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Monday was my partners uncles funeral. A really good bloke, given a great send off by his family. We spent a lot of time checking our phones. Because we were waiting an update. And we got one ! I became a grandad for the first time. Really was ‘one in one out.’ A few off here have met by step lad Josh. He is now a dad !

No disrespect intended, but there should be one thread just for all the financial bollocks that most of us aren't interested in. I know and a few others love it, but it'd all be better in one place.

Canterbury Pride today, was all very lovely as it always is. Going to Herne Bay Pride in a few weeks. My eldest came out to us last week (we weren't massively surpirised) so we're going to see if she meet some nice lesbians down here 😀

Can we not just make a new thread for the number nonces?

Unless we've got long term investment coming in - I would be taking as few risks as possible unfortunately

The vast vast majority of folk are doing exactly as Brits always have done and are cracking on with life. The systems are creaking thanks to decades long political decisions. So many brilliant organisations have arisen filling the gaps where the government/council services are missing. With work we cover the length and bredth of the country there's some rough arsed areas but the majority of people there are sound. Social media has pushed a narrative that everything is terrible and it's really not.

It’s still there, but the blue star/dot is tiny, so it’s hard to actually click on it. Keep missing it and get taken to the first page. It would be good if that could be made bigger.

Mad how football works isn't it. I'd rather we had our season and finale than Cardiffs. I'm glad we finished 5th as it gave us Bradford away and then Stockport. I'm glad we had our batshit crazy season as it gave us moments like Huddersfield and Wycombe etc.

Arfield came slap bang in the middle of Ian Evatt completely losing his fucking mind and thinking we could play with wing backs and 3 up top. He was still shite like but a bit like that wanker Keith Andrews, he couldn't have landed at the club at a worst time.

If only you had a brain instead of just always having to prove yourself a dipstick? In fact half a brain would do.

you may have noticed things look different the site has been due an upgrade for a while, but needed to be done manually on the server so been waiting on the IT company to do it looks like they kicked off the process then I found I then needed to click a button in the admin to continue and some bits may have timed out and not updated properly so if it breaks on you, let me know they may also send an invoice for their time will let you know if they do

Don’t worry we will back to back promotion, USA investors take over and we get back into Europe. COYWM!! It’s happening.

I don't think it is the best we can afford. I think its more a case of a completely misjudged transfer and contract.

Can you all stop talking about finance in the transfer thread, people don't want to read that shit!!! (or so they keep telling me).

...we don't even know if he's good enough for the championship.

I agree with the view that loan, we have a chance, buy we don’t. Just using it as an example though, it’s where the world of second tier football becomes a massive gamble. We won’t break even without profit on players and frankly, £1m here and there won’t do it either. Say Brighton would sell for £5-6m with a nice sell on clause - I don’t think we have the capital backing to stump it up at this point, but if we did and the shareholders saw the opportunity, do you find the £5m on the gamble that he has a wonder season either this year or next in the championship and suddenly you can sell for £10-15m? He’s the kind of player that could have that season, he’s the kind of player that would catch the attention, but then again he could have another season like he did at Rovers and there goes your £5m. Glad it’s not me making those decisions (again, I don’t think we’re in a place at the mo to be making such big ones but maybe at the £2-3m mark we are).

Anticipate second order consequences and buy shares in Fannies

No, they aren't always the same thing. But they frequently correlate. Especially at an institution like Harvard. He's also been a practising barrister in England and the US. Those aren't positions you just stumble into. Whether that intelligence translates into sound political judgement depends more on your views on the positions he takes. But he's clearly an intelligent man.

First year since 1889 in which we won't play a FA Cup Match

Still using that lump of grey matter between the lug holes... It's a muscle and you need to exercise it or it'll turn to mush and you'll end up talking ga ga. Me? I solved two Times cryptic jumbo crosswords this morning without any AI nappies

Not sure how you figure that, Johnston is 27 and never played above League 1 level. This lad spent several years at the heart of a mid-table Preston defence before earning a move to Liverpool and has since, earned playoffs with Sheffield United, been sold for £3m, played Champions League football and then won League 1 with Birmingham. Safe to say it's a fairly significant upgrade in quality and experience.

You and Stevie Wonder I imagine

sickening

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Just welled up again, you git! 😀 Not sure I've ever skriked so much- going to need intravenous fluids at this rate. Just been to a loch in a forestry area, where we have videos of all three playing a few years back. Pissing down, loads of tears, but the other two love it. Grieving and healing in action.

