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Donny away. Artell has struggled against them since coming in. Well and truly beaten by the much better side in two occasions at BP with 5-1 and 3-0 shorelines. Therefore, this match presents an opportunity to show a touch of progress perhaps.

The switch to wingbacks, which came directly after said 5-1 defeat and crisis talks last season, was an exercise in shoring up and ultimately maintaining football league status. It was backs to the wall and grinding out points. We've recently switched to wingbacks again this season but the initial few matches have been much more entertaining and expansive. JDS has had excellent back to back matches, Hume looks tailor made for the role on the left and Obikwu and Rose both a with a goal a piece in each of those two matches look to be forging a good partnership.

Should be a decent following from us as always at Donny.
 

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In Walsalls current form - and despite a last minute defeat at Colchester - I think we are value at 16/5.

Will be an interesting game. Donacien should be back fit and available but suspect he will be on the bench. Grigg is 2 weeks away which is a huge boost.

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I’m more confident about this game than I would have been 3-4 weeks ago. Reckon your starting 11 will be spot on. I’m going for 2-1 Town with Dobra scoring one.
 

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I might be in the minority but that defence still frittens me to death tha knows, Sparkes aside
Shecks has been doing well this season. Grimes & Williams have improved too..although I do know what you mean. Grimes in particular does have a mistake in him & doesn’t look as comfortable as you’d like your cbs to be
 

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It's my youth team's annual trip to Whaddon Road this week against Barrow so I'll be sat with a load of screaming kids. It also means I'll be taking one of my 7 year olds to their first game (the other doesn't like football). He doesn't know yet, I don't want to get him too excited :D

As for the game - God only knows. The only thing about Cheltenham that's consistent is our inconsistency. We've been dreadful against Barrow in the Football League as well (3 games, 3 defeats). That being said, we've been decent at home in recent times, so no reason we can't nick a win.
First game for him at home to Barrow, talk about spoiling him.
 

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My score prediction for our match will come in due course.

But hold onto your hats, as for possibly only the second time this season, I am going to be predicting a CUFC win.

Your eyes are not deceiving you.
Since when did Dover get into this league?
 

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Donny away. Artell has struggled against them since coming in. Well and truly beaten by the much better side in two occasions at BP with 5-1 and 3-0 shorelines. Therefore, this match presents an opportunity to show a touch of progress perhaps.

The switch to wingbacks, which came directly after said 5-1 defeat and crisis talks last season, was an exercise in shoring up and ultimately maintaining football league status. It was backs to the wall and grinding out points. We've recently switched to wingbacks again this season but the initial few matches have been much more entertaining and expansive. JDS has had excellent back to back matches, Hume looks tailor made for the role on the left and Obikwu and Rose both a with a goal a piece in each of those two matches look to be forging a good partnership.

Should be a decent following from us as always at Donny.

Our record v Donny since 71/72 isn't great to be fair. We lost there near the end of the McMenemy Championship season and at home to them near the end of the John Newman promotion season. Even when they were totally shite when they fell off into the NL the best we managed was a couple of scrappy odd goal wins in League and Cup.

Nearly 2,700 sold according to GTFC.
 

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Chesterfield at home play like we did the other night and we will lose.
I want to see some changes to freshen us up whats the point in signing 5 players in January and not playing any of them?
We've got 3 strikers on the bench and he keeps picking Josh Gordon who couldn't score in a brothel and playing Mcentee a centre back in midfield he's turned into last seasons Matt Sadler in recent weeks.
 

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Our record v Donny since 71/72 isn't great to be fair. We lost there near the end of the McMenemy Championship season and at home to them near the end of the John Newman promotion season. Even when they were totally shite when they fell off into the NL the best we managed was a couple of scrappy odd goal wins in League and Cup.

Nearly 2,700 sold according to GTFC.
We even managed to lose to them in the cup after going 2-0 up at Belle Vue when we were Championship and they were League 2.
 

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We even managed to lose to them in the cup after going 2-0 up at Belle Vue when we were Championship and they were League 2.

Remember it well 4-3 to them, my then 10 year old's first away game, he was not happy about the taunts from Donny fans and tried to start fights outside after. He is now a police officer...

