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standupsitdown wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 20:49 We’re not going down. We’ve got virtually enough points to stay up already - and still have to play Taunton twice where we’ll surely get some points.

But more to the point, lose tomorrow and we’ll be between 5 and 8 points off the play offs (more likely 8), having played a game more.

So defers tomorrow and the season is virtually over - bar the protests.

Admiral wrote: ↑09 Feb 2024, 23:49 I won’t return to Plainmoor until the club is rid of Osborne, whatever that situation looks like. Decades of hardly missing a game. Anyone who understates the seriousness of the dire position the club is now in is deluded.

TommyGunn wrote: ↑14 Feb 2024, 11:49 I remember seeing Young boys play Man city in the champions league on plastic earlier this season. It seemed to play really well and if it's good enough for the champions league it should be good enough for league 2.

But maybe this sort of pitch costs a lot more? Or was it a hybrid pitch as you mentioned? I have never heard of hybrid before? Just shows how out of touch I am.

Skillsy wrote: ↑14 Feb 2024, 15:14 Bar Dawson and Stobbs, nearly all of the best players are now fit so injuries can no longer be used as an excuse for poor performances.
Nobody would expect me to predict anything else, so I'm going for a hard fought narrow victory.

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standupsitdown wrote: ↑27 Jan 2024, 20:41 Exactly, the ref loved to brandish yellow cards so frustrating as she was, the players should have cut out the dissent as it made a red card likely.

Why did she make Marshall, who was injured, turn round and leave the pitch on the slightly nearer touchline, then have to limp all round the pitch, yet the game was stopped for far longer than the extra few seconds it would have taken to walk directly to the bench in order to make the substitution? Exercising a bit of common sense would gain her more respect.

And yes, no lack of effort, we just weren't good enough.
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