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Post by vicar on May 15, 2023 9:02:04 GMT
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, we turned up to a smartened up EP and got off to a really slow start before picking up in dramatic fashion mid season, it then fell a bit flat with too many home draws but we remained unbeaten for a long period and we've seen crowds like never before at EP and we're now one win away from a Wembley final, who wouldn't have taken that at the start? We've been spoiled a bit over the last few years but we deserved it after the previous 15, we've lost a bit of form and some very important players at the wrong time but we just need to win a home game, a one goal win will take it to extra time and a 2 goal win will get us to Wembley.
If we have to go with Tanto and Jack up front so be it, they're both very good young players and I know Carlisle were gutted to lose Jack and Millwall covered every base when they let Tanto go, insisting on a sell on and a buy back option, there's so much to be positive about.
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Post by timberwolf on May 15, 2023 9:33:31 GMT
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, we turned up to a smartened up EP and got off to a really slow start before picking up in dramatic fashion mid season, it then fell a bit flat with too many home draws but we remained unbeaten for a long period and we've seen crowds like never before at EP and we're now one win away from a Wembley final, who wouldn't have taken that at the start? We've been spoiled a bit over the last few years but we deserved it after the previous 15, we've lost a bit of form and some very important players at the wrong time but we just need to win a home game, a one goal win will take it to extra time and a 2 goal win will get us to Wembley.
If we have to go with Tanto and Jack up front so be it, they're both very good young players and I know Carlisle were gutted to lose Jack and Millwall covered every base when they let Tanto go, insisting on a sell on and a buy back option, there's so much to be positive about. Whilst all this is totally true i as yet cannot gain the affection for many of these better players we have brought in than those who played for us in non league. Time may tell if they are here longer this may change. The entertainment has just not been there at EP in most of the games and have a feeling we have gone backwards in this getting closer to the rusk months than we previously were. A smarter looking exterior and the courtyard come a poor second for me and the reason i come to a game in the first place. Can appreciate some of the new things but afraid with little love for it all.
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Post by vicar on May 15, 2023 9:48:05 GMT
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, we turned up to a smartened up EP and got off to a really slow start before picking up in dramatic fashion mid season, it then fell a bit flat with too many home draws but we remained unbeaten for a long period and we've seen crowds like never before at EP and we're now one win away from a Wembley final, who wouldn't have taken that at the start? We've been spoiled a bit over the last few years but we deserved it after the previous 15, we've lost a bit of form and some very important players at the wrong time but we just need to win a home game, a one goal win will take it to extra time and a 2 goal win will get us to Wembley.
If we have to go with Tanto and Jack up front so be it, they're both very good young players and I know Carlisle were gutted to lose Jack and Millwall covered every base when they let Tanto go, insisting on a sell on and a buy back option, there's so much to be positive about. Whilst all this is totally true i as yet cannot gain the affection for many of these better players we have brought in than those who played for us in non league. Time may tell if they are here longer this may change. The entertainment has just not been there at EP in most of the games and have a feeling we have gone backwards in this getting closer to the rusk months than we previously were. A smarter looking exterior and the courtyard come a poor second for me and the reason i come to a game in the first place. Can appreciate some of the new things but afraid with little love for it all. Just trying to inject a bit of positivity Timbers, there was a spell when we were brilliant, the 2-0 at Salford, the 4-0 against Swindon, the 3-1 at Harrogate, the 2-0 at Walsall and the 5-0 at Hartlepool, the home wins against Stevenage and Northampton were all really good performances, even when not at our best we've been a match for anyone and the Orient performance was another good show.
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Post by FridoBiggins on May 15, 2023 10:08:01 GMT
Whilst all this is totally true i as yet cannot gain the affection for many of these better players we have brought in than those who played for us in non league. Time may tell if they are here longer this may change. The entertainment has just not been there at EP in most of the games and have a feeling we have gone backwards in this getting closer to the rusk months than we previously were. A smarter looking exterior and the courtyard come a poor second for me and the reason i come to a game in the first place. Can appreciate some of the new things but afraid with little love for it all. Just trying to inject a bit of positivity Timbers, there was a spell when we were brilliant, the 2-0 at Salford, the 4-0 against Swindon, the 3-1 at Harrogate, the 2-0 at Walsall and the 5-0 at Hartlepool, the home wins against Stevenage and Northampton were all really good performances, even when not at our best we've been a match for anyone and the Orient performance was another good show. We were a couple of wins away from automatic promotion. With a decent start to the season we may well have won the whole thing. We had the best goal difference in the division. Perhaps it's not been the most entertaining? Although only Carlisle and Salford scored more goals. Clearly we've had a good season and it could still be great. Whilst injuries in recent weeks have really hurt us, there's still a chance that we can turn this around. Having started watching County in the mid 70s, when lower mid-table was a good season, and having stuck with it during the non-league days, this is actually pretty good!
