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Post by NelsonShrew on Jul 23, 2019 16:08:51 GMT 1
We will finish 11th.
We will have a p**s-poor run in the FA Cup, but a decent one in the league cup - Also breezing through the group stage of the Checka-paint-pot-auto-vans trophy culminating in area finals defeat.
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Post by cheggersdrinkspop on Jul 23, 2019 16:18:44 GMT 1
Being a Town fan for far too long I am looking forward to another season with the optimism that appears about this time every year, and yes this will be the one where we get promotion and maybe the semis of the fa cup. But come December I will be resigning myself to the dream of a mid table finish and a good draw in the 3rd round. The delights of following a small town football league club, you can never be really too disappointed can you. Just think if you support a top club and they finished second, ring the samaritans!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 17:07:25 GMT 1
Our points total for the last nine seasons at this level. 53,53,46,55,42,50,51,87,52 - Relegated or fighting relegation in 8 out of 9 seasons. It's not going out on a limb to suggest we are likely to be in the bottom third. Please post more.
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Post by mattmw on Jul 23, 2019 18:08:13 GMT 1
Not seen any of the pre-season friendlies but not expecting much more than mid table this season. Defense sounds to have more variety than last season, but like a few others I'm not sure that the 5-3-2 formation we seem to be going with is that flexible. Attacking wise there seems a better mix of experience and pace than last year, just not quite sure there will be enough goals to win that many matches. Midfield seems the weak area in terms of creativity although Luke McCormick would seem to potentially offer something different and goals from central midfield.
Gossip about fall outs between Ricketts and senior players don't seem to have gone away over the summer though and the issue with Grant just adds to the feeling things aren't quite right there too. Think we'll still be in league one come May, just not sure we'll be that much further forward as a club
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Post by andygroundo on Jul 24, 2019 19:56:49 GMT 1
Are there any about yet? Are the FourFourTwo and WSC's season previews already out? Where do they have us? Any others anyone has seen? The Racing Post produces a very good guide to the forthcoming season usually the Saturday before the season starts. Four four two and Wsc will produce their guides in the next week or so. incidentally The Sporting Life produced a pre season guide about ten years ago where they predicted the winners of all four English divisions and all of the Scottish divisions correctly. If you had followed them a pound stake would have won you £258,000. No one is on record of doing it not even the blokes who made the predictions. I had a treble on Sunderland Fulham and Brentfod wining their divisions many years ago and won a few grand. They can be good bets for instance this season A ten pound treble stake on Cardiff Sunderland and Plymouth, a not unlikely combination returns £6050.
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Post by welshshrew on Jul 24, 2019 23:21:06 GMT 1
Our points total for the last nine seasons at this level. 53,53,46,55,42,50,51,87,52 - Relegated or fighting relegation in 8 out of 9 seasons. It's not going out on a limb to suggest we are likely to be in the bottom third. Please post more. I sense you may be in the minority. At age 39 I certainly don't have the energy for Valeroich and MartinShrew any more.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 7:12:14 GMT 1
I sense you may be in the minority. At age 39 I certainly don't have the energy for Valeroich and MartinShrew any more. Fair point.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 20:29:21 GMT 1
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Jul 26, 2019 17:35:24 GMT 1
Thanks for sharing, thats the sort of thing we're after...👍 Blimey, never expect to see our entry so soon in the listings...
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Post by PeterBroadbent on Jul 27, 2019 23:43:14 GMT 1
Cheers ‘Hover’ Evidence, if evidence were needed, about what a rotten goalkeeper Steve ‘Stevo’ Arnold truly was. I consider this case duly closed. The following Arnold worshippers should consider themselves thoroughly embarrassed: Pilch, pughycostanarmandaleg, jayt, exkeeper, scarecrow, gtismygod, Peter Broadbent, downie, southstandshrew, tvor, salty_fran Not guilty on this one!!