Correction it was 3-2 - we also had a man sent off it may have been Disco Des Hamilton...It was 4-3 to Donny at BP in 79. Quite a few high scoring games over the years - recently just for one team...
 
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We're a bit naff away from home. Good record against Newport, though. Not had a draw for a while so I'll go with that. 2-2.
 

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Walsall (A).

Over 1,600 tickets sold in the away end so far (me being one of them), so backed by decent numbers yet again. I’ve only been to Walsall once, and we won that one, so I’m hoping for more of the same!

Walsall hit a sticky patch recently, which shouldn’t really be too much of a surprise considering how influential Nathan Lowe was, even if their fans did try & play his departure down on here. They’re still the best side I saw earlier in the season, but Lowe was the man to get the 2 goals against us in a 2-2 draw and he did seem to have that bit of magic that was clearly the difference in many games for them. Replacing him has proven to be difficult for them, but I still expect them to turn the form round at some point & get themselves up… but maybe not as champions, which is mental considering how far ahead they were just a couple of weeks back!

As for us, expecting the squad to be exactly the same as the Donny game where we really turned it on especially 2nd half to blow them away. As I’ve said before though, this side is still a bit of an unknown given the amount of change over the last few weeks, so it’s hard to predict what we’ll do Saturday. Hopefully we can take advantage of Walsall’s mini slump & get out of there with 3 points, but I wouldn’t mind a point at all.

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My score prediction for our match will come in due course.

But hold onto your hats, as for possibly only the second time this season, I am going to be predicting a CUFC win.

Your eyes are not deceiving you.
I'm guessing that'll be Colchester United (CUFC) and Not Carlisle United (CUFC) then?
 

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Nice to be able to go into a weekend relatively stress free about football. Having said that, we got a monkey off our back in terms of a come from behind win on Tuesday, it would be nice to get another in the form of an away win which we haven't had since September.
 

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Remember it well 4-3 to them, my then 10 year old's first away game, he was not happy about the taunts from Donny fans and tried to start fights outside after. He is now a police officer...

Correction it was 3-2 - we also had a man sent off it may have been Disco Des Hamilton...It was 4-3 to Donny at BP in 79. Quite a few high scoring games over the years - recently just for one team...
We had 2 players sent off, went down to 10 men at 1-0 but then straight away made it 2-0 but then went down to 9 men and let 3 in.
 

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Walsall (A).

Over 1,600 tickets sold in the away end so far (me being one of them), so backed by decent numbers yet again. I’ve only been to Walsall once, and we won that one, so I’m hoping for more of the same!
Top following that. I'm calling that as one of (if not the) the best followings of the season in this division. Not sure what the trains/drive are/is like from Chesterfield but it's a right ballache for us from not too further afield and we seldom take four figures. Fair play.
 

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Top following that. I'm calling that as one of (if not the) the best followings of the season in this division. Not sure what the trains/drive are/is like from Chesterfield but it's a right ballache for us from not too further afield and we seldom take four figures. Fair play.
Hmm not really - it's 80 miles, so like us going to Bradford. No direct train, but easy enough - change at New Street, best followings of the season are mostly Carlisle to just about anywhere after the first few weeks of the season aren't they?
 

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Our record v Donny since 71/72 isn't great to be fair. We lost there near the end of the McMenemy Championship season and at home to them near the end of the John Newman promotion season. Even when they were totally shite when they fell off into the NL the best we managed was a couple of scrappy odd goal wins in League and Cup.

Nearly 2,700 sold according to GTFC.
I remember my last match at Belle Vue a cup game when we were at the start of our downward spiral in league 1 maybe what 20 years ago? Bedlam that night there a proper tasty atmosphere with Disco des and someone else getting sent off ; Donny won , they were maybe NL at that time and viewed very much as a non league team - they have done very well with their new ground and going better than us since that time . It's funny how things change really or for us maybe not so funny with the demise and era of dear John .
 

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Hmm not really - it's 80 miles, so like us going to Bradford. No direct train, but easy enough - change at New Street, best followings of the season are mostly Carlisle to just about anywhere after the first few weeks of the season aren't they?
I'm willing to retract the "if not the" part of that then, thought it was at least three digits in terms of miles. Still a cracking effort though. And yep good shout on Carlisle, fantastic support this season.
 