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Post by timberwolf on May 15, 2023 10:11:20 GMT
Possibly those who have travelled away have got more out of the season than those who have only watched at EP. I really enjoyed the stevenage and northampton games as they were really proffesional performances against good opposition. However so many games were dire or consisted of throwing a lead away late on. For me the league table shows we had a good season but my eyes say its been bang average. Is this why promotion talk was not mentioned as much as it was in the past apart from quite recently.
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Post by herbiedumplings on May 15, 2023 10:17:57 GMT
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, we turned up to a smartened up EP and got off to a really slow start before picking up in dramatic fashion mid season, it then fell a bit flat with too many home draws but we remained unbeaten for a long period and we've seen crowds like never before at EP and we're now one win away from a Wembley final, who wouldn't have taken that at the start? We've been spoiled a bit over the last few years but we deserved it after the previous 15, we've lost a bit of form and some very important players at the wrong time but we just need to win a home game, a one goal win will take it to extra time and a 2 goal win will get us to Wembley.
If we have to go with Tanto and Jack up front so be it, they're both very good young players and I know Carlisle were gutted to lose Jack and Millwall covered every base when they let Tanto go, insisting on a sell on and a buy back option, there's so much to be positive about. Whilst all this is totally true i as yet cannot gain the affection for many of these better players we have brought in than those who played for us in non league. Time may tell if they are here longer this may change. The entertainment has just not been there at EP in most of the games and have a feeling we have gone backwards in this getting closer to the rusk months than we previously were. A smarter looking exterior and the courtyard come a poor second for me and the reason i come to a game in the first place. Can appreciate some of the new things but afraid with little love for it all. I think you’ll find you get back to the Rusk days by going side-to-side but generally forwards overall until you get into the final third and then going backwards. Edit: actually, if we don’t win at the weekend, that’ll be exactly what we’ve done!
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Post by hedleyverity on May 15, 2023 11:24:40 GMT
It’s been a very odd season, we’ve finished higher in the table than I expected while having very few memorable performances
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Post by vicar on May 15, 2023 11:30:33 GMT
It’s been a very odd season, we’ve finished higher in the table than I expected while having very few memorable performances I think the league has been very even with anyone able to beat anyone on the day, in the end it's come down to consistency and grinding out results, I wouldn't say anyone has been blowing the opposition away but during the spell I mentioned in my opening post we were as good as anything I've seen this season.
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Post by bigmartin on May 15, 2023 11:31:03 GMT
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, we turned up to a smartened up EP and got off to a really slow start before picking up in dramatic fashion mid season, it then fell a bit flat with too many home draws but we remained unbeaten for a long period and we've seen crowds like never before at EP and we're now one win away from a Wembley final, who wouldn't have taken that at the start? We've been spoiled a bit over the last few years but we deserved it after the previous 15, we've lost a bit of form and some very important players at the wrong time but we just need to win a home game, a one goal win will take it to extra time and a 2 goal win will get us to Wembley.
If we have to go with Tanto and Jack up front so be it, they're both very good young players and I know Carlisle were gutted to lose Jack and Millwall covered every base when they let Tanto go, insisting on a sell on and a buy back option, there's so much to be positive about. At least all this caterwauling and teeth gnashing on all our parts is "normal". It never seemed so when we were outside the football league. Now we're where we should be, battling it for promotions and stuff it all seems more palatable (to me at least). Probably why I'm not particularly vexed if we don't go up. At least we're at the right end and I'm sure we'll be up here next season to.
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Post by bigmartin on May 15, 2023 11:34:24 GMT
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride, we turned up to a smartened up EP and got off to a really slow start before picking up in dramatic fashion mid season, it then fell a bit flat with too many home draws but we remained unbeaten for a long period and we've seen crowds like never before at EP and we're now one win away from a Wembley final, who wouldn't have taken that at the start? We've been spoiled a bit over the last few years but we deserved it after the previous 15, we've lost a bit of form and some very important players at the wrong time but we just need to win a home game, a one goal win will take it to extra time and a 2 goal win will get us to Wembley.
If we have to go with Tanto and Jack up front so be it, they're both very good young players and I know Carlisle were gutted to lose Jack and Millwall covered every base when they let Tanto go, insisting on a sell on and a buy back option, there's so much to be positive about. Whilst all this is totally true i as yet cannot gain the affection for many of these better players we have brought in than those who played for us in non league. Time may tell if they are here longer this may change. The entertainment has just not been there at EP in most of the games and have a feeling we have gone backwards in this getting closer to the rusk months than we previously were. A smarter looking exterior and the courtyard come a poor second for me and the reason i come to a game in the first place. Can appreciate some of the new things but afraid with little love for it all. It is a much harder level of football though. No-one in their right mind could (or should) surely have expected us to come up here and absolutely destroy the division when we were and still are in a transitional period? The guys who got us up here...from North to National to League deserve every bit of credit for their part in that but had we just stuck with what we had I don't think there's any chance at all that we'd have been top half, never mind top four.
