TrickyTrotter

Harrogate were poor, and thought we were OK for the first 70 minutes, but agree with IE, plenty of room for improvement. Forrester's distribution was poor aside from setting up Bod's first, Jones never looked with his pass across the box, but I think he expected Morley to be in a better position. Morley was OK in their half but as the holding midfielder he wasn't anywhere near as good as George or Sheehan at beating the press, too often just rolled it back to Santos or Baxter. Bright start from Randall but then went AWOL. Some bright moments from Gomes but will need to be better to get ahead of Maghoma.

Colby Bishop left tonight's game on crutches and in a protective boot after going over on his ankle.

Advanced party arrived in the city of dreaming spires, dreaming of another Whites win. Grey and cold at the moment but improving. Bright day tomorrow but hopefully not too cold to threaten the match - I don't think it has undersoil heating. Can confirm The George is a good shout, a short walk through the Littlemore estate and through a little tunnel. Think you can stay on the car park if you are drinking in there.

Yes 19. The links here. It's in the players handbook https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/discipline/player-essentials

Yes forgot he was the only player booked in the Stockport game. Don't think it counts towards his league tally. He's on 6 in the league. Think he got away with one against Shrewsbury. Match 19 is the cut off for a one match ban for 5 cards, so Maghoma's got to avoid one in the next 3 games.

Thomason has managed to go a few games without a booking although been a tad fortunate on a couple of occasions. Maghoma needs to follow his lead. Presumably Dempsey makes the bench on Saturday, so when Maghoma is suspended, he risks his starting place.

Jay Spearing played for the scousers in their last group game against Barrow (which they lost) Another reason to give them a miss.

I think recruitment in January will be a challenge. To improve our squad we are realistically now looking at lower/mid Championship level. Both the club and any potential recruit is going to have to make a leap of faith that we are going up. Whilst I'm not a big fan of developing other clubs players, I think loans be the most realistic route for the second half of the season. They are going to have to be a good bit better better than what we've got. I think LWB cover is a weak spot, Iredale is solid but one dimensional in there, Ashworth has looked OK in less challenging games but his track record so far has been international call up/injured/international call up/injured/international call up. We're not playing kids at LWB. Gethin Jones and Luke Matheson are more promising cover at RWB.

Certainly one to keep an eye on. Suspect he’ll be back out on loan in L2 in the New Year.

Solihull keeper recalled by Stoke and named in England U20 squad. Decent keeper for his age, but not got the presence of Trafford.

Half way through Season 2. Not sure I'll make it.

There’s two types of shares in FV. Type A have full rights, Type B no voting or dividend rights. IE and NH have Type B. New shares are Type A. The issuance of shares is down to the Articles of Association, as Shazza has the biggest share, she’ll have the biggest vote. GB bank will have little say in it.

I’m no expert so happy to be corrected, but new shares could mean someone has put new money in for a stake or an existing loan could be converted into shares and the debt wiped out. No doubt other reasons as well. Think you only have to name the shareholders in your annual confirmation statement. The last one was in Jan 23 so is out of date.

£6m worth of new shares issued. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11761052/filing-history

We're selling more than 1k for this surely? Ticket Information | Oxford United (A) | Bolton Wanderers FC (bwfc.co.uk)

Even puts SJ after his name on Twatter to signify his journalist credentials to his 56 followers. A fantasist. The volunteer at BoltonFM gave it away.

Arrived, clear chilly evening here. 2-0 to the Whites

Suspect we are going to play the Wycombe defensive combo here with Jones at RWB and Cogley LWB with Forrester’s extra height in the middle.

Because of the stupid restrictions on seating in the ESL, I had the misfortune to end up in yesterday’s crazy corner. There were no more than 20 of them but they made the whole game unpleasant for everyone sat around, many of which were women and young kids. First half one just shouted a constant foul mouth stream of abuse at the opposition fans, the ref, their players and ours, it was miserable. Second half they decided to turn their attention to everyone around them and ignored the game. One guy in his twenties off his head shouting “ suck my cock” to anyone who looked at him. I’m no shrinking violet but it was all bang out of order.

1044 sold so far, pretty decent for a Tuesday night. From memory there were about 1300 of us on last snowy December.

Wycombe game was this, but you didn’t have to put up with the Tower FM shit before and at HT like last season.

Cheers. Remember using that one when they were building the multi story but forgotten about it. The railway one used to be just a fiver per day on Saturday's and Sunday's but charge a flat daily rate now. I've got history with those barriers. Last year they wouldn't open when I put the ticket in. A guy had to turn out, took him about 20 minutes to get there to open them. Did the same trip for Reading the other week. Again returned on the Sunday. Paid for the car park and then the barrier just opened automatically when I drove to it. At first thought have they installed ANPR, but they haven't.

No. To be fair both trains spot on time.

Travelled down to London for the match last Thursday. No barriers or inspectors at Wigan. Train Manager couldn't be arsed coming down the train to check tickets and straight through open barriers at Euston. Left car at Wigan. Came back yesterday. Put car park ticket in the machine at the station expecting to pay £40, just spat the ticket back out. Walked out to use the other ticket machine in the car park, barrier propped wide open. Result. No wonder the trains are loss making.

In Expect Forrester, Iredale, Ashworth, Maghoma, Bod & Dan to start with Mendes Gomez on the bench. 2-0.