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Lindley’s Crawley side engineered a win on Wirral last season with him making a big thing about the number of penalties Rovers were getting last season. There were a couple of strong shouts for penalties, one in particular which looked like a classic handball, but none given. The referee in that game, Stephen Parkinson, in also appointed for this Saturday.

There were signs of promise, if not goals in the Fleetwood game. If Adkins makes a couple of minor tweaks we might be in with a chance. However it’s hard to see the current team managing more than a goal, so I would suggest Milton Keynes the more likely winners.
Not too sure about that, but hope so.

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Nice to have our feet up, job done watching everyone else scrap from the sidelines, oddly we could move up the table without playing if Grimsby defeat Doncaster as our GD would be above theirs then, Salford beating AFC Wimbledon and Walsall losing would keep them within range and of course Newport beating Bradford would be ideal!

Sure it will be a mixed bag though and plenty of twists and turns to come. Will still have a game in hand on most once the weekend is out, and 2 on a fair few before we play again next Saturday.
 

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Salford tomorrow will be a tough game no doubt. Up until Crewe had a player sent off on Tuesday we weren't great to be honest. Well organized, pragmatic and hard to beat sums us up. Easy on the eye we certainly aren't but I guess it's all about winning.
 

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New street from 11 tomorrow morning then onto Walsall at 2.30. Hoping for 3 points here given their recent form and our squad looking the strongest it’s looked for months.
 

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If all our players are fit we’ll win, if they’re not then Maynard will unfortunately have to use his brain and we’ll come unstuck

edit - ah this doesn’t include Tuesday, never mind then. A Notts-free weekend sounds great
 

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I remember my last match at Belle Vue a cup game when we were at the start of our downward spiral in league 1 maybe what 20 years ago? Bedlam that night there a proper tasty atmosphere with Disco des and someone else getting sent off ; Donny won , they were maybe NL at that time and viewed very much as a non league team - they have done very well with their new ground and going better than us since that time . It's funny how things change really or for us maybe not so funny with the demise and era of dear John .
It’s weird because as bad as Richardson was he ultimately did us a favour in what he did. We certainly wouldn’t be where we are now otherwise.
As for tomorrow not sure on the lineup,
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Sterry, Olowu and Anderson
Bailey, Crew
Molyneaux and Ironside for definite
Maxwell, Clifton and Ennis unsure if they are fit.
Tossup between Gibson and Street
Kelly and Sbarra for the other midfield spot
 

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2-0 win for CUFC tomorrow.

The Colchester United win had already been predicated above, so is this Cambridge at home to Exeter in the early Ko? Not a bad call that after their cup exploits midweek.

How do you think Chesham United will get on - should I be putting a bet on a CUFC treble...?
 

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It’s weird because as bad as Richardson was he ultimately did us a favour in what he did. We certainly wouldn’t be where we are now otherwise.
As for tomorrow not sure on the lineup,
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Sterry, Olowu and Anderson
Bailey, Crew
Molyneaux and Ironside for definite
Maxwell, Clifton and Ennis unsure if they are fit.
Tossup between Gibson and Street
Kelly and Sbarra for the other midfield spot

We'll see if DA sticks to the fans favourite 3-5-2 or reverts to DA plan A 4-3-3 with an 8-1 goal spread from the last 2 games with that.

2,869 of us coming apparently- back to typical level after the final Hurst game low of 2,300 on our last visit.
 

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Gillingham couldn't have a better time to play us. Our 3 1st choice centre backs are out, Demetriou, Williams and Knight-Lebel, plus Connolley. Then up top all our forwards are out (Bogle, Long, Hemmings and Lankester) then in midfield on top of that we've got Connor Thomas out, so 9 key 1st team players missing. Leaves us down to the barest of bones. I'd expect our bench will look more like an under 18s bench than a 1st team one.

If I'd have to guess, we will have to change formation and play a back, as we don't have enough, defenders to play with 3 centre backs.

Marschall

Cooney O'Riordan Billington Conway

Lowery Sanders Powell

Holicek Thibaut Tracey

That's what I'd probably do, I'd guess Bell will probably find room for Tabiner though and play an extra midfielder over Thibaut.

Either way can't see anything other than another defeat.

Gillingham 2-0 Crewe
As predicted hes starting this team tomorrow with Tabiner is starting instead of Thibaut.
 

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