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For god's hake let's hope it's not more codswallop.i get fed up of herring about all pulling together (I'm sure eel say it again!) so let's make the plaice our own. Let's put some sole back into our football.
Err! Run out of steam so let's hope we don't get battered tomorrow.
I'm going 2-1 win just to keep the agony going.
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gazan, Over 500 views already and thousands on other thread with the same response....ie ZERO!
This site should be closed down as useless..Just my opinion!
A loss tonight for sure as all LB did was to sign defenders..We have the lowest goals scored all the way down the league to position 17 and yet LB keeps saying we need three points...From where exactly!
3-0 For Grimsby tonight, and an ideal score line by DA in getting the sack from here! He comes on youtube within an hour of the end of the match, we have to wait until the next day...
Few managers would survive 2 wins in 11...All the players are wonderful!
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I appreciate your point of view. It is getting harder to generate comment hence my poor attempt at humour above. I suppose the site is competing with Instafacetwitgram which is probably easier for some people. However, I refuse to use the oligarchsphere of the Muskrat etc al. So this is my only option to be involved in any Alex based chat.
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I appreciate the site though I don't come on as much as I do. I got cheesed off by some people who do not understand the modern game, don't go to matches and can only see the game through rose tinted glasses which have gone cloudy as they think is like playing at the back of the park.
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Hahah..Originally Posted by out0lunch
Understand the 'modern' game?
Perhaps you could explain what the 'modern' game is and why we have not won any world championships since 1966?
Perhaps you could explain why clubs have 9 or 10 players BEHIND one striker today? Is this the modern game when the idea is to stay in your own half and pass the ball between you and spend 5 days a week training like this? I really could not see the great players in history like George Best and Bobby Charlton ever enjoying this so called 'modern' game. Go and look at the pitches they used to play on and only practiced twice a week and compare them in todays 'modern' game?
It was 30 mins last night before we even had a shot at goal! Is this the 'modern game? Did you ever play this game in the old days? I spent most of my life going to games since I was 10 years old in Crewe!
Frank Lord had loads of hat tricks here at Crewe and yet nobody can repeat that in todays 'modern' game.
Playing at the back of the park was great and I remember getting a hat trick in the first half of a match and I was playing right half back then!
I suggest you spend time thinking how great football was and how boring it is today in the 'modern' game!
Last edited by MikeSB; 02-04-2025 at 09:43 AM.
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I look on this site pretty much every day but I have other things going on in my life to be getting embroiled in pointless discussions around the modern game versus the "good old days". However, I will say this. In the modern game defenders are fitter and, by and large, better "footballers". Back in the old days defenders, especially centre halves, were less competent on the ball and certainly less skillful generally. The reason forwards aren't scoring hat tricks every week is because they are up against better players than 60+ years ago. And the reason for this is better training methods and better, forgive my language Mike, coaching.Hahah..
Understand the 'modern' game?
Perhaps you could explain what the 'modern' game is and why we have not won any world championships since 1966?
Perhaps you could explain why clubs have 9 or 10 players BEHIND one striker today? Is this the modern game when the idea is to stay in your own half and pass the ball between you and spend 5 days a week training like this? I really could not see the great players in history like George Best and Bobby Charlton ever enjoying this so called 'modern' game. Go and look at the pitches they used to play on and only practiced twice a week and compare them in todays 'modern' game?
It was 30 mins last night before we even had a shot at goal! Is this the 'modern game? Did you ever play this game in the old days? I spent most of my life going to games since I was 10 years old in Crewe!
Frank Lord had loads of hat tricks here at Crewe and yet nobody can repeat that in todays 'modern' game.
Playing at the back of the park was great and I remember getting a hat trick in the first half of a match and I was playing right half back then!
I suggest you spend time thinking how great football was and how boring it is today in the 'modern' game!
On the subject of last nights game, we played pretty well on the whole against a decent team and a bloody awful referee. Apparently Dave Artell felt the referee was one sided in our favour. He obviously saw a different game from me!! And I hope Long stays fit for the remainder of the season and he starts every game!
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Football forums are for discussions and indeed differences of opinion. I stopped posting here as some posters said I was stopping others posting. Well that worked wonders didn't it? A thousand fans at away matches and hardly any of them posting on this forum which is the only one for CAFC as I don't count Facebook and Twitter. I don't go on there like gazan doesn't and I admire him, alongside some others who travel into Alex games. I can be criticised for my views but they are as valid as anyone else's views. Why are some posters so horrible when they could be nice, like you are Timmy!
I was the only Alex fan along with a mate who went to see us play away at Barrow, Darlington and Crystal Palace when there was no separation of fans and and did not see any other Alex away fans and yet I get criticised for not attending home games. I used to watch Spurs in the 1960's when they were the best team in the country ie when we played away that is...The days when we had a reserve team and Timmy, I just don't believe players today are better than yesteryear. Of course they may be fitter but to me that does not increase football ability. IMO at least. Players of the olden days were picked based on how good they were as they are now. ie PL standard and National league std. I think there are far too many managers and coaches as no decent player needs coaching. Gary Player said if a coach can play golf better than he could, he would listen to him.
We had some pretty decent players here in the past and imo far better than what we see today despite all the coaching they have. We could save a lot of money doing away with most of them.
Just my opinion and I really cannot understand why fans read this forum and yet don't contribute their views, no matter how boring. Crewe people are miserable and so unlike the people I have met elsewhere. Some say, miserable gits!
I think we did well to beat Grimsby as they were on a good run.
BTW Timmy. Players don't score hat tricks here like yesteryear as firstly they are not as good as those that did and also when you have 18 players in the penalty area its almost impossible to do....Defensive coaching will get the game done away with. Have you seen the vast empty stands in games at the lower levels these days?? Not exactly a fans sport anymore!
I also have never seen 'endless discussions' on here about the modern game vs the old days. I wish there were but most fans were not born in those days and so would not be interested.
Last edited by MikeSB; 02-04-2025 at 03:50 PM.
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C'mon Mike that's a tad harsh on LB, although he wasn't his usual self after the Vale game.
For what it's worth, I think that LB has been let down badly by 'certain players' this season.
Really hope that Jack Lankester is fit and ready-to-go - we have really missed him since he gotten injured.
Would like to see Jack Powell back in the starting XI - we need his enthusiasm.
Finally if we play Tom Lowery, can we please play him as a 'number 10', where is physical strength is less of an issue.
Gonna go with a 2-1 win, as Gazan seems to get his prediction right most of the time.
Just hope at the end of the game we aren't all saying "what a load of pollocks" ...
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Enjoyed your 'sense of humour' - we all need one at the moment ...
If we lose to an injury-time penalty tonight - I will be gutted !!
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This board should be buzzing when 1000 fans can go to an away match etc.
If a team spends 90% of the time in your own half, how on earth can you create and score goals?
I mean no kid plays this game ever to just mess about in your own half and so we need managers now with vision and flair and go back to how football should be played. There should be loads of strikers and next to nothing defenders. But who is going to start it off?
BTW..I have lived in Grimsby and you cannot get Cod to eat anywhere...Its all haddick round there...How's that for humour?
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