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Come on
(come on)
Come on
(come on)
Hurry up harry, come on......

We're goin' down the pub

Lets have it then.

Pre match eat football, drink football, talk shite in The Paramount.

Not seen much of Salford itself in the previous 4 visits, but the fleeting glimpses through grimy condensation covered bus windows gave no reason to distrust the sentiments of Ewan MacColl.

“I'm gonna make me a good sharp axe.
Shining steel tempered in the fire.
I'll chop you down like an old tree.

Dirty old town.
Dirty old town.”
A classic.

The bogey team scenario continues this evening when it’s our turn to try and maintain a hoodoo over Salford at their place.
No reason why we can’t.

With “Robbo” in the opposition dugout, hopefully it won’t be too torrid an affair for the hardy souls in the away end & watching from afar.

Last minute losses no longer hurt.
Sad isn’t it.

12 games in & not much to suggest that the personal expectation of a season of struggle was wide of the mark.

So, the head coach.
I would retain his services in a daring football experiment to give a manager time.
Three windows & let’s see where it takes us.

Maybe a good sense of basic human decency & protective nurturing can eventually be translated into winning football matches.
Without time & patience the two qualities are probably not compatible.

But beware, managers who talk bollocks are quickly picked up on by fans.

However, to be fair, Kennedy’s post match musings for the club after the initial BBC efforts always come across as more relatable & better thought out.

Having said that I’ll await the inevitable like everyone else but will take zero pleasure from it & then hope for an ever decreasing marginal gain from whoever takes over.

It’s probably the whole operation that requires scrutiny starting with the Head of Football.

Anyway, a game tonight, can Kennedy conjure a performance that is as simple & effective as a classic Lowry painting or will it be about as productive as a drunken Irish navvy in clogs on icy cobbles.

Oh yeah, and pretending to myself that I no longer care isn’t going to work.
Sad, isn’t it.

My name is Wobbly Bob, I’m 60 years old and I am an addict.

Watch out for them matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs wobbly.

I just hope our boys don't crumble with nerves at having to play the mighty Salford and we are able to walk away with a point against such a big club.

A big, big club.....we have no chance. A whopping 2 points ahead of us with a game in hand, hopefully Kenny will rest our top players (?) as it's pointless risking them tonight. I suspect Salford will put out their 3rd team.

Mighty Salford 4-0 Little Swindon att: 63,853 ( 12 away)

Doesn't he always do that?🙂

Ancoats is worth a visit though

Their estate agent of a manager annoys me. Hopefully this is early enough in the season for the pitch to not be mostly sawdust. That's all.

Reminds me of James Corden with a scouse accent

Salford 2 : 0, Cotterill, Freckleton and Barden to start, not sure if I can be bothered to watch.

Leaving shortly for this, can't wait to visit such a big big club.

Anyone been before know of any decent pubs nearby?

The go-to nearest their ground is usually Friendship Inn, M25 0PD. But it's a 20 minute walk.

But you can also just find somewhere in the City Centre and get an uber to the ground for around a tenner.

The New Oxford is a cracking pub in Salford.

We're at the stage now where our manager is such a dickhead everything that comes out of his mouth is a fucking meme.

Hopefully we lose and he's sacked in favour of someone who can at least steer us to safety until the criminals leave.

Salford 0-0 Swindon att: 1,430 (300)

That's a big leap of faith that they'd know who to bring in to do that... who am I kidding, it'd be Gunning or Bignot

For those who like their pub architecture, in the very fine The Peveril of the Peak with its tiled exterior.

Just as well that following a shit football team around becomes secondary when it's not going so good.

There is next to nothing nearby, its a prick of aground to get to unless you are driving!

If promotion really was the aim of the club, this would be a must win for Kennedy, although most clubs with those ambitions would of cut ties at this point already. 

I reckon it'll be an absolutely awful game of football to watch and we'll draw 1-1

I’ll settle for that !!

That's the trouble, I don't think that it is.

Might have been Hall that let slip in his first interview about promotion in maybe 2 or 3 years added to Morfuni  bemoaning the average level of losses in L1.

Will watch this but wo t be fully concentraiting. I expect defeat and possibly a sub 1k attendance in total.

2-1 win, Cotterill & Tshimanga

Hope springs eternal then back down to earth v Gillingham on Saturday.

