⚽ Match Thread vs. Forest Green Rovers 27.04.24 [EFL L2]

[jackal2]

Maynard says he's "excited about next season"

Shame he couldn't get them "buzzing" today then. He needs to talk a lot less and deliver a lot more.

[hissingdwarf]

"The players gave everything today for this football club."

He is on drugs???? Jesus H.

[BigFatPie]

If we’re mid table middle of next season and they believe he’s underperforming, he’ll be gone. I just don’t get why you keep saying they’ve got egos? On what evidence? The evidence shows their the opposite.

The thing is he’ll go into next season with zero credibility in the bank so a poor start will just start all the talk again.

We’re clearly a progressive club with cracking ownership, new pitch the Nest etc. I have no idea why we’re pinning our hopes on such an unqualified bloke.

[drillerpie]

Boring dead rubber of a game. I couldn't care less about it to be honest. Now we need a top notch close season and on to the new campaign. The FGR commentators were the most annoying thing about it tbh. Feel a bit sorry for all those dedicated Pies who travelled though!

Most annoying things for me were:

Our OCD, paint by numbers style of football. We appear to have very little football intelligence and creativity when plan A isn't working.

Forest Green's pitch. How on earth can you have a football club in the middle of the Cotswolds with a rich environmentalist owner and still have a crap bobbly pitch?

Losing to the worst team in the league via the last gift wrapped comedy of errors of the season. Although at least that was quite fitting.

[irishpete]

It's gonna be a long hard slog next season me thinks with coco the clown in charge & dipstick Montague getting the players in

[irishpete]

Most annoying things for me were:

Our OCD, paint by numbers style of football. We appear to have very little football intelligence and creativity when plan A isn't working.

Forest Green's pitch. How on earth can you have a football club in the middle of the Cotswolds with a rich environmentalist owner and still have a crap bobbly pitch?

Losing to the worst team in the league via the last gift wrapped comedy of errors of the season. Although at least that was quite fitting.

We needed the last cock up to make the full 180min video for the season

[matt_magpie]

They will stick with him to prove they were right, but its doubtfull he will get much higher than mid table, then the bros will have to admit it- so why wait another 2 years ..?

The thing is he’ll go into next season with zero credibility in the bank so a poor start will just start all the talk again.

We’re clearly a progressive club with cracking ownership, new pitch the Nest etc. I have no idea why we’re pinning our hopes on such an unqualified bloke.

Totally agree, what I don’t agree with is Davy saying they will stick with him another 2-3 years because of their egos, he actually said “talk about egos” as if he can see into the future 😂

[drillerpie]

I think that's reasonable. Mostly he's okay and certainly tidy enough but I'm concerned he is rated highly because of what he replaced. The same might also be said of Macari. Has improved the side but how good is he really? Fwiw I'd keep them both, but I'd ditch Nemane for sure (does he actually understand the game) and Cameron was poor again I thought today without necessarily being calamitous. When Baldwin stops being an arse he's actually pretty decent and he just has to cut the errors and practice his turning with the ball. And Macca has to stop pretending he was in a position to receive the ball when he wasn't - a ball cannot pass through solid matter. Unless it's our keeper or one of our defenders.

Fair points. He is a promising young player but needs to start coming through with match winning performances, or at the very least cut out the errors.

[drillerpie]

I think that's reasonable. Mostly he's okay and certainly tidy enough but I'm concerned he is rated highly because of what he replaced. The same might also be said of Macari. Has improved the side but how good is he really? Fwiw I'd keep them both, but I'd ditch Nemane for sure (does he actually understand the game) and Cameron was poor again I thought today without necessarily being calamitous. When Baldwin stops being an arse he's actually pretty decent and he just has to cut the errors and practice his turning with the ball. And Macca has to stop pretending he was in a position to receive the ball when he wasn't - a ball cannot pass through solid matter. Unless it's our keeper or one of our defenders.

We needed the last cock up to make the full 180min video for the season

Think that's already full, this was for the bonus features!

[WarsopPie]

Most annoying things for me were:

Our OCD, paint by numbers style of football. We appear to have very little football intelligence and creativity when plan A isn't working.

Forest Green's pitch. How on earth can you have a football club in the middle of the Cotswolds with a rich environmentalist owner and still have a crap bobbly pitch?

Losing to the worst team in the league via the last gift wrapped comedy of errors of the season. Although at least that was quite fitting.

Can’t blame the pitch today, we was absolutely awful pitch had nothing to do with it