Saturday& Sunday 24th & 25th September

[BarrieOwl]

Great bit of skill to set up Vokes. Good game already.

 

[kieran_vale]

Fair bit of positive intent from us so far. Certainly not come to shut up shop and even though it's a huge risk against a team with their quality I think it's the right thing to do.

 

[Super_horns]

It’s so pointless for most teams at this level, who haven’t got the players to pull it off. Not referring to FGR specifically as I haven’t seen them to be able to judge, but I’ve seen several lower league sides try it and make a right fucking hash of it, and you just think, why? What are you possibly hoping to gain by this?

Exactly - even the top teams get it wrong sometimes so the chances are us lower down will each week.

 

[kieran_vale]

I think we’ve done some good things in the first half hour at least but fair play to Peterborough they have some serious attacking quality. Awful mistake from Smith on their first goal, just can’t afford to do that.

 

[valefan16]

Looked decent until we handed them the opener on a plate losing the ball in our own box. Been relatively awful since then.

Anything more certain in life is Vale giving a team getting beat every week an easy ride.

Benning has been awful.

Losing Ojo is a huge blow especially with the games to come.

 

[kieran_vale]

Since Peterborough got their first goal we’ve been unable to live with them. Clarke-Harris is having his way with us. Our midfield may as well not be there especially while Garrity is on the pitch this season.

 

[kieran_vale]

Rough old afternoon that in the end. Fair play to Peterborough once they got their tails up they’ve looked levels above anything else have seen this season. I don’t think we were awful but they were that much better than us. Shit happens.

Today has shown how much we need Funso Ojo, once he went off we had little in midfield.

 

[valefan16]

Thought we made it easy, said before it was a dangerous line up and whilst started well once Ojo went off we made the wrong sub, Walker would have been better.

They’d lost 6 in a row before beating Spurs kids in midweek so they aren’t Brazil and it’s a bit of a poor afternoon for us that.

We made them look far better than they probably were. Benning was awful today and we gifted them the momentum with a suicidal error for their first goal.

Weak and need a huge reaction next weekend.

 

[thewwfc]

Can't complain about that result, SWFC the better side for most of the game, we had chances but generally didn't take them.

SWFC a decent combination of intelligent passing and physicality so you can see why they're up there.

Bannan gets the hype but he did play very well, picked some passes that you don't normally see at this level. Oh well.

Let's hope we get a nice easy game next...what, we've got Argyle? Oh arses.

 

[thewwfc]

Charlton, us, Franchise and Oxford forming a nice little, “fuck, is that the best you can do?” mini-league in lower mid-table.

 

[valefan16]

Since Peterborough got their first goal we’ve been unable to live with them. Clarke-Harris is having his way with us. Our midfield may as well not be there especially while Garrity is on the pitch this season.

I think it’s time to drop Garrity. He was outstanding last season but hasn’t made the step up well at all.

 

[leedsvaliant]

First game where I can truly say there was a step up in class from the opposition. For 25 minutes we were doing ok but once they scored, our heads went down and their tails were up. In mitigation it was probably way too attacking a team and we left ourselves way too open. We were also facing a side that were bound to be bang up for it after a poor run (we always seem to catch sides at these points). I think it was the wrong team...we needed to switch from 3 at the back as their wingers were having a field day and Massey and Benning had easily their worst games. Clarke does drop a bollock tactically every so often. I also felt that we stood off and admired a bit. Need to really press the better teams. You've also got to play a faultless game against the better teams and we made 2 whopping blunders to put us 2 down.

We're about where I expect us to be, mid to lower mid table. We're going to get days like these as we're playing some teams that have been at this level or the level above for a number of years, so the core of their side is very good. I don't think we're miles away....I haven't seen anything that we can't catch up to but it will take 3 or 4 years of tweaking and getting rid of players that are not up to this level. There's a few from last year that look like they're struggling with the step up.

Wednesday at home next week. Another one where I expect we'll get beat but we've at least got to be a bit more in their faces than we were today.

 

[kieran_vale]

Thought we made it easy, said before it was a dangerous line up and whilst started well once Ojo went off we made the wrong sub, Walker would have been better.

