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Dancing With Wolves

If you needed to be reminded of the gap that exists between the Haves and the Have Nots in League One, this weekend’s game will help you out. On the pitch, there is just a fine line between sticking the ball in the goal and, well, not doing that. But …

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Signs. Of A Positive Nature.

It is understandable that our league form this season may have been prematurely pushing some of our Worry-o-Meters into that horrible looking red zone labelled “PANIC”. But the second half of the second half of the game against Coventry City (you still with us? Good…) makes us think that the …

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Catching Up: Portsmouth (A)

We know what it must seem like to you. Yes, it has taken us four days to produce our thesis on the goalless draw at Fratton Park, but we have been busy with other things. Honest guv, honest! It is mainly because we realised that ALOOT might need some new …

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Blipzkrieg Bop

So, was the win against Brentford just a blip in that otherwise ongoing run of bad form? If we look back over the two League One performances since, the first half at Preston North End was just a complete non-event and we can no longer find the goal again. It …

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Insert Considered Response Here

Post-mortems are never pretty things to undertake. We’ve seen enough Silent Witness and the like to realise that much is true. But one is certainly needed after what was, in truth, an utterly abject display at Peter Griffin’s Park last night. The best thing we could say is that it …

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The Crewe-cible

Danforth “You must understand, sir, that a person is either with the Boro’ or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time – we live no longer in the tinpot non-league when evil mixed itself with good and …

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The Nightmare After Christmas

Records, they say, are made to be broken. It is a concept that spawned a TV show that kept Roy Castle and Kriss Akabusi in work for a number of years. But it’s one thing to set a record; it is another to have one ended. In the past fortnight, …

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That Wasn’t Supposed To Happen!

With a rather tough Christmas schedule fast appearing on the horizon, it would have been preferable to take as large a helping as possible from December’s platter of starters – away at Hartlepool and home to Crawley. But something happened in a mad four minutes at the Lamex on Saturday …

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Ronnie, Meet Greg

“I don’t think he knew where it was going and it’s ended up in the back of our net” – so said Tranmere manager Ronnie Moore of Greg Tansey’s wonderful strike after Saturday’s draw against the league leaders. We rather believe that if you can’t appreciate a moment of such …

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Can We Open Our Eyes Now?

Hmmm. That didn’t go very well, did it? The anticipated return of Graham Westley with his Preston North End charges was an opportunity for us to show him how we’ve moved on since he decided to leave us for the sunnier climes of Lancashire earlier this year. Maybe it was …

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