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Dichotomous thinking is a common trait of autism.

I think Cole has generally done pretty well, Kelly being an exception to the rule - arguably he hasn’t had the service, and arguably he’s not actually all that good, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles….

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We got slung out of the FA Trophy over Darlogate, giving Rushden & Diamonds a bye into the next round. They couldn't reinstate teams because we had beaten Aldershot and Gravesend with Darlington in our team, which would have been too complicated.

CW - yes that was my point of reference :-) but WJ yes I see they’ve seemingly softened up

Tim, criticism works both ways. Or don't you accept that?

I see darlo fans have been given a warning by marine to behave themselves later as it all kicked off last time they played there don’t know about there history? CW must know something

Timmy - "On the three previous occasions ineligible players have been fielded in the competition, the clubs making the error have also been fined."

If that happened in the Combined Counties days the player would had been suspended for the season and 10 points deducted

Somethings a bit fishy here [Link]

Yup, c'mon Kenty - it's 2025 mate no criticism of anyone or anything please.

Don't think kelly got much service, like a lot of our forwards last season.least Seddon and Asiimwe get decent crosses in this season . Just need to stop Reeves taking corners and free kicks.

I think kenty just wanted to deflate Cope or bring him down a bit, similar to his tactics a few years ago with Erik and "the great helmsman"

Airsy, a blast from the past. It must be a few years since you last posted, and that was a brief return too after going MIA for a couple of years prior to that appearance.

We've also signed Stevens and Browne under the same recruitment model as Kelly. As Nick Woking just said, compare what we have now to what we used to put up with...

Same applies when recruiting in business

In terms of recruiting players, you've got two risks; 1) the player can't adapt to higher level, 2) the player doesn't "fit in". By recruiting at same or higher level, you reduce risk but end up paying more. You cut your cloth according to your budget I guess

I don't think there's any manager or DoF who has had a 100% success rate with signings

KD - the way I see it, those sorts of signings are never a guarantee of success - if you had someone who managed to sign a super-star with 100% of their transfer recommendations they certainly would be working higher than L1 level. As OI says below, Craig C has a very good "hit rate" of successful signings and even those, like Kelly, who don't work haven't been disastrously bad. Again, compare him with the clown show that we had on the recruitment side before.

Shame about Kelly, you can absolutely see why he was signed. No lack of effort, explosive pace. But I think for the price tag and his assets, you have to judge him on goals, and it's not worked out.

Cope is like our players, if they got far more things right they wouldn't be with us. Overall though he and his team have done an excellent job.

Kentish last night - that's unfair on Cope. Between him and Jacko they have generally got it right. Kelly may perhaps have been talked up a bit by Ardley(?) and may now do well at his natural level, and Davison didn't work out, but they have made plenty of excellent/good signings/loans. I'm glad we've got the two of them, they are streets ahead of any previous player management that we have had at this level.

And that last post confirms there's no such thing as a guaranteed conversation starter

Morning all. Kelly proves that there's no such thing as a guaranteed successful transfer