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#232043 The Lower League Thread

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27 Dec 2014 20:34:14

Mansfield at home tomorrow. Going to be very cold and very boring probably. Re: Evans. Flitcroft and him are good mates, that's the reason why we always get his players on loan although Steve regularly trolls Flickers because most of them are shit.

Flitcroft out.

#231726 The Lower League Thread

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26 Dec 2014 16:58:24

WE ACTUALLY WON A GAME WHAT EVEN IS THIS???

We also conceded straight from a corner. To shame.

#231662 The Lower League Thread

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26 Dec 2014 12:30:56

Thank god I don't have to be at Northampton today. It's going to be grim, grim, GRIM!

Flitcroft out.

#231284 The Lower League Thread

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24 Dec 2014 14:21:43

Merry christmas to everyone who regularly posts in here. Fair play to all of you, we actually got to this point and didn't top ourselves because our team is shite or something like that

#230316 The Lower League Thread

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21 Dec 2014 14:58:17

Please go home Flickers. Not wanted here anymore

#229046 Capital One Cup 2014/15

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16 Dec 2014 22:12:15

Sheffield United looked good. The McNulty lad was very impressing as were Cuvelier and the Reed teenager

#229036 FA Cup 2014/15

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16 Dec 2014 21:41:24

David m8 xx Please go now

#228593 FA Cup 2014/15

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15 Dec 2014 16:15:36

Hahaahahhaahahahaha absolutely ridiculous decision by the FA to let Chesterfield replay their game against MK Dons. Just kick them out like you did with us

#228405 The Lower League Thread

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14 Dec 2014 23:42:32

By Chera | On 13 December 2014 - 22:35 PM

Bury are on the slide! 4 defeats in a row.

That's a pretty friendly description for 'Bury are shit', which would be perfectly correct at the moment. I'm fed up to be honest

#227892 The Lower League Thread

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13 Dec 2014 16:52:33

Flitcroft out.

#226109 FA Cup 2014/15

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08 Dec 2014 19:24:40

Cambridge or Manfield away if we beat Luton. Amazing

#226106 FA Cup 2014/15

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08 Dec 2014 19:16:19

http://www.chesterfield-fc.co.uk/news/article/spireites-charged-by-the-fa-2131878.aspx

well, well, well, karma strikes again. Exact same thing happened to us eight seasons ago and we got kicked out. Hopefully, Chesterfield get the same punishment

#226020 The Lower League Thread

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08 Dec 2014 15:46:08

Very interesting scenes at Leyton Orient. Another new weird foreign manager, with literally no experience and a complete new managment team. League Two bound?

#225401 FA Cup 2014/15

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06 Dec 2014 18:10:37

Daniel Nardiello just saved David Flitcroft from the axe if you ask me, very lucky equalizer for us to take us to a replay at Luton

#225139 FA Cup 2014/15

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05 Dec 2014 21:51:08

Blyth beating Hartlepool away from home. Hartlepool looked very, very poor to be extremly honest and deserve to go out

#223655 The Lower League Thread

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01 Dec 2014 19:04:36

By NiceLad | On 01 December 2014 - 16:55 PM

You can blame us for that, wasn't ready for the Championship and then just to make it worse for him we played him as a winger, his confidence will be on its arse, hope he picks up though, showed a lot of promise last season with you.

Not blaming anyone. It was clear that when he came to us that he wouldn't be up to standard in terms of match fitness and things like that. What happened in the past is out of our control, he had an offer to join Hibernian on loan and from today's point of view it would have been better for him to take this offer but hey, that's how it works. It's the job of Flitcroft of Flitcroft and his coaching staff to get him fit so you don't need to worry.

#223416 The Lower League Thread

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30 Nov 2014 23:12:52

By Vercoe | On 30 November 2014 - 08:45 AM

What's happened to you lot? Started off really well!

It's a really, really complex situation we're in now but I try my best to analyze it for you. First I have to stress than none of our defeats, bar Shrewsbury away where we've been just shocking, was down to us being complete shit. In recent times we were dominating but just couldn't finish our opponents off. This is mainly down to our two top strikers, Ryan Lowe and Daniel Nardiello being quite injury prone but we expected that with Loew being 36 already. As a result, others had to step up but Danny Rose lost his form after a good start and so Flickers brough tin some loan signings. First one, Anthony Duffus from Everton was a complete donkey and literally offered nothing. Second Hallam Hope, is a good player but clearly nowhere near match fit so as nothing to offer yet, so we have to play Lowe and Naridello suffering from small knocks sometims which is obviously not helpful.

Second, and this is the real problem, the goalkeeping position. Flitcroft brought in Shwan Jalal as new number one, made some good games and was quite popular until he got injured. When injured, Flitcroft put Robert Lainton in goal and after a few dodgy spells was quite good until DF suddenly dropped him again for Jalal. "Competition for places" was how Flitcroft called it. Then after a few games with Jalal, he brought in Scott Loach on loan but he was quite shaky in his only two games and was sent back with a small "knock" and put Lainton back in goal who unsurprisingly was a bit dodgy on Saturday, so knows maybe he'll bring in Jalal again for the next game.

Third, and this is the point which kind of realtes to my second point, our defence. Who are you actually gonna have confidence in your defence when you're constantly changing the goalkeepers? And when one of our defenders loses his confidence Flitcroft immediately drops him and brings in more folk like Kennedy, Kelly and recently Adam El-Abd

These are the defending set-ups in our last six league games (right to left):
Shrewsbury away: (Lainton) Cameron - Mills - McNulty
Southend away: (Lainton) Cameron - Mills - McNulty - Kennedy
Cambridge home: (Lainton) Jones - Cameron - Mills - McNulty
Morecambe away: (Loach) Cameron - Mills - McNulty - Hussey
Newport home: (Loach) White - Cameron - McNulty - Hussey
Dagenham home: (Lainton) Cameron - El-Abd - Milsom

Always changes, never the same line-up or the same formation. This is confusing for the players and leads to lost confidence and therefore fuck-ups in our defence which leads to silly goals.