Farage has been missing for about a week over his bullshit claims on his £5m bung and how it was leaked by Russia (haha nice try). Now he pops up in his usual populist self centred dog whistle manner and the lapdogs come running. Like clockwork.

My memory isn't my most solid attribute....buuuttt apart from my first season as a fan (96/97) im struggling to recall as many "limbs" moments as this one? To think we were still only 90 mins away from Burton, Bromley and the other ones ... Cant wait for next season, even Charlton at home on a Tuesday night is making a little bit of wee come out

Feel like kicking off myself. But only at that schnivelling copper with his shitty wank attitude that left a lad my sons age to die. He should be made to face the parents. This attack has nothing to do with Islam or boat folk. I get the public anger but Tommy turning up is just ridiculous.

Maybe my favourite incident of the season was Dalbys equaliser at Huddersfield and his reaction was to get the ball to try and win the game.

A perfectly accurate description and what many on here have also posted. Stating the bleeding obvious isn’t a criticism of the player as much as the situation he’s being found in. He clearly needs coaching on positioning which doesn’t in any way denigrate his obvious abilities. Of course I wouldn’t expect you or your cohort of little supporters to understand the difference.

Just read this on the BBC site. The last bit is where people get the ‘two tier policing’ accusations from. Police reviewing anti-racism guidance. A national unit of senior police chiefs says it will review anti-racism guidance that has been at the centre of criticism over the actions of officers who arrested murder victim Henry Nowak as he was dying. The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) has announced it will look into policies in the Race Action Plan, with NPCC chairman Gavin Stephens saying it is "listening to legitimate concerns about how some of these commitments are worded or phrased". "Where needed we can and will make changes, but this should not detract from the intent, which is to improve the quality of policing," he says. The guidance, which was issued last year, suggested officers should treat ethnic minorities differently in order to ensure what it calls "equality of outcomes".

To be fair, @L/H White does have a point. Sky are constantly replaying play off finals from the 20th century, including our win against Reading i guarantee you remember the 1998 play off final between Charlton and Sunderland, which ended 4-4 before Charlton won 7-6 on penalties. I’m fairly certain you couldn’t tell me who won the first division title that year, without looking it up. In fact, even where we were involved, could you say who won the first division in 1995, without checking? Even if you could name these two winners, how many of us could? To be honest, although I knew 1995 because we were involved, I had to look up 1998.

Late catching up with this one. What a shocking response from those police officers. Those despicable shit bags - the murderer and brother using their race to avoid arrest and kill an innocent lad. Truly awful. The most amazing response is from the family, to be so dignified and calm in not wanting this to escalate. Why the fuck couldn’t Farage and those flag waving dick heads in Southampton listen to them?

UEFA and FIFA's motives seem very much to be make it virtually impossible for big clubs/nations to miss out (ffs Italy what are you doing) and keep them involved for as long as possible. Doesnt make for much of a spectacle. 16 team Euros and 32 team world cups were the pinnacle for me.

It will be amazing once it gets going, but a total lack of jeopardy in the group stages is a killer. 72 games to get rid of the shittest 16 teams.

Imagine if we’d had Frandsen come to us at 23 rather than 26. He really could have right to the top but was maybe a bit late coming to England. Then again, he played in a World Cup and obviously an illustrious Bolton team in the Premier League so you could argue he did exactly that. To be that link between the last year at Burnden and playing alongside Djorkaeff, Okocha, Campo etc is pretty special

Everyone will have their own view obviously, but I do think the officer decided before attending the scene that Novak was a racist and allowed his own views to take over I can't really understand why there was a need to place Novak in handcuffs given the state he was in, and I wonder how much it was to signal to the murderer's family that they were taking this report of a racist incident seriously It was also apparently the case that the murderer himself was never placed in handcuffs at any point, either during or after his arrest, which seems extraordinary and is quite a contrast in approach I think it's unlikely the contemptuous attitude of that police officer happens in a vacuum, and there are probably questions to be asked about institutional bias and possibly even whether how things like the MacPherson principle/police training courses might've guided his behaviour The same disdain was on display during many of the grooming gangs cases, where there was evidence of underage girls being arrested for being drunk and disorderly in a room surrounded by Asian men, and no police officer asked questions about how or why she was there or what responsibility those men might have for her being there, and desperate fathers being arrested outside the houses where their daighters were held captive (itself a result of the refusal of the authorities to act)

