| The absolute, actual state of this team... 15:47 - Apr 5 with 3807 views | Funge |
... imagine any other club paying money for a single one of these players. |  | | |  |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:49 - Apr 5 with 3263 views | DanTheMan |
The funny thing is I bet they'd go elsewhere and play fine. |  |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:51 - Apr 5 with 3200 views | Funge |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:49 - Apr 5 by DanTheMan |
The funny thing is I bet they'd go elsewhere and play fine. |
I really don't know, man.
People talk about players sustaining career-changing injuries, and coming back a shadow of their former selves (yes, we've had one or two of those recently...)
This lot have sustained a career-changing manager - the Lambert/ Evans relationship might honestly be one of the most negligent relationships I've seen in professional football. | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:54 - Apr 5 with 3168 views | DanTheMan |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:51 - Apr 5 by Funge |
I really don't know, man.
People talk about players sustaining career-changing injuries, and coming back a shadow of their former selves (yes, we've had one or two of those recently...)
This lot have sustained a career-changing manager - the Lambert/ Evans relationship might honestly be one of the most negligent relationships I've seen in professional football. |
I know what you mean but that seems to be part of our curse.
Players who look rubbish here, then go elsewhere and they play much better.
I was one of those people saying (pre-Cook) the squad isn't that bad, it just needs someone to make them play like an actual team but I was very wrong it seems. The rot has properly set in, so it is somewhat of a blessing that Cook can gut it this summer. | |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:56 - Apr 5 with 3122 views | The_Major |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:49 - Apr 5 by DanTheMan |
The funny thing is I bet they'd go elsewhere and play fine. |
Spin forward to 2027...
"And incredibly, that's the second consecutive Champions League victory for Northampton Town, with their midfield lynchpins of Edwards and Dozzell running the show for them as usual, and Kayden Jackson scoring his 57th goal of the season...." |  | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:58 - Apr 5 with 3088 views | Herbivore |
Yeah, as a team we're just terrible. Everything is so flat and passive. The lack of quality on the ball is shocking at times. We're never invovled in good games of football anymore and haven't been for a while. Struggling to think when we were last invovled in a genuinely decent entertaining game of football. We suck the joy out of the game. |  |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:59 - Apr 5 with 3075 views | LankHenners |
Cook’s going to be on the phone to Mutual Consent FC a lot when the season ends isn’t he? With each game that passes the less and less bothered I become about seeing any of this lot (barring a select few) leaving this summer.
Again though, it’s shown how having a disinterested and football thick owner can feed down to the bottom and we end up with a team too afraid to do anything other than a safely first backwards pass. |  |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:04 - Apr 5 with 3013 views | Funge |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:59 - Apr 5 by LankHenners |
Cook’s going to be on the phone to Mutual Consent FC a lot when the season ends isn’t he? With each game that passes the less and less bothered I become about seeing any of this lot (barring a select few) leaving this summer.
Again though, it’s shown how having a disinterested and football thick owner can feed down to the bottom and we end up with a team too afraid to do anything other than a safely first backwards pass. |
Henners, I don't even think there's a select few.
I'd like KVY to stay, in the forlorn hope that an injured ITFC player might, just once, recuperate to their pre-injury form; and Downes, I suppose, for the same reasons....
I couldn't care less about any of the others (kids excepted)
They're an absolutely stinking compost-heap of players. | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:07 - Apr 5 with 2986 views | JDB23 |
Ridiculous that you could make the argument that we are actually worse now than under Lambert. I believe Cook is the right man for us but my god what on earth is going on with these players. |  | | |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:10 - Apr 5 with 2934 views | Dyland |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:51 - Apr 5 by Funge |
I really don't know, man.
People talk about players sustaining career-changing injuries, and coming back a shadow of their former selves (yes, we've had one or two of those recently...)
This lot have sustained a career-changing manager - the Lambert/ Evans relationship might honestly be one of the most negligent relationships I've seen in professional football. |
Add Hurst to that.
Bang on Fungers, as ever. |  |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:12 - Apr 5 with 2909 views | LankHenners |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:04 - Apr 5 by Funge |
Henners, I don't even think there's a select few.
I'd like KVY to stay, in the forlorn hope that an injured ITFC player might, just once, recuperate to their pre-injury form; and Downes, I suppose, for the same reasons....
I couldn't care less about any of the others (kids excepted)
They're an absolutely stinking compost-heap of players. |
KVY and Downes for sure. Dozzell is worth persevering with, maybe Bishop, Woolfenden then other than a debate over keeping Chambers as a club captain that’s it really. Norwood perhaps the one striker to stay.
Agree though Cook needs to clean the rot right out. Ideally Evans goes as well but sadly it seems he’s convinced himself he can magically reverse all the awful decisions he’s made for the past decade or so the stupid git. | |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:16 - Apr 5 with 2850 views | Funge |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:12 - Apr 5 by LankHenners |
KVY and Downes for sure. Dozzell is worth persevering with, maybe Bishop, Woolfenden then other than a debate over keeping Chambers as a club captain that’s it really. Norwood perhaps the one striker to stay.
Agree though Cook needs to clean the rot right out. Ideally Evans goes as well but sadly it seems he’s convinced himself he can magically reverse all the awful decisions he’s made for the past decade or so the stupid git. |
Yeah, to be fair that's actually a reasonable list; I'm in a bad mood, and want to watch the world burn this afternoon... | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:18 - Apr 5 with 2810 views | bluebudgie |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:12 - Apr 5 by LankHenners |
KVY and Downes for sure. Dozzell is worth persevering with, maybe Bishop, Woolfenden then other than a debate over keeping Chambers as a club captain that’s it really. Norwood perhaps the one striker to stay.