Did you also go in the Britons Protection for some classic interiors? Used to love a little crawl of the Peveril, Britons Protection and the Rain Bar for a more modern pub. Rain Bar mainly as it often had the JW Lees 7.5% Moonraker.

I didn't, looked into it beforehand but had to head back towards Piccadilly.
Will try & include it into route planning for Altrincham next season.

Thats because i will be sending you annoying Whatsapps!

I dunno about this....Its been a happy hunting ground but...lets see who scores first.

We need a flukey win....hopefully tonight!

Had a few decent pints in here already, good pub!

Smith starts as does the managers son in law

Glatzel and Clarke not in squad

To be fair we've had multiple managers pick their actual children in the past.

True that

Absolutel joke, Football Phil could do a better job. 

He's gotta go if we lose tonight. I'm not sure how much of the plot he ever had, but whatever it was is gone.

Oh lord.

 :suicide:

Haha, just so good

Cox fouls butterworth

Big, big club batter big flops

I see we have been working hard on defending in training again

Fucking marvellous.

At least there's time I suppose

Jesus who set up the effects mic in the technical area. It's like Sheridan and Wright in Covid.

Good job we’ve got loads of goals and creativity in the side! 😢

Freckleton totally missing down the LH side where their cross came from for the goal. If looks could kill from Wright.

Cock up from Kilkenney almost gifts Salford a chance

Can hear someone shouting "Miquel get out there"

"Miguel, me daughter's on the phone, what are you doing tomorrow night?"

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Ref is being quite strict on small pushes and pulls

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It actually wasnt freckletons fault. I meant to bring this up before but the headless pressing is a joke. Cox didn't need to press and left the extra man.

The amount of thoughtless pressing reminds me of primary school football with everyone chasing he ball

Smith with a terrible shot

The fuck was that from Smith?

McGregor winning quite a few free kicks, not that we're doing anything with them

I have said it before, if we could pass to each other consistently we would be quite a good side.

Our coaches telling each player who to mark.

Fuck me, do we not do any analysis of the opposition at all to come up with a game plan ffs

Another shit bit of defending, should be 2-0

Should be 2-0

This is abysmal.

Blow the final whistle ref!

Salford are fucking shite & we're making them look amazing.

Despite, on paper, having several good players this really is the worst Swindon side of my lifetime.

This is a fucking disgrace.

Arguably the worst 30 minutes performance of all time and there's been some lows.

Might be one of the worst teams I’ve ever seen.

Getting battered here

Based on this current performance we’d struggle to stay up in the national league. This is an actual disgrace

Someone said Walsall bad. But Salford were fucking 16th and struggling ffs

The lack of any sort of pace or creativity in this side is a recipe for relegation.

It's embarrassing that McGurk doesn't get a chance when we are THIS shit.

Cox booked

Where are the subs???

If this cunt Kennedy dares come out and try and spin this tonight that will be the final straw for many.

Maybe it's just me but this looks like Kennedy's lost the dressing room. They're just not playing at all and seem to be ignoring the coaches.

It's like Ofobohr v Salford

We're actually going down.

Where's the protest thread.....

Did he ever have it? this first half seems almost identical to Chesterfield on the opening day. Aimless long balls, no playing through the thirds and devoid of any ideas.

If it was 3-0 now it'd still flatter us.

I think so too

Me too, they don't deserve the attendance

The only positive is that we're still in the game, hopefully Kennedy can inspire them at half time  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Good to see we havent wilted under the pressure of playing such a big club

I'm glad I took the 5.5hrs journey to watch that.
Enthralling stuff.
Really fantastic performance - I can't wait to see what subs he makes.

Going down wouldn't even be enough for a large section of this fan base. They'd shift expectations to just being happy mid table in the conference. Club is rotten from the very top even to a section of the fan base. We are partly responsible for this because we allow it to happen. We are letting the club die. Something significant has to happen soon from the trust or we're never coming back to the football league. It's that serious. That division is no joke to get out of.

36. 4% possession
1 shot
0 on target

Miracle it’s only 1-0

No creativity, no link up play, no midfield, no attacking, no width, no passion, no desire, no confidence, there is nothing.

It’s absolutely clear that Kennedy can not get anything out of these players, he has to go tonight to give ourselves any chance of staying up.

Agree- fanbase is too passive and many would still stand and clap them off whatever league we are in

Trust need to be far more active to end this shit show

Have switched it off cannot stomach enough 45 mins of that shite

Christ we're getting worse! Awful from Barden's shit distribution through to every part of the team....totally clueless

Seriously, save your criticism for the club rather than fellow fans - nobody wants this shit!

