The Lower League Thread

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By George14brfc | On 12 February 2014 - 20:14 PM

doesn't sound good mate the refs in the championship are awful. Deadman is the worse of the lot!

I'd like to say Miller is worse, but I can still remember the first time I saw Deadman ref us - Michael Collins sent off after a Millwall man headbutted Gary Taylor-Fletcher for standing somewhere near the incident. Predictably, Millwall man got off scot free.

I've been trying to keep quiet about refs this season. But Miller just took the piss, not least because every time the ball went into the box for either side he immediately blew for a free-kick to whoever was defending. It was almost like he wanted to relieve pressure by allowing the side on the back foot to clear their lines; especially frustrating when a header on goal is blocked by a blatant handball. There was a five-minute spell where he gave quite literally nothing despite two or three heavy fouls either way, including one on Scannell inside the Forest box. And throughout the game he kept getting in the way of passes - at one point he was the star holding midfielder for both sides - which suggests he has little understanding of the game.

We didn't lose 3-0 because of Miller, though. We lost 3-0 because we were sloppy and Forest were clinical. The ref might have changed the game at 0-0 when he didn't send Darlow off (much like Attwell not sending Stephens off against Charlton the other week), but it's not his fault that a 5'0" midget got a free header in front of goal, or that Gerrard lost an aerial duel with Henderson, or that Gerrard completely cocked up a backpass when he should have put it in the stand. And we got nil because we're not clinical ourselves. 18 shots, one on target. Forest are a good side, to be fair, although 3-0 did flatter them.

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14 Feb 2014 21:41:53

League Two is so tight! If we win tomorrow against York, depending on other results, we could be as high as 8th or as low as 15th come 5 o'clock!

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15 Feb 2014 12:50:44

Another day another game called off. Against Brizzle Rovers this time.

God I want to blow up this country (still not terrorist)

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15 Feb 2014 13:56:56

tough game - Bournemouth v Burnley!!! COME ON THE CHERRIES!!!!!

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15 Feb 2014 19:06:29

Fuck this noise.

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15 Feb 2014 19:53:23

Six points from nine. Quite happy with that. Nice to see an opposition manager give us credit as well, critical as he was of his own team. Then again, Lee Clark, for all his failings as a manager, was always classier than 90% of the others in the Football League. Shame that things aren't working out for him, but he's unfortunately somewhat lost his nerve. His 2009/10 Town team was exhilarating to watch; these days, his sides are short on entertainment, and are scared of losing games. Strange as it sounds, I think he needs to be sacked by Birmingham and have a year out of football to rediscover the attacking instincts which made Town so great to watch a few years back.

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15 Feb 2014 20:44:36

In fairness to Clark. His Birmingham sides seem to always be awful, inexperienced and relying on loan players. Keeping them in the division looks like the best anyone can do in those circumstances.

I'm not an expert on the Championship but I can't imagine there being too many players at Birmingham, who would get in the Huddersfield squad.

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15 Feb 2014 23:23:11

Very fair point about doing the best he can in the circumstances. But he does still have quality he can rely upon - Caddis and Burke being two obvious names. I'm also speaking from having seen the early Clark team of 2008/9 when he inherited quite a bit of dross from the disastrous Stan Ternent regime. Granted, he was able to bring in Anthony Pilkington almost straight away, but he still had to struggle with a side containing Robbie Williams, Andy Butler, Chris Lucketti, Jim Goodwin, Keigan Parker and Phil Jevons and got them playing entertaining football before he was able to really invest in the squad six months later. Three years later he was negative with a much more talented squad which badly underperformed with the exception of Jordan Rhodes, having regressed from playing attractive football to being utterly terrified of losing.

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By hammer9 | On 15 February 2014 - 13:56 PM

tough game - Bournemouth v Burnley!!! COME ON THE CHERRIES!!!!!

draw 1-1 thats alright im happy.

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22 Feb 2014 20:03:14

Yes!! A very important win over Reading today!

I couldn't go

which I am gutted about but I am delighted we won as it was a very important game to win if we want to get into the play offs especially holding out through the 11 minutes of stoppage time! Good too see Conway get his first for the club and although they had 18 shots only one of them was on target to our 6 shots and 3 on target so they probably shaded it but we did really well to win

Am going to Bolton away next week so really need to keep our good run going especially 3 clean sheets in a row it would be great to keep that going! Now just 4 points off the play offs with a game in hand.

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22 Feb 2014 20:04:17

Got to give Wednesday credit. They pressed high, took their chances, and won the loose balls. We were very poor.

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22 Feb 2014 20:41:09

Beat the Daggers 2-1 today; very good first half performance, scrappy second. Not sure we've been all that convincing all season but I'll take the win which puts us into 10th. It's stupidly tight in this league.

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22 Feb 2014 20:56:54

Very important win at Wimbledon today. Even better when your decisive goal is scored in the 94th minute by Danny Mayor.

7 points ahead of Torquay and Northampton now. We should be out of the biggest relegation fears now but with all the games in hand still being played you don't really know

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By gfnx25 | On 22 February 2014 - 20:56 PM

Very important win at Wimbledon today. Even better when your decisive goal is scored in the 94th minute by Danny Mayor.

