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Forshaw signed because he’s English, so helps that quota, is happy to sit on the bench and if we need someone to bring on when we’re comfortably winning he can do a job?

I actually feel like Buckley - in the right headspace - could make a really good career for himself. If he moved to Portugal, for example, he’d have loads of time on the ball and could look brilliant. The reality is that in this league unless he’s 100% up for it, he’ll get bullied.

Toth Alebiosu Hyam McLoughlin Riberio Tronstad Tavares Hedges Cantwell Morishitma Ohashi Winnable game.

Good luck, John. I’ll always believe the emergence of Adam Wharton had a massive impact on his development here. John was the next one through, the midfield player and very quickly got overtaken and overshadowed on an undeniable level. Not convinced Saudi is the right option, but it’s a place to find some confidence again and find a move back. I suspect he won’t be getting paid boatloads of money like is suggested, he just won’t pay any tax.

Based on the evidence I’ve seen (not much) I’d rather Dolan and Weimann over Kargbo and Henriksson. But it’s way too early (as I said!) to start making accurate assessments. Dolan for work rate and Weimann for G/A returns. I’m hopeful both turn out to be significant improvements, but right now, I’d take knows.

Whilst I do think this is all a way of reducing costs, I can see the logic in the ESC approach. To get out this league you need 4 or 5 really good players. We (because our owners are terrible) will not pay the fees or the wages for really good, established players. It's the total opposite of Wrexham, for example, who have come up and paid the fees and wages for players that come with gaurantees. So I can see how the latest 'transitional period' plan is to bring in cheap players from Europe, hope they're good enough (or back your recruitment team, however you want to phrase it), convert them from ESC as soon as possible and loop the cycle. So far we're looking at: Pears to Toth - I'd argue (so far) thats an upgrade, although mostly because Pears is a terrible goalkeeper Dolan to Kargbo - I think that's quite clearly a downgrade, but Kargo does have the attributes to be a success Travis to Baradji - we'll wait and see, whilst Travis isn't technically brilliant and doesn't have great returns, he was club captain, an academy graduate, is experienced and has been promoted from this league before. Weimann to Hennrikson - so far, a downgrade. The only thing you could argue is Henrikson has age and fitness on his side. Weimann contrubuted last season in key moments and have a good return. Too early to write Henrikson off, but as a like for like so far you'd take Weimann. One success story, two 'immediate net negatives, but potential long term' and one 'unknown'. Ultimately, like all of our 'transitional periods', we'll see over time. They haven't got one right so far, so history says this will be a monumental fuck up and another change in direction, but as I say you only need 4 or 5 players to be very good at this level and you're into the playoffs which is a lottery.

Earliest we can get another ESC player is January if we convert Kargbo and/or Toth. So we can firmly rule out any ESC player (this window, at least).

First start tonight. Playing really well.

Can we start some conspiracy theories about why Rudy Gestede will only sign players over 6 ft 2 please? Some ancient French/Benin tradition with a questionable link to witchcraft or something?

Seems a very odd thing not to do. Albeit would probably require us doing some paperwork, which we’re incapable of doing.

I saw on Twitter someone saying that if Mafoumbi plays 1 minute of league football for us, he would qualify for a permit and we could move his ESC spot. Not sure how true that is - does anyone know?

I used to do the same, but this season have decided to completely drop the coffee. By 60 minutes or so we look like a decent side.

Dolan getting good reviews in Spain.

You mean he wants the going rate?

With K-Hods resignation as the BRFCS nominated spokesperson (thank you once more for your ongoing commitment to BRFCS and giving up your valuable spare time @K-Hod), the BRFCS owners have spoken and the decision was made to not send a representative as it seems to be a complete waste of valuable volunteered time. Then, I decided if we’re not going at all, we may as well go out in style. I will be representing BRFCS at the next Fans Forum meeting. Please send me your questions via private message. Buckle up, Suhail, it’s showtime.

He’s injured, struggling to walk.

Those that where happy Dolan left are in for a rough season if the solution is Hedges and De Neve.

We’re now at the point where we can have no trust in anything that comes out of the club?

The solution can’t possibly be release minutes which don’t reflect what actually happened, surely? Am I reading this correctly?

The good news is we can now debunk fake ITKs very quickly. If the player linked isn’t at least 6 ft 1, they’re not even on the long list.

The problem we have now is that the truth has come out - the minutes released don’t accurately reflect what was discussed in the room. I’ve no idea how we’ve got here, but unfortunately the entire thing is now under question. The moment the minutes are released, whether the club agrees to the amendments or not, the entire historical archive is under scrutiny.

He didn’t have a job when he came here.

Someone send me the minutes as we believe are accurate anonymously and I’ll circulate them. Bored of this now.

He went there because we’re a shambles. The no DOF structure was a bonus.

A couple of million does not “pop up” here.