To have any chance of promotion you need to be hanging on to your better players for a while.

Yes but who is going to be scouting the Armstrongs and Brererton’s ? Neither of those came through our youth teams.

At the moment the youth side of the club is going well, as evidenced by the number of home grown players we’ve brought into the first team. It’s in finding the next Dack or the next Rothwell were the expertise was required.

That’s what worries me. As some one said earlier - is the plan to become the next Crewe Alex ? Develop young players and continually sell them on ? That policy got Crewe a good reputation but it didn’t get them very far league position wise.

What, in his usual cast of thousands ?

Nope, they do it every time.

Dack might not even be in our starting 11. He’s nowhere near were he was before the last cruciate injury yet.

I don’t see why Kane’s ability to reach the ball is an issue here. If you get tripped in the penalty area it should be a penalty. I remember a game on tv were the ball had been cleared out of the box and the centre half had a kick out at the striker, they’d been having a ding dong all the game. The ref gave a penalty.

The guy who used to write about my local rugby league team was banned from entering the ground by the clubs directors because he was on their case. He ended up going in through the turnstiles with a false beard and clear glasses.

I’ve never seen him have a good game for England. He looks overawed by the experience. Bowen looked more of a threat out there.

Well done Matty - 300 pages and counting.

Yeah, I thought he was badly at fault for their goal.

Lacklustre display by England. Germany passed us off the park, especially in midfield. England stole a point in the end. Grealish did more in 15 minutes than Mount did in the whole game. Saka ? What is he for ? Stirling really poor tonight. I don’t like two defensive midfield players along with Mount in midfield, much too defensive. Southgate too cautious, just like Mowbray, we’ll never win anything with him running the show.

Getting over run in midfield. I missed the start and I only realised Mount was playing after about 40 minutes.

Common sense isn’t it ?

Like any other football club board they will have had their eye on a possible replacement or replacements even when Critchley appeared to be settled. You never know in football and it pays to think ahead in any business.

Maybe Birdie is from another planet ?

Nyambe to WBA anybody ?

I’m counting on you to get us there Chaddy.

I was inferring that’s why the players want to get back into the Premier League. You mean our “ Slumdog Billionaires “ ? If brains were gunpowder they wouldn’t have enough to blow their caps off.

Anyone of those three could be the new Gordon Lee, on the other hand they could be the new Jim Iley.

Yes but he’d be behind the rest of the players in terms of pre-season preparation.

“ Money, money, money “ as ABBA sang.

It’d been a long season for Wharton and don’t forget he started behind everybody else.

The only teams I heard him talk up were our opponents, and that was irrespective of who they were. I stopped listening to him eventually.