⚽ Match Thread vs. AFC Wimbledon 10.05.25 [EFL L2 POSF1]

[TSANHO]

Oh I absolutely do not want a change in ownership either. I love the bros and want them to stick around for as long as possible. But I also want them to address the deficiencies in our squad and the limitations of our tactics.

I was a bit surprised to read that you were more engaged with the club during the Nolan era Slack. That was seriously some of the worst, infuriatingly unimaginative football I have ever seen, anywhere. Though I do understand that it is very subjective, what people like and dislike it just surprised me to see you say it for some reason!

It has been turgid for long spells this season but I?d much rather this than watching some big lump just aimlessly lumping the ball forward to another big lump and invariably watching it come straight back at us. We have seen some absolute garbage for the last 30 years but Nolan?s brand certainly makes my top three of worst ever.

[Davy500]

I was a bit surprised to read that you were more engaged with the club during the Nolan era Slack. That was seriously some of the worst, infuriatingly unimaginative football I have ever seen, anywhere. Though I do understand that it is very subjective, what people like and dislike it just surprised me to see you say it for some reason!

It has been turgid for long spells this season but I?d much rather this than watching some big lump just aimlessly lumping the ball forward to another big lump and invariably watching it come straight back at us. We have seen some absolute garbage for the last 30 years but Nolan?s brand certainly makes my top three of worst ever.

How can you say Nolands brand makes the top 3 of your worst brand ??
Nolan finished higher in the table,in a tougher league 2 than this year, and on about referreing decisions, the ones against Coventry were some of the worst i have seen in 30 years, and today he has kept Northampton in League 1, so it must be a fairly effective style
i can think of many managers even recently such as Ardley, Burcnall, etc which wwere far worse

I am of the opinion that football is about winning, whether nice, passing , or bullies i do not care as long as its effective,

this is something notts have failed on this year, whilst you can get away with good passing in a poor national league when you have players like langstaff and ruben , you cant get away with it in league 2 without more league 1 standard players which sadly we do not have

i think crowleys departure in january cost us promotion this year, he was never replaced, and the january transfer window was extremely poor ,

[marky]

How can you say Nolands brand makes the top 3 of your worst brand ??
Nolan finished higher in the table,in a tougher league 2 than this year, and on about referreing decisions, the ones against Coventry were some of the worst i have seen in 30 years, and today he has kept Northampton in League 1, so it must be a fairly effective style
i can think of many managers even recently such as Ardley, Burcnall, etc which wwere far worse

I am of the opinion that football is about winning, whether nice, passing , or bullies i do not care as long as its effective,

this is something notts have failed on this year, whilst you can get away with good passing in a poor national league when you have players like langstaff and ruben , you cant get away with it in league 2 without more league 1 standard players which sadly we do not have

i think crowleys departure in january cost us promotion this year, he was never replaced, and the january transfer window was extremely poor ,

The January transfer window was poor that season as well, Hardy promised a striker, couldn't get anyone so pretended Mason Bennett was a striker and bought him in knowing he was already carrying an injury.

[TSANHO]

How can you say Nolands brand makes the top 3 of your worst brand ??
Nolan finished higher in the table,in a tougher league 2 than this year, and on about referreing decisions, the ones against Coventry were some of the worst i have seen in 30 years, and today he has kept Northampton in League 1, so it must be a fairly effective style
i can think of many managers even recently such as Ardley, Burcnall, etc which wwere far worse

I am of the opinion that football is about winning, whether nice, passing , or bullies i do not care as long as its effective,

this is something notts have failed on this year, whilst you can get away with good passing in a poor national league when you have players like langstaff and ruben , you cant get away with it in league 2 without more league 1 standard players which sadly we do not have

i think crowleys departure in january cost us promotion this year, he was never replaced, and the january transfer window was extremely poor ,

Exactly, I said it was subjective. I can?t say it wasn?t effective for a while, because we made the playoffs?.albeit after squandering a golden chance at automatics, that shouldn?t be glossed over either, and neither should the fact that Nolan?s style set us up perfectly for relegation the following season.

I haven?t seen Northampton play to be fair so maybe he has tweaked his system, and maybe not, but what he served up at Notts wasn?t for me. Burchnall had his faults but at times we saw some lovely football down at the lane that I hadn?t seen since I became a fan and I?ll always prefer that over the football that Nolan served us. Admittedly, that was a league lower.

Yes, the decisions throughout those Coventry playoffs were some of the worst I have seen too. A real sliding doors moment for the two clubs at that time.

[slack_pie]

I was a bit surprised to read that you were more engaged with the club during the Nolan era Slack. That was seriously some of the worst, infuriatingly unimaginative football I have ever seen, anywhere. Though I do understand that it is very subjective, what people like and dislike it just surprised me to see you say it for some reason!

It has been turgid for long spells this season but I?d much rather this than watching some big lump just aimlessly lumping the ball forward to another big lump and invariably watching it come straight back at us. We have seen some absolute garbage for the last 30 years but Nolan?s brand certainly makes my top three of worst ever.

Yeah, I sort of surprised myself saying that. I wouldn't say I prefer the way we played back then, but I remember going into that playoff campaign against Coventry excited and nervous, and I was utterly devastated when we lost. There was a sense that Nolan had made a team out of a somewhat limited group, and there was a bit of spirit in the camp. He was also a natural leader. I went into this playoff campaign expecting us to lose.

We play "better" football now, but I'm getting frustrated by how easily we're bullied and the lack of bite and aggression we show. As someone else perfectly said, it's like the opposition come to ML week in, week out and steal out dinner money, and we're incapable of standing up for ourselves. I want my team to stand its ground and give a little back, especially home.

At Stall said on the recent Magpie Circle, opposition should hate playing against you. Do Wimbledon hate playing against us? Do we hate playing against them? Who's got it right?