yup, it’s sh1t, meanwhile talking BBC and football BBC Berks aligns with rest of the BBC footballing fraternity by having a woman commentator giving her ‘expert opinion’ on the mens game, but why can’t Charlie Estcourt pronounce the letter ‘t’ in any of her words? :roll: Sports punditry has never b...

We are 8pts off the play-offs with 2 games in hand, that's hardly insurmountable, especially with a favourable run of games coming up Yes, but the six clubs above us are also 8 points or less from the playoffs, all with games in hand over Hiddersfield. They cant all lose all of the time. I wouldn’t...

Yep looks like I got this one wrong. 500k :shock: for a player out of contract in the summer :shock: from a league 2 club :shock: Has couhig had a blow to the head :shock: He's 22, so we'd have to pay a compensation fee for him in the summer (assuming Accrington would offer him a contract comparabl...

One is a hypothecated average ticket revenue per fan - £15, one is a hypothecated amount of extra spending at the stadium per fan, £13. So he's saying increase the average gate by 5,000, you'd increase ticket sales by £75k a game, and other match-day revenues by £65k (£13 x 5,000 is £65k, not £63k)...

Of course, this is only looking at the revenue side, right? Higher crowds means more costs for staffing and policing, and presumably other costs too, so that's a gross not a net figure, right?

Attendances can't bridge £1m a month. And extra 5k a game will include kids, plus you need to deduct VAT. Let's estimate £15 a ticket, that's £75k a game. 23 games plus perhaps an FA Cup draw and that's £1.8m, allegedly what they're putting in every 2 months. Perhaps extra food, merchandise etc., c...

Ok, so Brogue mean to write U21 but had the number 24 in his head. Which brings it back to his original point, that (if I’m reading Sutekh’s list correctly), there are 25 players aged 22 or more. I presume it’s not an issue because of the other rule Clyde mentions - some (all?) of the six 22-year-ol...

We go to home games, he wants to go to a Reading away game, and I don't think I can get a long trip past the management just yet. Rovers and County are a similar distance from us, although I don't think there would be any chance of him getting a ticket to Rovers, based on last year. I've also never ...

It's more like 90 miles for us, but the Bescot is a good shout - he'd enjoy watching the traffic going over the flyover.

I'm quite disappointed that all of the League Two clubs close to the Forest of Dean are doing so badly this year ('ksake, Newport!), as my son is desperate to go to an away game (he's young and foolish), and I don't think we're quite up to trecking to Lincoln or Barnsley yet. I'm not sure Swindon or...

Brogue wasn't reading his own spreadsheet properly. It says 24 players over 21, not over 24.

It's so obvious that Brogue's source is Joe Jacobson.

https://www.efl.com/documents/efl-handbook.pdf

pp. 310-1 - Changes can be made to the squad list during a transfer window.

Linden Jones' Tash I think the windmill next to the Mad Stad might just save us....

Trump's just connected having windmills to losing - perhaps he has a point.

traff After enduring that "performance" on Saturday we may as well hire 4 bollards and a large catapult and save on the wages of 4 defenders.
(tee up Ballard puns)

There was something in the Grauniad about a £100k mechanical wall for training. Perhaps that would be an upgrade on our back line?

Pepe the Horseman

morganb

Brogue
play offs?

Sod's Law says that's bound to happen doesn't it?

And this time we'll be ready.

...with a better excuse?

Someone on the radio suggested we should shop for a pacy centre back, and if we’re looking to build a team for the future, not just thinking about the rest of this season, that’s a fair shout.

Not all men in capes are heroes.

We shouldn’t panic buy, but as has been pointed out we need to start putting together a strong squad now for a project that might still take a year or two. Besides which, it’s so tight that most of the clubs in the league would get sucked down to the bottom with a run of only a few bad games. A stro...

It’s all speculation, isnt it? But we all know how much Dai likes to gamble, so I still think they’ve persuaded him not to take a scheduled payment now in return for the possibility of a bigger reward if we get promoted. Couhig’s never made a secret of the fact that he doesn’t have bottomless pocket...