Not Fit To Wear The Shirt

"You're not fit to wear the shirt!"

That's what our own fans were chanting at Chesterfield's players after one of the most embarrassing and humiliating displays in the club's history.  That’s it then, we’re relegated out of the football league, it’s been a 3 year slide to oblivion as predicted by many and the last straw is, that we have played 2 relegation rivals both of whom were on long winless runs and we’ve lost to them both. We were pretty toothless against Port Vale and then exactly the same thing happens against Grimsby. We have a team who can play nice football for 45 minutes, but not for the whole game, if that’s the case, you usually lose. We literally handed the game to a godawful Grimsby team after Sid Nelson under no pressure, presented our opponents with a penalty, after handling a long throw.

In reality neither side deserved to win the game we had 4 or 5 good chances in the first half but only one shot from Kristian Dennis really troubled their keeper, they made Ramsdale save once in the first half and we hacked a hopeful Grimsby header off the line in the second half. That was it, you couldn’t complain if the league awarded no points to either team. Grimsby are dire they have no attacking threat apart from lumping it to 2 big men with no pace

In reality the main attraction for many was watching Grimsby idiots fighting each other and being led away by stewards and Police one twerp even tried the solo pitch invasion, only to be dragged away trussed up like a turkey, it might have been funny if the Police had let him jump in with our ugly crew

Idiots of Grimsby, they like to fight each other

Teams tend to get out of trouble by being hard to beat, especially away from home, however we’re trying to play 4231 in a similar style as under Paul Cook but we just haven’t got the players to do it, in the last 2 away matches as soon as we lose the ball our wide attackers Brown and Hines just aren’t in the game and we might as well have 9 men on the pitch. We’ve tried playing 2 up front but O’Grady and Dennis don’t seem to work together, and if we play a straight 442 formation the team appears weak in central midfield, we don’t have a balanced side and haven’t had one all season

Many Spireites have been suggesting that we will get out of it with games in hand on relegation rivals and a series of six pointer matches on the way, based on what I’ve been watching all season I can only see home wins for Forest Green Rovers and Barnet, against Chesterfield and us finishing last, roughly 6 or 7 points away from safety. Next season the side will be worse, the budget will be lower and we'll be non league and losing to village sides, this is just shameful.

Comments on social media haven’t been kind one person commented that he feels like someone close to him has been suffering a terminal illness and has now been put out of their misery. Others are now questioning whether Jack Lester should have got the job in the first place and perhaps an old stager like Ronnie Moore could have guided us to safety. Anyway there’s a deafening silence coming from Dave Allen and Ashley Carson, what will their next move be in their grand plan, if they ever had one at all?