But we dominated all areas of the pitch..  you know that right

I've switched off and watching villa

Well Smith and Butterworth are not a good pairing. Smith won a header the destination of which was obvious and Butterworth ran in completely the opposite direction. I get what Mex said about the press but Freckleton was completely watching the ball and let his man go to make the cross. There is definitely no structure at all as yet to this performance. McGurk must replace Cotterill and Glatzel for Butterworth,surely?

It's not good.

If you can't see the link between Morfuni and Co lasting as long as they have BECAUSE of the passive nature of our fan base and supporters trust then fair enough. Perhaps once we are relegated you might.

And yes, I'm sure no fans want us to be shit. But far too many are content with it, and that's the issue.

Yeah,this. What are we supposed to do? I hate the regime but what,not watch and then Morfuni goes? Is that how it works?

Almost a quarter of home fans aren't showing up. That's something. There's no real value in making it toxic in the ground when the owner is 6000 miles away.

No Glatz, out injured presumably. Either got Drinan or Tshimanga

Cox and Oforborh off.

Longelo and Tshimanga on.

What a fucking moron

Double sub

Longelo for Ofoboh
Tshimanga for Cox

This

Surely the press would get hold of discontent? Everyone seems numb about it all.
I stopped going after the first home game, some thought it an overreaction but it was based on the definite decline of the last few years.

It's a start, but large sections of those 6000 are still clapping the team off.

We would get relegated and I can assure you there'd be loads of people just happy we still have a club.

Is it beyond the realms of possibility that the players want him gone hence the steaming pile of manure I am watching? Probably not, but there is a real underlying problem that professional footballers are playing consistently badly all over the park.

Haven’t posted for ages and no interest in the club whilst the criminals are involved.

But having just watched that first half are people still kidding themselves and saying we have a decent squad? This squad and coaching set up is absolute poverty, there’s absolutely no evidence of anything more than a bottom 6 or 7 budget having been spent.

If people don’t think this is a team at real danger of relegation then they need to wake up.


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No longer Ofoborh vs Salford then.

Take your best player off. Great tactics again!

Are we sure that the players aren't playing well because they're disinterested in playing under Kennedy and not because they're disinterested in playing for our clown show of a club

How do you encourage change then?

I think Ofoborh has told MK to stick it for the second half.

Just checking in, I see no Glatzel or McGurk in the squad...I take it they've been caught spit-roasting MK's imaginary daughter?

#ShutterIsland

I think there's a set up in which these players perform better, just as there was last season - plenty of last season's useless cunts are now doing rather well at other clubs. The problem at this club (mostly) isn't the footballers.

Hurrah

I hahaha thank fuck

Haha, absolutely undeserved but you'll take it

How was Smith not offside? At least a yard or two!

Good finish though

Fair play Cotterill. That's a beautiful pass. The first tiny bit of quality we've seen. Get in.

I still hate you Swindon.

Nice ball from Cotterill, complete luck it got to him though.

Would like to see the angle on the offside, Smith doesn't strike me as a guy who'll beat a man with pace...

Fuck me. Only just noticed Glatzel ain't on the bench!

He came off Saturday because of injury, so not a surprise

How the fuck do you leave a 6'4 centre forward unmarked and able to run in behind btw?

They are really just as shite as us really.

Salford look rattled

It did look offside tbh, but we'll take any morsel of fortune. Yet Town likely need to score a few more to actually win

I've watched approx 5mins of this second half and it's like a fucking meaningless reserve match

miles better than the first half though

Gulp  :cry:

Hard to tell but I would guess there's an attendance of about 1.5k?

Kennedy booked

Is this pitch rubbish or are both sets of players just THIS bad at football?

for the Panto at the Wyvern? Should be free by then.

"Freckleton is the best one on one defender in the league"

All together now...

Oh no he isn't!

What a passage of play that was, fucking hell

Normal service resumed

More comedy defending

soapy tit wank

It was a great finish by Taylor tbh but absolute panto defending.

For shits and giggles can the Town faithful that are there start singing ''getting sacked in the morning, sacked in the mooorning...'' and exclusively direct it at Mark ''I'm so calm'' Kennedy please.

A few chants of ''fuck of Clemente, Clemente fuck off'' would also go down well.

