cup winners wrote:

I noticed that, the whole place seems to be run on crumbs, We all know the saying If you pay peanuts you get monkeys Some of the security staff could break wind nevermind a scuffle. I’m just waiting for the West Stand to be cordoned off in the corner so when a club brings lets 500 or less they can close the North End hence penny pinch. Then the away fans can freely drink beer and walk through the concourse. I bet Lowes thinking wtf have I done to deserve this ??. I said last year the whole place feels like a dull grey lifeless club with no soul or passion. I’ll still say the best time we had for the feel good factor was under Talal. We all know the outcome but for that short period of time we felt good and had hope. Right now, I’m so close to not bothering. I know quite a few who have given up the ghost and no longer bother. Weres the next gen gonna come from if we don’t ?, sad times. To me the catalyst was the Bolton game. Since then everything seems to have got gradually worse both on and off the field. One minute we’re thinking, play offs here, the next minute relegation here

I’m in that camp, sadly. As I posted at the time, I was refused entry with a perfectly valid season ticket (20 years) on the last day of 2023-24 season. Never received an explanation, apology or refund. I have not been back since.

You’re spot on about the lifelessness. The club feels like it’s existing (just), not flourishing. Things did pick up when Lowe came in, but something’s clearly happened off the pitch in recent weeks. We’ll likely never know what’s happened but I’d hazard a guess it’s down to £££ or rather the lack of.

What is for sure is Lowe is not Maloney. He will walk long before he’s pushed.

Anyway, Friday night moans out of the way. Tomorrow is the old cliche of a “must” win game to get the show back on the road. Maloney had a habit of getting the result when the vultures were starting to circle, which in reality prolonged the agony much longer than it should have and I think Lowe will have learned from that.

Probably won’t be pretty, but I’m going 2-0 tomorrow.

Get to 50 points we’ll be reet. Burton would need 51 really given goal difference. They won’t get 12 points from 6 games.

Crawley/Cambridge/Shrews won’t catch us anytime.

Trouble is, where are the points coming from? Shrews away is the only remaining fixture I would be more than 50% confident of a win.

Why are we virtually the only club in history that never gets a “new manager” bounce?

Lose on Tuesday and we’re really in the dogfight with Wycombe and Uddersfield next.

Anyone who doesn’t think we’re in real trouble hasn’t been paying attention.

Reminds me of that old Three Lions 1996 anthem with Dame Trevor Brooking voicing (about England) “we’re not creative enough, we’re not positive enough”

A win’s a win as they; a vital 3 points.

Nice little gap opened up between us and the drop zone, which we may well need given the next 3 games are against 3 of the top 4.

When we didn’t have 2 pennies to rub together (I’m talking pre DW era now not the Chinese gang or the Bahraini bandits), we accepted that’s how it was, difficult none the less.

Now we’re owned by one of the wealthiest men in the country it’s much harder to accept. Ok we soon got the message there would be no wild spending sprees, but given the owner’s circumstances, it’s not a lot to ask for funds to be made available for a half decent forward and creative midfielder. At least give us a chance to progress from the division (upwards) and above all else, play some attractive football.

I feel we’ve reached a pivotal moment in our season. Similar albeit a different division to 2 years ago around this time of year.

Is it glass half full and we will start to score more consistently whilst staying solid in defence leading to a play off position or is it glass half empty and we start to leak goals whilst not scoring consistently and it’s the relegation zone very soon?

Time will tell, sadly I’m not optimistic given Maloney’s negative tactics…hope to be wrong!