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38 minutes ago, Crewton said:
1. Salary Sport has Bradley on ÂŁ395K pa. With our maximum permitted salary last season being ÂŁ600K pa, it's hard to imagine Curtis earning less than what Bradley is this season.
2. Who says Bradley can't play in a back 4?
3 Why are you ignoring Bradley's recent good form?
4. Wasn't it Curtis' error that caused us to miss out on a playoff spot on the last day of the season?
4. Cheltenham are still in the bottom 4 in both the league table and the current form table.
Don't misconstrue this as an attack on Curtis Davies - in his prime, he was far, far better than Bradley will ever be - but facts are at least as important as opinions on here.
Facts are useful but you havenât shown any by the wayÂ
point 2 well Bradley canât really run quick enough to catch most forwards and he isnât selected to play ahead of Nelson and Cashin which suggests he is last choiceÂ
point 3 recent good form ? - being barely functional doesnât suggest good form and only being selected basically for a back three suggests limited ability to play in a partnershipÂ
point 4 well was that even a foul? Was it even in the box? All semantics Davies being a better at 39 probably edges the best value
but this is a forum of fans opinions and I respect yours whilst not agreeing with them.Â
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12 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:
Should have thanked him for his services at the end of last seasons catastrophic collapse.
I honestly think failure to get promotion this year would be catastrophic for this club in so many ways. Look how easy this division is and we are still arsing it up. Imagine if we have clubs like QPR, Huddersfield, Notts County, Wrexham...that's without Reading and Wigan potentially being more stable.
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Whilst I canât stand his style of football it was right to give him the season although his absolute scatter gun approach to signing players concerned me greatly. Yes in terms of the opposition this year certainly looked like the easiest/poorest league imaginable but remember he has 3 promotions from this league so it must have been just as poor on a least 3 occasions before.
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I have had my season ticket over 40 years so I will buy one anyway but I also buy one for my mate so not so cheap, I totally understand people deliberating about buying one when faced with travelling long distances especially if what they are watching is considered football garbage. For me this season has been interesting because for various reasons ( bereavement, Hospital stays, holidays ) I have missed 6 home fixtures and it hasnât bothered me in the slightest compared to all the previous seasons where missing one game would be tragic.
I wonât be buying mine until the last week thoughÂ
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He has a stubborn streak doesnât he - thinking 3 centre halfâs is the way to go even at home whatever it costs the team elsewhere in the selected team.Â
Does he have favourites? Well it seems to appear soÂDoes he give youngsters a chance, even in none sense cup games - not reallyÂ
Does he sign players with huge recent injury records - absolutelyÂ
is he a good judge of a player ? - depends on your view point, use Bradley as an example - past 30 signed on high wages and looked not very good at all and fairly incapable of playing in a back 4 and when you compare to a Curtis Davies who played for very little for us in the past two seasons who never looked useless and positionally sound ( no surprise he is helping Cheltenham away from the relegation spots)Â
it's all about opinions but I think a lot of our players look as miserable as they can be weather or not they are playing or notÂ
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4 hours ago, Crewton said:
"can" but "hasn't" - it's not hard to understand.
Wasnât playing at left back eitherÂ
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10 minutes ago, Crewton said:
Sadly, in his last two appearances, he hasn't done either of those successfully, but I too would probably have picked him as LWB over what we ended up with.
The word was can - at left back there is more chance of him actually receiving the football to have opportunities to do either the way we playÂ
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One thing that has irritated me all season has been when an opposing player decides to have a lie down with the trainer on our whole team basically walks off the pitch to be replaced by about 6 or 7 people in grey tracksuits who must claim to be a coach or something and after the minimum five minutes they return to the pitch with yet another set of instructions. Well last night I saw about 6-7 of our players simply staying on the pitch in their positions, I have no idea if that means something but it something different to look atÂ
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5 minutes ago, CBRammette said:
Will never boo our team at end of match but was tempted last night. If we dont go up I would sack PW immediately. Season tickets will be down if fans are faced with another season of this football in league 1. If we do go up I would still sack him immediately. PW has shown nothing to suggest he will even consolidate us staying up in championship. I wouldnt want PW involved in any way in more player decisions at the club if it was my money. I would hope david clowes is planning for both scenarios and has someone who will give him good footballing advice. Having said that I will trudge for every home match, support team and manager whilst there and trudge home again, and even desperately try for at least one away.Â
100% totally sums me up as wellÂ
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I wonder how many supporters would have selected that back four last night based on what we have seen this season with who was available?Â
          For me the strongest and balanced back four available would have been Nyambe Nelson Cashin Sibley and yes Sibley could be a potential weak link it hasnât really transpired that way when he has played and not to mention he can cross a ball and shoot. -
3 minutes ago, tinman said:
Agree with that, although Martin wouldnât come back up here. Heâs nicely settled in Bristol with the woman he cheated on his wife and left his kids for. Â
He went to QPR on loan last season so thatâs not true, our manager openly stated that he didnât want players like Martin when asked because he wants one that run around a lot and are good chaps and make him a coffee. Why would he want a Chris Martin who has demonstrated the highest goals ratio to minutes played in this league and controls the football and lays it off to others making forward midfield runs - but then again our midfielders arenât allowed to do that.
