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 Post subject: Playoffs…..?
PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2026 6:01 pm 
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You can kiss em goodbye…..


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 Post subject: Re: Playoffs…..?
PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:51 pm 
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Location: Somewhere in me head.
They were never there to kiss goodbye to.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:18 pm 
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yes they where....now they aint.


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 Post subject: Re: Playoffs…..?
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 12:04 am 
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Hartleblue wrote:
They were never there to kiss goodbye to.

They’re always there till the numbers say otherwise…but realistically it’s dreaming.

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 Post subject: Re: Playoffs…..?
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 2:45 am 
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Keep the faith, it’s still possible although if you can’t score against a team who have conceded 55 goals the 3rd highest in the NL well maybe it’s not possible..


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 Post subject: Re: Playoffs…..?
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 6:47 am 
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NF will not get us into the play offs this year or next. Yesterday proved that he hasn't got a clue, how many games will he persist in asking Reid to play mostly isolated and with his back to goal, RB at LB when your best LB is available?
Then his substitutions actually made it much more likely that they'd score again than we would.
3 shots on target at home against the poorest defence in the league says it all.
The guy is clueless, he won't even admit the shortcomings that 4000 fans can see game after game, and if you don't see them your not going to change anything.
I know we've had a massively high turnover in managers but that doesn't mean we should persist with a floundering incumbent. Get a proper manager in asap and judge him around this time next year giving him the rest of this season, the close season, and build momentum for a decent shot at the top 7 next season.


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 Post subject: Re: Playoffs…..?
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 6:47 am 
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Jamie, Featherstone is like a bloke trying to get his old unreliable car to start, but it coughs and splutters and cuts out repeatedly….and Featherstone is no mechanic.
I wonder if there’s a Hayes Manual for coaching…..?

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I think that's maybe the problem, he seems stuck in a 1 dimensional footballing world. I think he's got the wrong Haynes manual (Premier League Purist GTI) when he should be looking at the National League Promotion Popular (limited edition).


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 9:20 am 
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Could John Coleman be tempted to switch clubs for next season.


Excellent cv like.

Well the derbie is looking back on for next season.
They on fire lately and that Cedric Main looks a class act.


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There will likely be a transfer value figure that would trigger his release - some club will take advantage before long but I can't see us doing it.


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 Post subject: Re: Playoffs…..?
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 10:21 am 
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We’ll just stick with tried and trusted, reliable old bafflement…we’ve tried everything except the right things to get a team to start firing on all cylinders, but…..
Scrap the lot, start again, because at the present time we’re just fiddling about and wasting time.

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PTID wrote:
I think that's maybe the problem, he seems stuck in a 1 dimensional footballing world. I think he's got the wrong Haynes manual (Premier League Purist GTI) when he should be looking at the National League Promotion Popular (limited edition).


Of course after the Aldershot humiliation, he will abandon all thought of attacking football and revert to defend like fook and hope for the best.


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kevin pooles gloves wrote:
Could John Coleman be tempted to switch clubs for next season.


Excellent cv like.

Well the derbie is looking back on for next season.
They on fire lately and that Cedric Main looks a class act.

if the club had wanted him and the offer was decent we could have pipped aldershot to get him. see where both clubs end up in april as coleman has never been a success away from accrington.


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 Post subject: Re: Playoffs…..?
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 12:25 pm 
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Ozzy Saltburn wrote:
PTID wrote:
I think that's maybe the problem, he seems stuck in a 1 dimensional footballing world. I think he's got the wrong Haynes manual (Premier League Purist GTI) when he should be looking at the National League Promotion Popular (limited edition).


Of course after the Aldershot humiliation, he will abandon all thought of attacking football and revert to defend like fook and hope for the best.

well it did work against three other struggling sides. he only had to tinker a bit yesterday and change the bench instead of making so many changes to the staring line up especially in holohans case of hardly playing much recently.


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