w / e Saturday 8th February

[loz]

Not even going to attempt the pre-match write up - it’s Harrogate Town.

We’ll lose this 1-0

We might scrape a draw in the 93rd minute.

 

[Crewelad87]

Well we didn't sign anyone yesterday, so I'm hoping that means some of our strikers are ok. More than likely though its because we've already got 5 loans in the team and we're skint. Heard Hemmings is out for about 6 weeks. Who joins Lankester who.is out for 8 weeks. Just got to hope Bogle and Long aren't too bad, but both looked like they were struggling on Saturday and both have horrible injury records. As for Saturday vs Newport, even with a fit squad we're particularly clicking at the moment and we're not scoring enough goals. It certainly won't be pretty. Either team could nick it by a goal but I wouldn't be surprised to see a boring 0-0.

 

[SuperHans]

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Donny are serious value at 2/1 - as are Wimbledon at Accy.

 

[chipmunx]

Currently;-
Newport 1 Morecambe 0 (Morecambe have hit the bar twice)
Salford 0 Bromley 2

 

[jacobncfc]

Woodman and Cheek could be cooking up a seventh place finish here.

 

[AlanPep]

Woodman and Cheek could be cooking up a seventh place finish here.

Mid table obscurity will do just fine thank you

 

[クレイグ]

Always enjoy seeing Salford lose.

 

[OneDecentLester]

Bromley’s keeper Grant Smith must have a few issues. Seems to go down with an injury about this point in the game, every single game…

But then miraculously makes a recovery straight after, fair play to him

 

[AlanPep]

Is the Salford pitch usually this bad at this time of year?

 

[kieran_vale]

Is the Salford pitch usually this bad at this time of year?

It's been that way with them since they came into the EFL.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

That's strange, it used to be impeccable.

 

[jacobncfc]

Just flicked the last ten of this on, the pitch looks like a World War One battlefield. It was bad when we went there a few weeks ago but my word.

 

[SuperHans]

Just flicked the last ten of this on, the pitch looks like a World War One battlefield. It was bad when we went there a few weeks ago but my word.

Awful isn’t it. A real throwback to the early 2000s. Neither of these sides look up to much at all.

 

[クレイグ]

bastards

 

[JJ1990]

Feel sorry for Morecambe, deserved more from that game, but just lack quality upfront. Newport rode their luck, but had enough to scrap out the win. They should have enough to stay up, Morecambe though, I'm not sure.

 

[saddler78]

Fucks sake Bromley we were all willing you on tonight bloody hate Salford shit club with a twat as manager match made in hell.

 

[OneDecentLester]

Donny (H).

Not sure what sort of numbers they’re bringing but anything less than a sell out would disappointing from them even if it is on a Thursday evening given that the allocation is less than 1,000. I’m sure they will though.

We had a great result at theirs earlier in the season, beating them 0-3, but they’ll be coming up against a virtually entirely different side tomorrow considering 8 of the squad that featured are now either injured or have left the club (+ Boot who is now 2nd choice behind Thompson). So it’s hard to take much from that game going into this one really…

Expect we’ll look something like this:

Thompson
Sheckleford Williams Grimes Sparkes
Naylor Oldaker
Mandeville Dobra Olakigbe
Madden

Boot (GK)
Donacien
Banks
Metcalfe
Colclough
Duffy
Pepple

Obviously that’s working off the assumption that Sparkes is fit which I think he will be. If not, could probably see Duffy moved to LB (assuming Horton has gone to Gateshead by then) and Fleck coming back into the squad.

Just shows we’ve gone from one extreme to the other now that many of our injuries have began to clear up, as squads now looking a bit bloated. No space in squad for likes of Drummond, Hobson, Akinola, Fleck, Horton, Jacobs, Daley Campbell…

 

[DearneValleyRover]

We sold out before they went on general sale

 

[DearneValleyRover]

I expect we will go with:
Gk:
TSL
Def:
Sterry
Olowu
McGrath
Maxwell
Def Mi:
Bailey
Crew
Mid:
Molyneaux
Ennis
Kelly/Clifton/Sbarra
For:
Ironside
Just the one position that’s getting rotated really

 

[kieran_vale]

Well we now know we’re not appealing the Sang sending off from last Saturday so my expectation is John at RWB then Heneghan into the back three. It’s a tougher fixture than was thinking it’d be at the turn of the new year but one we should really be winning if we are to entertain challenging for autos. Sounds like Ripley can play for them, not sure it happens often a players debut for his new club is against the one who just let him leave.

