For 80 minutes it looked as though Gary Caldwell could get his fist win as Chesterfield Manager v Bury, then it all went wrong late in the game, again.
According to most fans, that, appears to be game over.
Chesterfield 7 points from safety, with a terrible goal difference having just
had a disastrous series of results in a 4 match “relegation mini league” One
hard won point against Gillingham but losses against Oldham, Northampton, and
now Bury, leave the Spireites requiring snookers.
In all those matches there were periods where we were on top
and could have got a better result , but we have to face facts and realise that
the team isn’t good enough and hasn’t played consistently well for 90 minutes
in any match this season. In reality we need 8 wins from 14 games to be safe
and since our longest winning streak all season has been 2 league victories on
the trot, most of us can’t see that happening.
It was a game of 2 halves against Bury, they didn’t produce
much first half and we got the goal. But, what a second half. Dependant on your
viewpoint we either sat back and invited pressure or simply weren’t good
enough. The return of Ebanks-Blake raised a few eyebrows, but Ched Evans out
injured, Gary Caldwell had few other options and to be fair, the out of favour
striker played well and set up the goal. Kristian Dennis who scored, says the
players haven’t given up hope, but looking on message boards there are few fans
who think we will stay up.
We’ve had 2 managers this season and amazingly we were
actually top of the league on Tuesday the 16th August. However no
league wins between 17th September and 22nd November
really saw a dramatic fall from grace, which the club has never recovered from.
It’s amazing as a fan, how you can grasp at straws in the
face of reality. Before the game on 5 Live I was listening to a football fan on
5 live, who had been to all 92 grounds and when asked where the best pies were,
in his opinion he said they were at the Proact stadium. Clearly this was a good
omen? When our new German keeper saved the penalty, I thought it had to be our
day, surely we’d be able to kick the ball down Sheffield Road for 10 minutes
and then fall over like John Sheridan’s Oldham Athletic to seal the points? As
it was it ended in a way Thorsten Stuckmann would rather forget.
Away days are now a drinking session interrupted by a
football match for many with more talk of which pubs to visit, rather than the
hope of any victories, for many of us the only concern is that we don’t finish
rock bottom below Coventry.
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