Funny story, I was once given non-paid work experience at CreaTV who controlled (at the time) anything video related to do with the club. I had assumed, given I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, that I would just be watching people do their job. I was wrong. They put me in charge of the big screen, with what felt like a 10 second demonstration, then walked out the room. I predictably fucked everything up - two things were playing at once, videos playing without sound, the screen was changing every couple of seconds. Nobody ever got back to my emails.

Good to see you, Abbey.

He should be offering free tickets throughout the stadium, not closing stands if he’s only selling 1,500 tickets. Every school, church, mosque, sports club and youth zone within 10 miles should have the offer for unlimited free tickets. I dislike this man more and more as days go by. Lacking in ambition, lacking in awareness, a glorified credit controller that doesn’t dare rock the boat. Exactly the type of person I actively avoid hiring.

I legged it from this photo because I knew this post would come back to bite me one day!

Happy Arnor day.

@StubbsUK what is this?!

https://fb.watch/m-9tYT-MCg/ Looks bad. Hope people are safe and it doesn’t effect too many jobs.

Here's my opinion - which of course, is all fairytale, hearsay and speculation. This issue in itself is part of an ongoing biggue issue Venkys have with the Indian Government (has there been a change in Government recently? Or is there an election coming up which the current party needs to get people on board for?), like all big business it revolves around money. The house buy in the UK has some question marks against it and they're being investigated. Like all good accountants, they're working the system into their favour. This issue with the Government isn't just about the house, it involves them in other departments too. This is linked to the budget cut this season i.e. "We're not just going to pay you extra because you ask for it" and not just rolling over when sanctions which effect them economically are brought against them. The house purchase, from what I can see equates to less than 1% of Madame Desai's personal wealth, never mind the full family. The valuation of the Venky's brand/business is much harder to actually work out.

A good article but my main takeaway is that none of you can complain about the minor ads on BRFCS.

It's done through a subscription service - they should update it over time. We have flagged the Adam Wharton one a few times, disappointing they haven't updated it yet.

Yes I agree, a small squad has been made smaller by one (-1 defender, -1 midfielder, +1 striker).

Trying to do this in context, so I'm based this off.. Transfers Out Thomas Kaminski Ashley Phillips Ben Brereton Diaz Bradley Dack John Buckley Daniel Ayala Jack Vale Tyler Morton Dan Butterworth Tayo Edun James Brown Clinton Mola In red I've put players who played an active part in our season. I make that eight first team players out, two squad players out and two players that made no impact (where on loan) out. So I'll base it on ten squad players leaving. Transfers In Leopold Wahlstedt Sondre Tonstad Niall Ennis Semir Telalovic Arnor Sigurdsson James Hill Andy Moran All of which assumed to be squad players at least. Therefore I'm basing my assessment on losing ten squad players and gaining eight squad players - a -2 deficit. 1) Kaminski - Wahlstedt: Hard to judge any success yet, but exactly what the 'system' is about so in principle a good signing. 2) Phillips - Hill: Replaced one promising youngster with another, although we don't own this one. It sounds like we got the best deal we could for Phillips, so no qualms there. A shame we haven't replaced with a perm signing, but Hill could easily be as effective as Phillips was for us. A good signing in principle, but unfortunately a short term signing. 3) Brereton - Sigurdsson: In principle Arnor has a better worldwide reputation and we've done well to sign him. There's some confusion as to whether we're going to get Arnor perm after his 12-month deal. If we do, in principle this is could well be a good signing. If he leaves next year then we've not managed to replace our best player. 4) Dack - Moran: Replaced an experienced player on a big salary that has had injury issues with a highly rated loan for 12-months. A good short term answer, but I can't see a world where we sign Moran so this will need filling again next year. 5) Buckley - Tronstad: Tronstad has good pedigree, but hasn't shown much yet. Buckley is a different player than Sondre, so this signing seems to be a change of direction. I'm not convinced as yet. 6) Ayala - Not Replaced: A huge hole in our squad. Whilst Ayala had injury issues, the defence is lacking in experience and we're already seeing lack of depth in this area becoming and issue. A bad decision. 7) Vale - Telalovic: An unknown player replaces a player which I don't think is anywhere near good enough. Hopefully this was cheap. Not a bad decision based on the fact that Vale wasn't good enough to start with. 8 ) Morton - Not Replaced: Would in principle be fine if we had kept Buckley, despite Morton not setting the world on fire we've essentially replaced two 'creative' central midfielders with one 'defensive' midfielder in Tronstad. A worry I'm sure we would all agree. 9) Ennis: We needed more strikers and Ennis comes in to fill that gap. In principle a good signing, he was Plymouth's best player when fit and comes on a free. His injury record is a concern especially considering his start here. In principle I make that a 6/10 window. I think we've signed some decent players, although there's a lot of short term thinking - which makes sense given the owners financial issues. The biggest issue is we're at least two key players down (Ayala, Morton) although we're one up as a striker (Ennis) and three of the players (Sigurdsson, Moran and Hill) are potentially short term.

It’s worse than that - Buckley sent out on loan because we had to lose someone to get someone else in, we confirmed the Buckley deal and NOT the other player.

And I’d have similar hopes for him as I do the one we have signed! I don’t mind the signing, I hope he does well. My frustration is with people who suddenly think all our goal scoring problems have been answered despite never seeing him play and having nothing to compare him against.

The only thing from your first paragraph which actually reflects my post is the last five words. The rest of it I didn’t say.

I do get the point, I just don’t agree with it. For the avoidance of any doubt, despite his limited technical ability at this level I rate Travis because I think what he does bring to the team is desperately needed.

You’re absolutely right, forgot Leo. He can be added on there until further notice too.

Interesting. I’d go: 1 - Wharton (agreed, looked tired and grumpy today) 2 - Travis 3 - Tronstad 4 - Garrett with significant gaps between first and second, then second and third.

How many of our current central midfielders do you think are better than Travis? Wharton Travis Tronstad Garrett Give me a 1 - 4, with 1 being Wharton.

Of course they get chance, the original post literally says “currently I don’t think…”. I standby that. He could well prove me wrong but at 17:56 on 2nd September 2023 I don’t look at Moran and think we’ve got a really good player on our hands.

The same can’t be applied to Tom Cannon, he’s played at this level and been successful. Telalovic has never played at anywhere near this standard and the Championship is an especially hard league to adjust to.

Lewis Travis has played 180 games for the club over 5 years. I know exactly what he’s about. He’s combative, a good tackler, good stamina and seems to want to learn. I hadn’t seen Moran play before he played for us and whilst he’s got a good reputation at Brighton and in Ireland, based on the two games I have seen him play for us I’m so far not impressed as I’ve explained above.

I’ve seen him play one game against Harrogate Town and look good. But that’s of no real test and frankly the minimum expectation is play well. I’ve just watched him play for 90 minutes today and he didn’t look impressive. We’ll see, he has a good reputation in Ireland, but from what I’ve seen so far I have doubts.

Have you watched him? From what I see he’s got a decent record in the German equivalent of our league two. What makes you think he’s anywhere near up to standard? How many would Gallagher score in the Regionalliga? More than 21 is my guess.

I’d have posted the same after Watford. I’ve waited until after the transfer window to make an assessment and that’s my assessment. Seems bonkers to me that people have any hope whatsoever for the new striker, from what I can see he has a decent record in the German equivalent of League Two. My eyes tell me if there was a POTY awarded right now Travis may well win it. We’ve got lots of problems and Travis isn’t high up the list.