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Post by HTC on May 15, 2023 12:39:07 GMT
It’s been simultaneously a fairly successful season (bump that up to very successful if we get something from the next 2 games) and a very boring season.
Results have generally been good, but the quality of football has been pretty poor for the most part. See it as a season of 4/5 sections.
Early season, we took a while to adapt, and the sending offs made us look a bit like the Neil Young team, but after we fixed that, settled on Wright / Horsfall / Hussey at the back, we looked really good until the bug / postponements knocked us back for a few weeks. Pretty decent again towards the end of the season, but it really felt like we’d started running on fumes in the final few games, with injuries really starting to bite.
Special mention too for Harrogate early in the season with the sectarian chanting, which was up there with the Macc/Torquay cup game and the nobody knows who’s the manager game at Accy and as the most miserable I’ve been at a County game.
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Post by stockytwo on May 15, 2023 13:52:47 GMT
Weird season.
Feel stupid complaining about it after everything we've been through but it has been tinged with disapointment. I thought the start of the season we would be top 3 and we finished 4th so not much different yet I can't help feel slightly underwhelmed.
I think it feels now like the team has moved on from the national league side, Sam, Ash, Hogan gone, MSH rarely featured, Sarc with injury problems and lack of form and even Paddy with hit and miss season and now 34. I don't mean to sound too negative but it does feel like a transition season rather than a triumphant step forward. Of course we could turn it around against Salford and win at Wembley and it puts a different spin on it but I just don't really feel like that will happen. A lot of supporters will be (rightly) happy that we are just challenging this season but Mark Stott will be very dissapointed if we don't go up this year. Puts a lot of pressure on next season.
Enjoyed the two pulsating draws we had with Orient at home and Carlisle away but other than those i'm struggling to think of too many brilliant games we've been involved in where i've felt the County buzz. So for me if the season ended on saturday with us say drawing Salford 0-0 it will have been a 6/10 season
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Post by alkringtonhatter on May 15, 2023 14:31:10 GMT
If you look at it objectively we’re in a great place. League position, improvements to the ground, most of the new players are at least promising, some have been fantastic. When I follow games from afar, via social media and highlights, it’s a pretty rosy picture, the last few stuttering home draws excepted. That makes me really excited to go to games, and yet…
Work and life commitments mean I can’t get to that many games just now, I’ve done 5 this season, all at home. Seen one defeat (Barrow), two wins and two draws, but since the opening day, I’ve come out of each or them feeling just a bit flat, a bit unsatisfied, like what I saw looked like County, but it didn’t taste or smell like it. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but there’s just something missing, and I hope it comes back.
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Post by vicar on May 15, 2023 16:26:29 GMT
If you look at it objectively we’re in a great place. League position, improvements to the ground, most of the new players are at least promising, some have been fantastic. When I follow games from afar, via social media and highlights, it’s a pretty rosy picture, the last few stuttering home draws excepted. That makes me really excited to go to games, and yet… Work and life commitments mean I can’t get to that many games just now, I’ve done 5 this season, all at home. Seen one defeat (Barrow), two wins and two draws, but since the opening day, I’ve come out of each or them feeling just a bit flat, a bit unsatisfied, like what I saw looked like County, but it didn’t taste or smell like it. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but there’s just something missing, and I hope it comes back. I know what you mean about it being a bit flat, even in the NLN we left the ground buzzing and the whole Cheadle End singing, I'm in lower tier 3 and the singing used to be all around us but now there's only a handful of us down there joining in, look at this from Blackpool and they're going down, watch from 5 minutes in.
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Post by Josh on May 15, 2023 17:54:25 GMT
I think you know when a team is ready for promotion and have a chance to compete at the next level. Last season everyone knew it should’ve been our time and so much rested on it as a result.
For all those devastating p/o defeats in the early 90s I look back and think that we were never really ready for the Championship, compare with 96/97 when it was so clear that we were.
In 2007/2008 we were plainly good enough for the next level even though we only did it through the play offs.
This season…..the only point where I thought we were really ready was the Walsall away game, as that was such a complete performance, but really I’ve not been convinced since the turn of the year that we’d hold our own at the next level with the players that we have.
That sounds mad when we went into the p/o with just one loss in twenty games, but it just hasn’t felt right. 🤷🏻♂️
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