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    Latest Club News..

    Perhaps Purrington will play, rather than Hartridhr
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    E.C.F.C. V Fleetwood Town Matchday Thread.

    I dont think the players are capable of successfully delivering the style of football that the manager wants to implement and I also dont think the tactical approach is sensible in League 1. It becomes more appropriate as you move up the leagues, where players are technically adept, with pace...
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    E.C.F.C. V Fleetwood Town Matchday Thread.

    I haven't got a coaching badge nor see the players in training every day, so I cant say what tactics we should apply but I do know that the current tactics arent overly effective and GC's post match interview today, and following other previous games seems to confirm this.
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    E.C.F.C. V Fleetwood Town Matchday Thread.

    Simply not capable of Gazball. First half, Jules appeared to be refusing to pass to Woods, and Sweeney was refusing to deliver a forward pass to Eiss, when he was making runs between two defenders. I cant imagine that Caldwell instructs them not to pass, but that they either haven't got the...
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    E.C.F.C. V Fleetwood Town Matchday Thread.

    I think the reality is that most of our players aren't upper league 1 quality and the results through the course of the season will bear this out at the season end. The players simply can't deliver the football tactic that the manager seeks but he appears not pragmatic enough to try and apply...
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    Caldwell out?

    The critical issue will be the Summer recruitment. If he can sign enough players for the squad to deliver his preferred style of play, it may prove successful. My difficulty is that I can well remember Gerry Francis trying to play top level football in the equivalent of league 1, with league 2...
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    Ted Lasso is Paul Tisdale. Kind of. Big mention for Mel Gwinnett too

    Looks very much like the Governement's "world class" test and trace system during the pandemic - misplaced hyperbole at it's best.
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    Ted Lasso is Paul Tisdale. Kind of. Big mention for Mel Gwinnett too

    I know this will be anathema to a lot of people but I think that Paul Tisdale would make an excellent Director of Football, in the same way that Steve Perryman appeared to provide very positive mentoring for managers.
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    Lincoln City v Exeter City Matchday Thread

    The point is that we know GC will not change his approach. His interviews from pre ECFC days indicate that he takes his mantra from Martinez, namely determine your preferred playing style and stick with it, until it works. From his recent interviews and Fans Forum presentation, it's clear that...
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    Vincent Harper signs

    Against Barnsley away, he was excellent. My only gripe is that he goes down "injured" too easily and stays on the ground, when he clearly isnt injured. There was an occasion in the second half when he took a slight knock on his head and stayed down on the ground, as if he'd been poleaxed. For...
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    Over Analysis

    Looking at the fixtures, four wins seems optimistic to me.
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    Over Analysis

    I've clearly got too much time on my hands but I've looked at the number of points needed, over the past six seasons, to avoid league 1 relegation. The average points needed during the period was 45, with the lowest being 36 and the highest at 51. So mathematically, we need, say 48 points to...
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    Exeter City v Cambridge United Official Matchday Thread

    I'm sorry to burst your bubble but I think that whatever happens this season, the manager will still be in post at the start of next season. Whether we remain in league 1 or start off in league 2, I think he will be given another transfer window to start the new season. The issue for the Club...
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    Cambridge United Home - Discussion Thread

    I'm not sure what set of decisions by the Club Board you've been following recently but if we were relegated, I'd anticipate that the Club Board would give him the first 3 months of the new season, at least, to get us in to the play-off zone (not that I would necessarily think he deserved such...
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    Caldwell out?

    I dont think the question marks around the manager's future rest on this season. The Club Boarc has made its decision and he will stay in post for the remainder of the season. Next season is the critical one for GC. If we're in League 1 and we have a run of results which leave us near the...
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    Gary's January Transfer Window

    I cant see the point. Unless Yanic is fit to play 90/100 minutes of all of the remaining games this season, why use money when we need players to quickly improve the team for the whole of games, not just coming on for 20 minutes to try and shore up losing positions.
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    Caldwell out?

    Quite high, if that team is a poor one, which has a blip of a very good, solid start, and then becomes what it is, a mediocre set of players, which suffers a run of injuries and has a manager who only uses Plan A, with players who can only execute Plan D.
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    Caldwell out?

    It would appear that the Club Board never considered "stay go stay go stay go depending on what day of the week it was". The only people going down the stay go stay go route appears to have been supporters. It could be argued that the Club took the difficult approach in maintaining their...
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    Caldwell out?

    Spot on.....that was exactly my expectation.
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    Hawker out?

    No, I meant Director of Football.
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