Relegation Thread 23/24 Sponsored by Sadford City

[AdamStag]

I said a few weeks ago i reckoned FGR would be within a decent chance of stopping up after our game, and they’re already showing those signs.

 

[Casey]

I said in the match thread there's some decent players at FGR but they ain't working as a team and they don't seem to want to get stuck in and fight for the shirt.

Never say never but I can't see them getting to safety.

Casey

....and then they beat Tranmere who had just thrashed the league leaders!

At least I suffixed it with never say never.

49 points. I feel I can wave goodbye to this thread.

Casey

 

[JaredSUFC]

Morison losing the plot already?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1761670432359334080

I’ve not listened to that yet, but the guy doing the interview is regularly a commentator on our iFollow and annoyies me with his seemingly wilful lack of knowledge. So by that alone this situation isn’t surprising

 

[Conker]

I’ve not listened to that yet, but the guy doing the interview is regularly a commentator on our iFollow and annoyies me with his seemingly wilful lack of knowledge. So by that alone this situation isn’t surprising

No defending the manager, lost his head a sign the pressure is too much. The interviewer did absolutely nothing wrong.

 

[GTFCfish]

This Saturday is fucking huge, I’m bricking it to be honest.

 

[Conker]

I do genuinely think Grimsby are in a bit of trouble with FGR. Nothing against the latter either but I hope it stays as is.

My concern is I look at the squads and I’m pretty confident saying FGR squad is better and so is the manager for a relegation battle.

 

[EnglishRed]

Tomorrow sees FGR playing a BELEAGUERED Wrexham team who just cannot get a win away.

Could be within one point of Grimsby (albeit having played two more games). Squeaky bum time in Cleethorpes and Colchester.

 

[GTFCfish]

Has anybody seen Holohan’s miss from Saturday?
Fucking hell.

He puts that away it’s a 6 point gap plus some momentum from an injury time win and it looks a whole lot better going into Saturday, but now I feel the momentum’s all with FGR with 2 wins from 3 and given our recent horror shows at home I can only see an FGR win here.
We’re in BIG trouble.

 

[Chris FGR]

This Saturday is fucking huge, I’m bricking it to be honest.

You should be. More of the same next Saturday would be nice

https://twitter.com/x/status/1026417014980587520

 

[GTFCfish]

You should be. More of the same next Saturday would be nice

https://twitter.com/x/status/1026417014980587520

Not many CB’s can bang one in from 35 yards so fair play to him.
I was actually sat just above that post and as soon as he did it you could see McKeown had no chance of getting there but for a second or two it looked like it might hit the post instead.
Then it curled in.

 

[Son of Cod]

Has anybody seen Holohan’s miss from Saturday?
Fucking hell.

He puts that away it’s a 6 point gap plus some momentum from an injury time win and it looks a whole lot better going into Saturday, but now I feel the momentum’s all with FGR with 2 wins from 3 and given our recent horror shows at home I can only see an FGR win here.
We’re in BIG trouble.

Yeah, shocker from Gav. Saw it live and thought he might have shinned it maybe? I'd have backed him over most in our squad to stick a big chance away.

Plenty of positives to take from Saturday though, hopefully that's a corner we've turned. I wouldn't say I'm confident but I'm not bricking it, we've been in these games so many times over the last few decades it seems. I think I'm just a bit over it all really. I've got plans next Saturday and I'm quite pleased about not being able to watch it. These games are always horrible.

 

[GTFCfish]

Yeah, shocker from Gav. Saw it live and thought he might have shinned it maybe? I'd have backed him over most in our squad to stick a big chance away.

Plenty of positives to take from Saturday though, hopefully that's a corner we've turned. I wouldn't say I'm confident but I'm not bricking it, we've been in these games so many times over the last few decades it seems. I think I'm just a bit over it all really. I've got plans next Saturday and I'm quite pleased about not being able to watch it. These games are always horrible.

