombe........

http://www.morecombefarm.co.uk/

 

[Chief Rocka]

If two teams can be worse than us for the rest of the season it'd be appreciated...again.

 

[Stanleyfan]

We've now scored 2 in 9 league games - think we'll be hanging around here for a while now. Crewe away and Hartlepool at home next up for us

 

[The Terminator]

We've now scored 2 in 9 league games - think we'll be hanging around here for a while now. Crewe away and Hartlepool at home next up for us

I have to say, I'm shocked at your teams fall down the table. At times last season, you were such a good team to watch - And at times this season as well - Your win over Burnley in the League Cup and you pushed West Ham hard in the next round - A game I truly wanted you to do well in and win!!

I do appreciate that John Coleman has had to build yet another team for the second year in a row after you lost around 12 players in the summer, after many of the players he brought in on 1 year deals last season did so well and got nicked by the bigger boys in the summer.

It just seems to have collapsed at the wrong time, do you think it is the players this season - Have they not been good enough? The likes of Omar Beckles at centre half, Patrick Lacey/John O'Sullivan on the wing - Not as skillful or direct as Piero Mingoia or Tariq Fosu?

When you played us the other week, your team still passed it around well and had an identity about them, even at 10v11, so I find it hard to understand whats gone wrong.

Is Colemans position under threat? But I ask, who could truly do any better?

 

[Stanleyfan]

I don't believe Coleman's position is under threat and I think he'll be backed by the owner in the January window to make some changes. Some people on the supporters coach were suggesting changing manager but, as you say, who would do any better at a club with less than 800 season ticket holders? We had near misses with the relegation trapdoor with Richardson and Beattie in charge.

So often this season we've played very well and been complemented on our style of play particularly in the cup competitions but since October we have been reluctant to shoot and seem very short of confidence up front. Players like Kee are really out of form. Losing players like Windass etc was a blow but we've been used to good players leaving and then building another side - its what Coleman has always done very well.

Our fans still do believe we have a good side and they have been very patient so far. However with last season expectation levels have risen amongst our fan base and merely staying in the league is no longer seen as an achievement as it has been in the past.

 

[GTFCfish]

I have to say, I'm shocked at your teams fall down the table. At times last season, you were such a good team to watch - And at times this season as well.

Against us on Boxing Day I couldn't believe how good they passed the ball for a team near the botton, but they just couldn't score.
Daylight robbery that we somehow won 2 - 0 as Accrington were by far the better team on the day.

 

[SVH]

Accrington are a very good footballing team and would be crazy to get rid of Coleman.

When Derry was under pressure I said I wanted Coleman. Plays good football and has an eye for a player. I've heard a lot of clubs are in for Kee in Jan so it could be a reason his form has dipped and Stanley are dropping down the table.

 

[AdamStag]

Morecambe were pretty poor on Boxing Day, it's easy to see why they are touted for relegation with the off field problems.

Fortunately for them they came across as utterly useless Mansfield side - I'd say we're in danger of getting sucked in if we carry on. With the money promised in January and evans at the helm it shouldn't even be an issue, but as a club we've mastered the art of being shit - even when we're not supposed to be!

You have to wonder if losing to Plymouth like that in the cup knocked the stuffing out of Newport - a trip to Liverpool would have been worth its weight in gold and would have been a great get of our jail free card.

It's hard to choose another side - Accrington supposedly have money, county should be Upto something in January with a new owner (and they play is which will mean 3 points). I wonder what the supposed promotion chasing Cheltenham will do?

There's always that side that falls from nowhere after the new year, which side will it be....

 

[Sestonpoolie]

I don't think I care anymore

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

2 wins in 18 for us if we don't win any of our next three we'll be one of the two sides to go down I guarantee it.

 

[shoddycollins]

Discussion for this weekend... Accrington

I haven't heard many people who have seen them saying they've played badly, and Experimental 3-6-1's type of analysis still ranks them as the second best team in the entire division... better than the current top three. So why aren't they winning games? To be out of the relegation zone on goal difference only despite being broadly praised for the quality of your performances takes some doing.

 

[Gladders]

Because they can't score, no good winning the midfield battle if you do nothing in the final third.

 

[AdamStag]

Nice for us to move a point further from Cheltenham anyway.

 

[shoddycollins]

Because they can't score, no good winning the midfield battle if you do nothing in the final third.

Is that because their strikers are crap then?

The gist of how e361 stats are worked out is that based on the chances they create every game, if the people taking the shots were of average quality, they'd be one of the best teams in the division.

 

[shoddycollins]

Nice for us to move a point further from Cheltenham anyway.

Anyone who finishes ahead of Cheltenham will be league champions

 

[AdamStag]

Anyone who finishes ahead of Cheltenham will be league champions

If you turn the table upside down they're giving it a good go

 

[Sestonpoolie]

2 wins in 18 for us if we don't win any of our next three we'll be one of the two sides to go down I guarantee it.

Good grief,that's bad

 

[Trapdoor]

Newport look dead and buried already.

 

[Crewelad87]

We are well and truly in this. Bar maybe Newport we are probably the next worst.

 

[mowgli]

Newport look dead and buried already.

Hopefully we'll dig them a bigger hole on Monday at Adams Park.

 

[jacobncfc]

Newport look dead and buried already.

They comfortably beat us 3-0 at ML a few weeks back. We are bad.

 

[Vanni]

Newport look dead and buried already.

Still a long way to go of course, but appointing Westley hasn't turned out as well as they had hoped. Still not too sure they'll go down though as there are quite a few other poor sides down there who need to add some real quality to their sides in January. I'm thinking it will be two out of Cheltenham, Notts, Crewe, Newport and Morecambe.

I'd be more worried if I were a Notts or a Crewe fan than a Morecambe one though, as these two clubs aren't exactly experienced in L2 relegation dogfights.

 

[E10rifle]

People still not mentioning us? Odd. Simpson has handed in a transfer request...

 

[shoddycollins]

People still not mentioning us? Odd. Simpson has handed in a transfer request...

Notts County have taken your place as League Two's favourite free-falling basket-case historic club, you're going to have to pull out something new if you're to reclaim your crown.

 

[SVH]

After seeing Orient today they need to do some excellent business in Jan to not be amongst the bottom two.

 

[WAP]

People still not mentioning us? Odd. Simpson has handed in a transfer request...

Not exactly banging them in this season though.

 

[E10rifle]

Not exactly banging them in this season though.

There are reasons for that. We're not exactly giving him the ball for a start. That and the chairman freezing him out of the team, trying to force him out of the club and then binning off our only good attacking midfielder when Sarfend wouldn't stump up the fee for Simpson. He's an excellent - but unhappy - player. Probably off to Luton.

 

[GTFCfish]

Of the teams mentioned on this thread as being shit we have already lost at home to 4 of them, Cheltenham, Leyton Orient, Hartlepool and Crewe.
And yet we're somehow top half, this league is seriously fucked up!