Drysdale will send someone off, he's the real panto villain  :D

Don't even give a fuck about the result, straws have been well and truly exhausted with the whole shower that is this club

Just tuned in. This is fucking abysmal.

How has Tshimanga fucked that up?

What a pass from Wright, should be 2-2

Oh yes, it's wank. But Batch even informed me that the first half was worse.

#GashUnited

We are playing like 2011 Barcelona this half compared to the first.

That may give you an idea just how bad the first half was.

Tshimanga uses his body well enough at times and has decent movement.

But his first touch leaves a lot to be desired. As does his second. And third.

Drinan the saviour!

Surprisingly on for Cotterill the unsubable!

Basically, he’s not very good!

Pretty much yeah. There's a reason he's this age and barring a disaster spell at P'boro has never played in the EFL.

Although I feel bad mentioning it as he's the least of our problems in the grand scheme of things.

Agree

Kennedy’s tactics are to get everyone else to play like shit so that Freckleton doesn’t stand out

McGregor down, for the sake of all that's enjoyable this season,  please don't be a long term injury

Att:  2,145 with 278 away

Butterball and McGregor for Hall and McGurk!

McGurk on with 7 minutes left. What the fuck is he supposed to do in that time Kennedy.

Fuck off. Honestly. His man management of this squad is a disgrace.

I don't hate three at the back as much as most but why oh why do we keep it three at the back when we're chasing games every time

Midfield missing in action yet again

Smith looking fitter and more effective, no one gambles on him winning a header

Not convinced by either of our keepers

Everyone else bar Wright and McGregor look out of their depth

Dismal

Longelo misses an absolute sitter. The

Kennedy absolutely has to go now. Something is very wrong here.

Salford are giving us chances, just don't have the ability to take them

Salford are absolutely abysmal.

Which is worrying for us.

This feels like the end of the road for Kennedy - apt because this is where he lives. I'd get Caddis in to build for next season.

In what league?

This is a team going down, don’t forget it’ll get even worst in January. That’s the one area of consistency under the crooks!


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You leave Caddis where he is. This place right now would end his managerial career. The change needs to come from the ownership and management.

It's such a sorry state. Clem and his hangers on have created this environment with multiple pups sold to the next mug...including us Town fans.

Ft the result flatters us, Kennedy must go now

End of the line for Mr Kennedy,  thanks for the memories.

Tshimanga just playing ''can I win a penalty'' roulette  ::)

That's it for me now.

I've been more patient than most with Kennedy, but this can't go on any longer.

To quote Malcolm Tucker, sorry you had to go, but let's face it, you are a waste of skin.

I have nothing against the manager, but the performances and results are pathetic from what appears to be a decent squad.
The next step is inevitable, so why waste time and effort prolonging a lost cause.

Absolutely has to go now.

Come on Cadds is a grown up - give him the chance!! He wouldn't be a yes man to Clem

That was me at 4.50 p,m, on Saturday.

If I don’t see a picture of a corner flag by tomorrow morning I will be fuming. Time to go!

I wouldn’t want Caddis anywhere near us at the moment, we’d absolutely ruin him.

Is Gareth Ainsworth employed?

He also has a brain, which is why he would be intelligent enough to steer well clear of this shitshow

The decent squad thing is a complete myth, there’s a vacuum of quality in key areas.


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No tactics
No plan
No cohesion
No passion
No heart
No idea

STFC is rotten, from top to bottom.

Fuck off.

That's not the point though. I think in principle it would be the right appointment but not under this ownership. His hands would be incredibly tied and I wouldn't want to see him wasted here at this moment in time.

New owners, with no connection to the current cunts and yep, I'd fully back it.

This club ownership, management and players are shocking

Time to drive out the owners for good

Yes, on the pitch!

Extremely poor. Special mentions to MacGregor, Wright, Sobowale and Kilkenny who I would have maybe applauded if I could have made it clear it was just for their efforts and not everyone else’s. Was devastated when I found out Cotterill got the assist as that is a stat I’m sure Mr Kennedy won’t forget in a hurry. Totally bereft of ideas and tactical nouse.
I’m not sure what the point is waiting til 80 mins to bring on players like McGurk. The trapdoor beckons.

I believe the squad is definitely better than this manager is making it. There are players in the team that aren't good enough but there are others that aren't getting picked or playing more minutes that are.