The thing is though every time we have one of these encouraging away performances, I’m always tricked into thinking we’re starting to turn a corner and we then go and capitulate at home in the next game:
I’m torn about whether I can go to it or not too as I’m working Tue - Fri this week but I always do my first night off as overtime and I’ve just had a pay rise so to go to it means losing over £170 but then I really don’t want to miss this one so not sure what to do tbh.

 

[jacobncfc]

Forest Green will stay up under Cotterill having got themselves into striking distance already IMO, it's just whether it's Grimsby or Colchester that they catch.

 

[Chris FGR]

Tbf Cotterill has got us playing like prime Barcelona.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1761699558462247315

 

[GEORGE]

Has anybody seen Holohan’s miss from Saturday?
Fucking hell.

He puts that away it’s a 6 point gap plus some momentum from an injury time win and it looks a whole lot better going into Saturday, but now I feel the momentum’s all with FGR with 2 wins from 3 and given our recent horror shows at home I can only see an FGR win here.
We’re in BIG trouble.

From what I've seen of him. I can't believe you let us sign Conteh in Jan as opposed to keeping and selling him in the summer. The bloke is magic and will surely go on to bigger & better than us. He never gives the ball away ,always finds his man. I certainly think he will be playing Championship football within 2 years and possibly go higher after that.

 

[dedwardp]

From what I've seen of him. I can't believe you let us sign Conteh in Jan as opposed to keeping and selling him in the summer. The bloke is magic and will surely go on to bigger & better than us. He never gives the ball away ,always finds his man. I certainly think he will be playing Championship football within 2 years and possibly go higher after that.

It was a release clause, wasn't it? So they didn't have any choice.

 

[Son of Cod]

The thing is though every time we have one of these encouraging away performances, I’m always tricked into thinking we’re starting to turn a corner and we then go and capitulate at home in the next game:
I’m torn about whether I can go to it or not too as I’m working Tue - Fri this week but I always do my first night off as overtime and I’ve just had a pay rise so to go to it means losing over £170 but then I really don’t want to miss this one so not sure what to do tbh.

Yeah, very up and down these performances, no exactly what you mean about them tricking us into thinking we've improved. We need to set up at BP like we do away from home against FGR.

Forest Green will stay up under Cotterill having got themselves into striking distance already IMO, it's just whether it's Grimsby or Colchester that they catch.

I think they'll have to beat us to stand any chance whatsoever. Their run-in is brutal too. They play Stockport, Crewe, MK Dons, Mansfield and Wrexham in back to back games from the end of March. I agree Coterill is a great manager for them to have in this fight, but I just think if we beat them then it'll knock the wind out of their sales.

 

[Son of Cod]

From what I've seen of him. I can't believe you let us sign Conteh in Jan as opposed to keeping and selling him in the summer. The bloke is magic and will surely go on to bigger & better than us. He never gives the ball away ,always finds his man. I certainly think he will be playing Championship football within 2 years and possibly go higher after that.

Good to hear, but yeah he's gonna be some player. I don't think the decision was in our hands to be honest. We wouldn't have been able to sign him in the summer without the release clause, was a signing that was always made with the risk of losing him in Jan.

 

[Gladders]

If we go down this season, only one area to blame. We've had plenty of different players, managers and even owners, and still gone down, the only consistency is the fans. Blame them.

 

[Son of Cod]

If we go down this season, only one area to blame. We've had plenty of different players, managers and even owners, and still gone down, the only consistency is the fans. Blame them.

That's not fair at all mate.









































































The ticket office and clubshop staff are still the same as well.

 

[Alfie]

I think they'll have to beat us to stand any chance whatsoever. Their run-in is brutal too. They play Stockport, Crewe, MK Dons, Mansfield and Wrexham in back to back games from the end of March. I agree Coterill is a great manager for them to have in this fight, but I just think if we beat them then it'll knock the wind out of their sales.

Partly agree with statement.
But it is on Saturday night when situation will be clearer.
FGR with 2 wins would be 2 pts above Grimsby and it would be Fish that had their wind knocked out.
FGR with less than 4 pts would struggle to avoid relegation. (The teams just above them are all increasing their pts tally.)