Amos
Smith Heneghan Hall
John Croasdale Garrity Byers Headley
Stockley Tolaj

 

[valefan16]

Well we now know we’re not appealing the Sang sending off from last Saturday so my expectation is John at RWB then Heneghan into the back three. It’s a tougher fixture than was thinking it’d be at the turn of the new year but one we should really be winning if we are to entertain challenging for autos. Sounds like Ripley can play for them, not sure it happens often a players debut for his new club is against the one who just let him leave.

Amos
Smith Heneghan Hall
John Croasdale Garrity Byers Headley
Stockley Tolaj

Be harsh on their keeper when lost 1 in 10! pur Debs up front for us and he will keep passing to him!

Smith RCB though.... not so keen, half tempted to go with Debrah just so we get the best from Smudge and put Debrah RCB even though he didn't scream pick me last night.

With other teams around us playing strugglers we need to get something here even if just a scrappy point but hopefully Byers can start and we can put in a big performance to build on the last few games.

 

[kieran_vale]

Be harsh on their keeper when lost 1 in 10! pur Debs up front for us and he will keep passing to him!

Smith RCB though.... not so keen, half tempted to go with Debrah just so we get the best from Smudge and put Debrah RCB even though he didn't scream pick me last night.

With other teams around us playing strugglers we need to get something here even if just a scrappy point but hopefully Byers can start and we can put in a big performance to build on the last few games.

To be clear I’d rather start with 10 men than see Debrah anywhere near that teamsheet. It’s not as though we’re short of practise doing it now.

Heneghan can at least compete with Harry Smith and frankly there isn’t much difference in Debrah and Smith on the ball.

 

[Cloudy]

Fucks sake Bromley we were all willing you on tonight bloody hate Salford shit club with a twat as manager match made in hell.

IMHO, that description applies to both protagonists in last nights fixture

 

[SuperHans]

Driving up for this tomorrow and hoping for an entertaining game.

Donny should come to play football which will suit us, that’s said - I think the 2/1 on them is the biggest lump job since Vautor at Cheltenham.

1-3 Donny.

Team will be as above stated by ODL.

 

[SuperHans]

Duplicate.

 

[spireite]

Driving up for this tomorrow and hoping for an entertaining game.

Donny should come to play football which will suit us, that’s said - I think the 2/1 on them is the biggest lump job since Vautor at Cheltenham.

1-3 Donny.

Team will be as above stated by ODL.

Mental that they are not favourites. If it wasn't for my rule that I never punt us to lose, I'd be having a bit of that.

 

[leedsvaliant]

Mental that they are not favourites. If it wasn't for my rule that I never punt us to lose, I'd be having a bit of that.

Have you guys settled for midtable with a look to push on next season? You seemed pretty confident of a playoff push before. For what it's worth, I don't think you're far off but maybe too much to do this season.

 

[leedsvaliant]

To be clear I’d rather start with 10 men than see Debrah anywhere near that teamsheet. It’s not as though we’re short of practise doing it now.

Heneghan can at least compete with Harry Smith and frankly there isn’t much difference in Debrah and Smith on the ball.

I'm with you there. After a few promising games earlier in the season, his form has fallen off a cliff. Looks fully like a non league player and too much of a liability at this stage. Even though Smith is pretty awful at RCB, at least he can defend. He just needs to pass the ball simple to others who can actually play. Heneghan will be up for the battle with that big prick that plays up front for Swindon.

 

[SuperHans]

Have you guys settled for midtable with a look to push on next season? You seemed pretty confident of a playoff push before. For what it's worth, I don't think you're far off but maybe too much to do this season.

I think about 10th is realistic. We’ve lost too many key players to injury to really sustain an effort. Think we are too far adrift personally.

 

[OneDecentLester]

Have you guys settled for midtable with a look to push on next season? You seemed pretty confident of a playoff push before. For what it's worth, I don't think you're far off but maybe too much to do this season.

Some fans might feel that way, but everything coming out from the club including Cook & Webb in their interviews this weeks suggests their sights are well and truly set on a play off push, so they’re defo not settling in-house.

I know the points gap looks significant at the moment, but all it takes is a bit of consistency over 3 or 4 games and you can be right back amongst it. Likewise though it can obv go the other way, as shown over the Xmas period… at one point in the game vs Bradford just after Xmas we were sat in 2nd in the live table, and that’s only just over a month ago, and then suddenly a few games after that we’d ended up with 3/4 losses on the bounce & dropping out the top 7!

Problem for us is that consistency has been an issue all season, and I’m not even talking about results here, but bloody team selection… it’s just been so stop/start all year for reasons well documented which has hindered us gathering any real momentum at any point, and I think that’s what’s led to quite a few fans losing hope on the play off push & settling for mid table. FWIW, my opinion is that with the manager we have I think it’s daft to be writing us off with as many as 18 games left to play. I also think we have a pretty decent set of fixtures for the run in from March onwards with the odd tough one thrown in… so you never know.