I know we have clashed at times in the past but this is exactly the point I'm making. It would absolutely blemish everything that we know is good about Caddis.

The club is fucked

Well said.

You can bash the squad all you want but can anyone hand on heart legitimately say that these selections / formations / tactics are getting the best out of our players?

I’m not suggesting the squad is any better than 15th-ish but the manager is a huge detriment

We're in a world of trouble here.

Fucking fuckity fuck. It's totally fucked.

I really fucking hate this team. The moron in charge, the ignorant owner, the rubbish director of football, the shady characters in the background. They're all to blame for my disillusionment and I just don't see things improving until they're all gone.

Fuck you Kennedy. Fuck you Clem. Fuck you Russell. Fuck you Kiely and Xav and Hart and Standing. Fuck you all.

Will be interesting to hear what agent Kennedy will say about that half.

It really won't.

This

Are we still.soing this? Kindly fuck off the Aussie liar and all the criminal hangers on, do not pass go, do not collect £200. I'd rather we lose the funding, sack off the professionals at this point and just play our scholars because if we're going down we might as well not bother throwing any more money at it. I don't blame the players (well not all of them), or even the repeated attempts at installing a manager who can do something with us, despite the shower of shit we've had to put up with as a fanbase the last few seasons.

This Boo guy on twitter really gets under my skin. The thick twat.

He slates Kennedy. He slates Hall. He slates Russell.

Yet he is pro clem and never has a bad word to say about him

How can he not comprehend that he has, and continues to employ all these people.

Yes you are right actually. More interesting to see what it will take to get him to change his rhetoric.

Kennedy just said he thought we played really well the second half

How the hell do Skybet have us at 6-1 for relegation and Newport at 3-1 !!. 

He better not have...

I wish I was taking the piss

Ooh, might lump on that

Wait a minute............................Doncaster Rovers 0 : 1 Bromley, wtf?  Maybe, Donny aren't that good.

I can absolutely promise 100% that I’m not being smug but Not putting any money into the club this season has been the right decision sadly. I stand by the mantra that it’s the only way we’ll get any change is to change the owners. At this rate the NL beckons. Aberdeen leaving as he did should have been the first real warning siren. Tonight’s smorgasbord of absolute dirge makes me want to in part weep. The ghosts of fans and players departed must be spinning in their graves.

Nobody is any good.

The fact we've only lost one game by more than one goal shows that.

We are utter dross, and nobody can put us to the sword.

Seriously Kennedy is having a laugh

Apart from Walsall home he reckons all the managers of the other sides who have beat us will think they got lucky

Ffs seriously

Lucky they played us before Kennedy gets sacked maybe?

Fuck sake LL, I concur. Tempted to return on Saturday to vent but don't want to give another penny to that lot.

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In my opinion not putting any money in is probably the only proactive thing you can do. Protests won’t matter, none of the hangers on, and by extension Clem, have a conscience, they don’t care what people think. They are scum. They can only be starved out. Unfortunate as that means hurting the club we love, but I don’t see any other way than by withholding cash. And if that doesn’t work, I don’t know what else will.

Well that went as expected.

The formation doesn't work
The starting line up was wrong.
The subs were wrong at half time.
The subs later in the half with no change in formation is wrong.
The "tactics" were wrong.

I genuinely believe that this squad can be a lot better than it's showing. On paper (yes I know) but some of these players are decent.

I'm fully done on Kennedy. He's lost a lot of the away fans as well, no atmosphere at all tonight until they tried to come over.

Should get home at 0330, getting harder to get myself to watch the Town.

Then don’t. Fucking painful on so many levels. Remember when we all laughed at the piss stains?

This

People invest thousands of pounds a year into this club, and these chumps in charge are taking the piss out of you.

Thank fuck ive boycotted until they fuck off.

Its the only way to force them out, starve them of any monetary supply

Navy seals.

Wtf

One way to Seal his fate

Nemo was right. He started talking about hypothetical conversations, if Hawes was the manager and, Navy effing S.E.A.L.S

He's not a violent man though, so it's ok. It doesn't matter he's a wank manager because the team never argues.

Fuck me it sounds like he gives them all a reach around and then tucks them in to bed at night to soothe them. Apart from Freckleton of course, who gets to use MK's fleshlight imaginary daughter after every match  :crash:

Very sad day.
Can it get worse ?
I think it will

What did he say about Navy Seals?

