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

[countygump]

Dunno. No guarantees in life. Could easily go tits up. Should have struck whilst the iron was hot in Jan & signed players that could go straight into the team, not squad fillers

This^^^ And it's not the 1st time. My only criticism of 'The Boyzs"

[1955pie]

Yes. Next season.

[matt_magpie]

“Resistance”? “Ruthlessly crushed”? It’s only a few people sharing their opinions about Notts - nothing more, nothing less.

Nobody is saying things are perfect at the club, but it’s indisputable based on the league position that we’ve improved from last season. Obviously I’d love it if we were 15 points clear and about to clinch promotion, but we’ve still got nine games left to get into the top three. I personally don’t think we’ll do it due to our poor home form, but live in hope.

As for the strength of the division, isn’t it a good thing that most of the teams are much of a muchness, making things more competitive? I assume this is what the EFL wants with its restrictions on how much you can spend on your team? Better that than the table being determined by the size of your budget.

He?s a strange fella nw6pie, goes on the attack straight away calling people ?apologists? if they don?t think it?s total doom and gloom as uses the exact same words when people don?t agree ?ruthlessly crushed? sad and weird
The best bit is he doesn?t go to the games.

[The_Pie_Man]

He?s a strange fella nw6pie, goes on the attack straight away calling people ?apologists? if they don?t think it?s total doom and gloom as uses the exact same words when people don?t agree ?ruthlessly crushed? sad and weird
The best bit is he doesn?t go to the games.

Ok, Comical_ali_magpie - I will bite. Again.

Have you got any proof whatsoever that I do not go to games? If you do, please provide it - I cannot wait to see it. If, as I suspect, you do not, kindly shut your mouth.

With fondest regards,

A well wisher.

[Boomerangpie]

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!

What a strange post. I think you are inside your own head reading some of your posts.

Let me get this right you think the standard of League Two is shocking. You think big spending Port Vale and Chesterfield are dross. It?s weaker this season because of doesn?t have a fourth tier anomaly that was Wrexham and to a lesser degree Stockport. We have mostly average players and a reactive (unimpressive?) manager?

This is the fourth tier of English football. Let?s not forget.

With all that in mind you predicted we would finish 15th so you should be happy with our position right now and throughout the season. If being happy is a stretch then you must be pleasantly surprised all things considered?

[Elite_Pie]

With all that in mind you predicted we would finish 15th so you should be happy with our position right now and throughout the season.

You either have a photographic memory for what each and every poster predicted pre-season regarding where we would finish, or you are a really sad b@stard who repeatedly checks back simply to score cheap points.

Given who you really are, I will go for the latter.

[upthemaggies]

You either have a photographic memory for what each and every poster predicted pre-season regarding where we would finish, or you are a really sad b@stard who repeatedly checks back simply to score cheap points.

Given who you really are, I will go for the latter.

For somebody who regularly takes issue with other posters being negative, it's odd that Boomerang's prediction league forecasts this season reveal him to be among those who have the very least faith in Maynard.
If all of his predictions were correct, we'd be averaging 1.39 PPG, which would place us 12th.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

For somebody who regularly takes issue with other posters being negative, it's odd that Boomerang's prediction league forecasts this season reveal him to be among those who have the very least faith in Maynard.
If all of his predictions were correct, we'd be averaging 1.39 PPG, which would place us 12th.

i remember a certain poster who used to bet against us all the time and in fact won the prediction league last season.If i remember correctly he was doing value bets predicting we would lose. i think he won the table by predicting the away game where we lost to Aldershot where we got beat 3-1 or something like that, i think this game amassed him quite a fist full of points...! i forget his name now but it was strange because he was a big fan of the manager and team and seemed to berate county mad posters more than he did the team.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

Dunno. No guarantees in life. Could easily go tits up. Should have struck whilst the iron was hot in Jan & signed players that could go straight into the team, not squad fillers

Dont you realise that's not the model..we dont do boom n bust with these owners ...
Ps I dont believe they are meant to be squad fillers. They are youngsters that have been identified to have the potential to become very good first team players with the correct coaching and time invested in them.Good enough to become not only first teamers but match winners that would be desired by others if their gamble and investment comes to fruition...x

[upthemaggies]

Dont you realise that's not the model..we dont do boom n bust with these owners ...
Ps I dont believe they are meant to be squad fillers. They are youngsters that have been identified to have the potential to become very good first team players with the correct coaching and time invested in them.Good enough to become not only first teamers but match winners that would be desired by others if their gamble and investment comes to fruition...x

Boom and bust isn't the only alternative outcome, you could boom and reap the rewards. That's the gamble.

The current owners are basically the equivalent of keeping possession and playing for the penalty shoot out, rather than trying to win in normal time. Yes, that might deliver the desired outcome, but you can't really blame sections of the crowd for getting frustrated and kicking off if they end up conceding a late goal to lose, or suffering the heartbreak of losing the shoot-out.

We have gone for it in the past and got knocked out, so I can see why many are favouring and accepting caution, but if that approach fails and keeps on failing then there will be an inevitable loss of patience and backlash. Going up under Williams wouldn't have entirely erased the memory of just how frustrating things got under Burch and Ardley.