Just throwing this out, what have Rovers learnt so we push on for the next season.

95 points isn't enough to be automatically promoted

Hopefully learnt thar we cant go up just playing football need to learn to mix it with the bad boys

Defiantly agree !

Nothing if they just stick with Cook and Norwood ,they really need someone who puts himself about and can get goals .goals have been an issue since coming into the NL .they really need to toughen up to .get stuck in from day 1 .not a soft touch like the first season but still not tough enough for the NL

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Nothing if they just stick with Cook and Norwood ,they really need someone who puts himself about and can get goals .goals have been an issue since coming into the NL .they really need to toughen up to .get stuck in from day 1 .not a soft touch like the first season but still not tough enough for the NL

Despite winning more games than they ever have in a season and getting a lot more points than ever before.

That if they get same points total it will more than likely be enough to win the league.

That Gary Brabin isn't the manager for us

That the return on bringing back players that have previously played for the club may be mediocre.
Mangan definitely mediocre
Dawson Totally marginalised
Wallace.Overall impact modest because of a combination of fitness and injury issues that cannot be masked by a couple of reasonable games

To learn from last season's mistakes and to be ruthless in our quest for promotion.No playoffs this time !

That, if we're to win this league, we'll have to reproduce over a full season the same mentality, determination and level of tactical awareness that we showed in the last three months of the season. A big ask but we've got the talent and, if we can avoid a playoff hangover, no reason why we can't do it.

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Nothing if they just stick with Cook and Norwood ,they really need someone who puts himself about and can get goals .goals have been an issue since coming into the NL .they really need to toughen up to .get stuck in from day 1 .not a soft touch like the first season but still not tough enough for the NL

Despite winning more games than they ever have in a season and getting a lot more points than ever before.

+1

We need to target 100 points to win the league.

How not to play in a Play Off final.

I think its that we start slow, we get caught out too many times in the early stages of the half and at the latter stages too as the concentration drops. I do think that Iheikwe and Maynard were both the main culprits for that kind of play, don't get me wrong the amount of good they did far out weighed the bad!

When we came out in the first leg of the semi, we started fast and looked incredibly strong and hard to play against, if that mentality can be taken into every away game there really won't be any team that can live with us.

I'd also expect us to perform better against the bottom half of the table, turn a couple of those tight draws into wins and not leave the championship race to the last 5-6 games.

Looking at the ins and out's not much! What should of been learnt is we need to take our chances and score bags of goals, everything else is ok.

Tranmere learned that they needed to beat Lincoln just once to be champions. Everything else validated their champions credentials, so I doubt much needed to be learned.

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Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

Dead right, Matt.

Everyone else is thinking about what they might be able to do.

We just need to repeat what we actually did and get the rub of the green in key moments.

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Tranmere learned that they needed to beat Lincoln just once to be champions. Everything else validated their champions credentials, so I doubt much needed to be learned.

I suggest that Lincoln would have won the league anyhow, they where the better side, I doubt theyd have lost/drawn the last game if points were needed. It wasn't even about beating Lincoln it was surrendering those leads. Had Micky been in charge from game 1 I think we'd have won it, the run of defeats leading to Homers demise cost us.

You need to turn up when it matters and win the big games

We need a penalty taker lol.

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You need to turn up when it matters and win the big games

Bang on, we didn't get enough points off the other teams in the top five and that is what ultimately cost us.