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Season Over
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Disgraceful game today where no player can even be proud about their performance. The inconsistency in the final games of the season has lost us our playoff appearance. I only want to see Reid, Piergianni and Vancooten back next season, no other player is at a league one standard. Reid will be sold in the summer and will the funds we get will be spent on more unproven players at this level. evans will most likely get an offer in the summer to leave and he will be replaced with the cheapest option aswell, we will be lucky to stay up next season.
Cheers, Bentley
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Re: Season Over
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I get the frustration and we do need a good summer window off the back of this second half of the season.
That being said, look where we were 2 years ago.
We massively exceeded our wildest expectations in the first half of the season, and we've under performed too often in the second half of the season.
At the end of the day we'll more than likely still finish ahead of every promoted team, and inside the top 10.
If you'd offered me that back in August I'd have taken your hand off.
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Re: Season Over
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Play offs whilst highly unlikely are not impossible.
Enjoy the last 4 games of what has been a superb season.
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Currently on more points than we have ever been on after 42 League One matches, including our previous League One playoff season.
No consolation if we fall short, but a little reminder of how good a season it has been, regardless of how it might end.
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By one point.
And we won three and drew one in our last four that season.
So, yes we're on course. But that can quickly change on Tuesday.
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We will win our three remaining home games.
There, I said it.
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Yep. I never thought we?d get anything from last night - a point at best - but having seen that show last night, I?d like to think Burton & Cheltenham are winnable. It?s still possible?!
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They played like trojans last night with no sign of negative thoughts. They still think we have a chance for 6th spot so if they believe then who am I to disbelieve?
In the words of the late, great Jimmy Greaves " Its a funny old game".
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Re: Season Over
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All we can do is win our games and let destiny decide the rest ?
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All aboard the Destiny Train...choo choo!
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I'm back for one of those.
So we won't :(
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Please don't come then.
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Not the first time someone?s said that to Baldock! ?
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If we do, then game on. Especially as Oxford have to play us and Lincoln.
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At home. They have Lincoln, Posh and us in a week, but all are at home. Exciting for them.
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As Zidane once said ?When the seagulls follow the trawler, it?s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea?
Edited by Original Mr Wasp at 08:12:52 on 7th April 2024
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Re: Season Over
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Got a fair few with this one.
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Fuck awf Benters you massive bumhole
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we will be lucky to stay up next season.
When are you starting the motivational TED talks?
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 20:38:17 on 6th April 2024
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Re: Season Over
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We've had a cracking season. If someone had offered me top 10 before the season, I'd have bitten their hand off.
I wonder if people's perceptions would be different if our results had been the other way around - terrible first half of the season, but terrific second half.
People forget we're not quite mixing it financially with many teams in the league. We've done a great job in our first season back.
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If my aunty had bollocks....
Simple truth is we had a great first half, everyone was riding the crest of a wave...
"Champions by Easter",
"Sod the playoffs, we should be aiming for the automatics"
And then we stopped playing well and it just went all turgid and wrong.
And we aren't sure why, i don't think effort levels have dropped off, we haven't had obvious long term key injuries and we haven't lost many where we were the better team and got robbed.
It's so fucking disappointing. Yes we have exceeded expectations from August, but not from January.
I can't sit here and smile thinking about how great the season has been. Maybe I will once its all finished.
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 20:46:09 on 6th April 2024
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Re: Season Over
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I can see both points of view. It?s the cup half-full/half-empty scenario. We can be disappointed if we don?t reach the play-offs but there are plenty of positives when we look back at the season regardless.
I just hope there are no excuses from the manager. Be it decisions against us, injuries, whatever. We have to own how the season has unfolded and use it as a springboard going forward.
The January window was probably the worst we?ve had under Evans. While it isn?t the fault of the signings themselves that we?ve not ?finished the job,? so to speak, perhaps if we?d dug a little deeper into the coffers we?d have managed to bring in a couple of better players who would have actually made a difference on the pitch. That all boils down to risk/reward and I don?t mind us not overstretching the budget.
It?s a good time to be a Stevenage fan. I?ve got faith in the gaffer and those behind the scenes to assemble an even better squad for next season regardless of what happens for the rest of this season.
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And remember, we?ve been cheated out of at least 6 points with bad refereeing decisions, that would had put us still in the mix even with our poor second half of the season performances
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More.
Carlisle (h)
Bolton (a)
Blackpool (a)
Bristol Rovers (a)
Pompey (a)
Reading (h)
Port Vale (a)
Derby (a)
Orient (h)
All game changing decisions that have incorrectly gone against us. Not saying we would pick up full whack from each of those games but I reckon we pick up another 8-10
Only game I can think where we got away with a dodgy (non) decision was Vale at home.