 

[GTFCfish]

From what I've seen of him. I can't believe you let us sign Conteh in Jan as opposed to keeping and selling him in the summer. The bloke is magic and will surely go on to bigger & better than us. He never gives the ball away ,always finds his man. I certainly think he will be playing Championship football within 2 years and possibly go higher after that.

From what I gathered at the time you met his release clause so we didn’t have a choice unfortunately.

 

[Son of Cod]

Partly agree with statement.
But it is on Saturday night when situation will be clearer.
FGR with 2 wins would be 2 pts above Grimsby and it would be Fish that had their wind knocked out.
FGR with less than 4 pts would struggle to avoid relegation. (The teams just above them are all increasing their pts tally.)

For us to have the wind knocked out of our sails implies that we currently have the wind in our sails though. My point is that I believe we can bounce back from losing this match and survive whereas I don't think FGR can, I think it will kill them off. There will be an almighty meltdown amongst the Grimsby ranks but looking at the run-ins and then the fact that we'll have two games in hand still (which are against a Wimbledon side who are currently eyeing up parasols and sunbeds and a Colchester side who are about us much cop as we are), I don't see it as being quite as catastrophic as it will be made out to be.

 

[Essex2Wessex]

Our run-in is indeed horrendous. I'm not convinced we'll make the great escape, but it's looking more possible than it has now for quite some time. Having a proper manager has made such a big difference.

Osadebe has also been a great signing so far. Yet all the Bradford City fans said he was shit....

 

[WilsdenBantam]

Our run-in is indeed horrendous. I'm not convinced we'll make the great escape, but it's looking more possible than it has now for quite some time. Having a proper manager has made such a big difference.

Osadebe has also been a great signing so far. Yet all the Bradford City fans said he was shit....

And all the Walsall fans and every other club he’s played for…

 

[JaredSUFC]

No defending the manager, lost his head a sign the pressure is too much. The interviewer did absolutely nothing wrong.

I still haven’t listened to the interview, but the interviewer was pretty much banned from doing interviews with the clubs YouTube channel because he was annoying Matt Gray. And Matt Gray has the patience of a saint

 

[Greenacres]

Our run-in is indeed horrendous. I'm not convinced we'll make the great escape, but it's looking more possible than it has now for quite some time. Having a proper manager has made such a big difference.

Osadebe has also been a great signing so far. Yet all the Bradford City fans said he was shit....

Agreed, our last seven games are Stockport (H), Crewe (A), MK Dons (H), Mansfield (A), Wrexham (A), Morecambe (A) and Notts Co (H)...all but the last game are against teams in the top ten, a run in from hell.

On Saturday I said to someone before the game that we needed four points from the games against Tranmere and Wrexham, a bit tongue in cheek maybe...however, a draw against a faltering Wrexham, for the four point target, possible!

 

[GTFCfish]

You should be. More of the same next Saturday would be nice

https://twitter.com/x/status/1026417014980587520

I prefer to watch this one to be honest Chris.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Agreed, our last seven games are Stockport (H), Crewe (A), MK Dons (H), Mansfield (A), Wrexham (A), Morecambe (A) and Notts Co (H)...all but the last game are against teams in the top ten, a run in from hell.

On Saturday I said to someone before the game that we needed four points from the games against Tranmere and Wrexham, a bit tongue in cheek maybe...however, a draw against a faltering Wrexham, for the four point target, possible!

It looks hell on paper but playing the Top 5 towards the seasons end may also work in your favour. There'll equally be a lot of nerves in sides going for promotion as well as those battling relegation!

 

[Gi Dalor]

Our run-in is indeed horrendous. I'm not convinced we'll make the great escape, but it's looking more possible than it has now for quite some time. Having a proper manager has made such a big difference.

Osadebe has also been a great signing so far. Yet all the Bradford City fans said he was shit....

I watched some of his first match for you, and he looked so much better.
At this level, being used in a way that can utilise your strengths and (certainly in his case) getting a run of matches and getting your confidence up can make a big difference.

I'm pleased for the lad.