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Post by frankiegth on Mar 3, 2006 16:24:49 GMT
After losing our four best players we were apprehensive about our chances of even staying up. The players bought in though did well and we got into a play-off place.
Our form of late has dropped off though, the manager left "by mutual consent" and Kev Wilson is the new man in charge and we are in transition at the minute. He is still talking up a play-off place but in reality mid-table is gonna be it I reckon.
Given our pre-season outlook we've got to be happy overall. I'm sure KW will sort the squad during the run in and the serious work will get done in the summer ready for an all out assault on the conference north next season.
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Post by samd on Mar 3, 2006 17:24:50 GMT
Our season is going very well - we've recently picked up UPD team of the month and won a goalscoring award last month. Weare fourth in the UPD and in a good position to win the league if all goes well.
This time last season we were surging up the table to eventually move from bottom to 12th place. We are continuing that rapid climb ;D.
It's all down to Harry Dunn and the players he has brought in. Only been back in charge since September 2004.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 3, 2006 20:34:26 GMT
Um. Not an easy one to answer TBH! LAst season, we were bottom at Christmas, and kept faith with then new manager Ian BAird, who kept us up. This season, he's continued the improvement. Signings have, at times been WHO? but he's always signed gooduns - and has managed to keep the players he wanted from last season, on a reduced budget. Right now, we are wobbling - and have just slipped out of th eplay-off places after about three months in the top five. Overall though, we have been pretty good this term, and if we were offered the possibility of a play off place at th e start of the year, I for one would have said "Yes please" ;D Now, with raised expectations, and the real possibility of missing out, I suppose I'd have to be realistic and state that anything other than mid-table safety at the start of the season, would have been a bonus. SO.... Pretty damn good, all things considered.
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Post by frankiegth on Mar 3, 2006 20:56:55 GMT
Very similar to ours then, in a nutshell. Footie, it's great int it. lifts you up when your down and kicks ya in the test icicles when ya think everything's going well.
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Post by samd on Mar 3, 2006 20:58:53 GMT
Very similar to ours then, in a nutshell. Footie, it's great int it. lifts you up when your down and kicks ya in the test icicles when ya think everything's going well. A bit like a woman? Sorry Sal ;D
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 3, 2006 21:06:59 GMT
Very similar to ours then, in a nutshell. Footie, it's great int it. lifts you up when your down and kicks ya in the test icicles when ya think everything's going well. Could be worse. I could be a Pompey fan I suppose ;D ;D Steady Scott!
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Mar 3, 2006 21:38:11 GMT
Badly, though to be fair since we sacked the old manager we've done pretty well (stand-in Sean Parrish was undefeated) things seem to be looking up now and time will tell if the new guy; Rob Smith will turn things around.
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Post by samd on Mar 3, 2006 22:04:10 GMT
Steady Scott! What is with the rolling eyes emoticon? I didn't mean any offence by what I said, honest .
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Post by pies on Mar 4, 2006 11:24:13 GMT
Well we started fantastically, going top after our 2nd game (a 1-0 win over those plucky Havant minnows ) winning our 1st 5 games, and generally not being pooh. However since the end of October our season has nosedived beyond all repair, 2 wins in 22 since the 18th of October (over crap Hayes and doomed Cambridge City) being knocked out of all the cups by lower league opposistion before Christmas (Chipstead in the SSC being paticulary humilating) and our manager of a decade resigning, as we plummit to lower mid-table.
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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 4, 2006 12:57:43 GMT
Don't knock that win against Cambridge- they scored 8 goals in the week following that game Our season so far. All I can say is that it's been the weirdest one I've ever seen! Started brilliantly- John Rains even got the Manager of the Month award for August- and then suddenly turned as bad as it could possible be. Now Rains has quit after 10 years at the club. But at least we haven't lost now for THREE WEEKS! That, ladies and gentlemen, is rather good for us this season!
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 4, 2006 14:04:01 GMT
Steady Scott! What is with the rolling eyes emoticon? I didn't mean any offence by what I said, honest . Didn't really mean anything by it, Scott. Honest! JUst thought it needed something...
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Post by roofless on Mar 4, 2006 18:03:42 GMT
Even when it went well and we were still in the FA Cup two FRICKING sides from up the road had to go and waltz in with their easier draws, and then hit the big ones in the 3rd round draw, and managed to get draws against their reserve teams, while we battled against an almost full strength Stoke side, away from home, and still didn't get any FIN CREDIT. Noone cared when we almost won!!!! And them 2 conceded 5 and got more credit than us.
I am so bitter about how this season has gone, because we don't make half the effort in the league that we made in the FA Cup, and at the end of the day which is more important?!
Oh, and now we are "Merson's Tamworth". Say what?!
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Post by medibot on Mar 5, 2006 0:59:45 GMT
Merson's bought the town?
When did that happen?
Ok, i'm being silly but still, amazing how one name can magically change your status in the press, i'd understand if he was the manager but he's only playing and he might not be up to it either. I hope for Tamworth's sake he is but still...
oh yeah, for Mark, "f*cking Stoke!"
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Post by frankiegth on Mar 5, 2006 20:29:18 GMT
Yeah there was a team that briefly appeared in con north for about 39 days.
Paul Gascoignes Kettering.
Excuse the spelling of his surname but ya know who I mean.
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Post by ojiveojive on Mar 6, 2006 9:19:23 GMT
Know what you mean, roofless, Moor Green reached the 1st round proper of the FA cup for the first time in 20 odd years a couple of seasons ago and were the only non league team in the midlands that had reached the first round NOT mentioned on the local midlands TV news programmes. When we beat Birmingham City 4-2 in the Senior cup semi we got one paragraph in the local Birmingham Post whereas Sutton Coldfield, who beat Kidderminster the same night, got a third of a page. IT AIN'T BLLEEDIN' FAIR, IS IT?
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