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Spire-Power, on 23 September 2018 - 05:18 PM, said:

It must have been his first full competitive match for sometime but I think needs must yesterday so he was pitched in from the start

The jury must be out till he has played two or three matches surely

Fair enough but fitness to one side he didn't look like the type to hold the ball

dim view, on 23 September 2018 - 01:26 PM, said:

Reid can’t last the full 90 neither can weir, jerome Binno is not a full back . If we play Denton we have to go for a Lincoln style long ball game. The pieces don’t fit together

Spire-Heights, on 23 September 2018 - 03:49 PM, said:

I'd have Hines before MAF but in case it has escaped your notice he will be missing 3 games

azul, on 23 September 2018 - 05:56 PM, said:

It’s not escaped me. Denton and Fortune up top is not for me.

I’d rather go Denton up top alone and three behind.

Rowley Carter Kayode

Denton

Something like the above anyway...

This post has been edited by Spire-Heights: 23 September 2018 - 06:03 PM

Spire-Heights, on 23 September 2018 - 06:00 PM, said:

Oh yes didn't think of that, Denton running the channels just like Doyle did

azul, on 23 September 2018 - 07:10 PM, said:

No, not at all. You can have a forward in that position who doesn’t run the channels. The midfielders do that and not Denton. Like the Chelsea (Giroud) and Arsenal (Lacazette) forward today in their games.

This post has been edited by Spire-Heights: 23 September 2018 - 07:14 PM

MDCCCLXVI, on 23 September 2018 - 12:28 PM, said:

A new low even for you. Hird and Evatt should certainly have been replaced, you got that right.

The rest is pure fantasy, so nothing new there.

dtp, on 23 September 2018 - 04:07 PM, said:

Drew had a bad one yesterday, but no worse than the others. We tend to notice his mistakes more because we know how good he can be - the others I guess we're becoming resigned to.
I keep my fingers crossed that a long history of injury isn't catching up with him.

h again, on 23 September 2018 - 08:30 PM, said:

What are your reflections, looking back, on your assertion that you were the only one asking where the money had gone?

Do you perhaps consider it a little crass when a well respected businessmen, BB contributor and season ticket holder had been threatened by heavies protecting the interests of those leeching from our club?

A waffle-free answer would be appreciated.

This post has been edited by Westbars Spireite: 23 September 2018 - 09:00 PM

h again said:

Found the money yet?

h again, on 23 September 2018 - 08:55 PM, said:

Let's hope so because he can still put in some outstanding performances. As he gets older Ernie x3 will be proved right - eventually

h again, on 23 September 2018 - 08:30 PM, said:

Fantasy?

From the bloke who recently said Talbot had done well in central midfield for Pompey? Then went strangely quiet when asked for a snippet or two of evidence, of course.

But anyway, a couple of minutes in your archive (a couple of minutes being all I could stand) reveals loads of this: 'We need someone unlike him (Hird) who can win headers, react quickly to threats and not be bullied off the ball... play big blokes and get the ball into the opposition penalty area first time...it isn't pretty football, this isn't a pretty league, but it's effective...if under pressure find the opposition penalty area with a big bloke and a poacher in it...you certainly need a level of physical presence, big blokes who can't be leaned on... lacking a style we're suited to why not adopt the one that seems to work for most of the others - big bloke up front and get into the opposition penalty area as quickly and as often as possible...'.

Another quick lesson in social interaction - when you've made a hypocrite of yourself don't add liar to the list too...

MDCCCLXVI, on 24 September 2018 - 02:39 PM, said:

Rumbled

frearsghost, on 24 September 2018 - 08:17 AM, said:

I don’t mind putting my neck on the line FG. I don’t think we should have had him back that’s my opinion. He had a fe good games after that but this season he’s been very poor and the mistakes he is making aren’t about fitness, he just looks a poor player nowadays.

Leek Town
Spennymoor United
Bishop Auckland
Bury
Hartlepool United
Norwich City
Scunthorpe United
Kilmarnock
Bradford City
Hibernian
Cambridge United
Barnet

None of these are Sunday League sides. Michael Nelson played for them all.

Being very old I played Sunday League in the days when several of the teams fielded players who on Saturdays were part-time pro's. I once played in a Midland Sunday Cup match in which nine of the opposition had played for a Worcester City side doing well in the Southern League the day before.

Even then a select eleven wouldn't have lived with Chesterfield ...... and I don't think we'd have lived with the current side either. If you want to see the difference, search out a recording of Saturday's match between Lymington, from the Wessex Senior I think, and Torquay United. It was two different planets.

I'm not pro-Nelson. I'd be selecting Evans and Maguire and sticking to them, because switching centre backs every week seems like a way to concede goals and make mistakes. BUT, let's be realistic, to be capable of playing at this level at all at 38 Nelson isn't pants, however he chooses to wear his pants. People on here also expressed the view that Gozie Ugwu was Chesterfield's worst-ever player ..... but when we listed him, clubs at our level queued to express an interest. What was it Paul Shane who said, "There's no comedy without reality."? We kinda need a touch of reality too when assessing the standard of our players. Nelson would put a Sunday League centre forward in his pocket and bed him down nicely with the rest of his equipment.

h again said:

A new low? Don’t be silly, that’s not even close.


The current low point on this message board is the arrogant, socially inept individual so lacking self awareness the he posted =

“I’m the only one asking where the money has gone”


When in actual fact he hadn’t asked anyone at all where the money had gone.


Meanwhile a bloke who really had been asking where the money had gone had hired goons sent to his workplace and threaten him and his nearest with physical violence.

No that post by Chris wasn’t a new low, you hold that particular “honour”, by quite a considerable distance.

MDCCCLXVI, on 24 September 2018 - 02:39 PM, said:

He's still putting his response together to my question.

I'm sure he'll respond any moment now.

MDCCCLXVI, on 24 September 2018 - 02:39 PM, said:

Putting the Hird nonsense to one side I think a fair few of us, me included, expected NL sides to be littered with donkeys...worryingly MA too it seems.. but we are the team with the most donkeys!