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start coming on here saying we will stay up now after all being doom and gloom all week saying we are down.....

Ps - mex and yeovil still owe me a drink

pps - dave I will kill you next time I see you

i still think we will go down,but was pleased with the second half performance.
i  hope we stay up though and will continue my support.

It could still go either way. That win was much needed but we can't stop now.There is work to be done and IF we do it we have a chance.

Nobody can tell a it stands though.

Lets be honest, it wasnt *that* good. Chesterfield played none up front and created nothing. Our back line were passing it around for fun, not even a Chesterfield player closing them down.

Chesterfield are one of the only teams in mid table with nothing left to play for. They werent even bothered

Saying that 2nd half was good, the lanky french guy looked very good I thought. Quick to close down, hard in the tackle. Calm on the ball....good control....could pass the ball, good positional awareness and seem very talkative and pointy(!!) everything Pook wasnt in the first half.

Chesterfield sat back and let us play, when teams do that our better ball players (used to be Migz, now Whalley) can do damage.

Most of the other teams we have yet to play all have something to play for so wont be as roll-over-and-die as Chesterfield were today.

We will still go down....

I'm actually quite interested to listen to the Hartlepool game. That should be a cracker !

I don't think we can lift our game for that match, but if we did, then it would make the next few games interesting.

NMH

dv85 i have to say i agree with all of your above post,but pook was not the only midfielder in the first half that was poor,they all were.
i did like the look of the french lad,he will keep his place in the team i am sure

Good to hear a loan signing having a good effect. Was wondering about Iffy's signings but he seems to have done well this time.

Thought the second half performance might be the sort of thing we need to stay up, although it's too little too late.

Sorry Ash  :D

I only mentioned Pook because he was the one to go off....

CCP took a while to get into the game, which is expected because he has been out for a while

Whalley was alright first half I though....alot more steel in him that I thought...

Hes about 8ft tall, he knows how to pass the ball
Diagogogogogogogogogogogooooo

Ash is right though.

I cant understand people (like Tails in particular) who seem to want to go on every board and state that we are relegated. Why? So you can feel clever? So you can say I told you so at the end of the season?

Its like this. We arent very good. But neither are a lot of other teams. Its only over when its over. Still points to be won and lost. And until then we need every town fan. Trench mentality. Backs to the wall. Never give up.

Just shows the deterioration in the quality of our support to me. Particularly away. In 1999/2000 we were relegated early. But we still took loads suprisingly good away followings and outsung most home teams. In 2001 we werent great, but the fans we really up for it when it mattered. Places like Northampton, Wycombe, Brentford we really took over 2nd half of that season.

Too many boring statto fans now. Intent on throwing in the towel. Not interested in being up for the fight, just incase they might be proven wrong. Yeah we had humiliation at Forest. But wheres your fight?

Good post spencer.  Quiet turn out yesterday from our lot.

Train doesnt look good back from swansea so may be a car game

I've always kept hope, although it does get less and less. I've said its not over until its over but parts of me do think we'll go down.

at the end of the day, when all's said and done, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
that's what i say.

to be perfectly honest spencer, too many cooks spoil the broth, take my mother in law, she always said to me "a boy in the bush is worth 2 in the hand".

No, thats the mentality our players should have....

expecation is a dangerous thing, it's safer for some to believe we'll go down then they won't be disappointed if we do.

IMO we:

1/ We will finish 21st and be relegated on Goal Difference. Thanks Forest.

2/ We will have a corker of a season next year and be Champions.

i can't see us going straight back up if we go down. If we go down there will be a big change in the squad i reckon. Several players will probably move on, or get release by mutual consent.

i'm over the moon

im still hoping but my head says no ...

You didn't hear some people in the Arkells then chanting "We are staying up say we are staying up"

i think we have left it too late sadly

Of course i'll be disappointed and upset,its just easier to believe the worse,then when we do go down the pain is lessened slightly.I agree with Rich,we've left it too late and lost too many games we should have drawn or won.Saturday was a must win game but i still haven't changed my mind about the outcome of the season :cry:

Next sauturday is going to be torcher, and town aren't even playing! Stay within touching distance after most of the games in hand are used up and it will set off a 'not dead just yet' posting flurry.

We should keep Saturday in perspective. It could be a massive result but Chesterfield can't beat an egg at the moment (boom boom, I'm here all week).

To be honest I expect us to go down, I'm prepatring mentally for it like larwood says.

As they say a pessimist is never disappointed :(

On the other hand, the optimist and the pessimist always end up in the same place, but the optimist has a better time getting there.

Or something.

 :soapy tit wank:
To me the glass is always half empty though :( ,i've been a Town fan for so long its effected me mentally i'm sure of it,i'm going to sue :wink:

My gut feeling is that we will go down but it will be close.  If that does happen and we spend next season hovering around the play off places (or better) then that to me will be far preferable to another season struggling in league one.

'At the end of the day', people just want to see their team win more games than they lose.  What division they are in is almost irrelevant.

We could of course do a Torquay and this time next season we will be struggling to stay in the league.  I prefer to believe that we will do ok. Whatever happens I can do sweet fa about it except hope for the best.

Well the win against Chesterfield was vital.  If we lost or drew against them,  then i think relegation would have been a dead cert.

However, our next two home games against Hartlepool and Franchise are huge.  If we get 6 points from them 2 games, then its game on.  We need 6 points and no less.

Swansea away will be difficult,  but they are on a sticky patch at the moment, so you never know what will happen.  We will probably lose,  but it would be nice to think we could maybe grab a point

Scunthorpe away will probably be a tough game, but hopefully Scunny will be safe by then - have nothing to play for,  and maybe we could come away with at least a point

Brentford and Huddesfield at home will be tough, as i guess they will be up there fighting for automatic promotion, or juggling for playoff place positions.

Shitty City away again looks tough on paper, and i guess their players and fans will be up for the game -   just to try and send us down


My points predicition for Town

3 points against Hartlepool
0 points against Swansea
1 point against Franchise  (we always fuck up when we have ticket promotions)

1 point against Scunny
3 points against Brentford  (we always seem to beat them at home)
0 points against City
3 points against Huddesfield

Total points  53    :oops:    Will that be enough?

Stay up or go down, I think you'll find that's likely. Short term contracts, low wages and underperformance mean we turn over half the bloody team most summers.

I personally would rather stay up purely for the financial benefits. Relegation is, in an odd way, attractive. The possibility of better results, new grounds, playing Oxford...but it could ruin the club

Im looking forward to the new grounds IF we end up going down, everything else doesnt bear thinking about.

It been a rollacoaster of a year

To me (being the realist that I am) the glass is always both half full and half empty.....because there will always be two halves of any object....

:ha: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: To me (being the realist that I am) the glass is always both half full and half empty.....because there will always be two halves of any object...

I like to think the glass is always completely full. Half the glass is full of air  :o

Thats what worries me and its not like we haven't done that sort of thing before :cry: If we could keep most of the team together maybe...we might do something,but whatever league we're in i'll still be there :)

Tis true, simply mathmatics prove it.....

I have to say that saturdays peformance has filled me with a bit more confidence carrying on into the battle. Especially with cureton saying he thinks he can score in every single game until the end - I would be delighted if he did!

Havent really had a chance to comment...but The game was good. The new french guy looked great and Rhys was quality and sonic and whits looked very glam in they're posh suits  :wink: