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Barrow a bit like us with an old fashioned ground.🤣🤣.cant compare prenton park to holker st come on you cant even see the goal in away end

Agree about Notts County. I hope they win on Saturday. Meadow Lane is deffo one of the nicest grounds at this level.

The last game I went to at Wrexham, we filled the Wrexhrent stand. With all the new Wrexham supporters coming out the woodwork, I can't see Tranmere being allocated that many tickets again.



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Gillingham United?

Just found out that Michael Flynn is the new boss at Swindon, he got the job a couple of days ago, i didn't realise..Doncaster, who sacked their boss the other day, are set to reappoint Grant McCann.

Sure to be an interesting season..First of all,.How are Rovers gonna fare? Will Wrexham be marching up the leagues? i think what will be really interesting is how are FGR gonna do..Vince has these ambitions of getting them into the Championship and they've had a miserable season in L1..Maybe the gap between L1 and L2 is really telling now but personally i think with them losing Rob Edwards is what hit them real hard, he got them up last season and then exactly a year ago today he infuriated Vince by going off to become new Watford boss without informing Vince,it didn't work out at Watford,but The Hornets are a basket case when it comes to appointing managers, but look at Edwards now doing a great job at Luton..i don't think they really recovered or established themselves when Edwards went., his departure hit them hard...Big Dunc? is he the answer? i have my doubts...will FGR be up there in the new season? or will it all fall flat for them?



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I'd rather stay in League 2 for 3 or 4 seasons, until finally having a team that could crush League 2 and win the League outright/easily. There's no point going up via play-offs, if only to come back down. Short-term it's brilliant, but I'd rather the club built itself up slowly. I'd be happy with scoring more goals next season, and maybe finishing 10th. I'd like Tranmere to play the long-game. I just hope recruitment is better this time. The season that Tranmere crush League 2 would be amazing. And it's worth waiting for. Getting a solid foothold in League 1. And League 2 football is never an option



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I'd rather stay in League 2 for 3 or 4 seasons, until finally having a team that could crush League 2 and win the League outright/easily. There's no point going up via play-offs, if only to come back down. Short-term it's brilliant, but I'd rather the club built itself up slowly. I'd be happy with scoring more goals next season, and maybe finishing 10th. I'd like Tranmere to play the long-game. I just hope recruitment is better this time. The season that Tranmere crush League 2 would be amazing. And it's worth waiting for. Getting a solid foothold in League 1. And League 2 football is never an option

Totally agree I’d like us to keep building on the decent players we have replacing the likes of Lewis and Walker. People say Walker would run our midfield but as we speak the lad can’t even get on the pitch without injuring himself

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Agree about Notts County. I hope they win on Saturday. Meadow Lane is deffo one of the nicest grounds at this level. .

I;d rather Chesterfield went up. Notts County dodged a bullet with a bit of fortune in an Oldham match the day Tranmere dropped from league 1, just prior to the Palios takeover and I have had a bit of beef with them for a couple of bad tempered games in the Martin Allen era, some of that beef spilling out onto this forum, between some Tranmere and county fans, although I refrained from personal stuff against County fans, as I tend not to air dirty laundry in public.

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Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

is it gonna be Notts or Chesterfield joining us next season? kick off at 3:30pm.

Come on the Notts County. They've got some sound supporters and the club is too big to be down there.

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Come on the Notts County. They've got some sound supporters and the club is too big to be down there.

+1

Looking ahead to next seasons NL, Oldham could do well and if Southend can sort out their off field troubles they could be up there,,Garrard will probably have Boreham Wood pushing the top teams and Askey should do ok with Hartlepool..See that Rochdale have appointed Jim McNulty as their new boss..Dale could struggle i feel.



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Come on the Notts County. They've got some sound supporters and the club is too big to be down there.

Prefer Chesterfield to get promoted. Fewer resources, more likely to be relegation fodder.

Chesterfield peno

Scored

is this Notts keeper on drugs? madman...gives away a stupid free kick in the box and then conceds a penalty, all in the first 4 mins....Chesterfield don't have a sub keeper on bench, Risky!

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I'd rather stay in League 2 for 3 or 4 seasons, until finally having a team that could crush League 2 and win the League
outright/easily. There's no point going up via play-offs, if only to come back down. Short-term it's brilliant, but I'd rather the club built itself up slowly. I'd be happy with scoring more goals next season, and maybe finishing 10th. I'd like Tranmere to play the long-game. I just hope recruitment is better this time. The season that Tranmere crush League 2 would be amazing. And it's worth waiting for. Getting a solid foothold in League 1. And League 2 football is never an option

Totally agree I’d like us to keep building on the decent players we have replacing the likes of Lewis and Walker. People say Walker would run our midfield but as we speak the lad can’t even get on the pitch without injuring himself

Can see where you both are coming from but you can’t build a team at this level, well not one that would compete at L1 with our modest budget and giving 2 year deals. It just won’t work. We would need decent investment and giving decent wages and contract lengths for it to work, I would say Peterborough are in this bracket. But we are far from them.

If we did have success and get promoted, likely our best players move on, for free due to contracts or sold to make us sustainable and increase budget. Just like when Nors left and FGR a perfect example having their team broken up - manager, Cadden, Wilson who were crucial in making their system work. All the players have aspirations to play higher and get more money than we can pay, so we will always lose anyone who fullfil potential/have a great season.

I don’t buy into building a team either, BR, PV, Exeter all put the majority of their squad together last season got promoted then ripped them up and then all recruited another 10+ players. You could say FGR assembled their team over a couple of years then look what happened to them.

Notts have got better as the half as gone along, but Langstaff is nowhere to be seen, i honestly don't think he has touched the ball yet...Notts look best coming down the right..Chesterfield can deffo score again with this Notts defence playing the risky high line..Chesterfield have been in a few times with Dallas. intriguing this.

Cook would have been a good managerial fit for us. His record at Wigan and Portsmouth is good at this level.