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Two teams on holiday. BUT, I don't say that negatively, that second half especially was, (goal aside - offside?) fairly decent. And Portsmouth really do look a threat. Early candidate for automatic contenders alongside us next year? I don't know, but they looked very well drilled for a side midtable. Either way, signings aside, can't help but feel this team will be knocking on the door in 12 months time.

I went in with the yokels today. Mate's a Wigan fan (they DO exist), figured it would be a different experience. Suffice to say, as a fanbase, I still can't stand them. Not our best performance today, especially in the middle, but I'd have taken a point beforehand. And a late equaliser is always sweet, even if I had difficulty containing my joy 🙂 McLean, as much of a prick as he is, got a harsh yellow first time round, for me. Bit of evening up with the definite yellow before HT? Either way, fuck him. No-mark plodder who will get found out in the championship. Far from Aimson's best game, odd tactics getting our technically most limited player playing long balls. But hey, trust the system. By far the better side second half, as Wigan were blowing, as we're seeing so often. Lovely header from JDB. Well done to the 4k, suitably noisy, especially in the latter stages. 👏 Did us proud again.

I know it's "only Crewe", and whatever the twitter brigade will be saying, but that was a belting end to a terrible performance. Cracking day out in all, with plenty of wanderers taking over town. One of you mentioned the market hall for ale, great shout. Trains back were guff though, cancellations everywhere. Wigan train cancelled, so it was pile onto Manchester. A broken down train at Salford Crescent sent everything coming out of Manchester North West-way to rat shit. Taxi home it was then, kerching. Even though I'm not one for going on the pitch unless it's promotion stuff, just bottle that last minute winning feeling and sell it... magic stuff.

Behave 😆 ----- As an aside, Sadlier looks a proper player in behind the strikers. Would definitely start him there next game over Dapo, who hasn't looked right for weeks now. Shame that the season is over now, but in truth, I'm looking forward to us being a real force in the division next season. Coyw.

Yes. Niggly shite like that must tell Evatt he's doing something right. Even when we were way, way below par.

I'd forgive it if we were still being served up gutless tosh under some of our previous managers, where you knew that being 1 down at 85mins was game over. Under Evatt, does it not feel... different? Even though that was one of our worst home performances of the season, I still believed there was one more chance. We have scored too many late goals this season for it to just be a fluke. For me, the elation of every now and again nicking a point or three in injury time outweighs having to sit on Middlebrook a bit longer. Each to their own, mind. **that said, I left Stockport away as the fifth went in. Ergh.

What a tinpot shower Morecambe are, from Adams to their players, from their fans to their shithouse physio. Hopefully that equaliser will help send them down. Their gameplan, after we'd been threatening a cricket score for the first 25, was pure shithousing and it (almost) worked. I hope Evatt gets his players smarter to this next season; without meaning to sound like a delusional Mackem, we really are a big day out for so many players/clubs in this division. I still can't believe Santos didn't concede a penalty with that ridiculous challenge. Ref evening up the scores after their 22(?) was lucky to stay on the pitch? Oh, and while it wasn't *exactly* the scenario I'd played out in my head countless times as a kid, standing on the BWFC pitch to rapturous applause before kickoff was... emotional. Thank you.

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Absolutely massive pal 🙄

Honestly, it's not a case of me saying 'all leave voters are thick'. I haven't got a problem with valid or coherent arguments from the leave side - you've just made a very fair point, for example. Miami, however, comes across as nothing more than a crowing little-England simpleton, and I'll continue to find it amusing when he posts shite like he's just done. Blindly reading a headline and suggesting it must reaffirm your preconceived opinion without reading further is quite silly. It's not just because he's a Leaver.

😂 Unbelievable. If selective blindness such as yours really is indicative of the 52%, it's no wonder Dominic Cummings is so well paid.

In but sitting in the 'home' end with a couple of Coventry mates. Although, I'm sure listening to the noise from the away end will be more entertaining than the match itself. Sadly, I can see a bit of a tonking here - Cov are a good side.

Couldn't make today, but have read your reports with joy, gents. How often do we get to celebrate a comfortable, controlling performance AND 3 points?! Especially when we get to ruin a poxy club's big day out too...!

That's what's baffling me. He talks about an attacking, attractive identity, leaving a legacy here, yet after a fucking at Accrington, all of the basics of pass and move, and simple triangles, seem to have gone out of the window. I know the players are cack, but come on Keith, last night didn't look like a team with any form of identity.

