⚽ Match Thread vs. Chesterfield FC 15.03.25 [EFL L2]

[MAD_MAGPIE]

I thought we were decent in the first half and as has been the case many times this season we could not capitalise on our dominance and needed to go in a goal up at least at half time. Second half the intensity dropped a bit and we did go into ourselves a bit as Chesterfield took more control. But again we had our chances. Didzy and Jatta are the main goalscorers and we could do with someone else scoring regularly goals when they don?t so they don?t have to carry all the responsibility.

It?s clear there is will be a section of the fan base that do not accept SM and never will and every defeat its a catastrophe and the club is doomed which they are entitled to their opinions. I do think we are missing something that extra piece of ruthlessness to kill teams off so to speak, but we really do need to get behind SM and the team for the remaining nine games and be the 12th man especially when the outcome of this season is still an unknown and conjecture as to how it will transpire.

Since the start of the season it?s been said there are no stand out candidates in this division and half the teams are candidates for promotion and this has come to fruition.

Despite losing we are still only two points off automatic which just shows the title, automatics and playoffs are their for the taking for a team that can have a five or six game winning run. We just have to hope we can be that team.

The team to watch Colchester recently under the Cowleys have now entered the playoff mix and are now top of the form guide in the last six.

One thing is for sure we are going to get put through the mill regardless in the last nine games and that would be typical Notts.

[The_Don_ORiordan]

A game where if we take even half our chances that we should we win. We don?t and they capitalise. Same at home against Port Vale, Walsall, Gillingham.

By far the better team in the first half and first 15 of the second, then the inevitable fade, SM takes no action and they get the goal.

We get back in it but fade again.

Too many times at home this season for us to get in the top three.

[BigFatPie]

We don?t even do the thing that everyone else and sustain a tactical injury when the momentum shifts and we?re under pressure. Their first goal had been coming for about 15 minutes, but the head coach just let it happen. Does he think that if we have a tactical time out no one will listen to him anyway?

[marky]

We've taken 8 points from 8 matches which is normally just above relegation form yet we're two points off the automatic promotion. It's almost unbelievable how weak this league is.

[Mark_Ross]

We've taken 8 points from 8 matches which is normally just above relegation form yet we're two points off the automatic promotion. It's almost unbelievable how weak this league is.

There's very little difference between the top & bottom of L2 in terms of quality. The points difference is deceptive.

[Lullapie]

We've taken 8 points from 8 matches which is normally just above relegation form yet we're two points off the automatic promotion. It's almost unbelievable how weak this league is.

Or is the league strong - a strong league with teams of similar quality?

[SwalePie]

Or is the league strong - a strong league with teams of similar quality?

I've had the same thought but then it would sound even less credible for people to criticise Maynard for every thing he does or doesn't do.

[Lullapie]

I've had the same thought but then it would sound even less credible for people to criticise Maynard for every thing he does or doesn't do.

Spot on.

[matt_magpie]

That?s my view bar the 3 big spenders that went up are we saying all the other clubs have suddenly have weakened over the summer?

[The_Pie_Man]

Good God - it is a convention of apologists.

It is not, in any way, a *strong* league. What an utterly deluded notion. The standard of the division is shocking. Week after week, we play teams who set out solely to defend with their low block and every time, we struggle to deal with it. I have not seen a team this year that I would describe as impressive. The fact that we are as bang average as everyone else is not something to be proud of.

We are hardly playing bloody Liverpool and Real Madrid! There is not even a Stockport or a Wrexham. The reality is that we are meekly losing to dross like Vale and Chesterfield, due to a combination of (mostly) average players and a manager who could not spell proactive if he was given a dictionary.

Realism is required. Then again, given the names of the most recent contributors, is the line of argument a surprise? Any resistance to the status quo must be ruthlessly crushed!