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Post by Pilch on Jul 28, 2019 9:28:54 GMT 1
Cheers ‘Hover’ Evidence, if evidence were needed, about what a rotten goalkeeper Steve ‘Stevo’ Arnold truly was. I consider this case duly closed. The following Arnold worshippers should consider themselves thoroughly embarrassed: Pilch, pughycostanarmandaleg, jayt, exkeeper, scarecrow, gtismygod, Peter Broadbent, downie, southstandshrew, tvor, salty_fran cross my name off that list, I discovered he was bad like newton discovered apples drop off a tree ;-) for this season for me, I think it will be average our current number 1 looks nowhere near as big as Arnold and yet he's 20 times more agile and he knows how to throw the ball out, something we've not seen since I can't remember when I know he scored both goals yesterday but I think we need a decent loan forward to replace fejiri, to me he looked a bit clumsy and until Morrison literally put one on his head a yard out he was only ever going to score from the spot, I hope I'm wrong though our tank defenders look good going forward but don't half get tired after doing so they look solid mostly but once of twice can get caught flat footed and if luck isn't in our favour this will result in goals or red cards, or both norburn can't come back quick enough, vince needs to improve alot if he is to keep his starting place, Edwards has potential to become a town legend but its all down to staying injury free our wolves winger could be the star performer this season, he is high end championship material at worst, right backs are going to try and kick him off the pitch all season, the only down side is we are currently no good at converting his regular crosses Morrison, looks a classy header of the ball but I'd rather he put his foot through the ball when using his feet, the classy finish looks good if it comes off but pathetic if its doesn't, just hit it man whally looks like the goto number 12 at the moment but I reckon eisa could feature a lot, well unless we offload him for the season its going to be a tough opener, I'll settle for a draw
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Post by Exkeeper on Jul 28, 2019 9:34:26 GMT 1
Ignoring our resident wannabe copper and concentrating on Hoover’s link, it seems that instead of Charlton in the play-offs, we will have Ipswich ( how nice it would be to p**s on their chips,) and that off to Wembley again to play .......Rotherham again.
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Post by thesalmon on Jul 28, 2019 10:30:42 GMT 1
Cheers ‘Hover’ Evidence, if evidence were needed, about what a rotten goalkeeper Steve ‘Stevo’ Arnold truly was. I consider this case duly closed. The following Arnold worshippers should consider themselves thoroughly embarrassed: Pilch, pughycostanarmandaleg, jayt, exkeeper, scarecrow, gtismygod, Peter Broadbent, downie, southstandshrew, tvor, salty_fran cross my name off that list, I discovered he was bad like newton discovered apples drop off a tree ;-) for this season for me, I think it will be average our current number 1 looks nowhere near as big as Arnold and yet he's 20 times more agile and he knows how to throw the ball out, something we've not seen since I can't remember when I know he scored both goals yesterday but I think we need a decent loan forward to replace fejiri, to me he looked a bit clumsy and until Morrison literally put one on his head a yard out he was only ever going to score from the spot, I hope I'm wrong though our tank defenders look good going forward but don't half get tired after doing so they look solid mostly but once of twice can get caught flat footed and if luck isn't in our favour this will result in goals or red cards, or both norburn can't come back quick enough, vince needs to improve alot if he is to keep his starting place, Edwards has potential to become a town legend but its all down to staying injury free our wolves winger could be the star performer this season, he is high end championship material at worst, right backs are going to try and kick him off the pitch all season, the only down side is we are currently no good at converting his regular crosses Morrison, looks a classy header of the ball but I'd rather he put his foot through the ball when using his feet, the classy finish looks good if it comes off but pathetic if its doesn't, just hit it man whally looks like the goto number 12 at the moment but I reckon eisa could feature a lot, well unless we offload him for the season its going to be a tough opener, I'll settle for a draw Good overview Though I would add mccormick to the positive influences for our team Good on set pieces and wants to get on the ball and create something - just hope he adapts to men's football fast and stamps his class on the league. If it all comes together then I can see him getting around 10 goals and 10 assists over the course of the season
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Post by harboroughshrew on Jul 28, 2019 18:19:18 GMT 1
Would be disappointed if we did not finish midtable at least - we are a stable and well run club with a young manager who will improve. We have a stronger squad overall this year and decent support. I think we can do better than just try to avoid relegation and League 1 overall does not seem as strong as last year with two clubs in immediate crisis.
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Post by gabriel on Jul 30, 2019 23:29:15 GMT 1
Thanks for sharing, thats the sort of thing we're after...👍 Blimey, never expect to see our entry so soon in the listings... Thanks for sharing Hoover, this was my preview. Feeling very positive about your lot this season - best of luck!
