OK, here's how we're going to up the league

[andy]

Well, it sounds like a good number need cheering up.

City benefit from the new manager 'bounce' on Saturday against Barrow, who won comfortably tonight, but having played in mid-week, combined with the long journey southwards, do not have enough in the tank to cope with a City side showing their worth to the new man.

Then, a substantial rest of nearly three weeks. During which players carrying knocks gain full recovery. The new manager is able to work on a few things in training. Two new signings in midfield see the City faithful saying farewell to a couple of old friends.

Next up, Harrogate away - abandoned due to bad weather.

That leaves City with five of their next six games being against bottom-half opposition against which they have performed better this year.

First up are Redditch, facing City without two key players who were suspended in last Saturday's game against Evesham, including key defender Exodus Geogehan. City have too much for a weakened Redditch side.

Boosted by a couple of wins on the bounce, and in front of their largest crowd of the season - around 1,800 - City play out a tense draw at home to Telford.

With the afters from Saturday carrying into the replay, and more red on display, Redditch suffer setbacks, and get beat 1-0 at the Valley on New Years Day.

City have too much for Hinckley as Mark Danks scores his usual pair against them.

But City fall to 1-0 against a Nuneaton side that has continued its strong run.

That puts City on 34 points after 23 games.

Next installment to follow. I cant see any further ahead.

[Deleted]

all with the same players

[colinlayland]

What are they putting in the water in Ledbury Andy,it looks like it makes you dream?

[dorothy]

Wake up Andy you're sinking fast.

[Tony is not to despondent now.]

:DDream on Andy. But as I told neils dreams never come true.

[andy]

Let's play spot the difference

Team A: Wright, Clark, Gill, Khan, Price, Colley, Nwadike, Ward, Clegg, Wilding, Wood. Sub ?, ? and ?

Team B: McDonnell, Clark, Smith, Liburd, Burley, Nwadike, ?, ?, Wilding, Webster, Danks. Subs: Gill, Khan, two of the midfielders, Troy.

If that team B wasnt able to get results close to that described above W4, D1, L1 then there is a real problem. Time for them to show that there isnt - individually and as part of a first team squad, not as part of an injury hit team pulling in our second-string players, playing a right-back on the left hand side of midfield, and with the uncertainty over management removed. But the big questions are the ? and ?. Do we already have them (Price and Ward? Colley and Clegg?) or are they to come? Whoever, they have to be bringing our strikers into games. Personally, I dont think it fair to say 'Webster out' - let us see whether he can deliver again once he gets some decent supply.

[DazaB]

Andy, are you insinuating that the Solihull Moors game will be a non event like the one at St George's Lane?

[andy]

We didnt turn up last year.

[DazaB]

Bad memories

[Deleted]

andy said:

Two new signings in midfield see the City faithful saying farewell to a couple of old friends.

Doh, what a fool I am, I missed that important part of the dream. Think I got a kick in the shins from the wife at the time

[gobby cow]

Andy

If we ever find a manager to take our fairly useless team on, I doubt many of those faces will still be here by Christmas. I am not down hearted as I know that any players that are brought in cant have less spirit, commitment or talent than the present encumbants!

Plus it is only 27 days til Christmas!

[andy]

I think a fair proportion of our current squad are of CN standard.

I think the manager will be looking to make 2-3 changes. That is not to say that those who might be going arent (or have been) of CN standard, but we need the right blend for the whole team to click - and to click more consistently.

The majority of this squad have got excellent results in the past against Kettering, Droylsden, Burton, Accrington, Southport etc etc.

Equally, the squad has got virtually zilch from Leigh RMI, Guiseley, VM, Solihull Moors ...

They havent just become bad players.

[Deleted]

And therein lies a problem. With such a small squad, having a fair proportion of the players up to the standard needed for the league is never going to be good enough. They all need to be up to CN standard!!!

[B*ue dragonstander]

I think that what is happening is the right process. We have a new manager on the way. He will judge the players and will keep those who pass muster. That could be all of them although no doubt he will quickly assess that;

a) the balance of the squad is wrong - too many defenders (and even then we leak goals for fun) not enough midfielders and little width/

b) some of the players (even though capable) dont have the appetite and consistency required for success at CN level

c) that we need a bit of flair and a leader on the pitch

d) he needs to engender a new winning spirit and change the culture at the Club where the opportunities are almost unequalled at this level of the game

Welcome on board Mr .....

[pbpbarrow]

andy said:

Well, it sounds like a good number need cheering up.

City benefit from the new manager 'bounce' on Saturday against Barrow, who won comfortably tonight, but having played in mid-week, combined with the long journey southwards, do not have enough in the tank to cope with a City side showing their worth to the new man.

we have won comfortably agaionst 2 treams further up the table than you lot, and also we took bournemouth to extra time after travelling further than worcester, as for new manager bounce, we have 3 new managers, so we are bouncing along quite nicely.

we will win 3 nill, you wont be able to cope with the pace we have, wings, brown and henny, and forwards walker and rogan.

all got pace to burn, walker rogan and brown all scoring goals for fun cos henney is setting them up for them.

sorry but we will be 1 point behind you lot come sunday morning, with the 2 games in hand.

andy are you a warden babba?

you sound it

[DazaB]

Yes, but we've got Mark Danks.

