Page 21 - All at Sea Fanzine Issue 68

February 2018
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“PEOPLE will be saying it’s a good point away at MK Dons but that’s a load of rubbish... I’m disgusted by
this and I’m disgusted for the travelling fans because this just isn’t good enough but I’m sure the players will be half
celebrating a point.”
On re ection, the Blue Army not sticking whatever we could nd down the back of the sofa and the front of the pension pot on a swift ending after the sorry episode that was the post Milton Keynes press conference was a bad error. Maybe not as bad as pinning our goalscoring hopes on a guy that started the season in prison, but we all make mistakes.
Ideally the previous manager would have got to 100 and this list wouldn’t be looking as impressive if incomplete as when Joe Root fails to convert a very promising start to get to three gures. With the old boss on 98 wins, the way things had been going we might have been waiting for win number 100 until October, when a scrappy 1-0 at home against some newly professional no hopers like Dover or Leyton Orient lifts us out of the bottom two on goal di erence.
The change had been in the post for a while and the immediate upturn in form and performances overseen by our new, humbler and in nitely more likeable overlords appears to have justi ed the call beyond the standard dead cat bounce.
It would however be remiss not to celebrate the successes and progress of the Brown era before the madness at the end that made the conclusion of Crystal Skull look like The Godfather. Regrettably, this list of four and a half years of triumphs does not include the draw at Wembley; anything that justi ed Theo Robinson’s contract extension or the League Cup, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t done well overall. Thanks Phil. We’ll never forget you. Even if it’s only because you’re on Talksport every other day.
98 – Reading U23 H TROPHY 17/18
– It was a reserve game in a nonsense competition. And we still looked threatened.
Robinson’s goal is not enough to justify a contract extension.
97 – Brighton and Hove Albion U23 TROPHY 16/17 – It was a reserve game in a nonsense competition. At least we didn’t look threatened.
96 – Leyton Orient H TROPHY 16/17
– It was a game in a nonsense competition. Fortuné scored a very nice goal. It kicked the upstarts while they were down.
95 – Colchester H TROPHY 17/18 – It was a game in a nonsense competition. Other than that, a bang to order win against lower league opposition. What are you looking at?
94 – Tranmere H 14/15 – A performance from Tranmere in front of goal so bad it’s worth considering not letting them back up again even if they win the Conference with 138 points. A goal from Barry Corr from a set piece so scrappy it will become a museum piece when League Two becomes extinct. Jake Cassidy couldn’t nish his dinner.
93 – AFC Wimbledon H 17/18 – Similar to Tranmere, only Wimbledon’s greatest threat was Anthony Wordsworth’s attempts to clear a ball. Michael Timlin looked so uncomfortable at left back it might have been worth trying Coker on crutches instead. Saved by a Demetriou cross that de nitely, de nitely wasn’t an own goal.
92 – York H 14/15 - It’s a good job we’re allowed penalties at home. A diabolical performance is saved by a Coulthirst spot kick just before he inexplicably ends up at Wigan. A York player ended up encroaching so far he may as well have been on the goalline.
91 – Torquay H 13/14 – A disasterclass only notable for Freddy’s last goal.
90 - Bury H 17/18 – The nal proof Leonard wouldn’t be staying. Mainly because Phil went on Channel 5 to pimp him out immediately afterwards.
89 – Bury H 16/17 – Bury are wretched and 1-0 was a minimum requirement. That minute Millwall weren’t winning was fun though wasn’t it?
88 – Chester eld H 16/17 – The post- Barrett era begins with a dour win with a goal
brown’s wins – ranked