Sat 2nd Jan 2021

[FGR Stroud]

Today, midday Wednesday only one match has been postponed: Bradford v Morecambe.
I suspect by Saturday there will be others but in the meantime here is the full fixture list:

 

[FGR Stroud]

Barrow AFC's home record this season: 2-6-2.
Josh Kay has more yellow cards (6) than any other player at Barrow AFC. Pierce Sweeney has collected 3 for Exeter.
Exeter's away record this season: 2-6-1.

Eoin Doyle is Bolton's top scorer with 8 goals. Max Watters has scored 13 times for Crawley.
Crawley haven't lost in their last 8 games.
Crawley have lost none of their last 7 away matches.

Colchester haven't won in their last 5 games.
A year ago, Colchester were number 6 in the table with 31 points. Now they are number 11 with 28 points.
Jevani Brown is Colchester's top scorer with 7 goals. James Vaughan has scored 9 times for Tranmere.

Forest Green's home record this season: 5-3-1.
Jamille Matt is Forest Green's top scorer with 9 goals. Conor McAleny has scored 9 times for Oldham.
Oldham have lost none of their last 8 away matches.

A year ago, Grimsby were number 15 in the table with 23 points. Now they are number 22 with 19 points.
Matthew Pollock is Grimsby's top scorer with 3 goals. Paul Mullin has scored 16 times for Cambridge.
Cambridge have lost 3 away matches in a row.

Cheltenham haven't won in their last 6 games.
Harrogate's home record this season: 1-3-5.
Harrogate have played 6 home matches in a row without winning.

Salford's away record this season: 4-0-4.
Danny Johnson is Leyton's top scorer with 13 goals. Ian Henderson has scored 7 times for Salford.
A year ago, Leyton were number 17 in the table with 21 points. Now they are number 12 with 27 points.

Port Vale haven't won in their last 5 games.
Mansfield's home record this season: 0-6-4.
Ollie Clarke has more yellow cards (4) than any other player at Mansfield. Leon Legge has collected 4 for Port Vale.

Newport County haven't won in their last 4 games.
Newport County's home record this season: 7-1-1.
Southend's away record this season: 1-3-5.

Scunthorpe's away record this season: 3-0-6.
Danny Newton has more yellow cards (5) than any other player at Stevenage. Lewis Spence has collected 5 for Scunthorpe.
Aramide Oteh is Stevenage's top scorer with 3 goals. Abo Eisa has scored 4 times for Scunthorpe.

Elijah Adebayo is Walsall's top scorer with 8 goals. Jon Mellish has scored 7 times for Carlisle.
Rory Holden has more yellow cards (5) than any other player at Walsall. Jon Mellish has collected 6 for Carlisle.
A year ago, Carlisle were number 18 in the table with 20 points. Now they are number 3 with 36 points.

 

[shoddycollins]

Decent opportunity to go top... Newport could come unstuck against a resurgent Southend (if indeed their game goes ahead) while FGR have a tricky game against Oldham if the good Oldham turn up, and they are better away from home.

Entirely possible though that we all slip up and Salford take advantage, they looked awful when we played them so I hope they're just as bad and get rolled over by Orient.

 

[Myblueheaven04]

Decent opportunity to go top... Newport could come unstuck against a resurgent Southend (if indeed their game goes ahead) while FGR have a tricky game against Oldham if the good Oldham turn up, and they are better away from home.

Entirely possible though that we all slip up and Salford take advantage, they looked awful when we played them so I hope they're just as bad and get rolled over by Orient.

If the good oldham turn up we can beat anyone in this league, problem at Grimsby was that both our goalscorers were injured and bobby grant was suspended, so we played a 17 year old youth player up top.
If we have rowe and mccelany back we will score goals, rowe is different class.

 

[Casey]

Watched Crawley against Newport and we were bad. Watched Crawley v FGR and we were really good. 4 points from the top two in the division is really good but which team will turn up v Bolton ?

Will Watters play? Probably the biggest game of the season coming up the week after (Leeds in the fa cup) so if he aint fully recovered from a "slight hamstring" I would suggest it would be better to leave him out.