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7 minutes ago, Jram said:
I donât really know what to say to this. To my mind, it seems very dramatic. Were we ever likely to dominate many games in league 1 where everyone is pretty gash? We have the second best goal difference in the league which does suggest weâve been dominant relative to the league. What exactly do you think will happen if we replace Warne? We win every game from now until the end of the season 3-0?
ÂIf we do go up, I donât doubt next season will be poor because, as you say, we will have worse players. We will probably finish in the bottom half. Thatâs what happens when you have worse players.Â
Next season we will have worse players is the depressing statement and the better players of a football are leaving or wanted away from Warneball  for whatever reason given - McGoldrick to Notts county in a league below, Knight and Bird to Bristol city for goodness sake whilst NML has kept us away from the bottom half of this league of dreadful non footballÂ
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43 minutes ago, angieram said:
So does Mendez-Laing. But not when they are being played out of position, they don't.Â
I thought it was deliberate to start with half a team playing in positions that they are not as good as in their best positions! Maybe it is so that he can tell them to change the team shape every ten minutes because he has got it wrong againÂ
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4 minutes ago, Mr. P said:
I agree with him that we haven't played well all season.Â
Did he really say that? I hope the interviewer followed up on that one !
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3 minutes ago, SuperRams10 said:
Clearly hasnât learnt his lesson from Oxford away, new number 1 is as important as a number 9 in the summer.
Yes so it seemsÂ
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3 minutes ago, DCFC Kicks said:
He's just refusing to let the 5 at the back go. It doesn't work and it doesn't suit our club. I honestly think he's persisting with it because its the only system he fully understands. Even when we play with a back 4 it feels like there's large tactical elements just missing from our play like Warne just doesn't know how to play it fully.Â
He doesnât know how to play any football - letâs hope we get promoted somehow and he can leave
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Actually we held a sweepstake tonight to guess the minute we would have an effort on target the winner was a mate who said 43rd minute whilst it was the 39 minute- most of us went for the second half around 70 minutesÂ
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10 minutes ago, IlsonDerby said:
Iâd honestly love to see what others are seeing when they defend this stuff.Â
ÂFootball is garbage and when the results eventually turn all youâre left with is awful football.Â
I said it at the beginning of the season and got moaned at - At home we have been ok about twice whilst losing to two league two sides in the cups as well - try selling season tickets to watch that garbage again.We have the players to actually play real football and look decent
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Absolute DrossÂ
Cashin played well enoughÂ
Madness from Wildsmith and beyond poor from Wilson on the back pass and Bradley was allowed by Charlton to have the ball because they knew he would lose it and so easily outpacedÂ
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Not fair on Luton they got 30 point deduction and non league so I suspect they will hold no sympathy and they couldnât appeal eitherÂ
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5 minutes ago, Foreveram said:
Or maybe they just prefer Saturday afternoon football.
Maybe đ¤ I better mention to the wife we have two games this week thenÂ
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Our best available currently   Â
ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â WildsmithÂ
Nyambe. Â Nelson. Â Cashin. Â Elder
   Bird.   Adams  HourahanÂ
NML Â Â Â Â Sibley. Â Â BarkhauzenÂ
Gayle when fit enough up front whilst Hourahan should start at home with Wilson decent off the bench out wide - hopefully CBT can improve our options at some point and Waghorn to finish the season how he started it.Â
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13 minutes ago, Foreveram said:
With 4 out of the next five games at home the ticket sales for this one are a bit slow.
Over 4,000 tickets left.
More tickets already sold for the Saturday game against Port Vale, and Bolton game heading for a sellout.
The home supporters have seen us play đ maybe if they sold a ticket with 20 minutes to go it would be better value based on this season so far
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I wonder if he is any good at centre forward ? Because he shouldnât have been starting in a back 5 with 3 centre halfâs at home again and Cashin and Nelson being fit.in my honest opinionÂ
Paul Warne
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Both options sounds appealing đ