Lt. Aldo Raine

Yes, we couldn't really afford a team capable of playing the way he needed And, to be fair, it was also because he was shit

He was never a disciple of tiki taka but we were operating under a transfer embargo and he got the most out of the resources he was working with We tried to be a bit more expansive with the only No. 10 we could afford - Oztumer - and it was even worse Anyway, it's been and gone

I'm not sure either side wants peace, or at least wants peace unless it's on their terms only

Players - particulaly players who aren't playing - whinge all the time Parky's record suggests he gets many more things right than wrong

I don't think clubs in the Championship really thought it through when they voted on the new rules

He resigned hours after the University of Cambridge announced they'd be conducting an investigation

It's possible it's a negotiation tactic, especially if other clubs are interested But I've thought for a while the biggest obstacle to signing Kenny might be Kenny himself If it is the case he's decided to stay then he's going to have to do something miraculous to turn things around up there because their supporters seem to genuinely hate him

We aren't

It's a fascinating example of how naive and credulous people in academia can be So many of his claims are absolutely ludicrous and so obviously not true yet there was never any suspicion of him whatsoever He's also very clearly plagiarised a huge amount of his doctorate but the university that awarded it him investigated and bizarrely found there was nothing to see, and when this story first broke so many of his colleagues and others in the field and the media - naturally including The Good Law Project - signed an open letter dismissing the whole thing Mad

FFS

What did Simons get sent off for?

I find a lot of Parky's detractors often know the least about him He wasn't at the start of his managerial career when he joined us as he'd already guided Colchester United from League One relegation candidates to promotion to the Championship, got Bradford City promoted to League One, a League Cup final whil in League Two, and an FA Cup quarter-final He got us promoted at the first attempt while under a transfer embargo and then kept us up the following season as the club began to crumble Wrexham might've had a cash injections but people go on as if three consecutive promotions and a seventh placed finish in the Championship in four years is a piece of piss He's just a very, very good football manager with a track record of success at most of the clubs he's worked for

I didn't think Larry would've been fit enough but I'm looking forward to seeing how he gets on

I'm guessing the team mostly picks itself Bonham, Stephenson, Forino, Davies, Famewo, Dong, Sheehan, Rodrrigues, Simons, Gale, Dalby Maybe it wouldn't be a massive shock to see Ritchie (or McAtee) start ahead of Dong given that's what we went with last week I don't think we'll go with this at all, but I wonder if SS has given any thought to a wildcard option of Conway at RW

Full-time, non-playing staff are considered football creditors but like every other football creditor wouldn't be guaranteed a penny if the club folded, which I'm sure was on their mind as a realistic possibility at the time And as you've rightly pointed out, it's shameful they had to wait so long regardless

I bet his degree in Sports Broadcasting has come in useful these last few weeks

Probably a bit of that, a bit of managing expectations, and also because he keeps being asked

I think it's comments like this that make it difficult for you to convince people you aren't an Anderson apologist He might've been a part of the deal that brought us out of administration but his ownership of the club ultimately ended with us finding ourselves back in administration and him appointing his own administrators to protect his own financial interest In no sense did he find Sharon or the FV group of investors - if any credit is due for that it goes to Michael James - and the section of your post above is an extraordinarily generous interpretation of his time here

The club was disintegrating and he ultimately made the right calls

Let's also hope the Indian investors don't want a return on their money any time soon

There's no financial benefit at all to the smaller counties that don't have a franchise playing at their ground, in fact it's a net financial drain given the counties play so little cricket during the peak summer months The Hundred is on Cricket in England is funded by the income generated from Test matches and always will be, the counties don't turn a profit but don't really have to as they're primarily there to develop talent for the national team It's an ecosystem that's worked for decades The Hundred also doesn't do anything for the growth of the sport/attraction of younger supporters that the T20 Blast couldn't do if only it were given the same billing, and the sole purpose of it is to wrest control away from the counties, who retain the lion's share of the income from the T20 Blast, and towards the ECB because the ECB were jealous of the BCCI reaping huge rewards from the IPL

He was dealt a bad hand and played it badly

He was quite keen on moving Bridcutt to CB and iirc he did it that day but it just left us exposed in midfield

We'd have to wait until January, but yes Neither of them were considered part of the first team squad anyway, and I imagine it'll be very easy for us to find better replacements before the end of the month so no harm done

SS said there won't be any before this weekend's match Hopefully there'll be some early next week though