I will remain hopeful and say we will win by 1-3 but the 3rd from a breakaway at the end.

Casey

 

[BarraMatt]

Matt Handjob has just shoved us into Tier 4 despite the Furness area being one of the lowest areas in the country in terms of cases, so last night's game was the last with fans for the foreseeable.

 

[hellogregory]

Anderton will still be isolating so we’ll go into this game with the same patched up back 4 that has conceded 4 goals in 100 minutes of football.

Its made a huge negative difference to us sadly. Hayden filling in at RB, an unfit McDonald coming in to centre back. Previously with Bennett and Hayden as the centre back pairing we’d conceded 3 goals in 7 games with only about 6 shots on target for the opposition. So more conceded in 1.1 games than in the previous 7.

Add to this Kayode might be back at Rotherham by then, and with Toure in France for personal reasons it leaves us short.

Can only see a comfortable Walsall win unfortunately.

Walsall 3-0 Carlisle United

 

[shoddycollins]

Matt Handjob has just shoved us into Tier 4 despite the Furness area being one of the lowest areas in the country in terms of cases, so last night's game was the last with fans for the foreseeable.

Yeah, Copeland has the lowest infection rate in England, yet Tier 4 it is.

Anyway, there'll be no fans at games anywhere now since the lowest is Tier 3. Was fun while it lasted.

 

[shoddycollins]

Walsall 3-0 Carlisle United

Good to see the HG we all know and love back. Is there still time to tip us for relegation?

 

[BlackHaddock]

Goalkeeper self isolating and our leading goal scorer, centre-half Matty Pollock banned for 5 yellows. Even though Cam-Bridge seem to have struggled a bit lately they should be too strong for our lot (unless Hurst actually arrives and sorts something sharpish).

 

[hellogregory]

Good to see the HG we all know and love back. Is there still time to tip us for relegation?

I wouldn’t be giving that prediction if I thought we’d be lining up with our first choice back 4, or even 3/4 of our first choice back 4.

Plus reports in Rotherham that they’ll recall JJ Kayode. If they do it’ll be on Friday. They recalled Yates the last 2 January’s.

 

[Andy Proctor]

Unless we can fluke a nil nil draw again then in our current form and the fact we are pretty much putting a reserve side out with youth team players on the bench Mansfield will be guaranteed there 1st home win in the league Saturday.

 

[chipmunx]

Matt Handjob has just shoved us into Tier 4 despite the Furness area being one of the lowest areas in the country in terms of cases, so last night's game was the last with fans for the foreseeable.

#thanksalotCarlisle!

 

[masi51]

This is where i am with this season....... It has been a complete write off like the two seasons previous.
I no longer want us to gain promotion by the play offs and start again next season in lge 1.
I want a full season of watching us home and away with a settled team taking 3k away and visiting your shitty little grounds [Bradford exempt]
I want to go to places like Harrowgate,FGR, Barrow and Carlisle.
Take 3 sides of the ground at Salford, days to remember. I cannot see Evatt fucking it up again the deadwood is slowly being shipped out and we have 5 or six who are as good as anything in this league we just need to bring in another 3/4 this window and the same in the summer
Next season we can go for 100 points and 100 goals and this year will be just a distant nightmare

 

[BlackHaddock]

This is where i am with this season....... It has been a complete write off like the two seasons previous.
I no longer want us to gain promotion by the play offs and start again next season in lge 1.
I want a full season of watching us home and away with a settled team taking 3k away and visiting your shitty little grounds [Bradford exempt]
I want to go to places like Harrowgate,FGR, Barrow and Carlisle.
Take 3 sides of the ground at Salford, days to remember. I cannot see Evatt fucking it up again the deadwood is slowly being shipped out and we have 5 or six who are as good as anything in this league we just need to bring in another 3/4 this window and the same in the summer
Next season we can go for 100 points and 100 goals and this year will be just a distant nightmare

What tablets are you on?

You've got an over active thyroid for sure, verbal diarrhoea and Von Munchenhausen Syndrome by the look of it.

 

[GTFCfish]

Harrowgate ffs.