They’d lost 6 in a row before beating Spurs kids in midweek so they aren’t Brazil and it’s a bit of a poor afternoon for us that.

We made them look far better than they probably were. Benning was awful today and we gifted them the momentum with a suicidal error for their first goal.

Weak and need a huge reaction next weekend.

I'd agree with you on the sub after Funso went off. If you have Pett and Walker on the bench I'm not sure that Conlon is the like for like sub. Garrity has to make way now. I get DC's loyalty to him due to his commitment and he probably sees a bit of himself in him but technically he just isn't up to the level. Doesn't mean he never will be but it's not helping by keeping him in there.

It's not a disaster by any stretch, going into this season we were always going to cop a few and today is one occasion. Shows how far to go if we have long term ambitions to make it up to the Championship at some point.

Accy win again, never ceases to amaze me the job Coleman does there on that budget.

 

[Floreat Salopia]

No idea how we’ve held on for the win there, Burton battered us!! Can’t see Burton going down, they have the makings of a steady team they just need a goal scorer to finish off the chances.

Saydee is turning out to be a brilliant loan signing. Two goals in two starts now since joining from Bournemouth. Really rate this kid early doors.

Up to 9th and a nice weekday break. Roll on Cheltenham away next weekend.

 

[leedsvaliant]

I think it’s time to drop Garrity. He was outstanding last season but hasn’t made the step up well at all.

I agree, but in his defence he's being asked to play a bit deeper, which is not his skill set. He's a poor passer and is more of a harrier that plays better on instinct further forward.

I'm not sure why he's being played there as there are far more suitable candidates.

 

[Stroud]

FGR seem to have geed-up some of their former stars, - three of them on the scoreboard so far this season: -
Aaron Collins [Bristol R] one goal,
Farrand Rawson [Morecambe] winning goal,
Javani Brown [Exeter] hatrick.

 

[kieran_vale]

Saydee is turning out to be a brilliant loan signing. Two goals in two starts now since joining from Bournemouth. Really rate this kid early doors.

He looked a real handful when given the opportunity against us last week. Definitely got a good one there I'd say.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Solid win against a side we've struggled against in the last couple of seasons.

 

[Bartonyellow]

No idea how we’ve held on for the win there, Burton battered us!! Can’t see Burton going down, they have the makings of a steady team they just need a goal scorer to finish off the chances.

Saydee is turning out to be a brilliant loan signing. Two goals in two starts now since joining from Bournemouth. Really rate this kid early doors.

Up to 9th and a nice weekday break. Roll on Cheltenham away next weekend.

We have had lots of strikers. And sold them all. So we reap what we sow.
Infact - we had Saydee! And didn’t play him.

 

[leedsvaliant]

Just as an aside, what on earth is the deal with London Road? Considering their chairman gives it the biggun and they've just come down from the Championship, the ground is still an absolute dump and doesn't seemed to have been improved much in 20 odd years. Charging 27 quid for the world's oldest and most uncomfortable seats is quite frankly scandalous. It surely needs knocking down or at the very least modernising.

 

[Greenacres]

We were poor today, very poor, in fact I struggle to remember many worse performances in all the years I have been following the team...and that covers numerous seasons in the Conference where we struggled against relegation...we are quite simply, as a club, currently completely out of our depth in this division.

It is really hard to pick just one thing that needs to change...there are too many...on and off the pitch. We need some people running the club who actually know a little bit about football, with the stomach to turn things around, but currently we don't. I am getting to the point where I'm really fearful for our future...can see myself following a team called AFC Forest Green in a few seasons, playing home games at Brimscombe and Thrupp.

 

[Chris FGR]

It’s going to shit, lots of poor organisation on and off the pitch along with a real lack of communication. We aren’t spending money on a lot of basics around the stadium with the excuse being we’re building a new one at some point, but it’s sounding very vague on when that will actually happen. We’ve had trouble recruiting, training and retaining enough match day bar/catering staff apparently which means everything takes far too long and the stewards are often too jobsworthy which doesn’t help either. Parking and ticketing is a pain for a lot of fans. Our online ticketing is constantly having issues, our steaming service is unreliable too and it’s really hard to get any answers from anyone at the club with complaints or questions. If you’re trying to get more fans in you need a user friendly ticketing service. The amount of glitches with this one is more likely to put regulars off rather then attract newer fans to keep coming.

