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Chip Town featuring Lee Phillips, unless he's moved since the summer.

Matt.

hector wrote:Steve Winter sacked by Chippenham, after their 0-9 defeat when he was on holiday on a surprise 40th birthday present http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24756051

Steve Winter has grey hair!

Christ that makes me feel old.

I wondered what had happened to Danny Stevens- this article on the BBC indicates he still is looking for a club:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25431398

Danny Leadbitter came on mid-second half last night for Hereford v Forest Green. Did ok. Also Damo (although not an ex gull yet) had a good game, a few wayward passes but generally ok.

Nicky Wroe on loan to Oxford

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25675052

And on that note, he scores a very late winner for Oxford as they keep Wycombe right in the shit.

In other news, Bobby was either dropped or injured for the Posh today in their 3-0 win.

Matt.

aswell as callum ball, notts county have Ronan Murray, who has scored tonight!

Jake Robinson has scored for Whitehawk against my local team East Preston in the Sussex Senior Cup. Still can't believe he's playing in the Conference South, let alone playing in this world famous competition.

I wouldn't mind, but that's only about his third of the season. He got that many in 45 minutes once against Shrewsbury.

Anyone else been keeping tabs on Jamie Ward. He seems to be having a brilliant season with Derby, acting as their no.1 play-maker, judging from the FLS highlights. He's scoring his fair share of goals too. I know he was far too good for us, but if we'd have kept him just about three months, we'd surely have avoided the drop that year. So sad. **** you, Knoberts!

Lloyd Macklin Tweeted earlier: "Thinking Back And Knowing I Had It In Me To Play Any Level And I **** It Up" While I'm sure that this has some reference to the aggressive, narcissistic music which is the preference of his sort, it might be nice to think that it was a genuine expression of remorse and admission that his is a talent gone to waste, rather than an example of ambition over ability.

Matt.

The worst thing about Ward was that Roberts (the conniving c__t) sold him for an extremely paltry amount with about an hour left of the transfer window- making it impossible to replace him. I think I knew for certain at that point that Roberts was taking us down. Sad times.

Macklin was a strange one. For the first 2 years I thought he was useless and a waste of space. When he got sent off at Oxford I thought we should rip up his contract and forget about the whole thing. Yet, in both pre seasons under Ling he showed he had the ability and I think he was awarded a lot more popularity and support from the fans than he really actually deserved because he never followed it through. An injury didn't really help, right at the time where he was starting to turn the screw' but ultimately I don't think he ever put in the effort to get where he needed to be.

Ling's damning assessment in putting him on the transfer list is likely to be on his footballing gravestone, it's a shame because he had far more potential than at least a couple of players currently in our squad, but ultimately Lloyd only has himself to blame for where he is and for what he hasn't achieved.

Chris Robertson has just scored for port vale!

O'Kane put in a good performance today for Bournemouth against Liverpool, and Townsend picked him as his man of the match.

Garry Monk is in caretaker charge at Swansea after Laudrup was sacked. Good luck to the lad.

Jeff wrote:I wondered what had happened to Danny Stevens- this article on the BBC indicates he still is looking for a club:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25431398

I believe he's found one now.. :~D

Lloyd Macklin and what is left of his once promising career in football, has fallen even further.

He has effectively been sacked by Chippenham Town after a series of breaches of club discipline, including missing training sessions.

Goodness knows where he will end up next after this, but it is certainly going to be a long haul back if he is ever going to earn a pro deal with anyone again you would think.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/spor ... e_Macklin/