Newport

[gazan]

100% must win. No ifs, no buts. No hanging on at the end because we've scraped a single goal. We all saw how crap Newport are live on the BBC. They haven't won a game under the new manager so no bounce. I want to see us upping our shots on target. No second or third touches, just shoot. Our goal difference has been sinking - it needs boosting in these next two home matches.
My forecast.....probably 1-1!!!

[gazan]

Oh and play football (in their half!!). Don't be drawn into a hoofball competition.

[lukcour]

Please, please a win We are now getting to the stage where we need a win to give our players a bit of confidence. However I have no confidence in LB and RD. Don`t like giving predictions but based on recent performances expect a draw or another loss.

The standard of our football is just not good enough for League2. That has to be clear to anyone who has any knowledge of the beautiful gcacme. But this low standard has become the norm. It leaves me having to ask a question "Doeas anyone connected to the Club care?"

[MikeSB]

Please, please a win We are now getting to the stage where we need a win to give our players a bit of confidence. However I have no confidence in LB and RD. Don`t like giving predictions but based on recent performances expect a draw or another loss.

The standard of our football is just not good enough for League2. That has to be clear to anyone who has any knowledge of the beautiful gcacme. But this low standard has become the norm. It leaves me having to ask a question "Doeas anyone connected to the Club care?"

The answer is NO my friend as the Chairman appoints people as managers who have NO experience of managing a professional football club and it could be they are cheap as chips to pay? The play off final result we had last time was a disgrace to lose to such a poor team who were relegated with a thump!

I think we stopped caring after Dario it would seem! IMO we are not an 'academy' football club but a professional league club but then they don't care about that either and most opposition managers say we ie CAFC lost their flow of football quality a long time ago..

[jimmyboldon]

The answer is NO my friend as the Chairman appoints people as managers who have NO experience of managing a professional football club and it could be they are cheap as chips to pay? The play off final result we had last time was a disgrace to lose to such a poor team who were relegated with a thump!

I think we stopped caring after Dario it would seem! IMO we are not an 'academy' football club but a professional league club but then they don't care about that either and most opposition managers say we ie CAFC lost their flow of football quality a long time ago..

Did you go?
Some of the players we put out should not have been on the pitch due to injuries.
Crawley were gutted player wise after promotion. 4 key players were sold, and several were out of contract and did not renew. Hence relegation…with a bump. But, don’t let facts/reasons get in the way of the narrative.

[LordK]

All,

The days of Dario are long gone, in these 'woke' days, to be honest nobody wishes to even mention him.

We have what we have the Directors (according to the accounts), who rite personal checks between $100-250K each (last years accounts, it looked like 4 of them). In a poor season the revenue struggles to meet outgoings, so Directors asked to write a check!. In a promotion year we expect player investment!, so another check for improved first team squad. At Crewe with so much football locally we cannot expect a 4000 crowd to swell to 8000 people, just will not happen! If you look at the demographic of Wrexham, its amazing, however Crewe, Nantwich, Sandbach, are basically commuter towns with less and lees what you would call local or 3-4th generation folk with the demise of Industry, Wrexham you live there and nothing else. So I can symptomize, the Directors only invest out of the goodness of the hearts not to receive any return financially. Academy funding (75% funding at least provided from Premier league and based on the quality of the Academy) as I have mentioned previously cannot be used for 1st Team salaries, transfers or improvements.

So we are where we are.

Right Newport,

a slippery slope, I did attend hospitality a few years ago with my Brother (a Newport resident at that time, now deceased), the room (well over 120 folk) was sold out (this is versus Crewe), full 2 x hours before the game with lines outside waiting to be let in. The ground, well, whilst historic is a dump. Gresty Road for all its failings (the large stand, screwing the playing surface and making the ground unbalanced to visit), still retains a semblance of a decent ground, with probably the best communications Train, A50/M6. The new stand, doubled as the gym in early days, before Reaseheath. So Newport< i can see sliding out of the league and struggling to return, not a position I wish Crewe to be in. The Directors, looking for external funding (I know, I have been quizzed about US Investment). Investment especially minority investment is difficult to attract, again Wrexham, basically backed into a position of take over or going out of business.

The game, right again, this is a must WIN, I would like to see a clean sheet and 3-0 (I would then wake up a happy man). However its going to be scrappy, so I say 3-1, with Newport pushing us till what the 98th minute. The return of our striker from Southport, makes me think Josh injury not 100% yet and they also looking at January window and who my depart.

Thoughts from others as always appreciated.

Lord K

[MikeSB]

Did you go?
Some of the players we put out should not have been on the pitch due to injuries.
Crawley were gutted player wise after promotion. 4 key players were sold, and several were out of contract and did not renew. Hence relegation…with a bump. But, don’t let facts/reasons get in the way of the narrative.

OK but one would think that getting promotion would encourage players to stay on but they cannot ignore bigger wages and transfer fees if that was on offer elsewhere..

Re Injuries?

Why have our players so many injuries in what now the game is soft touch to how it used to be and think the club had a discussion before about the methods of training we had and whether we were asking too much of them. Its not just the odd days they are out and some are out weeks and weeks and months and again its probably just me but I wonder whether we signed players not suitable for professional football and again it IS me but I do not think its a good idea for academy graduates to be playing at so young an age when they need three or four seasons to get up to scratch and then hey presto, they want to leave asap for the big money....And in some ways you cannot blame them as that is what people do in all walks of life.

I think the club needs to slow down on the physical stuff and allow players to rest up more. tbh, I don't know what tehy need an academy or some where to train 5 days a week and they even run around like maniacs AFTER the match has finished....Perhaps the manager has no idea about how fit his players should be as again imo the game is dainty fairy to what it used to be when there was real physical stuff going on on the pitch...

A fairy can play today...

[lukcour]

Just seen the team selection and for me looks like we are set up not to lose. I do hope I am wrong and we do not once again play hoofball and the one thing we are becoming known as. The team that gives the ball away.

[Harlzed]

Where do you start with that. Yes a lot of bad luck but we should not have been in that position. At 2-1 up against ten they had a spell of chance after chance and we still didn?t heed the warning. So much that could be said about the game but for me it comes down to what it?s been about all season - we have a very poor defence. Some of those defenders aren?t league two standard and they?re not improving.

[gazan]

The game lived down to my expectations. 15 or 20 minutes where I thought my expectations had been all wrong but then it all became too familiar. I don't want to say any more other than this team, despite an abundance of talent is never going to be promoted, particularly, I am afraid to say, with the current management.