Saturday 14th & Monday 16th January 2023

[Boletus Edulis]

Plod there are c***

Should that not be plural, with an s at the end?

 

[BarrieOwl]

Should that not be plural, with an s at the end?

You know all about being plural tommy two clubs

 

[PlymouthCasual]

Plod there are c***

Cant be worse than South Yorkshire plod surely? In a league of there own them C****

 

[BarrieOwl]

Cant be worse than South Yorkshire plod surely? In a league of there own them C****

SYP are awful West Mids anall I got lifted at Ipswich in 09 cos my pal was pissed

 

[TractorBoys]

Buzzing for this, and have to fancy it at home - but 17/4 for a Plymouth away win is frankly ridiculous. I'd never bet on, or against Ipswich, for a specific match but I'd take that as a neutral all day long.

29k+ sell out confirmed.

 

[HutchECFC]

As has been mentioned, spanked FGR 4-0 at their place, they're bottom of the league, they've lost the last 4....

1-0 away win incoming. Probably scored by Jordan Moore-Taylor

 

[Luke Imp]

We are STINKING at the minute. A manager who can't quite strike the right balance in style of play or attack/defence owing much to the state of an imbalanced squad, lacking depth and poor recruitment for the second season in a row.

Sometimes I look at us and think there's something to work with, and as soon as it looks like we've turned a corner, we reverse back around it again at twice the speed we've come out of it and look devoid of any real quality in the side.

It's a shame the run of games we're about to have aren't in February when we've had a chance to shake the squad up a bit (assuming we have the finances to).

No Virtue, he's going to be a huge miss in CM for the next few weeks and leaves us with terrible options in there. House and Roughan have missed the last couple of games with injuries, which isn't ideal although Hopper scored twice last night. Walsh will be back after his one game ban, Boyes will be available having been cup-tied last night and Kendall is back from his loan spell at Sutton and will make the squad for numbers.

 

[Floreat Salopia]

It’s just been one of those seasons so far where nothing is dropping for us. Record number of players out injured (mostly long term), a bench full of kids, 3/4/5 players playing out of position per game, three red cards already overturned due to incompetent officials (club have written to the FA it’s got that bad). It’s gone past the stage of just ‘rotten luck’ now.

On top of all the above, we head into Burton away on Saturday on the back of four straight defeats. Can’t see it changing either as everything just seems to be stacked against us at the minute. Desperate for a signing or two before Saturday but we’ve had next to no rumours so I can’t imagine anything imminent is in the pipeline.

Burton 1-0 Salop

 

[BRFC_Gas]

It’s just been one of those seasons so far where nothing is dropping for us. Record number of players out injured (mostly long term), a bench full of kids, 3/4/5 players playing out of position per game, three red cards already overturned due to incompetent officials (club have written to the FA it’s got that bad). It’s gone past the stage of just ‘rotten luck’ now.

On top of all the above, we head into Burton away on Saturday on the back of four straight defeats. Can’t see it changing either as everything just seems to be stacked against us at the minute. Desperate for a signing or two before Saturday but we’ve had next to no rumours so I can’t imagine anything imminent is in the pipeline.

Burton 1-0 Salop

Zain Westbrooke is available

 

[Floreat Salopia]

Zain Westbrooke is available

He’s ex Coventry so I wouldn’t be surprised seeing as half our squads from there!

 

[BRFC_Gas]

He’s ex Coventry so I wouldn’t be surprised seeing as half our squads from there!

Great ill just get my keys and ill have him there within a couple of hours

 

[codaplenty]

The U's at home this weekend, at one time we had a phenomenal record against them. We are certainly striking some decent form and hopefully can carry that forward on Saturday. Will be disappointed not to get 3 points, 2-1 to the Cods

 

[denzel ecfc]

The U's at home this weekend, at one time we had a phenomenal record against them. We are certainly striking some decent form and hopefully can carry that forward on Saturday. Will be disappointed not to get 3 points, 2-1 to the Cods

Off topic, but I had to look up who you're playing. I would personally ban any team from having boring nicknames, such as U's, O's or Reds. If they can't think of anything more interesting they should be expelled

 

[codaplenty]

Off topic, but I had to look up who you're playing. I would personally ban any team from having boring nicknames, such as U's, O's or Reds. If they can't think of anything more interesting they should be expelled

The thing is mate, your lads have the refined nickname of the Grecians, shades of Ulysses, Zeus and other immortals
We are just the Cods or Cod Army, come to Fleetwood on a windy day with wind in the wrong direction and you get Isaac Spencer's offering in the air and trust me it's as bad as mustard gas!!

 

[Si Robin]

Derby at home - the sort of game that emphasises just how well we're doing to even be in League 1.

Seen a lot on social media this past week about how people who support Cheltenham are giving up caring, don't feel engaged or excited by games, etc...What a load of bollocks. If you can't get excited by being a game away from Wembley, and surviving quite easily a level above where you should be, then football really isn't for you is it?

1-1 draw on Saturday.

