Sorry time to go.Dutch is to close to the players,we need a Clough style manager who can wake them up and kick their backsides.It needs good vibes from the mill this week and a victory over County.Big shouts and get the support back with faith and displays not empty words.Get a grip before we are lost to non league.

It needs to be done but I am afraid it is too late. We needed a new manager long ago and when somebody finally got rid of Dearden we went for the cheap option again.
McEwan would def be here now but as is usual the club will not pay him the going rate for the job so we have yet another person who has no managerial experience, the last one was Ian Greaves and he was really awful I think not.

It needs to be done but I am afraid it is too late. We needed a new manager long ago and when somebody finally got rid of Dearden we went for the cheap option again.
McEwan would def be here now but as is usual the club will not pay him the going rate for the job so we have yet another person who has no managerial experience, the last one was Ian Greaves and he was really awful I think not.

Worst performance I've seen all season, totally devoid of ideas in the second half. Bury had 2 of the biggest centre backs I've seen this season and still the high balls were pumped up to Arnold and Boulding, neither exactly known for their height. This confirms my view that Holland was not the guy for the job. The players wanted him for obvious reasons - better the devil you know. The squad needs someone to shake them up but I fear it's too late now. Haslam should be paying the bidders to take the club over, the state he's left it in. And you're very quiet Mr Meale.

Sack him now,hes been coaching the players all season,a new man and the players would have to play for their contracts not rely on a manager who`s a mate and will want to keep them.

Holland blew his chances after today so i think we need a new manager by the end of tommorow while they have time to bring in players.

Changed your tune now Ste1053 . . . I've just been reading your comments from after the Bradford game. I too said Holland should get the job until the end of the season, just like you. Yes, we lost today - but I stand by my comments of two weeks ago, who else is there now? Come on it's too late, it may be mathematically possible to stay up - but it's a sunk, rudderless ship. Bring in a new guy in the summer with new ideas and you never know we may just come at the first attempt - unlikely, but you never know!!

It's Booth/Haslam who are to blame. They didn't have the balls to appoint full-time as they said immediately after the Rochdale game - and hey presto, what happens. Dutch wins a game, the performances improve and the hierachy haven't got a clue what to do SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!. Now we lose today poorly and we're back to square - not as though we'd ever left it.

Many were on here two weeks ago bigging Holland up . . . how quickly amnesia sets in.

T. Ellis is about right. Having watched most of the Stags' performances since Chesterfield away at Xmas, it is clear that we don't have a good enough squad to stay up. It won't matter whether it's Paul Holland or anyone else in charge(even Fergie) there's not enough quality, strength and height in the present squad (although, of course we have some good players). I too have hoped over the past weeks that motivation and an appropriate playing style would get us by. But I now see no realistic prospect that we can avoid relegation. Even if we were to beat County and then Wrexham it will be because the players play out of their skins (as they can do for the odd 10 minute period in a game). I fear even were we to get two victories we would still go down.


The problem is of course a systemic one which became crucial when 'we' sold Richie Barker: since then, we've been destroyed by the lack of funds to buy good enough players arising from the attitude of the good old Count of Calver. If only we hadn't had our cup run this year! This has just added a few/lot more bucks for Haslam's golden handshake and delayed his departure beyond the point when things could be turned round by a new owner.

Eight of my immediate family - encouraged by me - came along to Bury today and I feel guilty that I had given them hope that we might be good enough. Of course I hope that my gloomy predictions are wrong and that we survive in the football league. I stand to win £100 if we go down - a bet I made last August never wanting to win. I'd love to lose the money!

I'll still be there supporting the team as loudly as I can until it's mathematically impossible for us to stay up but I now believe, with a very heavy heart, that we will be relegated. Before today's game, I checked out some of the teams we may be playing in the Conference (or whatever it's called) and then told myself off for being defeatist. After almost exactly 50 years since attending my first match at Field M

spot on Mick . . . we gave never replaced Barker, so have no power up front - with him we would have converted one of the good crosses into the 6 yard area from Matt Hamshaw in the last 2 games. We have have no height in the team anywhere!!!!!

The cup run was the worst thing ever to hit us thiseason, that coupled with the Christmas win over Posh. They papered over the craks, have KH more cash and reason not to sell until too late.

Why does he want to sell now when he didn't in December? It's simple . . . the money has run out, we are going down, it's just a question of how far!

the only thing we can hope for by relegation is to
re group and come back as doncaster have done