Sat 1st/Sun 2nd February fixtures

[thewwfc]

We face Cambridge away, 18th in the home form table faces 4th in the away table.

The glamour TV game on Sunday is an interesting one, if the Gas fuck this one up then they could seriously be needing to look over their shoulders given Burton's recent form, Posh have had some terrible results too so this possibly won't be one for the purist.

 

[dannylad01]

Mansfield can't lose to 3 of the bottom 4 in a week. With injuries galore for Shrewsbury, will be a narrow away win unless we get some reinforcements before the weekend

 

[HutchECFC]

Stevenage 5-0 Exeter

 

[denzel ecfc]

Stevenage 5-0 Exeter

And a Jamie Reid hattrick

 

[Master D]

Beleaguered Parky really needs a win here.

 

[E10rifle]

Stockport smashed us 3-zip in their last visit to E10, though to be fair they had something to play for whilst our players were all hungover. Massive game which I think will be extremely cagey. Two more injuries versus Exeter puts us right on the cusp of crisis in that department. Down to our last fit senior player(s) at GK, CB, DCM, RW and CF.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

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We face Cambridge away, 18th in the home form table faces 4th in the away table.

The glamour TV game on Sunday is an interesting one, if the Gas fuck this one up then they could seriously be needing to look over their shoulders given Burton's recent form, Posh have had some terrible results too so this possibly won't be one for the purist.

What do you mean 'if' we fuck it up ... We have been looking over our shoulders all season. The fact we are where we are just shows how shocking the bottom end of this league is.

 

[Conker]

Feels an important game, I don’t think (hope) we can play any worse than in our last two. I’m not confident mind, we just suddenly look flat and hopeless no idea where it’s come from.

 

[Pilot_Phonic]

Beleaguered Parky really needs a win here.

Can't see us picking much up in the next month of fixtures. PP has to shoulder the blame on the most for last night, but then again we've been shite for weeks/months at both home and away.

 

[Stocky]

Stockport smashed us 3-zip in their last visit to E10, though to be fair they had something to play for whilst our players were all hungover. Massive game which I think will be extremely cagey. Two more injuries versus Exeter puts us right on the cusp of crisis in that department. Down to our last fit senior player(s) at GK, CB, DCM, RW and CF.

I think the difference is you're in good form and actually playing well by the sounds of things. We've strung 3 wins together but performances look quite laboured.

I would probably agree it will be tight. Would be content with a point.

 

[AdamStag]

Mansfield can't lose to 3 of the bottom 4 in a week. With injuries galore for Shrewsbury, will be a narrow away win unless we get some reinforcements before the weekend

You want to bet?

We’ve got a decent squad on paper, just not pace or energy really - we look tired.

For however much he gets his plaudits from us given the job he’s done - cloughs had a bad week at the office.

His tactics and refusal to bring on subs until too late at cambridge was a farce, again yesterday he didn’t really make the changes that were expected and then played a formation for a time which required wingers which we don’t have.

Furthermore he’s said we don’t require any reinforcements in midfield/attack when it’s blatantly obvious we do.

I’d take a point just to put another on the board.

To a degree we’re guilty of our own early success, we don’t have the much bigger budgets of wrexham and stockport and had you said we’d be in 12th at the end of Jan and 13 points clear of the relegation zone any Mansfield fan would’ve readily gone for it.

 

[Stocky]

Cloughie on the beach now he's won his cup final at Edgeley Park. Did the same last year when you won at ours in early January. Didn't regain any form until about March, which basically set us up to win the League Two title. Thanks for that, Nigel.

 

[AdamStag]

Cloughie on the beach now he's won his cup final at Edgeley Park. Did the same last year when you won at ours in early January. Didn't regain any form until about March, which basically set us up to win the League Two title. Thanks for that, Nigel.

I’m beginning to wonder if clough needs a restraining order from you, i’ve never known someone so infatuated with another clubs manager before.

It’s not healthy, go get a job or a girlfriend.

 

[Conker]

We are having a really good season, these last two stinkers don’t change that. We do need to see a response Saturday though.

 

[Stocky]

We are having a really good season, these last two stinkers don’t change that. We do need to see a response Saturday though.

Absolutely. I'm only messing around re: Clough, AdamStag knows that.

There is a reason managers like Clough, Challinor and Parkinson are in the top 5 longest serving EFL managers at their current clubs. They all have done excellent jobs but more importantly they never let things gets out of control and when a dip inevitably comes, they stay calm, come out fighting and find something else be it a slight tweak of system or personnel.

 

[Moomin]

Stevenage 5-0 Exeter

After 23 minutes

 

[Bartonyellow]

Barnsley away.
Im going for a 1-1 draw which would be a fantastic result for us if we could get it.

 

[Luke Imp]

Wigan away.

Despite the result on Tuesday, we actually played ok and getting something here will be a decent points return over the last four games and probably gets us out of our rut of form.