Online content wise our official site doesn’t display the latest news properly and most of it is rarely updated, we only added our ‘new’ manager + assistant to the squad profile page last week ffs and several of our squad still aren’t there. Which isn’t helpful when there have been so many ins and outs. Was better when it was run by volunteers. They couldn’t even get the date for the meet the manager next month right initially, put the wrong info out for stuff like that and you’ll piss a lot of people off when they miss it. Basic stuff.

You do start wondering if Vince is losing interest, certainly some of this stuff should have been sorted ages ago, but no one seems to care, senior staff/board members are hard to get hold of or get anything other then empty promises to ‘look into it’ unless they are collecting industry awards like our CEO the other week. People can understand when things don’t work perfectly, but even when we were in non league you at least felt that fans were being listened too and the board gave a crap even if they weren’t able to get it quickly fixed.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Has the relatively swift rise up the ranks caught the club out at FGR?

Though it seems to be a tad over the top from some of the comments on here.

 

[masi51]

Has the relatively swift rise up the ranks caught the club out at FGR?

Though it seems to be a tad over the top from some of the comments on here.

They cannot expect to go any further......The project is completed
They should enjoy the season before they return to a league they can compete in.

 

[kieran_vale]

They cannot expect to go any further......The project is completed
They should enjoy the season before they return to a league they can compete in.

In terms of progress to the top two leagues you’re probably right but there’s no reason they shouldn’t be able to consolidate themselves in this league. Accy have managed it. What it does show is you have to get your choice of manager absolutely right which Accy have done. I’m not sure on what criteria Burchnall was appointed at FGR but to me from the outside it looked a risky one and it’s not paying off to this point.

 

[masi51]

In terms of progress to the top two leagues you’re probably right but there’s no reason they shouldn’t be able to consolidate themselves in this league. Accy have managed it. What it does show is you have to get your choice of manager absolutely right which Accy have done. I’m not sure on what criteria Burchnall was appointed at FGR but to me from the outside it looked a risky one and it’s not paying off to this point.

Accrington are the best club in the football league relative to what is expected of them
Yet teams like them FGR and Morecambe cannot expect to go any higher it will simply bankrupt them
Football fans simply wont/dont see that because we all believe we can go higher

 

[SVH]

Accrington get good money for the odd player and invest it off the field. They pick up good players geographically and it serves them well.

FGR will find that type of business are lot harder and it doesn't help when you lose your manager and three best players over the summer. They also finished last season in awful form and limped over the line which doesn't bode well for continuity which helped us last season.

A good win for us yesterday so 16 points from our first 10 games is a solid start. With that PPG over the season we'll finish with 73 points.

 

[masi51]

Accrington get good money for the odd player and invest it off the field. They pick up good players geographically and it serves them well.

FGR will find that type of business are lot harder and it doesn't help when you lose your manager and three best players over the summer. They also finished last season in awful form and limped over the line which doesn't bode well for continuity which helped us last season.

A good win for us yesterday so 16 points from our first 10 games is a solid start. With that PPG over the season we'll finish with 73 points.

no you wont........your batting above your weight this season and fair play to you

 

[Chris FGR]

In terms of progress to the top two leagues you’re probably right but there’s no reason they shouldn’t be able to consolidate themselves in this league. Accy have managed it. What it does show is you have to get your choice of manager absolutely right which Accy have done. I’m not sure on what criteria Burchnall was appointed at FGR but to me from the outside it looked a risky one and it’s not paying off to this point.

Criteria seems to have been he's managed in Sweden & Norway and his Notts team had good possession stats so he's probably the next Graham Potter. Problem is a lot of Notts fans felt he underachieved and couldn't organise a defence which is proving the case with us so far.

 

[thewwfc]

Criteria seems to have been he's managed in Sweden & Norway and his Notts team had good possession stats so he's probably the next Graham Potter. Problem is a lot of Notts fans felt he underachieved and couldn't organise a defence which is proving the case with us so far.

That would worry the shit out of me, a solid defence should be the absolute foundation if you have a struggling team - screw possession.