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#262402 The Lower League Thread
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#261864 The Lower League Thread
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#261863 German Football Thread
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#261285 The Lower League Thread
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We won against Wimbledon and Wycombe's cock up against Morecambe means Southend are in third position now, two points ahead of us and three points ahead of Wycombe. Next week, Southend play away at Morecambe, Wycombe also play away at Northampton and we are playing Tranmere away, who themselves were relegated to the Conference today. With them and Cheltenham going down, and the play-offs being 99% in place now, it's all about that final 3rd automatic promotion spot. BRING IT ON!
#260591 The Lower League Thread
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#260290 The Lower League Thread
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#260100 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Congratulations to Burton by he way for getting the job done and winning promotion to League One. Good team, deserve to go up
#259791 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Turning 25 on 3rd May so you're not that much older than I first thought
#259334 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Mate I thought you were quite young. Somewhere in your early 20's or 25 tops, somewhere around my age.
Massive 1-0 win over Shrewsbury tonight. Joe Riley literally scored our goal of the season, 30 yard stunner. Sadly, with Exeter these stupid cnuts giving away a penalty in the 96th minute, which wycombe scored, we couldn't make any progress, so it's still not in our hands. Anyway, Portsmouth away is the next game, which won't be any easier than this game either.
#259258 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Can't help but feel sorry....... and amused
#258777 The Lower League Thread
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#257933 The Lower League Thread
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We were 10 up for large chunks of the game, Morecambe were bloody awful and we just couldn't finish them off. Then we went all defensive, brought on a midfielder for a striker and got punished for that. When we realized we cocked it up we went all attacking again and got punished straight back again. Thanks to Wycombe's loss at Burton it's not the end of the world for us but if we want to get promoted we need to start being clever and finish off our opposition
#257684 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Still suffering from a playoff trauma since we lost against Shrewsbury after pens back in 2009. Really don't want playoffs either
#257358 The Lower League Thread
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#256379 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Pitch looked "okay" an hour prior to the kick-off in my opinion. Not good, but tbf this is League 2 and not La Liga. But the it just started raining cats and dogs, like at Accrington last year and the ref had every right to start the game and see if we can go ahead. Obviously a bad call for the Southend fans but I'm sure they'd rather see game between two play-off rivals in proper conditions than in this mess.
#256275 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
#254935 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Start of the day, our official website, Facebook, Twitter, everything announced a 'promotion push', so evrybody who can make it should come down to Gigg Lane and show their support.
To celebrate this, we quickly went behind against Northampton, who were the opposition today and who themselves fought for the last final play-off push, with Plymouth and Newport playing each other. De Girolamo, the young Sheffield lad, some of you were talking about in this thread at one point played a terrific ball to Ricky Holmes who made no mistake. That's pretty much the story of the first half.
Second half began even worse for us, as Joe Riley was sent off after a tackle in the middle of the pitch. From then on, the match got a bit feisty. Many fouls, stop-start action, not very nice to watch. Kelvin Etuhu made it 1-1 after 66 minutes, with a nice shot from just outside the box to level things up. With the game getting out of their hands, Cobblers were happy to see the draw out. But in the 90th minute Adam El-Abd headed a Chris Hussey cross in, to win it for us. And a very big win that is.
Now only one point behind the automatic promotion places (Wycombe with a game in hand though) and 10 points ahead of the non play-offs spots. Next home game against Southend next week will be just as important, as they are in fourth place now.
But as Chris Wilder said after the game: “The sending off galvanised them and the reaction from Bury was that of a promotion winning team" ....
#254620 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Long time no see my fwiend. Stick around a little longer, this thread is still fun, fun, FUCKING FUN
#254083 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Game was crap to be honest. We scored after 9 minutes and from then on it was a bit of a borefest. You could see York are a side battling relegation. Loked nervous and a bit afraid. Second half they got etter, as you can imagine, they had a pretty strong penatly shout denied and had some good chances towards the end of the game but luckily we scratched that one out and that's pretty much all that matters to me
#253373 The Lower League Thread
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#251372 The Lower League Thread
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#250354 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
How important was that?