Edited by CDawg at 01:53:45 on 8th April 2024
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Re: Season Over
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We have to let this go?..probably every manager in the league will give examples of games where they have been ?robbed? of points by refereeing decisions.
(Though it would be interesting to see a league table based on that!)
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And Butler should absolutely have been sent off at the weekend too, but nobody seems to have mentioned it.
We still lost so it wouldn't have made any difference to the result, but is still a decision that went in our favour, of which we have had a few this season.
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Re: Season Over
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We seem to get decisions where we lose anyway, so they don't affect the outcome of a game. Pidge not being sent off against Peterborough didn't change the outcome for example.
Whereas ours often happen when we don't win.
The Lincoln game when there was a definite second yellow that wasn't given, that could have changed 1 point into 3 and a 3 points swing with Lincoln. Probably wouldn't have as you can never know the effect.
But as you say happens to all teams so everyone could claim a few extra points if the ref wasn't shit.
Ultimately we failed to make the playoffs because of our own shortcomings.
Edited by Sev at 15:37:54 on 8th April 2024
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Re: Season Over
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Guys
Look at the teams below us, we?ve done fantastic, Steve recruited well in the summer, proven league one players, all with championship experience, league one is a fantastic league, and I?m sure we?d been one of the whipping boys if we ever made it to the championship, it?s been a great season
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It's not been a great season, it's been a great half a season.
That's my point.
I'm very happy with our end position based on expectations on day 1 of the season.
I'm also disappointed with our performances since January and our likely season end position.
Anyone who isn't is lying to themselves.
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On your whipping boys point that may have or will always be true so a predicament.Shall we be pleased then just to do well in lg1 or survive for every season?
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It would had been a fantastic achievement to have reached the championship, like Wycombe did a few seasons ago, but I?m sure getting spanked most weeks would had been quite demoralising for the players, we haven?t the budget to compete at those levels, securing league one status was our main priority, now consolidate and establish ourselves as a solid league one team, and when the opportunity for playoffs came round again, maybe our experience will help us get over the finish line
Look at teams like Sunderland, Portsmouth, Ipswich with all their resources, it took years to get out of league one, it?s a tough league
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Good points but our ultimate aspiration should not just be to be grateful we are in league 1 imo.
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Fair play for being gutted, but we never had more than an outside chance, so better to ride the wave and accept reality than worry about what might?ve been
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We really looked like we'd dropped the ball last season and then successfully walked the tightrope to comfortably secure promotion. If it has to even out I'm glad it's in the league above.
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It's so fucking disappointing. Yes we have exceeded expectations from August, but not from January.
That's fair - that's why I wondered how people would feel if we'd had a shit start but good finish.
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Like Lincoln. Buzzing!
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It was just a supposition about perceptions really. As I said before, I think most of us would have been thrilled to be offered top 10 at the start of the season. Or maybe it's just me.
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Of course. Imagine being able to process that concept?. To think ?fuck we had a good season and it tailed off as at least 7 better funded teams finished above us? and enjoy the reality
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We all do.
But if you were offered that in January you'd have thrown it back.
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Good points other than imo our weakness has been upfront be it lack of overall quality or injuries
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I do wonder at what point reality will finally sink in for many folk.
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Some people on here would like your prediction as they would prefer to moan Ali the time,you may he one of them .
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Give it a rest for fucks sake
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Hello Freemo,
What have I said which is not correct.
Cheers, Bentley
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You are the true cryptic bumhole rollers. There ain?t been anyone cleverer since the daze o Victor
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We brought in a load of proven players at this level last summer who have secured us a midtable finish at minimum. If you think only three of our players are good enough, you must be thinking of another club.
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all 3 of the thompsons we have brought in have been poor, freeman and butler have been inconsistent with performances, all the rest have had next to none or no minutes in league 1
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Capital letters next Benters
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Don't feed the troll, folks.
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Nathan has barely played after looking good early on in the season. Louis is good when he plays.
Some people like Ben, I feel he's a bit frantic. Jury's out.
I'd like to think that the big teams that fail to go up will be looking to strengthen and offload some players which gives us a chance to get them.
Equally the ones who go up will up will be looking to strengthen for the Championship and could offload some good players, but they may be picked up by the bigger teams coming down or who failed to go up so will be hard to get.
I saw Moxon on the TV the other night for Portsmouth, doesn't play too often for them so you'd imagine won't be needed in the Championship. He was highly rated last season and the sort we may have a chance to acquire, for example.
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If they weren't League One standard we'd have been relegated.
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