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Post by wots on May 3, 2018 20:00:44 GMT
Oom, perhaps they were approached by KA to take the reigns from the Brum game and turned it down. We'll never know. Some people on here think that we'd have a better team with different management. I beg to differ, especially when "der kapitan" said that "we are not a team that will roll it out from the back". Says it all for me, as a player you must think outside the box (no pun intended) during a game and if one way isn't working then try another.
This Sunday is the one of the biggest crap shoots I've ever known for this club. Perm the games any way you want, I wouldn't bet on any of them.
I remember my first experience of relegation (63/64?). That year we lost to Forest 3-2, I was right behind the goal at the embankment end. They walked one goal into the net.
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Post by OohMac on May 3, 2018 21:27:50 GMT
I'm not sure I agree. Firstly you're saying we wouldn't necessarily think a new manager would be better because CaptainPratastic says we're not a team for playing it on the ground. My point is that the players are following orders. And other managers would simply not be selecting Pratley. Even by Marc Iles rose tinted scores,i think he averages a 4.9! On DavidM that probably drops to a 3.6.
Let's hope next season we have a captain and manager who are wanting to do something a bit better.
Of course you're right wots, Ken may have sounded Lee out and he might have said he doesn't fancy it or happy to be at youth level. But I just think look at Kevin Davies at Southport. This is still a massive job. This is still a wonderful opportunity and surely if you want a career in coaching and management and you're a cult hero at the club it must be too big to turn down. If he doesn't take us who will give him a better offer?
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Post by wots on May 4, 2018 17:27:14 GMT
Well, the suspense is killing me! I'll be buying a match ticket to see the game online (thanks to paulm). Hopefully, the game won't be half as bad as the Burton one. I watched the highlights and apart from the goals it showed us in the game, which we definitely were not.
You can perm the games any way you like, but nothing less than a win will do. No matter, if we are relegated, or not, I hope Parkinson has the decency to resign straight after the game.
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Post by Alptrotter on May 4, 2018 18:17:24 GMT
I’ll be watching on i-follow as well, wots. Let’s hope you’ll still be thanking me after the game!
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Post by Pedro on May 4, 2018 22:35:40 GMT
Connor Hall not on the teamsheet tonight in Nottingham. Politic and King should be on the bench too. We need to WIN and score GOALS Ken!
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Post by OohMac on May 5, 2018 18:16:38 GMT
How would this week have been in training? Ken has assured fans that it will be a positive selection. Phil Parkinson is to positive what the chuckle brothers are to professionalism.
But most weeks in training parky must have been working on something (it's hard to know what) and now he knows he has to play 2 up front. 2 attacking players. Wing backs. I just don't get it. I think you can't teach an old dog new tricks especially giving him 6 days. I think there will be a split in the camp. Regulars vs forced changes.
I'll be honest. I can see disaster. 0-4
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Post by thegrud1 on May 5, 2018 20:42:35 GMT
If we win 1-0 and Birmingham lose 3-0 we on same points and goal difference ??....what happens? (or am I wrong???)
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Post by westandlower on May 5, 2018 20:48:29 GMT
After goal difference it is goals scored. Best we try and win 3 0 ourselves
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Post by thegrud1 on May 5, 2018 21:05:59 GMT
We all know thats never gonna happen lol
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Post by davidm on May 6, 2018 8:22:17 GMT
So here we are – Decision Day – at the end of a dreadful season.
If we could have chosen the fixtures for this final weekend ourselves, we couldn’t have picked much better.
The manager is under “orders” to play an attacking line-up. Does this mean Connor Hall instead of probably Derik? If so, I hope he is not made the sacrificial lamb if it all goes wrong.
For me, we must revert to potential attacking full backs so no Flanagan or Taylor.
We do not need to fill the midfield with slow ageing plodders so only one of Henry/Pratley.
If we do go ahead, will the manager go for additional goals in case we need to catch Birmingham or will he, as normal, try and hang on for a 1 goal win?
I am, as usual, concerned by the manager’s approach. What was “Something might go against us this weekend, the ref’s decision, they might score a goal, we might be 1-0 down with five minutes to go but you’ve still got a chance of winning a game of football.” all about? Hardly inspirational!
If we are 1-0 down with 5 minutes to go then we are down.
I fear he will still play his cautious “do not lose” attitude and hope to grab something.
Seeing the U23s succeed on Friday should surely inspire a positive attitude.
So we have a great chance to escape –probably more than we deserve.
Will we make it?
I hope so but having seen so much dire football this season, I find it hard to see us winning.
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Post by Alptrotter on May 6, 2018 9:28:33 GMT
The tension’s even reached my part of the Swiss Alps! I must say I agree with many of the posts. The job today is in two parts. Others must not win and we must win. I am confident the first will happen, so, in a sense, I still feel safety is in our own hands. And there’s the problem. I was one who voted above for Parky to go immediately. Without him, new coach, new style, I think we would win. With him, we should still win, but I am far less confident.
At the end of the day, if we can’t beat a Forest with nothing to play for, we deserve the drop.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 10:39:22 GMT
Team no Alf he's on the bench and he starts with Willy Brown for god sake we need a win and he still plays one up front he will never change let's just hope for a bank holiday miracle 😂😂😂
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Post by wots on May 6, 2018 10:41:46 GMT
Ich hoffe, wir werden gewinnen. It's the other results that may bring us down.
Are you far from Vorarlberg in Austria Paul?
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Post by wots on May 6, 2018 10:48:13 GMT
Ich hoffe, wir werden gewinnen. It's the other results that may bring us down. Are you far from Vorarlberg in Austria Paul? I take back what I just said folks. I just checked the team after seeing chips post. I feel sick. No Hall, not even on the bench. So, it's just lump it to the stump then. So, the big question is: Why no Conor Hall, if he was pulled from the U23 final?
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Post by Alptrotter on May 6, 2018 10:51:38 GMT
Ich hoffe, wir werden gewinnen. It's the other results that may bring us down. Are you far from Vorarlberg in Austria Paul? It’s a fair way away, wots, I live in the Bernese Oberland. Well, I might as well go for a nice walk in the sunshine. Pratley & Henry? Wilbraham? There’s three I would even have had on the bench. I fear it will be a huge what if? at 2.30 when we’ve not won, but neither have Barnsley, Burton and Brum.
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