As you can see, the problems lie deep inside Flickers' skills of man management and his lack of trust in our players

#222930 The Lower League Thread

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29 Nov 2014 17:57:32

Hmm I think Flitcroft is in trouble big time here. With all the pressure from above and the squad he has he can't last much longer if we play like we did against Dagenham today

#215905 The Lower League Thread

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11 Nov 2014 16:21:39

Signed two more players on loan. First one is former under 21 national team keeper Scott Loach who is currently contracted at Rotherham, but since Flitcroft and Steve Evans are some kind of mates, he is now here. Second one is Hallam Hope who was already here last season and was on loan at Sheffield Wednesday at the start of the season.

Delighted with both loan deals to say the least

#215542 FA Cup 2014/15

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10 Nov 2014 19:36:15

Second Round has just been drawn

http://666kb.com/i/ctf5w6qyqskz7h4vx.jpg

Luton is a bit of a shit draw but at least we're playing at home

#215338 FA Cup 2014/15

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10 Nov 2014 12:34:42

Our game against Hemel was a bit shit but we progressed thanks to two late goals by Nathan Cameron an Daniel Nardiello. Credit to Hemel for making our boys fight but in the end the quality was just too much for them to handle

#207749 The Lower League Thread

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23 Oct 2014 15:41:36

We loaned former Shaker Tom Kennedy from Rochdale with view to a permanent deal in January. A signing that leaves more questions than answers. Why do we need another left-back? Is Flicker losing his nerves after one heavy defeat? Why happens to Chris Hussey now? And why does it have to be Kennedy anyway?

TK's qualities are known around this place and he lead Barnsley's assists statistic in the Championship last season, so he knows how to get the ball in and is a very good defender all around. But some people (myself included) can't forgive how he celebrated his goal for Dale in the Derby in front of our stand so he'll probably have it hard, harder than Adams even. But I can't help but feel something went off in the backroom. You don't make such a signing shortly after a 5-0 defeat if you believe in the team and just want to fix things. Of course, I'd say he's a good signing but something doesn't add up here.

#207374 The Lower League Thread

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22 Oct 2014 08:41:53

Every game under Blackwell was less embarassing than our 'performance' last night. Sickening

#206507 The Lower League Thread

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18 Oct 2014 17:06:53

Great 3-0 win over Portsmouth! Very good on all aspects and a throughoutly enjoyable game

#203952 The Lower League Thread

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07 Oct 2014 23:58:09

Beat Morecambe 3-1 in the JPT, but made it look like hard work. First half we absolutely battered them and should have been 4 or 5-0 up but only scored two through Danny Nardiello. Second half, the same problem as every time. We lose our focus and allow our opponents to get back into it and Morecambe got their goal and pushed from then on. However, we were lucky they didn't socre any of their chances after they made it 1-2 and we got a third through Ryan Lowe and progressed.

Re Slade: I just find this appointment weird in terms of him being not really qualified for Championship football. When I think of Russell Slade, I think of small clubs with small budget and low expectations and not teams like Cardiff. When we were still up there in League One, Slade played his 4-5-1 hoofball and many Orient fans wanted him to get to boot because he was too stubborn to change anything. However, when he did change his system back to 4-4-2 results unsurprisingly changed for the better. Last season, I believe their season was a bit down to Lisbie and Mooney banging in goals and Baudry keeping it tight at defence and when of them wasn't at their best, they kinda collapsed at times.

Don't get me wrong, he's a good manager at L1 level, who can do brilliantly with small teams and build up a good team spirit if given time, but I'm not quite sure if he is what Cardiff needs

#203736 The Lower League Thread

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By Number 1 | On 07 October 2014 - 11:31 AM

Fucking crazy to think they'll have had four managers without a quarter of the season having even gone. And given McKinley managed four points in his two games, really bad decision making. What the fuck is going on?

I don't really blame Watford tbf. Sannino resigned and Oscar had health problems. Only thing they've done wrong was McKinlay. As far as I'm aware he was never actually contracted to the club, was asked to be assistant, which he refused and then walked. Looks pretty chaotic from the outside but it's not like Watford chose to be in this position (especially when it comes to Oscar's health).

Another managerial appointment I'd class as 'weird' is Russell Slade going to Cardiff. Given Tan's record of sacking managers, their poor start to the season and Slade managerial skills, I give him two months maximum.

#203210 The Lower League Thread

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By Jamie3 | On 03 October 2014 - 21:42 PM

Keith Hill and David Flitcroft really both didn't do anything at Barnsley

Yeah, bit of lazy journalism in my opinion. Purely made up because both of them work in the region and DF has some experience in the Championship, so nothing really behind it.

Anyway, back to football: We beat Tranmere 2-0 and are back in first place! I have to admit they were the best side at Gigg this season. Looked like a side good enough to be competitive in this division. They gave their all and fought until the very end but were just not good enough to match us from a skill point of view. Two good individual strikes from Kelvin Etuhu and Daniel Nardiello were enough to win us the game this time and now we focus on the JPT game against Morecambe on Tuesday

#202879 The Lower League Thread

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03 Oct 2014 12:27:52

By Number 1 | On 03 October 2014 - 12:32 PM

Dougie Freedman leaves Bolton.

Not surprised - they've been almost comical in how shite they've been.

Sad day really. Best Bolton manager ever. Everyone in this area is sad to see him go as Bolton might come good again.

Keith Hill and Flitcroft linked. Really?!?!