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Post by TheFoz on Jul 31, 2019 1:08:25 GMT 1
I think we have a squad that is capable of finishing mid table and maybe even flirting with the play offs.
My prediction: 10th
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Post by shropshirelad42 on Jul 31, 2019 10:14:20 GMT 1
Mid table finish and ' battering ' all the so called big clubs (home & away) in the process would be great !!
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Post by liam23 on Jul 31, 2019 10:20:16 GMT 1
we're gonna p**s the leauge
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Post by Rusholme Ruffian on Jul 31, 2019 10:24:33 GMT 1
Couple more predictions i've seen: welovebetting.co.uk/wlb-season-preview-2019-20-league-one-team-verdicts/Puts us in 18th. @blades_analytic on twitter puts 11th. He is a data analyst who has recently been hired by Peterborough. And Not the Top 20 Podcast do their annual predictions as 12th. All seem reasoned enough to be honest. Think we are one who seems quite hard to predict when compared to many, but at least not relegation fodder so far on the whole. Think I would predict lower-mid table. Squad has been improved on last season, and an approach feels more concrete. However, I don't think Sam and team proved to us last season that they have the ability to dramatically improve results to the extent that Hurst did. Despite that, I don't think League one is as good as it has been in previous years and so hopefully we can pick up enough results and some momentum. Hope to be proved wrong by Sam etc, and if things fall right (lack of injuries, new players and formation bed in quickly, good relationship from Morrison and Fey with goals) then it could be a lot better.
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Post by tvor on Jul 31, 2019 13:47:44 GMT 1
Think I would predict lower-mid table. On balance I would agree. There is perhaps the potential for a better season but it would need plenty of things to go right for that to happen with the squad as it stands. We have plenty of players who haven't played, or who have played very little, at this level before so it's very difficult to predict how they will handle the step up. The side looks more likely to be stronger defensively than offensively so hopefully we won't need to score loads of goals to get results. We do look short on attacking threat and attacking depth at the moment. I'm not sure there is enough in the squad to achieve a top half finish.
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Post by Rusholme Ruffian on Jul 31, 2019 15:36:40 GMT 1
Think I would predict lower-mid table. On balance I would agree. There is perhaps the potential for a better season but it would need plenty of things to go right for that to happen with the squad as it stands. We have plenty of players who haven't played, or who have played very little, at this level before so it's very difficult to predict how they will handle the step up. The side looks more likely to be stronger defensively than offensively so hopefully we won't need to score loads of goals to get results. We do look short on attacking threat and attacking depth at the moment. I'm not sure there is enough in the squad to achieve a top half finish. I agree. I think if you look at the squad, there is talent for a good position, and that is reflected in the predictions i think . However, i just think the amount of turnover in the club over the last year or so in terms of players and coaching staff is huge, and its not just players who make a good team. Sam and team have to prove they can put a good team together on the pitch not just on paper
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Post by welshshrew on Feb 11, 2020 22:47:52 GMT 1
Our points total for the last nine seasons at this level. 53,53,46,55,42,50,51,87,52 - Relegated or fighting relegation in 8 out of 9 seasons. It's not going out on a limb to suggest we are likely to be in the bottom third. What were people expecting?
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Post by tvor on Feb 11, 2020 22:55:29 GMT 1
Our points total for the last nine seasons at this level. 53,53,46,55,42,50,51,87,52 - Relegated or fighting relegation in 8 out of 9 seasons. It's not going out on a limb to suggest we are likely to be in the bottom third. What were people expecting? The more important question is what is the Chairman expecting. In his Christmas message, when we were 11th at the time, he said we were around where he wanted us to be.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 23:51:07 GMT 1
What were people expecting? The more important question is what is the Chairman expecting. In his Christmas message, when we were 11th at the time, he said we were around where he wanted us to be. That's still on. But I expect SR to be a bit more positive in his interviews.
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Post by tvor on Feb 11, 2020 23:55:02 GMT 1
The more important question is what is the Chairman expecting. In his Christmas message, when we were 11th at the time, he said we were around where he wanted us to be. That's still on. But I expect SR to be a bit more positive in his interviews. I can't see us making up 8 points on those currently in 11th/12th place.
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