I don’t think referring to the owners as scum is helpful, even though I understand the feeling and sentiment behind the comment. All that kind of ‘abuse’ does is give the owners and their stooges the high ground to bleat about it to the media and portray themselves as saintly victims. Victims, ha, ha, ha.

As long as they can screw money out of the club they’ll be there it’s that simple. When the balance of risk v reward becomes to little and too troublesome then they’ll quietly piss off.

Keep the criticism civil and keep up the financial pressure.

Back to the game.

My god, watching Marine on a wet Saturday and paying £10 would be so much better. Salford will be a bottom half team all season, we will surpass that and be a bottom four at best all season. Better attend each game with a) spare pants, b) wet wipes, c) soft absorbent toilet tissue (full roll).

Honestly as football spectacle it was embarrassing.

I’d say it’s more a statement of fact than abuse. If they were just a bit naughty I’d agree, but they are villains of the highest order.

Well say what you want of course, I just feel that any sympathy they can garner, they will, and use it to help justify their sorry position. They know, they’re not blind nor stupid. Do not feed the animals, they’re starving and will latch onto anything to deflect the real position of the club.

 I couldn't be arsed to put in a prediction.  What a sorry state of affairs.  Looks highly likely that we will be visiting some interesting grounds next season.

This. So much this.

At least the pain and suffering would then be over

Put us all out of our misery!

Yeah I'd be all for this. Not even joking.

At least we can then try and rebuild something from the rubble.

I've described this was purgatory. It's a never ending nightmare.

I guess that it was interesting in a way hearing all the shouting coming from the Town bench. It was incessant! There was nothing coming from the Salford bench. Why was that?

Is that a sign of anything? Are our players unable to play without constantly being told what to do? Are our 'coaching' team 'different' to others or was it just that the microphone was infront of the Town bench and we couldn't hear Salford?

Oooh! Listen to the last few seconds (after all the crap about DNA, black and white etc). Does Kennedy slip up and give an inkling that he will be gone by the weekend?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aymIkPuHMvs

In terms of bench on one hand do nothing get criticised, do to much get criticised.

Except it's also about content. Sheridan's ghost. "Brett Brett Brett"

Suspect he's just feeling the pressure and knows what happens to managers in this position.

But interesting..."whoever"

I will not be shocked if he's not in charge of the team on Saturday having listened to that...

I wonder if we’d give Bignot a go or whether we’d bin him off with Kennedy…

If there was ever a post to sum up exactly how I am feeling then this is it.

Yep, same. Will not be renewing next season,  under any circumstance, if we're still under this ownership. Pissed that actually renewed and still have a shed load of this season to go. Awful all round.

This.

Kennedy has to go, i have a lot of patience for sticking with managers but for me his tactics, team selection and substitutions are costing us goals and points.

We are heading to non league with barely a whimper and that hurts and saddens me massively.

A huge clean sweep is needed at management level and sooner rather than later before its too late. At this rate the season will be over by Xmas.

Angry.

Woke up this morning with a hangover from that.

First half was as bad as ive seen ever, particularly against god awful opposition.

Got ourselves back into the game by some miracle when we managed to put over two passes together....but folded again.

Lacked everything in that game apart from some effort in the second half.

Should Kennedy go? No doubt, better for all parties. But can we afford to pay him off? Nobody here to step up and change things, who would want to come here?

A total shit show.

The crowd will dwindle again.....and repeat.

Dogshit.

A few in the same boat there!

Bignot? Out of the frying pan…  so yes, that’s what I suspect they would do. A brains trust of Bignot and Gunning. What a combo!

I reckon we’d keep Bignot. It gives them another layer of breathing room before having to find a completely new coach.

Give Bignot a go for a few months, if it’s not working, replace him with Gunning until end of the season and then hope to scrape something else together next June. Rinse and repeat next season.

Bignot sums the club up, he’d clearly take any job going.

A few years ago he played in the Gloucestershire veterans league against us for a team of bankrupt footballers who were being paid by some rich guy on an ego trip to play in it. It included the likes of Lee Hendrie, Darren Byfield, Kevin Betsy etc. Amusingly Lee Carsley was playing as well… but yeah Bignot has is obviously not the answer and is just here because he’s cheap.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241023/6505a90b06a256bb67586a60b6e45b4b.jpg)


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How rich was the guy to bring Michael Jackson back from the dead?

That was the ex Shrewsbury and Tranmere manager.

