The Best Managers In The Football League....

[Maximo Mark]

#Canadian#

[Admin]

lol, I assume it's the 2 guys at Forest, McGovern and someone else who have turned it round, imagine if you make the playoffs and get promoted Mark, and yet a few months ago, you couldn't win for toffee and did you get tanked 7-1? Amazing! Megson spent the money, the players should be doing it really.

[Maximo Mark]

Yeah Frank Barlow and Ian McParland.

It really does show how awful Megson was. They've been in charge for 9 games and we've won 7 and drawn 2. Won all of the last five games too. With 8 games left we were 9 points off the play-offs and I thought we might have a very small chance of sneaking in there. Now with 4 games left the table looks like this;

1 Southend 42 29 77
2 Brentford 42 18 70
3 Colchester 42 14 69
4 Huddersfield 42 13 69
5 Swansea 42 21 66
6 Barnsley 42 17 66
7 Nottm Forest 42 15 64
8 Oldham 42 0 63
9 Bristol City 42 1 58
10 Doncaster 42 -1 57
11 Bradford 42 2 56
12 Gillingham 42 -13 56
13 Scunthorpe 42 -5 55
14 Port Vale 42 -6 55
15 Chesterfield 42 -4 53
16 Bournemouth 42 -3 52
17 Tranmere 42 3 51
18 Blackpool 42 -7 50
19 Yeovil 42 -9 49
20 Rotherham 42 -10 47
21 Hartlepool 42 -15 45
22 Walsall 42 -20 44
23 Swindon 42 -18 43
24 Milton Keynes Dons 42 -22 43

Last weekend us and Southend were the only teams in the top 8 to win, this weekend only us and Barnsley won. We've got a pretty easy last 4 games too against Ywovil, Hartlepool, Bournemouth and Bradford whilst Swansea and Barnsley have still both got to play Southend so I hope they can beat them both. I'm actually going to the Yeovil game on monday - they're expecting a full house which is something I never thought would happen this season...

[Admin]

Let's hope you're a lucky omen

[Thor]

Best of luck to you, i've been following Forest up the league for a good few weeks as they've reigned the teams above in (none of which appear to be on any sort of form, do they even want to go up??). It's ridiculous for any team that gets the crowds you do to be playing the likes of Yeovil and Port Vale!!

[frag]

You've got a great chance now... especially considering that the form team going into the playoffs often goes up

[Razzle Dazzle]

Forest deserve a bit of luck

[Maximo Mark]

fragolata said:

You've got a great chance now... especially considering that the form team going into the playoffs often goes up

Yeah, the team's who finish 3rd never seem to go up!

[Admin]

dazthehammer said:

Forest deserve a bit of luck

Why? They've been badly managed at pitch and boardroom level, spent beyond their means, etc, etc, why do they deserve any luck?

[Thor]

admin said:

dazthehammer said:

Forest deserve a bit of luck

Why? They've been badly managed at pitch and boardroom level, spent beyond their means, etc, etc, why do they deserve any luck?

Premiership attendances in League One

[Thor]

Into the top six....

[Maximo Mark]

Fantastic game..I've always said that one thing that should be banned from football is taking free-kicks quickly - I hate it. I'm glad we came back from it though and I hope they go down! It's in our hands now... we have to beat Hartlepool next week, 2nd from bottom should be easy but you never know. Grant Holt looks an amazing player - pity he hasn't scored many but I thought he was easily the best player.

[Thor]

1 Southend 43 29 78
2 Colchester 43 15 72
3 Brentford 43 18 71
4 Huddersfield 42 13 69
5 Barnsley 43 17 67
6 Nottm Forest 43 16 67
7 Swansea 43 19 66
8 Oldham 43 -1 63
9 Bristol City 43 2 61
10 Doncaster 43 0 60
11 Gillingham 43 -12 59
12 Bradford 43 1 56
13 Port Vale 43 -6 56
14 Scunthorpe 43 -6 55
15 Bournemouth 43 -3 53
16 Chesterfield 42 -4 53
17 Tranmere 43 2 51
18 Blackpool 43 -7 51
19 Rotherham 43 -8 50
20 Yeovil 43 -10 49
21 Swindon 43 -17 46
22 Milton Keynes Dons 43 -21 46
23 Hartlepool 43 -16 45
24 Walsall 43 -21 44

What a poor top 2, come on Huddersfield!

