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Strikers please. Two of them. Then everywhere else. We couldn't finish our tea at the moment.

This will see us relegated and slide down the leagues. If we're offering wages lower or the same as we were 3-4 years ago , the quality of players we'll attract will drop. It's also likely to be more cost effective to up a current players wage rather than having to find a replacement in the transfer market considering there's so many additional costs the headline fee doesn't take into account.

Great talent or not. £1m for us at this current juncture is a hefty fee to spend. Spending that on a 17 year old central midfielder would say to me that the hierarchy don't know what the team needs at this moment in time to succeed and prevent relegation.

@M_B would you mind having a look at the quoted post and adding your thoughts. You seem like a good alternative person to ask. Edit: I posted this prior to seeing you'd read my mind and almost responded to it entirely!

Watched the first hour of day 3 so far, somehow. Absolutely awful bowling, as Jim has said above, it's been our Achilles heel this series, any decent batting performance (and there haven't been many) go down the pan when we can't be consistent. I'm watching via Fox network in Australia. They showed a startling graphic that around 29 of 250 deliveries in Australia's first innings so far, would hit the stumps. Everything else is too short or wide.

I appreciate the reply and I do take the 'i don't know' at face value. Let me try to narrow it a bit, not to put you on the spot, but to make it more concrete. This isn’t about persuading you to support a boycott as it currently exists. Imagine the coalition came to you and said: we want to design something that committed match going supporters like you could at least engage with, even if you never fully signed up. In that situation, is there anything you would actively want them to do, or to stop doing? It doesn’t need to be a perfect solution or a fully worked position. Even something you definitely wouldn’t accept is useful, because it helps define the boundaries of what engagement could look like. I’m asking this because without moving from general disagreement into those kinds of specifics, it’s very hard to know whether there’s actually a gap to bridge, or whether it’s simply a difference in outlook that no campaign could realistically resolve.

Be interesting to see what the announced attendance is.

I fell asleep before his actual dismissal, but I saw he got away with an attempted drive to cover only which was caught, only for it to be judged a no ball. Very next delivery he wafts at one wide outside off stump and luckily the Aussie slip cordon were statues for a change. He's summed up quite a lot of our batting this trip.

Eloquent post. @chaddyrovers I’m tagging you deliberately because you’ve explained why the boycott doesn’t work for you and you’re exactly the kind of committed match going supporter the coalition would need on side to have a huge impact. Setting aside past arguments and personalities, I’d genuinely like to ask this in practical terms. If this were a straight “how could the coalition get you onside?” question, what one or two specific actions or commitments from the coalition would make you more willing to engage with it? Not necessarily to agree with everything, but enough to feel it was moving in a direction you could support. I’m not asking why you don’t back it now and I’m not asking you to defend your position. I’m asking what would actually change things for you. If the coalition wants to grow beyond its current base, understanding what would persuade supporters like you feels very important.

Head to head between the bottom 6 so far. Apologies for the formatting. P W D L Points Points per game Norwich 5 3 2 0 11 2.20 Charlton 6 3 1 2 10 1.67 Portsmouth 5 3 0 2 6 1.20 Oxford 5 1 2 2 5 1.00 Sheffield Wed 5 1 2 2 5 1.00 Rovers 6 0 3 3 3 0.50

I can tell that Ismael is going to put some blame on the officials. He's walked over to them at full time to remonstrate, ignoring the fact he keeps setting the team up so.we go in at half time, behind.

"Like a new signing up front"

Can't help but notice a few stewards or police around the NO1 section in the stairway, it's noticeable because there isn't any similar presence anywhere else. Is that usual? I can imagine it's a Pasha move re: the sign.

Thank you.

Thinking a little further ahead, is there any way to obtain the actual attendance figures for every home game so far, whether via the police or another source? That would allow us to judge whether the Watford boycott had any genuine impact, instead of relying on the club’s official figures, which have a well-established tendency to stretch the truth. My concern is that the wider media and even some posters on here, will default to the club’s numbers and use them to argue that nobody attended the boycott