But back on Bignot, if the rest of that lot are anything to go by it seems he’d do anything for a few £’s which under this regime is a recipe for disaster so I’d rather he doesn’t get a chance.


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A Big Not from me

Purely because we have nobody in the building with experience of running a successful football club, we are guaranteed to make the wrong decision if we get rid of Kennedy. Basically, its another season gone and the best we can hope for at the end of it is to still be in League Two. How utterly depressing.

Can we just stop fucking about and get someone who can at least steer us to safety? This is madness.

Please someone buy us.

What we’re witnessing is footballing purgatory.

We keep these owners and we drift into non league and/or insolvency and many of us will find other things to do with our time. When the people running the club represent so much that you are against, it’s the natural result. There’s only so long that the super glue holds. It’s been tested one time too many. (Note to Zavier Austin, they won’t “just keep coming back” you ignorant, criminal fool). I’m not going to go on Saturday. I don’t want to, and I’ve got a ST.

Or we find new, credible, genuine owners, and we start again. This needs to happen as soon as possible. But owing to the fact that the current jokers are the decision-makers in that sale, it’s pot luck whether the new owners are credible. That’s why the Trust has a role finding the next incumbents - it massively increases the chance that we won’t end up with more of the same.

We seemed to revert to aimless hit and hope yesterday which seems to be our default when Smith plays. While this crop of players aren’t great, I feel they can do better than the dross that is being served up week in week out.

The problem we have is that the club has become the legitimate face of what we're led to believe is some pretty shady business dealings. For the current ownership sell the club, the cynic in me says that it would take an offer that would eclipse any nefarious financial gains that are currently being realised by Zavier Austin etc.

You say cynical, I say logical.

This.

We’re not just in a relegation battle it’s about keeping our football league status. Enough is enough get rid of Kennedy and appoint Neil Warnock (or someone experienced) until the end of the season at least he would galvanise the squad and get the best out of them and hopefully behind the scenes Clem will see sense and decide to sell up for a reasonable price.

Not ideal but things are getting to a critical stage and left much longer it will be too late to turn things around and who knows if we will even have a club at all if we were relegated to the nation league.

Warnock crossed my mind too. Don't know how feasible he would be, currently 'Football Adviser' at Torquay...

We’ve had so many managers over recent years we’re running out of ideas🤣

Fuck off, Warnock? We couldn’t afford his expenses 🤣 like the thinking mind, but financially we’re skint and the sands of time are running out. He wouldn’t come to a basket case club like us in the shadow of a big, big, club like Salford.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Republic_of_Ireland_squad_2002_FIFA_World_Cup

Here is a list of potentials. Lee Carsley is otherwise disposed.

I just cant see Clem & Co sacking MK anytime soon, I think they will gamble and leave it until at least December with January in mind whereby Russell can wheel and deal on players again and create another new starting XI.

Wasn't Bignot picked by Russell to be No 2 rather than Kennedy pick his own staff ?

Well according to reports Gunning was CMs man and Kennedy was CKs. Showing that neither of our glorious owners have an ounce of a clue what the fuck they are doing.

Correct

We will be done by December..

I bloody hope not. Terrible recruitment record so far. He even recruited Kennedy (if you believe the Aussie).

Mind you, if Russell is replaced who gets the job? Hall?! Gunning?!

Done relegated or done gone bust.
The excitement knows no bounds.

The plus from a club point of view in leaving it till January is they can just use the window to sell whoever has any value and bring in some more cheap unknowns without a pesky manager getting in the way of things.

In fact, wouldn't be surprised if that's actually the approach of the club, 2 January's in a row we've been looking for a manager after all...

Quite!   Warnock is in another galaxy from the piss pool of talent we will be picking from.  He takes underperforming championship clubs into the prem and does so for millions.   Why the fuck would he come here.   

Only to pass through on the way to a big club, like Salford. 🤣

I still don't believe Russell is as much to blame as many think. Can't believe for one minute the powers that be give him a free rein on signings.

That’s his fault for agreeing to become the face of it then.

As far as I’m concerned, anyone that’s agreed to work with this lot, knowing what they’re like is as bad as they are.

I guess the test of that statement is would you apply the same to SDM?

TBF to him, If you got promoted into a much more senior position it would be hard to say no

Indeed. Having considered it for all of three seconds... totally unfeasible. Just thinking out loud really. Still a nice (fantasy) idea though...

Damien Duff