Bethnal

Missing a pre-season but you can see him being very useful at this level.

Pears’ kicking is atrocious

I recognise this Millwall performance, I’m just used to it being us.

Has also defaulted to Oxford commas. I suspect it’s written initially and then tightened with GPT.

I pushed for the Trust to coordinate the fundraising for the action that was proposed for the Derby/150th game. That was to avoid any one, sole person being personally liable for action that wouldn’t have been illegal. You were in the same group chat, so you’ll remember the responses.

While trying to avoid acquiring some shiny, tinfoil headgear - essentially, yes. I think their rationale is multi-faceted, but I think it's not a coincidence that the only executive at the club who wilfully pushed fan engagement (and directly engaged with the Trust on a regular basis) gets unceremoniously defenestrated on the 22nd May this year and three days later, the board of the Trust meets to decide to "work with" those already under the banner of the Coalition, after the relative success of the Coalition's initiatives in such a short timeframe. I would also point to the glacial pace that both are now working at, but that's a subjective assessment and I obviously have no idea what they're working on, so could be completely incorrect.

Yeah, I am a member of the Trust (I assume, never really hear from them, but did get the survey), but I was also "in" The Coalition (again, it's just a few group chats. No formal structure, when I left, at least). I suggested that the fundraising for the action planned by some in the Coalition should be something the Trust undertakes, given it has a formal structure and - implicitly - they were near-enough running the Coalition by that point. The Life of Brian analogy is entirely fair. As I've always understood it, the Coalition is a mixture of fans' groups, independent fans, etc, under one banner. It became it's own thing because of the traction it got. It changed once the overlap with members of the Trust happened, which I felt was cynical and/or not conducive to making progress.

Once they realised they were being left behind, this came.

This is subjective, so confirmation is tough, but my tuppence: I left the coalition (it’s not even formally a thing, by the time I left it was two group chats) basically because there was action around the Derby game planned but I and another got stonewalled on it. My suggestion was that the trust had the governance and infrastructure to fundraise for that action - I wasn’t comfortable having a fundraiser done by a lone person or group of independent people. I was told expressly by Trust board members that the didn’t have the mandate to fundraise for action, the rest of the board wasn’t as motivated to take action as the coalition/the trust board members in that coalition were and that some board members didn’t need the heat on them. The plan for action ran out of time, I left the group. In my view - everything slowed at the point where the Trust and The Coalition fused a bit. I expect those still active will say that’s not the case and that’s their opinion to have. But it isn’t my experience.

I think you see what teams are made of chasing a game late or defending a lead late. I also think we’ve seen enough of what this squad is made of to assume we’ll really struggle to close games out or get points late. There’s something very wrong at Brockhall.

You can prove it by lodging a FOI request with the police, who have to be provided with the actual attendance (people in the building) for safety/fire risk, etc. it works, it’s been done already this season.

Absolute definition of a “doesn’t fancy it” player. Looks like he’s being made to play his mate’s charity match.

They’re supposed to be “in talks” with Birmingham about a fee, aren’t they?

Buying TGH would be a real head-scratcher. What data is there, aside from mileage?

I’d be inclined to argue that we’re so neglectful as to have forfeited the match by not solving a known issue. Zero effort has been made to provide a solution since the Ipswich abandonment. You could have rain covers at half time. Not ideal for subs wanting to stay warm, but abandoning a match every time there’s moderate-to-severe rain in Blackburn also isn’t ideal. They ought to throw the book at us, teach the owners and Pasha a lesson and hand out a hefty fine. In the meantime - expect a club announcement of a shake up in the ground staff, as though that’s even remotely the issue.