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  1. Flaxman's Alibi

    2017/18 League TwoTable Predictions

    Mansfield, Chesterfield and Lincoln aren't in the East Midlands, they're in the often dismissed 'North Midland Triangle': a region that's neither North nor Midlands, not wanted or recognised by either region, who are both happy to hand the triangle over to the other. I worked in 'proper...
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    New kits for the 2017/2018 season

    We're going to wait for Carlisle to find a couple of efforts that they like and then offer the designer more money for them.
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    You need to look for the mansize tissues next time you pass the supermarket. You'll slip in all that dripping snot and tears.
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    We've got shite because all our council tax gets spent on the upkeep of the golden paved metropolis down the road. Mansfield has nowt: no jobs, no character, no flare, nothing to shout about. However, the locals realise this, understand their place in the world and thus have no airs and graces...
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    We're gonna gizz over this inferior metal container organisation.
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    Anybody who has properly watched Rhead over the years will realise that the big fella is just as capable with his feet as he is with his head. Only the ignorant think that he's just a big unit who's a useful flick-on merchant. His touch defies his look.
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    I'm fairly confident that it's not exclusively the only football fans forum which has its share of dreamers, wafflers, doom merchants and knee-jerk grumblers.
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    Mitch Rose is a good lad. Tenacious and hardworking and fairly versatile. I think a lot of our fans were disappointed to see him leave because he has bundles of potential. However, Evans binned him off previously from Rotherham, so it wasn't a surprise when he gave him the boot again. Surprised...
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    I think Lincoln will do well too. Definitely top 7 potential. They have some players that look limited on paper, however, they clearly work as a team and that will bode well for them. Let's face it, dismantle this division apart and who jumps out as having more quality than the rest? Can't...
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    He's got tons of potential and can chip in with a goal or two. He's too good for League 2 and it's a natural move for him to go to a good club in the division higher. If he's nurtured properly he'll have a future higher than League 1.
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    Daft guesses by clueless characters on biased forum shocker.
  12. Flaxman's Alibi

    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    Can't argue with any of that. Overspending guarantees nothing. The most sensible of our support has both sets of fingers crossed that all ends well, but this is Mansfield and we never foolishly expect anything other than eventual disappointment.
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    For Mansfield Town standards we are definitely splashing the cash. Although I don't think it'll be any more than the other biggest spenders in this league in the next season. Let's face it, Tubby Evans wouldn't be here if the One Call purse strings hadn't been opened wider than usual. He's even...
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    We're not a smaller club than you. Historically we are very similar. You've had an exceptional season which has created a perfect storm of public interest. We've all been to Sincil Bank when the home support has been woeful. Enjoy this period, you're back in the League and it's a joyous...
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    I have sympathy with fans of rival clubs who see other clubs overspending - I've been watching others doing it for forty years. It's an annoyance when the financial playing field is lopsided. What I would say about my club is that despite being a smaller club, for decades we competed. Then in...
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    Exactly how I'd expect Mellis to have been critiqued to be honest. Any lad that spirals from Premier->Championship->League 1->League 2 in almost as many years tells his own story. First of the signings to really come with significant doubts attached. Although there will be plenty of competition...
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    Collins is reliable and versatile, I like him and can't think of many occasions were he let us down. Can play across the back line but had his better moments for us playing as a deep lying midfielder, protecting the back four. He's a good signing.
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    Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

    You won't find a Mansfield fan saying any positives to describe Hawkridge mate. He played five times and showed absolutely nothing. Notts Police were almost consulted to conduct missing person searches.
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    Steve Evans - that good?

    Having Evans as your gaffer is a bit like shagging the local bike: she's hanging out of her arse but close your eyes, switch off your senses and you might just have an enjoyably wild time...... .....then you just hang on and pray that your pals don't find out.
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    Steve Evans - that good?

    No you don't. You're prime for talking bollocks. My opinion is, if Evans wants to leave then let him go, but demand a fee and use it to pay the next man; who I'd hope would want to be here. The Evans circus is already climbing all over my tits. I imagine that the bloke himself is lathered up...
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