w / e Saturday 25th January 2025

[クレイグ]

Great strike, lad. MK Dons back in it.

 

[Scum.]

Half of their team either played for Crawley, who finished seventh, or Notts, who finished fourteenth, last season. They’re clearly underperforming but I think that it’s just because they’ve spent lots of money on them rather than who is actually there that has people expecting big things of them (I was probably taken in by it in the summer tbf).

They also lost Dean, Bate and Payne at the end of last season, all really good players and better than anyone they’ve brought in to replace them.

Fair post. As RavenBish mentioned, it does stink of lazy recruiting of ex mates and players who appear good in statistical terms / had one good season recently vs really well thought through acquisitions. Similarly, not sure what we do when they get here as we seem to have an endless amount of players who are/were shit for us but great everywhere else. The whole thing is a bit bizarre. Aspirations of the Premier League with these new billionaire owners and heading as far backwards as we’ve ever been.

 

[Scum.]

Great strike, lad. MK Dons back in it.

Our new lad Tommi O’Reilly on loan from Aston Villa 2 minutes into his debut…not bad. Our other new lad Jay Williams with the assist…

I take it back, outstanding recruitment by Liam Sweeting.

 

[GTFCfish]

Fleetwood Town - The people’s champions.

 

[RavenBish]

What if the richest club in the world only had DVDs of Notts County’s 23/24 season to go off

 

[SuperHans]

Tough game at Chesterfield. I think they've got a pretty decent squad, albeit hampered by injuries. I still think they'll be strong at home. 7 points from 9 for us, so hopefully we've got past our absolute stinkers.

Garrity is such a huge player and influence for us. In the top 5 best players in the division for me...he's incessant and often outruns the opposition. One of our greatest buys of recent years. Harper also showed he's a good player in the second half yesterday. Byers likely on the bench I think.

Tolaj has found his ideal position and will cause problems with his movement. The two wingbacks were excellent and give us balance and threat.

It's likely to be a classic Moore away performance. If we go 1 up, expect us to sit in, let Chesterfield have all the ball and we just shut them down. Our issue comes when we go a goal down.

I'd take a draw and target a win at Colchester.

Feels like we need a win in this.

We’ve been on a really poor run of results due to injuries. Having said that.

Fleetwood away - we were the better team but lost.
Bradford away - we played well and tbh deserved a point from the game.
MK dons at home - we lost but deserved something.

Surely our luck has to change at some point and with some additions to the squad and returning players (I’m looking at you Paddy Madden) - I think we will do okay. Draw probably the most likely result.

 

[gary]

O dear o dear big budget Franchise lose again !!! A bit of a must win game for them against us on Saturday !!!

 

[Ainsty]

0:0 about all either team deserved. It was a match that showcased all the worst L2 can offer. No ability to control the ball, pass accurately or display any tactical formation. We'll have to play much better if we are to get anything from Doncaster, Milkton Keynes, Crewe or Bradford.

 

[Scum.]

O dear o dear big budget Franchise lose again !!! A bit of a must win game for them against us on Saturday !!!

I can see us beating you actually. 1 win in 8, but we’ll turn up for that game and then return to being shite afterwards. Written in the stars as Tinie Tempah would say.

 

[codaplenty]

A really good win by Fleetwood tonight. Full of energy, hassling their defenders at every turn, and along the way playing some lovely football. Deserved lead at half time and when Rooney scored to make it 2-0 it looked to be over. Fair play to the Dons, a goal out of nowhere and for the last 10 minutes they had Fleetwood on the back foot. Relief when the whistle blew !! No doubt Wild is improving the whole squad, and we do have some good momentum at the moment

 

[codaplenty]

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Fleetwood Town - The people’s champions.

Sure your not a closet Codhead !

 

[leedsvaliant]

There's two big problems with MK as far as I can tell:

1) They play that pointless possession shit, which will give them wins over some of the crap. But when they come up against a team who presses them, they'll eventually lose it and concede goals. When will managers learn that the players aren't good enough to play this way?

2) They've seemingly just bought in random players with no idea how to use them or how to assemble a team. It's a tale as old as time with clubs that have big budgets.

To add to that, they’ve gone for a guy who basically had a pretty fortunate season with Crawley, who just stumbled upon 2 or 3 very good players that scraped them into the playoffs. He's hardly got a sparkling CV and was dreadful at Swindon.

Really poor management and ownership from top to bottom. They'd better hope their owners are as rich as they say because they're going to be spending a lot of money rectifying mistakes.

 

[Meadow]

Did Franchise lose again? Oh dear, what a shame, how sad. Not. This will probably bite us on the bum on Saturday.

 

[GTFCfish]

There's two big problems with MK as far as I can tell:

1) They play that pointless possession shit, which will give them wins over some of the crap.

2) They've seemingly just bought in random players with no idea how to use them or how to assemble a team.

3) They need liquidating.

 

[gary]

Did Franchise lose again? Oh dear, what a shame, how sad. Not. This will probably bite us on the bum on Saturday.

Our squad is in a pretty good place at the moment. Getting player's back from injury . Hopefully Bugiel will be back Saturday maybe on the bench at least. We have nothing to fear going there. The first goal will be important.

 

[Scum.]

3) They need liquidating.

Why are you still bitter about the JPT loss in 2008? It was one big day for Grimsby and we ruined it but come on man, get a grip.

 

[lordofthepies]

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Fleetwood Town - The people’s champions.

Can I shock you? I like Fleetwood

 

[DearneValleyRover]

0:0 about all either team deserved. It was a match that showcased all the worst L2 can offer. No ability to control the ball, pass accurately or display any tactical formation. We'll have to play much better if we are to get anything from Doncaster, Milkton Keynes, Crewe or Bradford.

You always play better against us, I don’t think we’ve scored against you in the League yet

 

[BarraMatt]

A really good win by Fleetwood tonight. Full of energy, hassling their defenders at every turn, and along the way playing some lovely football. Deserved lead at half time and when Rooney scored to make it 2-0 it looked to be over. Fair play to the Dons, a goal out of nowhere and for the last 10 minutes they had Fleetwood on the back foot. Relief when the whistle blew !! No doubt Wild is improving the whole squad, and we do have some good momentum at the moment

Sounds like you were the best version of yourselves.