Agree though Cook needs to clean the rot right out. Ideally Evans goes as well but sadly it seems he’s convinced himself he can magically reverse all the awful decisions he’s made for the past decade or so the stupid git. |
We need to get Leam Richardson in ASAP |  | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:18 - Apr 5 with 2816 views | ZXBlue |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:16 - Apr 5 by Funge |
Yeah, to be fair that's actually a reasonable list; I'm in a bad mood, and want to watch the world burn this afternoon... |
I think that if you drop most of these in a confident team with good habits and patterns, they would do just fine. | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:19 - Apr 5 with 2793 views | reusersfreekicks |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:18 - Apr 5 by ZXBlue |
I think that if you drop most of these in a confident team with good habits and patterns, they would do just fine. |
I think so too. Why has nothing improved over 7 matches |  | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:22 - Apr 5 with 2763 views | ZXBlue |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:19 - Apr 5 by reusersfreekicks |
I think so too. Why has nothing improved over 7 matches |
Because they are not being dropped into that. The mindset and habits, and the mixture of characters and players is just hopelessly wrong. | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:24 - Apr 5 with 2707 views | monytowbray |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 15:56 - Apr 5 by The_Major |
Spin forward to 2027...
"And incredibly, that's the second consecutive Champions League victory for Northampton Town, with their midfield lynchpins of Edwards and Dozzell running the show for them as usual, and Kayden Jackson scoring his 57th goal of the season...." |
McGoldrick is the prime example really.
I think these players are heavily scarred by Lambert. God knows what he’s done to their confidence, relationship with the fans and attitude to the job/company. |  |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:26 - Apr 5 with 2688 views | patrickswell |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:19 - Apr 5 by reusersfreekicks |
I think so too. Why has nothing improved over 7 matches |
Because this is a toxic, unmanageable squad of players with no self-respect or desire to achieve anything for this football club.
I think some of them genuinely think that Cook has nothing to teach them. |  | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:27 - Apr 5 with 2651 views | reusersfreekicks |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:26 - Apr 5 by patrickswell |
Because this is a toxic, unmanageable squad of players with no self-respect or desire to achieve anything for this football club.
I think some of them genuinely think that Cook has nothing to teach them. |
All unsubstantiated guesswork | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:32 - Apr 5 with 2565 views | ZXBlue |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:27 - Apr 5 by reusersfreekicks |
All unsubstantiated guesswork |
Absolutely. I see no lack of effort and trying here. Just a complete absence of confidence, good habits, and quality under pressure. | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:42 - Apr 5 with 2480 views | FoghornGleghorn |
Get comfortable boys and girls, because we’re going nowhere for a long old time. | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 17:04 - Apr 5 with 2378 views | patrickswell |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 16:27 - Apr 5 by reusersfreekicks |
All unsubstantiated guesswork |
Not at all. It’s based on 3 seasons in which these players have in various combinations played their parts in a spineless relegation (Wycombe exceeded our 18/19 points total today) and have screwed up 2 successive good starts to a season so that they can embrace 10th place in League One with greater fervour than they have embraced 1st to 6th place.
It says a lot that the only period since November when the team thrived was when a coach was briefly calling the shots. As soon as a manager has retaken the reins, they’ve gone back to “just about enough”. Pick up the pay cheque and laugh in the fans’ faces. They’ll be out of there by the time fans are back in numbers, They’ve played us for suckers over 3 years now. And when they come back with their new clubs, they’ll deserve nothing but derision from us. [Post edited 5 Apr 2021 17:05]
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 17:08 - Apr 5 with 2329 views | ZXBlue |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 17:04 - Apr 5 by patrickswell |
Not at all. It’s based on 3 seasons in which these players have in various combinations played their parts in a spineless relegation (Wycombe exceeded our 18/19 points total today) and have screwed up 2 successive good starts to a season so that they can embrace 10th place in League One with greater fervour than they have embraced 1st to 6th place.
It says a lot that the only period since November when the team thrived was when a coach was briefly calling the shots. As soon as a manager has retaken the reins, they’ve gone back to “just about enough”. Pick up the pay cheque and laugh in the fans’ faces. They’ll be out of there by the time fans are back in numbers, They’ve played us for suckers over 3 years now. And when they come back with their new clubs, they’ll deserve nothing but derision from us. [Post edited 5 Apr 2021 17:05]
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Silly. | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 17:28 - Apr 5 with 2200 views | patrickswell |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 17:08 - Apr 5 by ZXBlue |
Silly. |
Deluded. | | | |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 17:36 - Apr 5 with 2147 views | jayessess |
| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 17:04 - Apr 5 by patrickswell |
Not at all. It’s based on 3 seasons in which these players have in various combinations played their parts in a spineless relegation (Wycombe exceeded our 18/19 points total today) and have screwed up 2 successive good starts to a season so that they can embrace 10th place in League One with greater fervour than they have embraced 1st to 6th place.
It says a lot that the only period since November when the team thrived was when a coach was briefly calling the shots. As soon as a manager has retaken the reins, they’ve gone back to “just about enough”. Pick up the pay cheque and laugh in the fans’ faces. They’ll be out of there by the time fans are back in numbers, They’ve played us for suckers over 3 years now. And when they come back with their new clubs, they’ll deserve nothing but derision from us. [Post edited 5 Apr 2021 17:05]
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You don't think they'd rather be banging in goals, playing brilliant football and dominating the league and thereby progressing their own careers, either via much better contracts here or transfers up the divisions?
The more logical explanation is just that they aren't capable of more, isn't it? |  |
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| The absolute, actual state of this team... on 17:38 - Apr 5 with 2131 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
We are at the point where some of these players should be busting a gut to persuade managers to take them on a contract next season. Even those in contract should be trying to persuade the manager they are worth a first team place beyond the summer.
They seem incapable of it. |  |
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