7 points ahead of Torquay and Northampton now. We should be out of the biggest relegation fears now but with all the games in hand still being played you don't really know

Can't see Torquay surviving if I'm honest, so there's only one more relegation spot up for grabs.

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By Vercoe | On 23 February 2014 - 15:09 PM

Can't see Torquay surviving if I'm honest, so there's only one more relegation spot up for grabs.

They did well at our place under Knill. However, Jepson was still in charge at that time and Knill is longer their manager so our game at Plainmoor will be a completetly different one from the one at Gigg Lane. But I agree the situation they are in is horrible

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By gfnx25 | On 23 February 2014 - 23:12 PM

They did well at our place under Knill. However, Jepson was still in charge at that time and Knill is longer their manager so our game at Plainmoor will be a completetly different one from the one at Gigg Lane. But I agree the situation they are in is horrible

Which is ashame, I quite like Torquay; and they're our closest home game.

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By Vercoe | On 24 February 2014 - 07:29 AM

Which is ashame, I quite like Torquay; and they're our closest home game.

Exactly! I mean it's like 10000 miles away from Bury but it's still a decent away day and I think for that reason alone Torquay should stay up.

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By gfnx25 | On 25 February 2014 - 00:44 AM

Exactly! I mean it's like 10000 miles away from Bury but it's still a decent away day and I think for that reason alone Torquay should stay up.

There's other teams I'd like to see go down instead too,

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25 Feb 2014 22:17:03

Tonight we beat Mansfield away 4 (FOUR!!) 1. Daniel Nardiello scored a brace with Danny Mayor and Huddersfield loanee Jake Carroll scoring the other goals Up to 15th now with two games in hand!

Topped by a great Burger King, which was directly next to the stadium, before and after the game.

Massive!

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Barnsley are well and truly doomed. They're going to need a miracle to stop up. Only a couple of their players looked interested after we scored. Frimpong looked the worst of the lot - complete big-time Charlie incapable of adjusting to the reality of the lower end of the Championship. Keith Southern utterly dominated him - that's the same Southern who hasn't started in 3 months and is the wrong side of 30.

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By VP. | On 01 March 2014 - 15:56 PM

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL STUPID MOANED!

Anyway...

BOURNEMOUTH 5-0 DONCASTER

thats amazing!

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01 Mar 2014 20:18:18

After winning 4-0 on Tuesday we only went and won 5-0 today!

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By terriersmad | On 01 March 2014 - 18:46 PM

Barnsley are well and truly doomed. They're going to need a miracle to stop up. Only a couple of their players looked interested after we scored. Frimpong looked the worst of the lot - complete big-time Charlie incapable of adjusting to the reality of the lower end of the Championship. Keith Southern utterly dominated him - that's the same Southern who hasn't started in 3 months and is the wrong side of 30.

You aren't wrong there. You may disagree, but up until you scored I thought we looked the better team. We had about three or four great crosses from the right that forced some good saves or some good defending. Then you scored, and we just capitulated. The heads went down, Frimpong went on his usual rampage, and Steele sh*t his pants every time the ball came near him.

After deservedly being booed off the pitch, Dawson decided to come over and argue with the fans and had to be dragged away. I wouldn't mind if he was actually half decent, but he's woeful with the ball at his feet.

On a positive note, the teams around us seem to be equally poor and amazingly we still aren't cut adrift.

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02 Mar 2014 10:26:34

Well I went to Bolton away yesterday and we were crap we desperately missed Hanley in defence and Cairney in midfield

Kilgallon did his best and was the only one who played quite well making a brilliant block at 0-0 but Lowe and Williamson just are not good enough in midfield and never got on the ball also Adam Henley at right back had a real shocker and played far to narrow Spurr had to play centre back when he is a left back so that was worrying we need to get a centre back in on loan for cover, Kilgallon also went off injured if he and Hanley miss the Burnley game next week then we have as good as lost before kick off and we can't lose to Burnley! It looks very difficult to reach the play offs now.

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By Ad. | On 02 March 2014 - 10:18 AM

You aren't wrong there. You may disagree, but up until you scored I thought we looked the better team. We had about three or four great crosses from the right that forced some good saves or some good defending. Then you scored, and we just capitulated. The heads went down, Frimpong went on his usual rampage, and Steele sh*t his pants every time the ball came near him.

After deservedly being booed off the pitch, Dawson decided to come over and argue with the fans and had to be dragged away. I wouldn't mind if he was actually half decent, but he's woeful with the ball at his feet.

On a positive note, the teams around us seem to be equally poor and amazingly we still aren't cut adrift.

No, I agree. For 30 minutes we looked pretty woeful ourselves, with no passing rhythm and no physical presence up top meaning we couldn't stop you from coming at us. After we scored we never looked like doing anything other than running up a large goals tally. The wonders of confidence.

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02 Mar 2014 15:18:25

Lost 2-1 at Cheltenham yesterday.

But I was too drunk to remember anything that happened yesterday. Sad times

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06 Mar 2014 19:20:47

Tomorrow is our big day as our derby game against Dale is live on SkySports.

Well excited about this. If we play like we did in the last 7 games and improve our finishing then I can see us winning. Should be a good game regardless of whether we score or not.