Massive 1-0 win over Luton. First half we absolutely battered them. Tremendous free-flowing football all around and we really should have scored more than one but once again we've been too wasteful. Second half we started off well but Luton made real pressure towards the end of the game and probably could have nicked a point but Nathan Cameron, who has been rock solid at the heart of the defence and Nick Pope, who made three unreal saves, won us the three points.
We are in a good position now aswell. Fifth in the league, same points as Luton and Southend, only five points off Wycombe who are third and six points off Plymouth and Stevenage who sit just outside the play-offs. This puts off a bit of pressure for our game on Saturday at home to Oxford but since we're already unbeaten in six and won all of our last four games, we're looking to extend our run
#249848 The Lower League Thread
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#249738 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
I'd have liked to go for a drink pre-match but we arrived pretty late and I hate drinking in a short space of time so I left that part out,
Nothing is lost for anyone just yet but we're getting to the point where every loss of points hurts even more, so everyone has got to keep pushing in order to succeed
#249672 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Biggest hangover today bro, but made up for quite a few shit away days this season. But again, this result means nothing if we can't repeat it against Luton at home. So no looking back and focus on what's coming
#249405 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Arrived around one hour only with the biggest headache possible, because I overdid it last night and drinking even more in the car on the way to Plymouth didn't quite help. That headache increased when I saw our starting line-up. Nardiello being alone upfront got me thinking we'd go all defensive and just try to counter attack once at a time. So I was mildly surprised to see how well we started. Nardiello had a good chance after like three minutes which he really should have scored. Plymouth had a good chance aswell when Pope had to save Talbot's shot (if it was him). By the way: Where the fuck was Reuben Reid?? I was expecting him to tear us a new one but instead you played this chubby pub footballer with the massive tooth gap who looked like pudding on two legs. We dominated possesion but bar couple of shots of target didn't really produce anything of note. To be fair, first-half was a bit of a turn off.
Second half Plymouth came out flying and caused our defence all sorts of problems. The disallowed goal and Nelson's header, which hit the crossbar, probably changed the game. If we conceded in that space of time, we would have been out of it but instead straight down the other end Nardiello made i 1-0 with his 100th league goal. From that point on, Plymouth were plain dead. Nothing from them after we scored. We didn't even need to push in the last 30 minutes because they were that finished. Our second goal in the 90th minute was inevitable and although Plymouth got another goal disallowed our win was more than deserved. Very good display from us and if we beat Luton on tuesday than god knows. Very good away day
#248171 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
One of their players, Islam Feruz, tweeted the team 'takes more kick-offs than corners'. Shots fired
Needless to say, he deleted the tweet shortly afterwards
#247900 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
So, we are leasing Manchester City's former training complex at Carrington for five years. Massive news for us and big boost for our long-term strategy. It is good to see we are taking advantage of our location and getting involved with the big guns in our region
#247713 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Yes, the game at Gigg was one-way traffic. Only won 2-1 but we should have battered you 4 or 5-1 that day. Our strikers didn't take their chances and our defence was a bit leaky. To be honest, nothing has changed really so it'll be key for us to keep it tight at the back and take the few chances we'll get.
Re: attendance. I don't really know. I'd say roughly around 400 people will turn up. It's a hell of a long trip but the fans who will be there, won't stop singing and making noise I guarantee you that.
In other news, we extended the contracts of Andrew Tutte and Tom Soares today. Delighted for Tutte, as he really wants to be here and puts in 100% effort every game, not so sure about Soares though. Flitcroft seems to love him but he really should have been dropped at more than one point this season. Hopefully he raises the bar now.
#247527 The Lower League Thread
gfnx25
Last season Plymouth away was nothing short of a disaster so there is lots of room for improvement. But you never know with Bury FC. When people think we are already in the shit, that is the point where we really raise our game and disappoint even more.
May the worse team lose!