Northern Red

It happens to all of them in the end if they do it for long enough, no matter how successful they are.

Correct. There's also one in March 2023 for the start of the Euro 2024 qualifiers.

They finished top last year as well. Convinced that some just see that they've lost the odd game and therefore assume that they and/or the coaching must be crap, without having the slightest clue about how they've been doing. Happened a few times on here. Still gives them another thing to whinge about.

Looked offside to me.

When Rory's in that mood there's nobody better than him. If only he could ever string 4 rounds together...

I refer to my post on the opening page of this thread back in August, which I stand by 100%:

Pack it in you tedious contrarian crank.

As I said when this was raised the other day, re-appointing LJ would effectively be SL admitting that Ashton was the problem and was allowed to be so. And I don't think SL does acknowledgment of his mistakes.

Which name change? There's been a few.

Sure it has. In the same way that every bad result could spell the end, according to you. Revelling in it.

Not long back. It wasn't for the want of trying, but there was a serious lack of quality on display from players who are capable of better. The one bit of magic led to the only try.

There's justified moaning, which every one of us does at some point, and then there's the relentless, baseless, agenda-driven bollocks that a few on here live to indulge in. That's the difference.

Yep. Usual suspects will have been soiling their knickers in excitement when the equaliser went in.

Yep. They were one wicket away from winning the title last year, the game at Liverpool where Lancs scraped home 9 down. A new ball attack of Abbas, Abbott and Barker is as good as there is at this level.

People have been desperate to paint him as a problem ever since he arrived, and I'm not sure what it's based on.

I think it's because he has a central contract, he has to be assigned somewhere unless he chooses not to be involved. If it's anything like last year then he'll only be available for about a week of it anyway, assuming he's still in the Test squad at that point.

That's why I can't see it happening, because it's the only real justification for giving him another shot but doing so would be a tacit admission by SL that Ashton was the cause of a lot of the issues and made a mug of him.

A few years ago I was working away in Birmingham and one Monday night went to take in Redditch v Truro, I think it was a Conference South fixture at the time. There were actually about a dozen or so Truro fans who'd made the trip but I remember wondering how on earth that had been scheduled for a midweek.

I do wonder if it wasn't for Covid, we may have already seen investment and/or change of ownership.

Dunno if it'll be quite that much but they're over here in the second half of the summer.

I notice Simon Harmer is back playing for SA now.

Nobby Namechange is shitting the bed for attention again I see.

Ah, it's Massengo's turn then. Most of the rest of the squad have had theirs so he was probably due.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary...

That's not in doubt. The point is that people assume they've cheated, when nothing of the sort has happened.