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[ I agree entirely with this. What concerns me is that with teams like Wrexham (and maybe Mansfield etc) likely to be stronger next year, and with the likes of Luton coming down, our relative improvement will have to be greater than our absolute improvement just to make the play-offs. I reckon CW |...

I just hope that we can hold on to our key players, and start next term well to get some momentum - this league's getting harder by the season, and we can't afford to stay in it much longer. Which is exactly what was said at the end of last season. You can substitute Constable for Green and Luton f...

A few thoughts on why I think some of GYs economics are suspect. Allowing for some variation in attendances year to year, it is only really the latter part of last season and then this that has seen attendances drop significantly. Comparing this season with the first season at Minchery is misleading...

My wife and I first met 10 years ago this May - and in all that time she has never before seen me coming home from matches announcing - yet again - we have won. She has yet to come to a match, though. Maybe she will fancy a trip to Wembley in the Spring.....? Why, is Phil Collins on tour again? Ple...

Not only was I (relatively, for me) relaxed at 1-0 up (Mansfield had some decent midfield possession but rarely threatened), I was also relaxed at 0-0. That, for me, has been the biggest shift in recent weeks: there is a growing belief around the place that we will make something happen, sooner or l...

Impossible to be sure without knowing exactly what was said, but I had the sense (from the SSU) that the assistant down on our side of the pitch had to help out the ref with a few decisions. What passed between them after the second booking of the Barrow number 3 we shall (I guess) never know, but I...

Ah - getting old....memory like a chocolate teapot, so forgot that bit. Good to know if the topic recurs in The Priory.

Just wanted to be absolutely sure. Besides, with this club who knows what might happen. I once heard a rumour we were going to get in one of the most successful South American managers ever as our new boss. Having destroyed my plausibility filter, I have just never got it replaced.... Thing is abou...

Just wanted to be absolutely sure. Besides, with this club who knows what might happen. I once heard a rumour we were going to get in one of the most successful South American managers ever as our new boss. Having destroyed my plausibility filter, I have just never got it replaced....

Talk in The Priory yesterday was that this is just the first step in a bigger move - to a ground to be built next to Junction 9 of the M40, allowing us to leave Kassam and his big rents behind. Just pub talk, or has anyone else heard owt about this?

After the Lewes game I was critical of Batt. Yesterday I thought he was excellent. Farrell did not impress me in that game, but I wondered if it was a lack of service. The build up to his goal yesterday - and his finish - were superb. Was greatly frustrated by Murray trying and failing to play cleve...

Well, this is the same top 10 as I came up with on my initial run, using a totally different methodology. I had the teams in 3/4, 5/6 and 8/9 reversed, but no major differences (except where the 5/6 reversal puts a different team in the last play-off place). What I think this does more than anything...

Maybe my views are clouded by having several friends who support Man City, but I am pleasantly surprised and even reassured by the fact Mark Hughes has not been sacked. In the current climate, such knee-jerk reactions as sacking a manager after a brief dip in form increasingly seem the norm. And, wh...

Here's a different way of looking at things. If every team averages the number of points per game in their remaining fixtures that they have achieved thus far, we would finish in 10th. If everyone does except us (hey, it is an over-simplification but I have proper work to do as well...), we would ne...

Or we miss out by 5 points or less, but are able to recognise that, collectively, points dropped against the likes of Weymouth at home (3 points), Woking at home (1 point), Crawley at home (let us be generous and say 1 point), Lewes away (3 points), Altrincham away (3 points), Grays away (3 points)....