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Spot on post - he was quality yesterday.

Yes I am really hoping what I have heard is not correct, but I fear it might be.

If we had won the game Buckle would have looked pretty stupid defecting from a promotion winning side. No wonder he was not looking too unhappy. Its a result that suited him and the board.

New manager? No clues but he has been sporing a shorter hairstyle over the past few months!

League 2 is going to be a totally different proposition next year - Plymouth,Crawley,Swindon,Bristol Rovers. We will do well to avoid relegation.

What we need is a big strong striker line Akinde - damn he's just signed for Crawley. Atl least we can look forward to being beaten twice next season by Raynor and Evans. Its enough to make you take up watching hockey.

hate to agree but yes we were shocking

massive massive let down against a team who ability wise we were steaks ahead of. No shots on targets in ninety minutes - well thats a damning statistic in a play off final.
Buckles after match assertion that we were the better side was abject nonsense. Our best period was in the 20 minutes after half time but Bucles substitutions actually made us far worse. We suffered from having absolutely nothing on the bench and it showed up bigstyle.
All in all it was terrible. We will never meet a worse team in a play off finals and we should be kicking ourselves from here to nagasaki and back for coming up short.
We comfortably beat a better side in the semi final but never turned up today.

Having seen the home victory over Stevenage I would ignore the bookies and rate us as genuine favourites. We have the better players, the pitch should suit our game and barring key injuries, if we play as we can we will surely win this.
The only worry for me is the referee. Deadman is a clueless pr**k and I can see the Stevenage players getting on his back from the start. I just hope he doesn't "go looking" for Zebroski who is the potential match winner and is light years ahead of anything Stevenage have got.
Anyway having been convinced we were going tol lose to Shrewsbury there is no way I am going to tempt fate so will predict a 2-0 win for Stevenage.

Thats great - enjoy the match. I am actually gutted that I can't go tomorrow. First play off final I have missed.

Come on - surely there is someone travelling up in a car who could help these people out.

would have had two spare seats and in the circs would have been happy to have taken you for free. Unfortunately have to work until half way thru saturday morning so cannot make it myself.

Obviously Buckle doesn't fancy managing a league 1 club then. Lets hope he doesn't go on one of his legendary losing runs as soon as he gets there. Can't see the Rovers board being as forgiving as ours.
And as for being able to do better than Bristol Rovers - well he can't because noone else seems to want him.
Like him or not - Buckle is either the luckiest or the best manager we have had for donkeys years.
However the sooner he fecks off to Bristol the better.

I cannot go on saturday as I don't finish work till 10am and I am gutted. I can scarcely believe this thread - or can I.
Why oh Why do we get the same old fiasco over and over and bver again. It ain't a cheap day out either. Giod what a mess.
perhaps watching it on the tv won't be so bad after all.

They obviously did not see the game at Plainmoor then. The comprhensive second half dismantling of Stevenage in the second half - it could have been 8 not 2. Seldom have I seen a football team so completely outplayed. if we play anywhere near that standard we will win it for sure.