Recent content by battman

Disappointing, but we knew we had to beat Exeter on the final day after last night. Hoping for a favour from Mous and Portsmouth, but if not then all focus goes on building the side to go one or two better next season.

I hope we can get Goodwin in good shape over summer to have him ready to hit the ground running at the start of next season, and whilst it's right to bemoan the lack of Goodwin in this game, I think it's at least a little bit encouraging that the sort of player we're missing is someone we've...

What would you have changed the tactic to? Wasn’t an issue about tactics, more about execution, we had enough chances to take the lead, just like vs Lincoln. Injuries have limited what we’re able to do - no McEachran, McGuane, Matete or Goodwin means we’re limited in what we can do at the...

Brown summed it up for me. So many times the ball to Leigh was on, but he just turned backwards and passed to Cumming.

You’re so boring and predictable. How the hell are a set of individual errors and a poor referees call Des’s fault? Your anti-Des agenda is blinding your judgement.

How on Earth are we 1-0 behind, let alone not winning. Shocking decision not to award a penalty, really poor goal to concede, and Murphy overplaying everything rather than trying to keep it simple. Big 45 minutes to salvage the play-off place.

Annoyed with that. We've looked great in the past few games, but we didn't take the few chances we created and were sloppy to give away a penalty. We're still in the driving seat, and I think any of the three teams below us would rather be in our position, but I do worry about our lack of depth...

What a game, what a result and what a performance. Even being someone who wanted to give Des more time after Bolton, even I wasn’t expecting us to turn it around so quickly. Murphy obviously the star player but Long and McEachran also stand outs. In truth, everyone had a good game, I can say...

I've seen us miss out on the League One play-offs with a manger who'd been at the club for four years. The next season, the same manager almost relegated us from the division. I've also seen us relegated from League Two, fail to reach the Conference play-offs and constantly miss out in reaching...

So even if he misses out by a point or two, you want us to rip up our future planning by sacking our manager who's now settled in, started to bring in his own staff, and is now shaping the squad into his vision in terms of tactics and personnel? I think even if we lose our last four games (not...

Really feels like we've found a bit of momentum and also a way of playing effectively. The front three of Dale-Harris-Murphy will be crucial not just for the end of the season but also building the side for next season. Des in!

I’d give Edwards a six month deal with an optional extension - for all the effort we’ve put in to get him fit it’d be a miss to release him in the summer and see him doing the business for another League One team. However, if he has further issues then we can cut our losses in January. We do...

Taking the lead under Des yet again, managing to push on this time and put a bit of daylight between us and the opposition.

I can absolutely recognise that certain managers will get more out of certain players, just like Des with Murphy. What I do find confusing is that almost none of the onus for players like McGuane and Rodrigues dropping off has come to the players themselves, like they’re not autonomous beings...

Maybe McGuane has too look at himself though too? When he joined three/four years ago everyone thought he was probably too good for this level, but in that time we only saw the odd glimpse of ability under Karl and a three/four month spell under Manning. Is that really enough for a player of his...