One year ago

[roversdude]

A year today the game at Sutton and a miraculous turnaround to the season. TBF we should have had at least penalties before the one Ironside scored

[Wiltshire Exile]

A year today the game at Sutton and a miraculous turnaround to the season. TBF we should have had at least penalties before the one Ironside scored

How many penalties should we have had, dude, before Ironside scored?! 

[adamtherover]

from memory,  the one given was much softer than the 2 not given?

[idler]

I thought two at the time. One at each end, the first one very early on.

[roversdude]

Definitely 2 one in the first minute that Billy Waters was booked for

[Fal]

I remember just seeing the bet365 app that Sutton had scored and I think the points gap went down to 5 points. At that stage I was definitely thinking we might actually go down.

Thank god for that Ironside pens as it definitely lifted the squad.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

I remember just seeing the bet365 app that Sutton had scored and I think the points gap went down to 5 points. At that stage I was definitely thinking we might actually go down.

Thank god for that Ironside pens as it definitely lifted the squad.

I think that's the significance. For sometime we were hoping for better, calling for patience, believing the injury situation would get better soon etc, but had that point not been gained at the death, the excuses were nearly exhausted, along with the faith of the more optimistic fans.

The run was still yet to commence but by this time, McCann had made his statement about still achieving the play offs at the Meet the Owners, so that Sutton game felt like we'd gone as low as we could go, and the only way was up.

What followed will hopefully be long remembered. Many of my generation will recall with great pain how low we got and how desperate we got in the late 90s through Conference years, paricularly for me, getting beat at Northwich and being close to yet another relegation. Maybe the younger generations will look back at Sutton as that low point if we hopefully keep the momentum going.

[philsky]

I was at the Sutton game and it was woeful.

Quite how we dug ourselves out of that quicksand was miraculous.

[MachoMadness]

Seems like a lifetime ago. The winning run last year was so incredible it felt like a completely different side to the first 2/3rds of the season, so it's strange to think of the slog at Sutton as being in the same season as the Barrow home game. I don't think we'll ever see anything like that run again, it really was special.

[BillyStubbsTears]

The suddenness of the turn round was the thing.

That Sutton performance was awful. And it was just the culmination of weeks abd weeks of awfulness. Without that 95th minute penalty, we'd have won 4 points from 9 matches and 8 pound from 13.

To go from that to a run of:

P17 W13 D3 L1 PTS 42

must be without presence as a turn round. We will never see that again if we live to 150.

[Alan Southstand]

Can you repeat that in English, BST?

 

[pib]

The suddenness of the turn round was the thing.

That Sutton performance was awful. And it was just the culmination of weeks abd weeks of awfulness. Without that 95th minute penalty, we'd have won 4 points from 9 matches and 8 pound from 13.

To go from that to a run of:

P17 W13 D3 L1 PTS 42

must be without presence as a turn round. We will never see that again if we live to 150.

Didn't go to the Sutton game myself, but I thought there were the beginnings of a recovery before that.

After Boxing Day (Notts County) performances did improve.

Drew against Mansfield, battered MK, then had three defeats in a row vs Harrogate, Newport and Stockport, but I don't think the performances in those three games were as bad as the Notts County game or quite a few before it.

I think when Haks and TLT got their feet under the table, the results caught up with the improved performances, as suddenly we had more quality at both ends of the pitch.

[drfchound]

I was at the Sutton game and it was woeful.

Quite how we dug ourselves out of that quicksand was miraculous.

We should also remember that we were probably robbed of a win in that game by the ref who didn’t give us the two cast iron penalties before the last minute one.

[drfchound]

The suddenness of the turn round was the thing.

That Sutton performance was awful. And it was just the culmination of weeks abd weeks of awfulness. Without that 95th minute penalty, we'd have won 4 points from 9 matches and 8 pound from 13.

To go from that to a run of:

P17 W13 D3 L1 PTS 42

must be without presence as a turn round. We will never see that again if we live to 150.

Can you repeat that in English, BST?

 

Crikey, Wiggly will be along soon to laugh at the spelling in that post by BST.
Or maybe he won’t have a pop because ………

[BillyStubbsTears]

The suddenness of the turn round was the thing.

That Sutton performance was awful. And it was just the culmination of weeks abd weeks of awfulness. Without that 95th minute penalty, we'd have won 4 points from 9 matches and 8 pound from 13.

To go from that to a run of:

P17 W13 D3 L1 PTS 42

must be without presence as a turn round. We will never see that again if we live to 150.

Didn't go to the Sutton game myself, but I thought there were the beginnings of a recovery before that.

After Boxing Day (Notts County) performances did improve.

Drew against Mansfield, battered MK, then had three defeats in a row vs Harrogate, Newport and Stockport, but I don't think the performances in those three games were as bad as the Notts County game or quite a few before it.

I think when Haks and TLT got their feet under the table, the results caught up with the improved performances, as suddenly we had more quality at both ends of the pitch.

I've never in my life left a game before 90mins, even in the most hopeless of circumstances.

Except once.

That Stockport game, I left after 30 minutes.

It wasn't the worst performance of that season, but coming after such an awful run, the abject, unprofessional level of our organisation and defending just broke me.

To go from that to the start of THAT run in the space of 14 days beggars belief.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Can you repeat that in English, BST?

 

Clumsy fingers Alan.

[McCammon egg n chips]

The suddenness of the turn round was the thing.

That Sutton performance was awful. And it was just the culmination of weeks abd weeks of awfulness. Without that 95th minute penalty, we'd have won 4 points from 9 matches and 8 pound from 13.

To go from that to a run of:

P17 W13 D3 L1 PTS 42

must be without presence as a turn round. We will never see that again if we live to 150.

Didn't go to the Sutton game myself, but I thought there were the beginnings of a recovery before that.

After Boxing Day (Notts County) performances did improve.

Drew against Mansfield, battered MK, then had three defeats in a row vs Harrogate, Newport and Stockport, but I don't think the performances in those three games were as bad as the Notts County game or quite a few before it.

I think when Haks and TLT got their feet under the table, the results caught up with the improved performances, as suddenly we had more quality at both ends of the pitch.

Sorry but that Stockport game was absolutely abject, I was certain we were getting relegated after that. What a turnaround.

[pib]

The suddenness of the turn round was the thing.

That Sutton performance was awful. And it was just the culmination of weeks abd weeks of awfulness. Without that 95th minute penalty, we'd have won 4 points from 9 matches and 8 pound from 13.

To go from that to a run of:

P17 W13 D3 L1 PTS 42

must be without presence as a turn round. We will never see that again if we live to 150.

Didn't go to the Sutton game myself, but I thought there were the beginnings of a recovery before that.

After Boxing Day (Notts County) performances did improve.

Drew against Mansfield, battered MK, then had three defeats in a row vs Harrogate, Newport and Stockport, but I don't think the performances in those three games were as bad as the Notts County game or quite a few before it.

I think when Haks and TLT got their feet under the table, the results caught up with the improved performances, as suddenly we had more quality at both ends of the pitch.

I've never in my life left a game before 90mins, even in the most hopeless of circumstances.

Except once.

That Stockport game, I left after 30 minutes.

It wasn't the worst performance of that season, but coming after such an awful run, the abject, unprofessional level of our organisation and defending just broke me.

To go from that to the start of THAT run in the space of 14 days beggars belief.

Agreed that was the low point (along with Morecambe just before Xmas) in terms of simply not doing the basics defensively. Poor old Tommy Rowe got stuck in at left back and dragged all over the place if I remember rightly.

Amazing that the now-lauded partnership of McGrath and Olowu played in that game as well. What a difference a year makes.