 

[EnglishRed]

I’m beginning to wonder if clough needs a restraining order from you, i’ve never known someone so infatuated with another clubs manager before.

It’s not healthy, go get a job or a girlfriend.

He's got a girlfriend. And her name is Nigel Clough.

 

[The Terminator]

Should be an entertaining game aginst the Stocks, in the reverse fixture we was quite clinical with our chances 4-1 wasn't a true reflection of the game as a whole.

Massive blows to lose Omar Beckles and Sean Clare on Tuesday night, Beckles has been excellent this season and is one of the leaders for us on the pitch. Brandon Cooper isn't as good and Dan Happe is just coming back from injury himself and with Jack Simpson not back until next week we're a bit short at centre half.

Azeem Abdulai will again keep his place on the left hand side after his hatrick midweek, he might get moved into his more natural midfield role if we're short on numbers there as well.

Can see the Stocks beating us as we did look a bit suspect at the back on Tuesday despite winning 6-2 and losing Beckles I think will underline that.

 

[Stocky]

Should be an entertaining game aginst the Stocks, in the reverse fixture we was quite clinical with our chances 4-1 wasn't a true reflection of the game as a whole.

Massive blows to lose Omar Beckles and Sean Clare on Tuesday night, Beckles has been excellent this season and is one of the leaders for us on the pitch. Brandon Cooper isn't as good and Dan Happe is just coming back from injury himself and with Jack Simpson not back until next week we're a bit short at centre half.

Azeem Abdulai will again keep his place on the left hand side after his hatrick midweek, he might get moved into his more natural midfield role if we're short on numbers there as well.

Can see the Stocks beating us as we did look a bit suspect at the back on Tuesday despite winning 6-2 and losing Beckles I think will underline that.

I thought you thoroughly deserved to win at Edgeley Park.

I don't see us winning the game if I'm honest, wouldn't say no to a hard earned away point. I rate you lot, I think you've got some really tidy players. Beckles always looks a proper centre half to me, bonus for us if he's out.

 

[Conker]

Absolutely. I'm only messing around re: Clough, AdamStag knows that.

There is a reason managers like Clough, Challinor and Parkinson are in the top 5 longest serving EFL managers at their current clubs. They all have done excellent jobs but more importantly they never let things gets out of control and when a dip inevitably comes, they stay calm, come out fighting and find something else be it a slight tweak of system or personnel.

My post was more aimed at our own fans after reading some of the entitled comments after last night, admittedly we have been awful in the last two but a bit of perspective, considering we sit 12th (with a few games in hand) sitting on £800k of transfer profit in our first season back in L1 in about two decades.

At the same time we cannot shy away from just how bad we’ve been in those two gamer, earlier in the season if we didn’t perform against the likes of Crawley/Cambridge we would still win just due to the superior quality in the side but that’s dried up atm.

 

[EricSabin]

Hudders at home. Their form is a bit patchy but we will only score one goal in the game so hopefully keep it tight and nick one at the other end.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Slightly more optimistic with our two signings yesterday though Alli has gone so will probably only be 2-0

 

[Hudders]

Hudders at home. Their form is a bit patchy but we will only score one goal in the game so hopefully keep it tight and nick one at the other end.

Happy to be away after recent home performances and we can’t be as bad as the last time we met, agree it should be low scoring.
Is the bus the best bet for the ground pre and post match if coming on the train?

 

[EricSabin]

Happy to be away after recent home performances and we can’t be as bad as the last time we met, agree it should be low scoring.
Is the bus the best bet for the ground pre and post match if coming on the train?

Yeah will be, bus to the ground goes from the Drapery (Shipmans/Pennyloafer pubs right on the drapery). If you walk there’s a route with Thomas Becket and the Sevens pub on the way for pit stops that walking wise takes about half hour. After the game the bus goes from the top of the hill I believe.

 

[Casey]

0-0 after 70 minutes. On comes Jay Rodrigues and there go our chances.

It will be interesting to see who we have in goal. Wollacott has been our first choice all season but didn't travel to Mansfield. New kid comes in on loan saying he has come as he needs games. Have we sold Wollacott? Is he injured?

Jeremy Kelly has been playing with an ankle injury that finally got the better of him on Tuesday. Regarded as our best player and we do miss him (normally) when he doesn't play.

Would love to see us build on Tuesday.

Casey

 

[denzel ecfc]

What is the point? Diabolical defending is costing us goals every game. Should have got a centre back in weeks ago, this is going to cost us in the league

 

[ForzaCounty]

What is the point? Diabolical defending is costing us goals every game. Should have got a centre back in weeks ago, this is going to cost us in the league

Just seen the goals. Safe to say your man Diabate isn't having the best of days.

 

[Conker]

I’ve got the Barnsley game on, if they had someone like Lee Gregory upfront they would have so many more points on the board.