[Thor]

The attendance league makes for interesting reading. Colchester last and the second worst capacity in the league, and they're in the promo lots!

Team Pld Total Highest Average Capacity Pct
1 Nottingham Forest (6) 22 439073 28193 19958 30602 65.2%
2 Swansea City (7) 22 305390 19288 13881 11742 118.2%
3 Huddersfield Town (4) 21 272498 19052 12976 24500 52.9%
4 Bristol City (9) 22 254050 15889 11548 21479 53.7%
5 Barnsley (5) 22 196866 13063 8948 23186 38.5%
6 Bradford City (12) 21 167337 12285 7968 25136 31.6%
7 Southend United (1) 21 163446 11195 7783 12392 62.8%
8 Tranmere Rovers (17) 21 151227 9152 7201 16587 43.4%
9 Gillingham (11) 21 145528 8128 6930 10600 65.3%
10 Brentford (3) 22 147089 9903 6686 12763 52.3%
11 Yeovil Town (20) 21 138530 9579 6597 9634 68.4%
12 AFC Bournemouth (15) 21 132947 9222 6331 9986 63.3%
13 Doncaster Rovers (10) 22 135099 8299 6141 7758 79.1%
14 Swindon Town (21) 21 123664 8985 5889 15728 37.4%
15 Oldham Athletic (8) 21 122601 7772 5838 13559 43.0%
16 Milton Keynes Dons (22) 22 125080 8426 5685 8630 65.8%
17 Blackpool (18) 21 118402 8399 5638 8900 63.3%
18 Walsall (24) 21 111272 8703 5299 11300 46.8%
19 Rotherham United (19) 21 108641 7380 5173 9500 54.4%
20 Scunthorpe United (14) 22 113024 7152 5137 9183 55.9%
21 Chesterfield (16) 21 99504 7073 4738 8960 52.8%
22 Hartlepool United (23) 21 98442 6271 4688 7229 64.8%
23 Port Vale (13) 22 102832 6793 4674 17900 26.1%
24 Colchester United (2) 22 85553 5920 3889 7556 51.4%

[Maximo Mark]

28193 - Massive for a L1 game!

[The Pioneer]

forest do deserve to go up i think

[Admin]

How are Swansea exceeding their capacity? 11000 capacity and averaging 13000, not bad really And colchester average out at a better % than a fair few teams, so good on em, I like to see the smaller teams doing better sometimes. Crewe, Brighton and Milwall are not going to bring big gates either!

[Admin]

phoenix said:

forest do deserve to go up i think

At the end of the day, it's about points on the board, I remember when the Stags were relegated from this league a few years ago, most managers we played, said we played great attacking attractive football, and we didn't deserve to go down, we did, because we didn't get enough points, but hey we gave people some bloody cracking games in the process!

[frag]

admin said:

How are Swansea exceeding their capacity? 11000 capacity and averaging 13000, not bad really

They squeezed 19000 in one week aswell

And colchester average out at a better % than a fair few teams

Yeah... notably Port Vale at 26.4%, the atmosphere at those games must be terrible!

[Maximo Mark]

admin said:

How are Swansea exceeding their capacity? 11000 capacity and averaging 13000, not bad really And colchester average out at a better % than a fair few teams, so good on em, I like to see the smaller teams doing better sometimes. Crewe, Brighton and Milwall are not going to bring big gates either!

That's Swansea's old stadium. They now have a new stadium imaginatively titled "The New Stadium" ( ) which holds well over 20,000 so I guess it just hasn't been updated on there...