I think they are going to have to. My logic goes something like this, We, and every other club in the Championship are subject to the new Squad Cost 'pay cap' rule which includes the net cost of transfers - meaning that all clubs are limited to 85% of their clubs turnover (with owners being limited to putting in equity of no more than £15m per season). (This would also seem to also rule out the recent rumour of the £30m American investment into the club?). To put that into some context the FV had a trading loss of £14m and wages (note NOT wages and net transfer spend) was 98.8% of revenue in the last accounts for the completed 24/25 season. The thing is though all the clubs who are already in the Championship have squads that have been good enough to stay there (ok several struggled but then again you only need to finish higher than three other teams). Meaning they can look to strengthen their weakest areas, knowing that in other areas across the pitch they are (shall we say) good enough for now and thus we are starting very much at the back of the grid well behind them all. We (and presumably Lincoln and Cardiff) have relatively few players that we know will be adequate at Championship level and will have a limited budget to recruit and retain several needed and known to be Championship level players (who wages wise won't come cheap) - especially if equity allowed into the club in a season is limited to £15m - meaning we will have to be extremely frugal how we spend what money we are allowed, to build an entire Championship level squad from virtually nothing (bar Dalby, Rodrigues, Sheehan give or take). Our revenue will go up around £20m with being in the Championship but or trading loss will take the lions share of that I would expect. How then can Preston, Millwall and Wrexham spend millions on a player this season, because they must consider they are solid across the rest of their side for the Championship and can basically spend the bulk of their transfer budget on one or two players. We can't. I estimate that there is probably around £5m equity left in the club by the end of this season (30th June 2026) so it would make perfect sense to me if players are signed before that date, so any transfer fees paid won't be included in next seasons Squad Cost rules. It would also help if FV can put as much equity into the club before that date also so as to allow themselves a bit of financial wriggle room for future seasons in advance of the £15m equity per season limit that comes in. So I simply don't believe we haven't the luxury of building a Championship squad from almost nothing, whilst being subject to financial and capital constraints (that will have much reduced impact on existing Championship teams (because they have a head start on us by already having squads largely of Championship level players already - as we will be next season after staying up) and spending something like £1m between them on Watson and Stephenson simply not to play them for half a season. They will be out of necessity (in my opinion) active squad players from the start unless they show they can't hack it at this level just yet. That's my thinking anyway.

And you mention myopia? You’re acting like the coppers here. Brown bloke with turban good. Brown bloke without turban bad.

Big shout for that Ibby goal at home to Huddersfield in addition to the above. It's been a mad season in there have been so many incredible 'moments' (Hudds H & A, Wycombe comeback, ACD v Cardiff, ACD v Orient, Dalby's overhead) never mind all the other late goals we scored. In terms of favourite game I would throw the 4-1 at home to Wigan. Panning them after so many years of garbage at home was special. Bradford both games were top away followings but that playoff game was as good an away end as I've ever been in or seen. Kids already asking how many aways we can do next year...

So sorry to read this pal. What a handsome chap he was. Lost ours on the Monday before Wembley and thought exactly the same- feck football. That did change come kick off time but some of our tears at the end were for him and not just the relief at getting out of league 1. I still cant make a butty in the kitchen and not expect him to be behind me hoping for a scrap or two. Dogs are the best.

As someone who worked in data and intelligence, I also like the stats. However, this comment also comes with caveats around statistical confidence and unconsidered variables. To expand, with regard to confidence, statistics are often presented on small numbers of events. For example, early last season Burstow hit the ground running and had an excellent goals to minutes ratio. However, he then went a prolonged barren run. Neither were representative of his ability. On the second point - unconsidered variables - this can be significant in football. Looking at the passing statistics for Watson, there is no consideration of the quality of the opposition. Furthermore, playing with someone who is good at finding space and making runs, can make a significant difference to the passer’s numbers. Lesser opponents and good runners versus strong opponents and a lack of runners, etc.

Loved it. But the Play-Offs were the maker or breaker, let’s be honest. Without them the ones below wouldn’t have been as special. But looking back now I can wallow in the good times this season! 6/ Nam-Ploy gatherings for home Games. Stand-outs, Wigan and Bradford Play- Off (that 8pm Saturday was a belter) 5/ Late Goals. Best season ever for these. Stand-outs. Huddersfield, Cardiff and Wycombe 4/ Wigan - Not just the Wigan factor, but came at an emotional time with my big lad in hospital 3/ Plymouth away - Such a good weekend and great result/atmosphere 2/ Bradford Away - One of not the best away followings I’ve ever witnessed and what a celebration for the goal 1/ Wembley

When are they opening the middle blocks!!!

Looks like Faustus's ringpiece before the immodium kicked it 😊