Amazing what having an actual battler up top can do if you're pumping up high balls. Why we still persist with that to Murphy is beyond me. Everything Daryl Murphy does that is good comes from neat slick stuff on the floor, or set pieces. Backing in to a lump of a centre half, he might win one ball in 10.

There's me thinking Hill was a fan of fast, attacking football on the deck. Fuck me, even PP would have been surprised at the decision to get centre halves lumping balls up to absolutely nobody during the spells of driving rain. How we got a point out of that shitshow is beyond me. Playing poorly and still getting points is the mark of champions... isn't it? 🙃

Plenty of bleating on the abyss of the BN comments section. As always, BWFC's best players are the one who don't play... How many managers has Hall played under now (here or elsewhere), and how many have seen something in him to give him a run of games? He's not going to make it at League 1 level, sadly.

I wasn't having a go - in my heart I'm the same, we should be stuffing the likes of Barrow and Macclesfield! I just wouldn't want us to get too cocky yet - there are fans of loads of decent sized clubs like Chesterfield, Stockport County, etc, who also probably thought that League 2 would be easy. (Not that were on quite the same level, but the point does stand!)

Surprised people are still banging the drum for us pissing these lower divisions. Haven't we learnt that trading on the club's name alone means nothing? Take away your natural biases and think: - We're still going to be under an embargo - We have almost nobody under contract next year - Any assets we do have coming are likely to be picked up by other clubs. Instead of Luca Connell, read Ronan Darcy and Dennis Politic (and then even if we do sell them, we can't reinvest that money due to the previously mentioned embargo!) - We're not attractive to prospective players if all we can offer is relative peanuts, a big half-empty stadium and memories of the club being a force 15 years ago. Let's not forget, even Salford City (mid-table L2, 2500 United part-time fans on at best, fuck all history) can double the wages we can on strikers from the Scottish Prem. Even thinking of promotion from L2 is, at this moment, a long long way from my thinking. I bet Bradford City fans thought they'd have no problem with League 2 when they went into it not long after they dropped out of the PL... EDIT: I'm in, without a doubt

Ouch. Heaven forbid! Just a thought. We're not really talking about the defeat, the shit defending for the first goal, the space we gave their number 7 to boss the midfield, the lack of the final ball... It's all discussion on the manager being a wanker or not. Is Keef the master of deflection?

You're probably right. Think some people may be being a bit precious about it though. He could call me a cunt and my missus a slag as long as he's going some way to turning the club around.

Can't agree. I think he's interesting to listen to, far more so than the dour Lennon, bullshit-ridden Freedman, puppy-excitable but naive Coyle, or joyless Parkinson. As Green Jacket said, he's perhaps a bit weird, but I think quite refreshing. But then, Hill's not solely employed as a public speaker. His job is to inspire the hodge-podge of kids and rejects in white shirts to become greater than the sum of their individual parts. I genuinely believe he's well on his way to doing that.

I can't find fault in what he's said. Amazes me that anyone would be calling for KH to go (one plank on GMR shared that opinion, hoping beyond hope he's not reflective of our fanbase as a whole). Clearly something has got Keith's goat up; perhaps he's been reading the social media feeds of our more delusional supporters. Scoreline is harsh, for me, I thought there were a good few positives. Hamilton looks fantastic for this level, really impressed, he deserved at least one goal today. Emmanuel was exciting going forward, he could be a great threat with a back three to do his defensive duties. Nsiala wasn't afraid to put a boot in, a good debut for him IMO. Sod's law for their second - it was a carbon copy of a chance we had in the first half. Ours hits the post, theirs goes in. Such is life 🙃 Well done again to our support today, great atmosphere.

I had a fleeting glance around the forums of some of the respectable clubs in the division (with fanbases higher than Radcliffe Borough - you know, Sunderland, Portsmouth, Coventry, Ipswich and the like). Not a mention of BWFC, and that's about right in my book. However, have a look at the unbridled hate we're getting from fans of clubs like Accrington, Shrewsbury, Rochdale, Tranmere, Doncaster, Lincoln; it's glorious. They're terrified... imagine being relegated out of L1 this season even with the advantages they've been gifted by the EFL, Steve Dale, Southend United and Sweaty K*n 😂 Can we start believing again?