I really don't understand why it takes so long for other teams to rumble any Evans team. He never changes. We, like everywhere he goes, allowed him a few marquee signings which plastered over his complete lack of coaching skills and cajoling/bullying form of management.
Even during our terrible...
A relief to get the win last night. Not a great performance, particularly in the first half, but results are what matter, more than ever.
Really pleased for Hawkins too. He gets isolated up front but usually puts himself about and seems to boss most defenders. Ironically, last night he was...
But what about backing in? At the start, Akins was doing that and, although the pictures are not conclusive, it looks like he might have had hold of Ehmer as well. You are entitled as a defender to stand your ground.
What I took from it was that it looked like a typical six of one, half a dozen...
If I was a betting man, I would quite fancy Mansfield for automatic promotion. Only Carlisle have scored more but, before yesterday, you had conceded 6 more than us.
That seemed strange considering how well you managed the game. I can not see why you played Hawkins at the back so maybe you have...
True. For all our signings, we still have no pace in the team.
You deserved to win, but your commentators on ifollow seem to think you are Real Madrid, which is really weird. Genuinely deluded.
Morris did play well but your keeper denied Lapslie at the end when he should have scored. Lapslie...
Deserve to be behind but not 2-0
Akins backs in to Ehmer, having a piece of his shirt. Ehmer has a piece of Akins' shirt. Ehmer clears, Akins stays on his feet. Ref gives a penalty. WTF?
Meanwhile, Mansfield defenders have hold of Hawkins at every opportunity, and ref ignores.
Where do they...
I am not sure about Crawley. Despite the idiots in the boardroom, they looked lively in the first half and scored three at home the previous week. You would not have believed they were winless away from home.
Mind you, second half they just looked resigned to defeat after we scored.
Appointing...
I am a lot more optimistic now we have some momentum. Many of our lot were cursing Hartlepool and Harrogate matching our 1-0 win yesterday but that just moves us all closer to the pack who many be drawn in.
Most important is that positive results breed confidence and the luck starts falling...
Agree that both penalties were ludicrous from a football point of view but I have a feeling that under the current ludicrous rules, the ref was right.
In fact, with our pen, your defender did actually have his hands up which is a more "unnatural position" but, come on, there is such a thing as...
Our two goals last week came from one cross and one corner delivered by Macdonald. We had only scored 7 goals in all before the turn of the year so not sure that width that Adelakun gives us is very productive.
Took over a thousand to Colchester last Saturday. Sung our hearts out despite still holding the rest of the league up, whereas the rest of the stadium was like a morgue from the start. Even our infantile chants didn't get a rise out of them, even "you must be sh*t, we're winning away"...
Amazing that, apart from Donny, you are still the only team we have done the double over this season....weird.
A bit like Donny's wins over MK and Sunderland, I suppose.
I agree that it is between us, Morecambe and Fleetwood as to who goes down as I think the Wombles will be broken by the...
We certainly now have a chance but, with such a threadbare squad, a lot still depends on keeping as clear as possible from any more injuries.
If we do somehow survive, we have got to back Harris with a realistic budget. Most of our players are out of contract in the summer so the decks will be...
Incredible effort from Harris to change the disorganised rabble that Evans left him in to a pretty coordinated, hard to beat, team.
Our lack of goal threat against the better teams could well still cost us as I think we have now played Crewe, Donny, Morecambe and AFCW twice each. Makes the...
It was seven at our place. Those Addicks don't even know how to be properly sh*t !!
The powder puff attack we have been left with were never going to score against Plymouth and their keeper ended up with gloves as clean as we had expected. Only needed one goal to settle it but at least Harris...
The odds are certainly against us.
I see you could only name 5 subs last night. We were in the same, if not worse, position in early December when we named just 4 youth players as subs at Rotherham, then only 5 subs at Fleetwood.
Evans decided to sacrifice numbers for better quality at the...
Finally got the monkey off our back after 3 months. Far too late to survive but may allow us a dignified relegation with something more than a whimper and a record low points total.
Also nice to have a manager with his eyes on the pitch, organising and encouraging, rather than looking for...