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This post has been edited by azul: 25 October 2014 - 10:12 PM

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Am I the only one seeing parallels with last season?
We start the season really well, good football, goals, wins expectations raised, last season people suss us and find a way of playing against us, late September we lose to mansfield and have a bit of a dodgy patch while people moan about our lack of plan b and the manager experiments to try and remedy that.
This season starts the same, then we lose at donny and despite Johnson coming in and playing superbly we can't buy a win, people not happy with us leaking daft goals and Lo and behold the manager experiments to try and remedy that.
I think cooks preferred formula is good, but the goals against column can't be ignored, and surely none of us are naïve enough to assume we can survive and even succeed just on the strength of us out scoring teams. Doyle had a great start to the season and now he is having (by his standards this season) a lean spell, so the goals have to come from somewhere, and arguably more importantly so do the clean sheets.

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Spireite-Karl, on 25 October 2014 - 04:30 PM, said:

I'm torn! I want to sign as I believe this is the right thing to do, BUT Cook's got to do what he believes in and he does have a point (though I'm sure he could fix it better with a new signing and better discipline in the side rather than chasing something that will probably never happen as it will more than likely take a long time to get it right and he will more than likely give up before it works properly.

He’s right though, we have to back him rightly or wrongly (though I am very sceptical he’s going to be proved right on this one).

And that belief is/was that we aren't far off being a top six side if he can get the balance right but we have no chance playing the way we were. He might well fail in trying to make us better but the easy option for him is do nowt. The chances are we will be further off the pace by the time he does get it right if indeed he get's it right at all but this isn't a one game project and he knows that.

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90percet signed but if we get to time added on at places like Bristol city make sure you hang on to a point then

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boot, on 26 October 2014 - 08:48 AM, said:

And that belief is/was that we aren't far off being a top six side if he can get the balance right but we have no chance playing the way we were. He might well fail in trying to make us better but the easy option for him is do nowt. The chances are we will be further off the pace by the time he does get it right if indeed he get's it right at all but this isn't a one game project and he knows that.

Correct. Given that people agree with PC's mid term report that we are not quite right, folk should ask themselves in which position in the table and at what time in the season is it best to start rebuilding?.

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azul, on 25 October 2014 - 10:12 PM, said:

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MDCCCLXVI, on 25 October 2014 - 04:11 PM, said:

Since taking over around two years ago you've turned us from an ordinary, mid-table, fourth division club into a top six third division outfit, winning the league and reaching a Wembley final in the process.

What's more your preferred four-two-three-one formation playing pressing, fluent, attacking football earned us plaudits from whomever we met.

Now fair enough we've conceded some daft, frustrating goals recently, but that was the price we paid for hoping - no, make that knowing we could score and get a result against anyone.

And I'm prepared to bet most Chesterfield supporters would accept winning, drawing or losing as long as we'd seen our team perform to such standards.

So why the sudden sea-change of approach? Why go to struggling teams, sides we'd earned the right to believe we could beat, and adopt a more defensive attitude? Why drop our best playmaker in favour of an unproven holding player?

Paul: we the fans are behind you; we like you and appreciate what you've delivered. So please have faith in your plan 'A' and stick with the tactics that've seen us start to dream that maybe, just perhaps, we might grasp the Holy Grail of second tier football within our lifetimes.

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a kick in the balls, on 25 October 2014 - 05:45 PM, said:

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Raglan at RB Rob? get Griffiths on loan to play CB as well

The family is united in the view that we'd love to see Griffiths in the current side - far better than Jones, Smith, Humphrys et al