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Makes sense.

Firstly, he was really poor, so his level of contribution was minimal. We don't know if anyone else would have been better. Secondly, and more, importantly, he had a broken bone in his back. That's damage enough. Perhaps if he had been made aware, he wouldn't have made himself available. It was a big cock up initially, and still playing when clearly not fit, just compounded it.

It does.

No lions in that pic. Must be able to do that with you being the main man.

There are only so many David Attenborough documentaries you can watch though.

How does a break in the window prevent him being signed? He's not going as things stand, and will be in this country. Should be easy for a club to sign him beforehand, and meet in person.

4 year deal for a crock? Something doesn't add up.

Two firefighters and a member of the public been killed according the breaking news. Grim

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/these-are-said-to-be-the-202425-player-wage-bills-for-every-club-in-league-one-see-where-peterborough-united-wigan-athletic-wycombe-wanderers-lincoln-city-and-the-rest-rank-5052775?page=6 How accurate it is, who knows, but different sites paint a similar picture. I would imagine pretty much every club has someone with wealth propping them up to an extent. As posters have said, FFP (or whatever iteration it has in L1) is far less stringent than leagues above. Spend the dosh now whilst you can I suppose.

There isn't an alternative. I suppose that's why we might rue it- should he (unlikely) manage to get back to the player he was.

Yep. News covered him and his arrest etc, but never heard of him before he was talked about on here. Don't go looking for his shit in fairness.

Indeed. That's why they lost all that money. As long as the owner is covering it, they're fine. I note though that it is in the form of new shares. Not sure that that is the same as our Swiss benefactors, but someone else will know more.

It was a very difficult comment to forget !

Only in the right top.

Just had a look- in 23/24 season, they spent £640000 on players. Lost £7m overall. Decent spending in league 2 of course, but in comparison to ourselves and no doubt others, it is small. Dunno this years spend, but I think it's reasonable to say their spending has been seen better value for money than ours.

We'll have to disagree on that one then. For me, the manager is the top man, and he takes into account all different aspects. If he can't see that a player is struggling, when he knows that player has an injury, then he's not doing his job properly.

Banks and Hartle anyone?

He started the home leg. Whatever the opinion of him is, making a judgement on one game where he was a sub seems misplaced.

Manager has the last word though. Of course a good egg like Dempsey was putting himself forward and prepared to play, but if you look at comments on here at the time, he was getting pelters for his lack of performance. It was absolutely obvious he was injured, yet he still played him. His performances alone didn't warrant it. The comments from Evatt at the time were along the lines of "I asked if he was fit" and he declared himself to be. Maybe a bit of mental pressure being applied. As earlier, how on earth was he even able to make that decision, given he wasn't even aware of a broken bone in his back. Some really shat work from the physios, fitness guys, right through. It is their responsibility to accurately determine injuries etc and feed that information to the management and the player. It's not like it was a one off neither.

A bit different playing with a knock, and being asked to play with a continuous back injury. An injury that turned out to be a broken bone there. Rather than asking him to play through it, which was clearly hamlering his performance, why wasn't he sent back to the physios for proper assessment? Played for weeks with it. Something wrong with the whole set up when such a situation arises.

I reckon most would. Might be different if you're at a very top club I suppose, as getting a few games and winning stuff might compensate. I suppose mid table-ish championship is far from that.

Must get boring after a while.

Yes. It seems that Evatt pissed one or two off in the end. Out of position or a style that didn't suit. Probably isn't good enough for championship, but if he gets there, good on him and good luck.

Right, I've watched it again, and can see what you're getting at. At first, I thought the big lad was holding his own lad, when the others piled in. Especially at the end I thought he was splitting the others up and shouting at them, as if he was going to walk away with his son. Upon reflection, I think your interpretation is correct. Bound to be more to it all, but it does indeed look like the big un needs putting through the courts and then deporting.

I'm sure the evidence of both events will be gathered. Just seems a snapshot of an incident which is quite nasty.