Well said Mr BB.

FWIW if I were in your shoes, I’d pay the charlatan his £190 and drink the bar dry to numb what may well be a Halloween scare show.

Happy BD to your granddaughter for the 30th

Vat69 wrote:

Brenda selling her photos and ‘clothes’ online? I keep saying, I am only still going for GC, Perks, and the lads. Its not their fault. But I don’t like the club and how it is being ran at all. My friend was saying yesterday that even things like the boards on the main road at the end of stadium way still have last seasons fixtures on! It’s like theyve given up the ghost trying to push the club. Horrible club, how it is. Just a shell. Any actual ‘Heart’, warmth or sense of Community has gone. Its on life support and I am not sure at all what the end game and outcome will be.

Sadly this has been the case for the last 3 years; it just gets more and more obvious by the week.

The club is alive (just) but is alive for the sake of being alive, rather than living, let alone living the dream we once lived.

The saddest part of all is we’re owned by one of the richest men in the country.

We get there will never be any wild spending sprees, but surely if you had Danson’s wealth you would try something? I’ve no personal interest in horse racing; I’ve been maybe 5 times in my life to races, but each time I’ve had a few bets for amusement, nothing silly but enough to have fun. Surely Danson could do the same? Flutter a few quid Caldwell’s way to have a bit of fun on a couple of decent players and see where we end up.

Very early days, but this already looks like a very long season ahead. One club at least usually ends up rooted to the bottom all season and that’s got our name on it at the moment.

MR Brownbill wrote:

So no warm weather training this pre-season …..according to Sarah Guilfoyle it’s Caldwells choice. “We’ll spend the money saved on upgrading the training facilities “…..a f###### likely story !!…..More like our budget means 1 or the other. Christ almighty!!!!….What is our working budget???…..If we are so strapped then our recruitment will be a laughing stock…..

Danson has looked at the weather forecast data and realised it will be warm enough in sunny Wiggun in July

After today’s latest and worst yet debacle, it was inevitable.

Question tonight for me is who pulled the trigger? Who is actually in charge?

I’ll throw a name in the hat tonight. Sometimes our ex players as managers turn out well (Jewell, Martinez, Caldwell?, Cook) sometimes not (Maloney, Caldwell?), is Graeme Jones interested in stepping up?

Others have done the detail, so I won’t repeat it.

The biggest home game of the season and zero shots on target.

Not good enough, no excuses.

Time for a change of manager. Lowe out.

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?