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Could be a good move in order to prevent an injury (rather than Covid related) as playing against your most recent side can sometimes lead to an enhanced injury risk-just a gut feel though.

With a slippery/greasy top and firm underneath it might come down to which defence makes fewer mistakes. Walsall not an easy side so far to brush aside despite their lowly position.

Agree with most of this. Had an idle few moments this morning and had a look at our season's results compared to Cheltenham's. No doubt the stats bods here will rip this apart but I went through all the league games where Cheltenham and us scored just the one goal (irrespective of the final...

We seemed to be getting back into the game early in the second half but then conceded another soft pen on 67. It's salutary to look back and look for some evidence, however slim, as to the street- wiseness (if that is even a word) of some of our more "experienced" opponents. Looking at the BBC...

Not very optimistic about this one. Have a look at their low home goals conceded. It's their away form that has put them near the bottom. Whilst they don't score many they can stop teams from scoring on their own patch. Unless we can find our goal scoring touch I think this has 0-0 written all...

Just seen the "highlights" and two carp goals conceded to Sunday league stuff with balls over the top not being anticipated or dealt with. Maxted clearly at fault for the amateurish way he came out for the first; with legs spaced like that and hands nowhere to be seen then there was only going...

My thoughts exactly -which was the hidden point behind my initial message (1291): i.e.is this club and its supporters really wanting to go all out for promotion this year to finally get out of this league, to consolidate ourselves in L1 and then see what happens? Or are we happy to stay as a...

With Ched Evans recently signing for Preston will that put Stockley further down the pecking order for starts. Having said that (with AV monies?) we probably could afford him if Preston coughed up 50% of his wages but no doubt it's a bridge too far for us? Would welcome him back if only until...

Found it interesting to look back at the three most recent Cheltenham games before ours. In all 3 cases (vs Walsall, Brad City and Carlisle) according to the BBC match reports Ben Tozer's long throws led directly to a goal in each of those games which Cheltenham all won. I'm assuming we had done...

Might make more sense at this pre jab stage to limit admission to home fans only-otherwise it will just allow transmission via away fans from higher tier to lower tier? If no away supporters then easy for SJP to fit 4k in socially distanced etc.

They're top of Nat League North atm based on 5 games ; 4 wins and a draw. Goals for 8, against 3.

Newcastle beat Villa to the post by signing Wilson from Bournemouth. Perhaps that will force Villa's hand now?

Got highlighted in the Sports Section (S Times) today as being on the radar for a number of Prem Clubs such as Sheff U and Brighton with a price tag of £25m put on him by Brentford.

Have a read of a biography of him by Tom Bower-still available on Amazon I think. Might help you form a fair opinion of him.

There's nothing in the workshop manual for this situation where health worries and financial concerns combine especially the latter with lower level league clubs. It may well be that early April would be far too soon to get back to anything approaching normality and players quite rightly would...

Might be worth thinking about postponing the U23 game on Monday given the state of the pitch and the forecasted lack of any drying easterlies that we normally can get in March? Short term still a lot of rain coming our way.

Mr Swabey-another example of a Devon based referee; under pressure no doubt to give every 50/50 decision to the away side so that he can't be accused of being a "homer". I thought he was p-poor tonight.

Worth a look?

Mr Swabey-another Devon-based referee-surely there are other reffing options for The EFL!! Apparently he likes to use his cards according to the stats ovcer the past 12 months or so!

For what it's worth I think Crawley came with a simple game plan which as time went on became even more cynical. Ref was u/s.But it got them the 3 points they needed for safety. They really pressed us hard and were denying us time on the ball almost from the first minute. The intention being to...