On a positive noter

[garlic]

Everybody has a right to be doom and gloom after that result but just for a moment look on the positive side. At long last a youngster - Jason Law - is beginning to get himself established and proving himself. Sinclair and Ward are now in contention for a first team place and have great potential. If I remember right when the last great crop of youngsters came through it was also in a relegation/ struggling side. So if those three, and I hope to see Caine on the bench on Tuesday with Jamie Clarke, can now get playing time and prove themselves then we have a bright future. We have enough to avoid relegation, so lets use the rest of the season to really have a good, hard look at these youngsters, and I reckon they could do us all proud.

[Torrystag]

It was dire today after that its hard to be positive ,poor from top too bottom ,not blaming anyone but it wae dire

[Stagdale]

A team that will always concede and can’t score......do the maths!!!

[Amber Andy]

It was dire today after that its hard to be positive ,poor from top too bottom ,not blaming anyone but it wae dire

We were in the game even after Sweeney was sent off. Gordon's inexplicable lapses cost us.

[Vice President]

Everybody has a right to be doom and gloom after that result but just for a moment look on the positive side. At long last a youngster - Jason Law - is beginning to get himself established and proving himself. Sinclair and Ward are now in contention for a first team place and have great potential. If I remember right when the last great crop of youngsters came through it was also in a relegation/ struggling side. So if those three, and I hope to see Caine on the bench on Tuesday with Jamie Clarke, can now get playing time and prove themselves then we have a bright future. We have enough to avoid relegation, so lets use the rest of the season to really have a good, hard look at these youngsters, and I reckon they could do us all proud.

I wish I could share your confidence Garlic. These youngsters may have potential, but if we are in a relegation battle then this would not be the right time for them.
I actually do feel positive about next season ... It's this season that I am worried about.

[ParisStag]

Everybody has a right to be doom and gloom after that result but just for a moment look on the positive side. At long last a youngster - Jason Law - is beginning to get himself established and proving himself. Sinclair and Ward are now in contention for a first team place and have great potential. If I remember right when the last great crop of youngsters came through it was also in a relegation/ struggling side. So if those three, and I hope to see Caine on the bench on Tuesday with Jamie Clarke, can now get playing time and prove themselves then we have a bright future. We have enough to avoid relegation, so lets use the rest of the season to really have a good, hard look at these youngsters, and I reckon they could do us all proud.

Agree. Add Jimmy Knowles and Josh Scott to that list next season and we have a more than decent crop of youngsters. There is a lot to be done on the squad though. Stech, McLoughlin, Rawson, Reid, Charsley and Quinn don't look good enough for a promotion seeking team. Gordon shouldn't be a defender. Bowery is borderline. Benning's time may be running out. I can see big changes on the horizon, but I'm optimistic of our future with the youngsters coming through. It's always a sign of a healthy club.

I don't think it's right to expect Nigel to get us up next season. He likes to build slowly. Let him blood the youngsters, build his team and get us top half/play offs and then auto promotion the following year.

[Torrystag]

It was dire today after that its hard to be positive ,poor from top too bottom ,not blaming anyone but it wae dire

We were in the game even after Sweeney was sent off. Gordon's inexplicable lapses cost us.

Yes we were andy ,but we never looked like winning it though,it was still a really poor display though

[Spiritater]

Either way the team needs major surgery, proper heart transplant stuff and not removal of an ingrowing toenail in the Summer. Because God forbid if we fall out of the FL (yeah, yeah, 'we won't go down'. But the possibility is definitely there on current form) this shower would struggle at NL level.

[Amber Andy]

I agree Spiritater and the sooner we pull away again the better. I think if we were within a couple of points of the bottom two this squad would lack the battling qualities. Thankfully we have an experienced manager to give us the best chance to avoid that. Yesterday was all about getting a point to keep Barrow at a decent distance away from us. We were comfortably on course for that until the unforced errors.