 

[BlackHaddock]

Goalkeeper self isolating and our leading goal scorer, centre-half Matty Pollock banned for 5 yellows. Even though Cam-Bridge seem to have struggled a bit lately they should be too strong for our lot (unless Hurst actually arrives and sorts something sharpish).

HOT POOP, Hurst takes training on Thursday 31st Dec, confirmed as our new manager earlier today!

 

[Myblueheaven04]

This is where i am with this season....... It has been a complete write off like the two seasons previous.
I no longer want us to gain promotion by the play offs and start again next season in lge 1.
I want a full season of watching us home and away with a settled team taking 3k away and visiting your shitty little grounds [Bradford exempt]
I want to go to places like Harrowgate,FGR, Barrow and Carlisle.
Take 3 sides of the ground at Salford, days to remember. I cannot see Evatt fucking it up again the deadwood is slowly being shipped out and we have 5 or six who are as good as anything in this league we just need to bring in another 3/4 this window and the same in the summer
Next season we can go for 100 points and 100 goals and this year will be just a distant nightmare

Just shown a work colleague this post, he's a bolton fan since the 70s.
Laughed his arse off at it, his opinion of you as a bolton fan isnt very complimentary.
But i suppose you get your kicks.

 

[GTFCfish]

Just shown a work colleague this post, he's a bolton fan since the 70s.
Laughed his arse off at it, his opinion of you as a bolton fan isnt very complimentary.
But i suppose you get your kicks.

In his defence I think he’s just a bit giddy with excitement at visiting the London borough of Harrow-Gate for an away game.

 

[masi51]

i knew i would get a reaction.......Yes my spelling of Harrogate was not the best.
Knew i would get a few bites, thought the Tranmere lads might have a nibble, but the Grimsby lads have proved yet again to be the countries best fishermen.
Happy new year you Bastards

 

[BarraMatt]

i knew i would get a reaction.......Yes my spelling of Harrogate was not the best.
Knew i would get a few bites, thought the Tranmere lads might have a nibble, but the Grimsby lads have proved yet again to be the countries best fishermen.
Happy new year you Bastards

Your spelling of Barro wasn't the best either.

 

[masi51]

Your spelling of Barro wasn't the best either.

Yes sorry it should be Barren

 

[Indian Dan]

Goalkeeper self isolating and our leading goal scorer, centre-half Matty Pollock banned for 5 yellows. Even though Cam-Bridge seem to have struggled a bit lately they should be too strong for our lot (unless Hurst actually arrives and sorts something sharpish).

Our keeper self isolates whilst playing - the fucking useless clown.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Would truly have loved a road trip to Barrow this weekend - I actually contemplated booking a travelodge when the fixtures were announced, but there you go.
We may be close to being at full strength, hopefully Key has finished his isolation as Sweeney may still be crocked.
Thanks to Newport's pitch the players should be fresh and raring to go. No excuses for not taking it to Barrow and coming back with three points

 

[shoddycollins]

#thanksalotCarlisle!

Nothing to do with us. Its Penrith where the big outbreak is

 

[denzel ecfc]

Nothing to do with us. Its Penrith where the big outbreak is

Carlisle is 350! Twice as much as in Somerset which has gone to Tier ⁴

 

[shoddycollins]

Carlisle is 350! Twice as much as in Somerset which has gone to Tier ⁴

We're still not the reason why Cumbria is now tier 4. Like with Somerset, almost everywhere is now tier 4

 

[valefan16]

Mansfield away. They have a dire home record whilst out away from is actually alright, that said we are one of only 3 sides to lose at Stevenage and 4 that Barrow have beaten so that means absolutely nothing.

Not sure if any of the missing bulk of our squad are back, Conlon maybe depending when he started isolating, if he is and fit to start then that probably increases our chances massively as Whitehead is like a baby foal.

Hopefully take the positives from Bradford defensively and build from there and get a point here.

 

[chipmunx]

Mansfield away. They have a dire home record whilst out away from is actually alright, that said we are one of only 3 sides to lose at Stevenage and 4 that Barrow have beaten so that means absolutely nothing.

* Even we scored 4 and won away at Mansfield

 

[chipmunx]

Nothing to do with us. Its Penrith where the big outbreak is

meanwhile in Workington;-