[pbpbarrow]

we have the dogs nults mate

and he is

steve mcnulty might only play for us this season before moving up the leagues, but he is the best centre back in this league by many a mile, nothing gets past him, and if it looks like it might, jonah sweeps it up.

the only real joy watching the team with PW at the helm was the Nults. the guy is awsome as you lot are going to find out on sat.

there is no fear in the squad anymore, as we are back playing football how it should be done, telford tried to play it properly but just couldnt cope, burscough (injury ridden had 4 players out) tried but got torn to peices, the loss to southport was a harsh, but also was not unexpected after week last tuesday nights efforts against the bournemouth.

but thats all gone now, we are going for the play-offs, so sit back and just watch how you play football, if you cant handle that then try to kick us around, if you can catch us, but watch out, bondy will be about and probably sherri too, who dont take kindly to having lumps kicked out of themselves and the rest of the team.

[DazaB]

You are going for the play offs?

[andy]

pbp - if I knew what a 'warden babba' was, I could tell you whether I was one or not.

Could you help me out, please.

[pbpbarrow]

andy said:

pbp - if I knew what a 'warden babba' was, I could tell you whether I was one or not.

Could you help me out, please.

mmmmmmmm.................. that certain suberb of worcester called warden.............



i use to work at mazak thats why i know all about it. lovely lidl's,

'when you are too pikey for iceland, you can always go to lidl's'

;D ;D ;D

'alright there me babba, does that help'

[pbpbarrow]

admin said:

You are going for the play offs?

definately, win against you boys and we win the games in hand, we will be in the top 8,

here's the current table

P W D L F A Pts GD
1 Harrogate Town 16 12 2 2 29 16 38 13
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2 Hyde United 18 12 1 5 42 19 37 23
3 Kettering Town 16 11 4 1 32 12 37 20
4 Southport 17 11 3 3 36 18 36 18
5 AFC Telford 17 9 4 4 25 14 31 11
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
6 Nuneaton Borough 17 8 5 4 26 19 29 7
7 Burscough 18 9 2 7 26 25 29 1
8 Stalybridge Celtic 17 7 3 7 27 21 24 6
9 Alfreton Town 17 7 3 7 22 24 24 -2
10 Boston United 17 6 5 6 30 27 23 3
11 Workington 15 6 4 5 22 19 22 3
12 Worcester City 17 5 6 6 23 30 21 -7
13 Redditch United 17 5 5 7 18 27 20 -9
14 BARROW 15 4 5 6 21 19 17 2
15 Tamworth 16 4 5 7 21 22 17 -1
16 Gainsborough Trinity 15 4 5 6 27 29 17 -2
17 Vauxhall Motors 17 4 4 9 24 44 16 -20
18 Blyth Spartans 16 4 3 9 15 25 15 -10
19 Solihull Moors 17 3 5 9 19 32 14 -13
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 Hucknall Town 18 4 2 12 24 39 14 -15
21 Hinckley United 16 2 7 7 16 27 13 -11
22 Leigh RMI 17 2 5 10 17 34 11 -17


why cant we get in the play offs? telford 31 points, we stuffed them, played 17, we have 17 points from 15 games, but we are a totally different animal than we were at the start of the season.

games in hand and a good run will take us into the top 8 for deffo, just another push after that we will be there breathing down telfords neck

[Mark]

pbpbarrow said:

andy said:

pbp - if I knew what a 'warden babba' was, I could tell you whether I was one or not.

Could you help me out, please.

mmmmmmmm.................. that certain suberb of worcester called warden.............



i use to work at mazak thats why i know all about it. lovely lidl's,

'when you are too pikey for iceland, you can always go to lidl's'

;D ;D ;D

'alright there me babba, does that help'

It's WARNDON mate, no wonder he didn't know what you were talking about! Neither did I come to that.

[andy]

If the question is was I born in Warndon, then the answer is no, I wasnt.

[DazaB]

pbpbarrow said:

'alright there me babba, does that help'

Am's yer bab?

'ers on the buz to pershre with er babber.

[DazaB]

pbpbarrow said:

why cant we get in the play offs?

I've seen Worcester inyour position before. You will not make the play offs, there is too much to do. In my opinion of course.

[niels]

pbpbarrow said:

'when you are too pikey for iceland, you can always go to lidl's'

As someone who comes from Iceland I refute the claim that it is full of pikeys, vikeys maybe but no pikeys. Haven't been to Lidl, they wouldn't let me across the Latvian border, so I can't comment on them.

[wh]

pbpbarrow said:

andy said:

pbp - if I knew what a 'warden babba' was, I could tell you whether I was one or not.

Could you help me out, please.

mmmmmmmm.................. that certain suberb of worcester called warden.............



i use to work at mazak thats why i know all about it. lovely lidl's,

'when you are too pikey for iceland, you can always go to lidl's'

;D ;D ;D

'alright there me babba, does that help'

I work at Mazak and there was always a subbies car on the carpark in the morning full of crap, clothes, old food and lidls carriers.
They told me the car belongs to a pikey on assembly whos from Barrow, would that be you? .

[andy]

The water's good in Ledbury, and yes, I'm still afloiat and I am sleeping well thanks. Oh, and yes, it is largely the same players, Brookie.

Anyone else want to revisit their comments? ;-)

[Bstander]

admin said:

pbpbarrow said:

'alright there me babba, does that help'

Am's yer bab?

'ers on the buz to pershre with er babber.

'ers on the buz to pershre WIV er babber.

Get it right Daz!............waiting for Kieran to move back home so he can speak proper like what we do.

[DazaB]

You'z seyz evrythin' wrong on that soide ov the rivvver ya eastern baaaaaastards.