[cassellswasmagic]

It actually won’t take much surgery to get this side from a bottom half team into a team pushing for the top 7, or even top 3. There’s hardly anything between most of the teams. No team blows you away. We need to finish more chances and be stronger at the back, including a decent keeper. Look at Morecambe, they prove you don’t need heaps of cash either. We have the manager so I’m quietly confident of a good season next time around. COYS.

[yorkstag]

I am too.
I am not so confident about staying up

[old ram stag]

We seem to have a great middle with options, but the back and front is not good enough.

[oldweststander]

I'm confident we will stay up but it will be much closer than many on here would like.

We are going to get beaten more often than we win, we cannot score goals or defend properly as a unit. The forwards are not given the service, Bowery is the only guy providing the chances and he is expected to net them too. Reid is a no hoper, runs around falling over the ball or just gives it away.

I like the calmness of Perch at the back, he has made a couple of errors recently but, in my view, that's because he was trying to play right back and then having to cover for our out of position centre backs, he was caught in no man's land.

Overall it doesn't make good watching, threadbare squad, injuries and suspensions, no way to change much this season. Just hang on, grab a few points and hope for a long retained list.

[MTFCMusings]

I'm confident we will stay up but it will be much closer than many on here would like.

We are going to get beaten more often than we win, we cannot score goals or defend properly as a unit. The forwards are not given the service, Bowery is the only guy providing the chances and he is expected to net them too. Reid is a no hoper, runs around falling over the ball or just gives it away.

I like the calmness of Perch at the back, he has made a couple of errors recently but, in my view, that's because he was trying to play right back and then having to cover for our out of position centre backs, he was caught in no man's land.

Overall it doesn't make good watching, threadbare squad, injuries and suspensions, no way to change much this season. Just hang on, grab a few points and hope for a long retained list.

Surely you mean a short retained list?

[yorkshire stag]

We seem to have a great middle with options, but the back and front is not good enough.

real shame it wasn’t addressed in January

[bellwhiff]

We seem to have a great middle with options, but the back and front is not good enough.

real shame it wasn’t addressed in January

Yep. The transfer window was an abject failure. We came out of it far weaker than we went in and we weren’t strong going in. It’s a massive gamble.

[Torrystag]

Welcome back belly

[georgefostersbeard]

We seem to have a great middle with options, but the back and front is not good enough.

real shame it wasn’t addressed in January

Yep. The transfer window was an abject failure. We came out of it far weaker than we went in and we weren’t strong going in. It’s a massive gamble.

I think that the, signing of Lapslie is forgotten in discussions about the transfer window. He had left us.
We simply didn't have an alternative to the two whose deals fell through at the 11th hour

[Jimstag]

We seem to have a great middle with options, but the back and front is not good enough.

real shame it wasn’t addressed in January

Yep. The transfer window was an abject failure. We came out of it far weaker than we went in and we weren’t strong going in. It’s a massive gamble.

What’s happening Belly’s back and I’m agreeing!...

Massive gamble in January to take wages off, this team looked ok until fatigue crept in and resultant injuries appeared. Now looking for 50 points and major surgery in the summer, no coincidence that most of the reinforcements are signed until the end of the season.

We need to give Clough time, I’d expect it to be gradual improvements from his style.

[bear 73]

Some posters have got this thread wrong, its looking for positive notes, not negative, Sinclaire, Ward, Law on the pitch, from the academy , and and 9 players under 25 on the pitch
this is a positive

[Torrystag]

Some posters have got this thread wrong, its looking for positive notes, not negative, Sinclaire, Ward, Law on the pitch, from the academy , and and 9 players under 25 on the pitch
this is a positive

Correct we have some good young players ,we have a good manager and a great owner ,

[garlic]

Some posters have got this thread wrong, its looking for positive notes, not negative, Sinclaire, Ward, Law on the pitch, from the academy , and and 9 players under 25 on the pitch
this is a positive

Thank you.

[STAGS FOR LIFE]

We have got NC Massive positive .