 

[codaplenty]

I can totally relate to those comments about just being in league 1. I look at the league 1 table and to just see Fleetwood there is fantastic, and an achievement for 'small' clubs like ourselves. Long may it continue eh

 

[thewwfc]

The league tables today would look almost unrecognisable to any supporter from, say, 15 years ago, to see:

All the “fallen giants” in L1
The likes of Brighton and Brentford in the Prem
Yer Salfords, Suttons, Barrows in L2
The ex-league club graveyard that the conference has turned into - like half that league is now established ex-league clubs

 

[leedsvaliant]

God knows how we'll get on. We hardly seem to have played in the last 8 weeks or so. Another 16 day break before Monday's match. It's not very conducive to gaining some consistency.

One thing is that hopefully those who were ill/carrying knocks should have had time to rest. Madness that in the middle of January, some of our players have had a few days away.

I'm not sure the scheduling has been thought through.

We're generally awful on the TV but Peterborough have had a bit of a stinker. Typically, as seems to be a trait with our club, we are playing a team that has just swapped managers and has new impetus to impress him and get their season back on track.

They gave us a bit of a tonking earlier in the season and it was one of 3 or 4 games where we just haven't turned up. Hope for better this time.

 

[Chris FGR]

I can totally relate to those comments about just being in league 1. I look at the league 1 table and to just see Fleetwood there is fantastic, and an achievement for 'small' clubs like ourselves. Long may it continue eh

Yeah same here, although I prefer to look at our name in the league 1 fixture list rather than look at the actual table.

 

[codaplenty]

The league tables today would look almost unrecognisable to any supporter from, say, 15 years ago, to see:

All the “fallen giants” in L1
The likes of Brighton and Brentford in the Prem
Yer Salfords, Suttons, Barrows in L2
The ex-league club graveyard that the conference has turned into - like half that league is now established ex-league clubs

Good post mate, league 1 contains ex Division 1 Champions, FA Cup Winners, grounds that would hold the entire population of Fleetwood. It's great for the game that ' newcomers ' force there way in. Underlying all this is bad management at those big clubs which have brought them to their knees. As usual the fans suffer but never the owners, managers and players who still amassed huge salaries even when their clubs were shite and falling down the league

 

[K-Win]

I preferred the good old days pre-1987. In those days the Football League was a self-preserving closed shop and you knew where you were.

You had to be a seriously mismanaged club to be replaced by a non-league team in the annual re-election meeting, where you could win enough votes by supplying sufficient pink gin to the other club chairmen. Great days.

Up to the introduction of auto promotion, we had Wigan scrape in on a second vote play-off against Southport in 1978, and a season earlier Wimbledon ousted Workington on the first vote. I'm old enough to remember reeling from the shock of both of those events and feeling that the world would never quite be the same.

 

[codaplenty]

I remember Workington playing Man Utd in the 3rd round of the FA Cup January 1958, just a few weeks before the Munich Air Disaster. They actually led 1-0 in the game before ( I think ) a Denis Violet hat trick which saw them finish 3-1 winners. I seem to think Jimmy Scoular was the manager but probably a million miles off the mark

 

[Greenacres]

Good post mate, league 1 contains ex Division 1 Champions, FA Cup Winners, grounds that would hold the entire population of Fleetwood. It's great for the game that ' newcomers ' force there way in. Underlying all this is bad management at those big clubs which have brought them to their knees. As usual the fans suffer but never the owners, managers and players who still amassed huge salaries even when their clubs were shite and falling down the league

There are two grounds in Nailsworth, ours and Meadowbank the home of Shortwood, you can fit the whole population of the town into them with a bit of room to spare!

 

[Daviddcfc]

I don't see why not. Most teams seem to get given 1950 or so. I have no idea why some teams aren't given the extra 150-200 restricted view tickets, it's odd. As teams like Portsmouth sold out the 1950 but didn't have those extra tickets. Derby were given the extra but didn't sell them.

That's because we're not bothered about yoooze country bumkins lol . Seriously though, I'm sure it was on Sky on a grim Friday night. Just saying. There could have been a train strike , and it's notoriously tricky for us Derby fans to journey laterally across England

 

[Daviddcfc]

Cheltenham and Gloucester away. These are the games , especially earlier in the season , where we've been dropping points. Top two still on , but only if we clean up on games like this.

 

[Si Robin]

Why in God's name would you mention Gloucester?

 

[Greenacres]

Why in God's name would you mention Gloucester?

They thought they were playing against the Building Society?

 

[Laker]

Our game against Morecambe has been postponed due to damage to our main stand in the winds last night:

Morecambe match postponed

This Saturday’s Sky Bet League One fixture between Cambridge United and Morecambe has been postponed…

www.cambridgeunited.com

At least we didn’t wait til 2 hours before the game to call it off…..

 

[cookiemonster]

As has been mentioned, spanked FGR 4-0 at their place, they're bottom of the league, they've lost the last 4....

1-0 away win incoming. Probably scored by Jordan Moore-Taylor

Doubt it as I think he is still injured. How is the pitch? Flood warning for Devon overnight tonight I see.

 

[Chris FGR]

JMT is out ‘long term’ apparently. He just can’t seem to stay fit unfortunately. Quality player though.