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I find it interesting that since Dolan's good start in Spain, certain posters have changed from "let's see where he ends up" to "he was never going to sign a contract". I'm delighted for him.

This dire reading. You can't call it anything other than systematic failure.

It's better on a Monday.

Remains to be seen at the end of the season whether the squad has gotten stronger or weaker given the quality of the players coming in are unknown until they have proven themselves over a number of matches. On paper, it looks weaker due to the loss of Championship experience. Main problem is that the owners and board are treating the club solely as a business and completely disregarding the footballing side of it. We saw in the transfer window that there's no commitment to spend on top of what we recovered in transfer fees (club made roughly £3.5 million in profit instead). There's no real ambition to compete, only to maintain status quo. Stay in the Championship, cut wages, and collect transfer fees for players refusing to sign new contracts or are entering their final year. We keep changing direction and projects because head coaches/ managers walk away when they truly realise the lack of ambition coming from the top. How many times during the past few seasons have we been in or around play-off spots come December only to see it all collapse due to injuries and lack of investment in the following January window? Mowbray (3rd place, season 2021-22), Tomasson (3rd place, season 2022-23) and Eustace (5th place, season 2024-25) all having done a remarkable job to put the club in a very favorable position after matchday 23. What permanent January transfers did the owners and board sanction to push the club to compete for promotion during those three seasons? Markanday, Hedges (season 2021-22), none (season 2022-23) and Kargbo (season 2024-25) for less than £2 million in total. What was the impact of those three players during the remaining half of their respective seasons? Markanday (2 matches, 46 minutes, zero goals/assists), Hedges (11 matches, 396 minutes, zero goals, 1 assist), Kargbo (8 matches, 182 minutes, zero goals, 1 assist). Think it's fair to say that all three managers/head coaches were let down heavily and left on their own to fight an uphill battle. The owners want the club to become self-sustainable so that they can forget about it. They don't know anything about football and have no passion for the sport or the club. They received bad advice when they bought it and are now stuck with their pride and foolish naivety, refusing to sell because they don't want to cut their losses and admit that they made a mistake.

Are they A4 size ?

its conceivable that we might score more goals this season than last. I don't believe we're equal to last season's side anywhere else.

What I couldn't understand was, we were playing against some veteran players, yet played most of the game at walking pace, which suited them down to the ground. I realise that they are trying to play a similar way to the first team, to allow for continuity, but you have to adapt to your oppositions weaknesses if you are going to win games.

Not worth worrying about.

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Amazing the lengths people will go to, to circumnavigate rules! What is this competition exactly?

Tyjon, Joseph and Dunn hopefully can make the grade.

If we had kept Hyam and Travis I think there would be an argument that we could be stronger or ateast the same. Mori, McCloughlin, Alebiouso and Gudjonsen all look very promising. We look to have mitigated Batth, Brittain and Dolan well. Hopefully Gudjonsen can do the same for Weiman. But Hyam for Miller and Travis for Tavares/Baradji is a huge stretch.

I was thinking earlier, despite all the crap going on with the club at the moment, selling anyone of any value, replacing with cheap foreigners...at least were not having to watch Mowbray teams with big lump strikers out on the wing and defensive midfielders as false 9s. Those days were an unbearable watch.

Saka, Foden, Bowen, Palmer, Madueke, Rashford, Eze, Gordon, Grealish, Barnes, Rogers, Hudson-Odoi, Gibbs-White, Sancho, Elliott... Sure, something could happen to all of those, I guess!

As it stands right now, we are weaker. We've allowed so much championship experience to leave and replaced with hardly any. As the season progresses and the players get more and more games under their belts, the gap should start to close but I think we'll only know for sure by the season end. We'll see how the new boys cope when the games are coming thick and fast.

Not wrong though.

We had a very young side out there with quite a few scholars. First goal poor defending and goalkeeping. Others looked like poor defending.which is maybe what you would expect at this level.

We weren't sure at the time but suspected something as per MarkBRFC reply below.

Horrible miss kick that led to their first goal.

Thanks for that I've got it on in the van now. Not heard of this pod before

There is a rule that you have to start x amount of players from your last league game in this competition, this was just a way of them getting around that rule. Forest Green went even further and substituted 4 players in the first minute!

To be honest, the cross isn't much better. Awful keeping, and he completely flaps at something that should be pretty straightforward.

Why did that happen??